Kotoura-san Concepts

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

A bully is a person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.

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

Child Abuse is the act of an adult striking or causing harm to a child. Not necessarily physical, but emotional abuse as well.There are also adults who sexually abuse kids called Pedophilia.

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

One or more past events that negatively affected one or more people. It's very common in an anime for at least one person to have such a past.

A Doctor is a medical professional that works to the goal of curing illness in others.

Someone who loves to consume alcohol, and typically overdoes it.

An esper (or ESP-er) is someone with psychic abilities. The concept is frequently used in a variety of anime series.

Fatherhood as a concept. A man who has conceived or raised a child.

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.

A fortune teller is a person with divine or magical powers who can tell various bits of personal information about an unknown person. She/he can tell the future, more often she/he can see one of many potential futures. Sometimes objects like tarot cards, tea leaves, crystal balls are used to assist the fortune teller in his/her reading.

A loner is a person who avoids or does not actively seek human interaction. There are many reasons for solitude, intentional or otherwise. ...

Someone > Someone > Someone

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

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

A woman who has given birth to or raised a child.

The character is working as a priest, a guide and teacher of God. Often leads holy rituals such as marriage and burials.

In addition to being just weather, the rain can symbolize many things. It can represent life, foreshadowing, sadness, and many things.

Rock Paper Scissors is known in Japan as "janken". The hand gestures and rules are similar. A game that is often used to decide friendly disputes.

A group gathering or activities that occurs after school is over.

A Student is one who is enrolled or attends classes at a school, college, or university. A popular theme among many manga and animes.

Suicide is the act of taking ones own life through various means.

Someone who has cheated on their significant other.

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.

Literally meaning "Absolute Territory", zettai ryouiki is the area of uncovered thigh between the skirt and the knee sock.