High School DxD Concepts

Also known as resurrection. This is when a previously dead character is restored back to life.

Bathing Scenes, while occasionally meaningful to plot or character development, are generally excuses for fan service.

What is anime without the over-sexualization of women's breasts?

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Feline animal with four legs and says "meow." Many are found hanging around animes and mangas.

In anime and real life, people barge in and see a person and another person in a compromising position, intentionally or accidentally.

Chess is a strategic game that is played on a checkered board. Played with either black or white pieces that are of different ranks and abilities.

Chibi means to be small in stature. In anime/manga the term is used for a character that is small in appearance and exaggerated features.

Convenient Censorship such as steam, hair and beams of light are often used in anime and manga to show naked characters while obscuring their "naughty bits".

Someone or something to do with cooking.

Huge spikes, multiple colors, gravity-defying ponytails... and it's probably all natural somehow too.

What someone does when upset/sad. Sometimes people can also cry from sheer joy.

Going on a date with...

Are powerful creatures that live in the pits of Hell. That are many classes and levels for these monsters but no matter the rank they are deadly beasts.

A legendary creature that is typically reptilian, that can fly and can breathe fire and sometimes ice.

The imaginary events that goes on in your head when you are asleep. In some anime's they can bring important messages or to haunt a person.

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This is the act of secretly watching a person or group to gather information, often for political purposes. Spies typically disguise themselves so that they might sneak around. Espionage is also frequently tied to assassination plots.

Group of people who uses the power of Innocence to battle the akuma and the Noahs. It can also describe people who are skilled in getting rid of evil spirits and demons.

Eyecatches are short scenes or illustrations used to begin and end a commercial break in anime.

When a character has had their face put in the middle of a girls breasts. Though most of the time it may be on accident. Other times it shows sexual relationship between a man and a woman.

A animal or even a person that is basically a slave to another person. Familiars typically are tame, obediant and magical, though not always.

Fan Service is often a sexually provocative moment or pose that takes place in manga and anime. It usually has no real purpose to a story, and serves as a lurid visual.

Used frequently in Anime to either recap past events or provide a back story for a character, either their origin story or their off-screen training of new attack. Sometime and entire episode/chapter would be a entire flashback.

The concept of strangers who eventually become roommates.

The "Gainax Bounce" refers to breasts bouncing around gratuitously in anime, often in ways that seem to defy physics.

A particular style of dress that generally incorporates vaguely historical looks done up flamboyantly with lace, although there are several subsets of Gothic Lolita.

Scenes of characters changing clothes shown in part or entirely for the purpose of fan service.

The term "harem" is frequently used to describe manga and anime series that feature one man surrounded by a variety of female romantic candidates.

The Japanese word for "transformation," literally meaning, to change or transform the body. Generally used in tokusatsu and magical girl series.

Just your average person!

Japanese Honorifics are best described as a sign of respect and endearment. Politeness is an important part of Japanese culture and language.

Kissing is the act of pressing your lips to the body of another person. This can be on the cheeks, head, hand, but more commonly to another person's lips.

Characters who exercise their strong libidinous desires in unwholesome ways, such as peeping on the objects of their desire, making inappropriate comments, stealing underwear etc. Though typically middle-aged or elderly men with a penchant for young girls, there are probably a few dirty old women out there.

Magic is an often used term in fiction. It is the concept of affecting the universe through supernatural methods and breaking the physical laws.

A fantasy sub-genre that features girls who magically transform into super-heroines and combat evil.

Common visual conventions seen in manga and anime to convey emotions, often for comical effect.

A couple who have made an official vow to stay together.

A Masochist is a type of person who attains gratification out of physical or emotional pain. Abuse/Humiliation.

A towel usually worn after bathing or showering to cover up. Sometimes used as censorship even during bathing.

The act of taking another person's life.

A living thing that's been mutated often by unnatural means. Most mutants gain powers or become a completely new species.

A supernatural ability that allows the user to see the inherent mortality of everything in the form of lines and dots.

Bleeding from the nose, in manga/anime it mostly used as a sight gag that happens when a character is thinking or witnessing something perverted.

A woman who has taken vows committing herself to a spiritual life.

In Japanese, otaku means people who are obsessed over something. Usually, it is in reference to anime, manga, and video games. In the western world, the word is frequently designated to a fan of anime, manga, video games and/or Japanese culture.

Gratuitous exposure of a character's panties, possibly the biggest fan service concept in anime and manga.

Pwnage isn't just losing a fight. These are situations where one opponent significantly outclasses the other to the point of embarrassment.

A concept where characters wear revealing or risque clothing.

A Sadist is a type of person who attains gratification out of witnessing the suffering of others, either physical or emotional pain.