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Big Boobs
What is anime without the over-sexualization of women's breasts? |
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Bunny Girl
The Bunny Girl is a fetish outfit made popular by the Playboy company though the meaning is different in Japan. A popular outfit in cosplay. |
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Catgirl
Girls with cat-like features, primarily ears and tail. Feline mannerisms are also common. |
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Chibi
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. |
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Christmas
Christmas is a holiday that is celebrated on December the 25th where people often exchange presents. |
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Convenient Censorship
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". |
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Cosplay
The practice of dressing like characters from anime, manga, video games, and even novels, TV shows, celebrities, etc. |
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Crazy Anime Hair
Huge spikes, multiple colors, gravity-defying ponytails... and it's probably all natural somehow too. |
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Cross-Dressing
The act of wearing clothes commonly associated with the opposite gender. |
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Date
Going on a date with... |
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DVD Release
From Sentai Filmworks. |
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Eyecatch
Eyecatches are short scenes or illustrations used to begin and end a commercial break in anime. |
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Face Between Breasts
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. |
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Fan Service
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. |
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First Kiss
The act of someone giving or receiving their first kiss, or a particular couple kissing for the first time. |
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Freaky Friday Flip
A concept where characters have their mind transferred into someone else's body. |
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Genderbend
As the name suggests, it's a situation where a character's gender is switched. |
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Gratuitous Changing Scene
Scenes of characters changing clothes shown in part or entirely for the purpose of fan service. |
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Hypnosis
To influence or control someone using hypnosis. |
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Kissing
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. |
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Maids & Butlers
Maids and Butlers are highly popular within anime and 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. |
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Manga Iconography
Common visual conventions seen in manga and anime to convey emotions, often for comical effect. |
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Modesty Towel
A towel usually worn after bathing or showering to cover up. Sometimes used as censorship even during bathing. |
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Naked Apron
The Naked Apron is a fetish cosplay. The wearer will either be in underwear or naked with an apron covering their front. |
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Power Dyes Your Hair
A character just got a huge power-up. How can you tell? Their hair changed color! |
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Skinship Grope
In anime and manga, girls sometimes admire each other's assets, to the point of groping either with or without permission. This concept applies to any part of the body and either gender, but it's usually all about boobs. |
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Thanks for the Mammary
A guy may have the best of intentions, but sometimes he may accidentally grab a boob. These things happen. |
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Transformation
The Idea of a character transforming into a animal, monster, creature, demon, or other types of creatures. |
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Unreal Hair/Eye Color
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. |