Ikki Tousen Concepts

One of the most common forms of fanservice in all anime. Bath scenes can show bonding between characters, but are more often used as just an excuse to exploit a female character.

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

When a character's clothes become torn from an attack, such as an explosion or energy blast.

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 who loves to consume alcohol, and typically overdoes it.

Ecchi is a Japanese term meaning sexy or erotic, anything that evolves sexy characters. Derived from the word "Hentai" but their meanings are completely different. Ecchi walks that line between sexy, but never crosses it into full graphic nudity or sex.

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

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

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.

A battle that features excessive fanservice.

The character knows well how to defend him or herself.

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.

Just your average person!

The Maid is a highly popular theme in anime/manga. They can simply be a job, or they can be a lifestyle for loyal servants to a master or mistress. Identified by a particular uniform. Also popular in cosplay.

Seen in just about every form of anime at least at one point. The key component that makes Shounen popular among boys. As well as Ancient art in itself

When Male and Female characters are usually forced to bathe together. This usually happens at hot springs.

Moe (pronounce moh-eh) is a Japanese slang term for something one likes, and within the anime realm is used to refer to characters who inspire a protective sort of love-- usually because the characters seem to need someone to take care of them.

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

The act of controling an individual, making him preform actions at your will.

The mystical power behind human evolution.

A popular design choice for characters in anime is to give them natural hair and/or eye colors that do not occur in real nature.