Mysterious Girlfriend X Concepts

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?

Alien bird people from the ThunderCats franchise. Also known as Birdmen. They come in a very wide array of sub-species including but not limited to Eagles, Hawks, Vultures, and Owls.

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

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.

The practice of dressing like characters from anime, manga, video games, and even novels, TV shows, celebrities, etc.

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

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.

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.

The act of someone giving or receiving their first kiss, or a particular couple kissing for the first time.

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!

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.

Telling someone you love them. It usually takes a lot of courage to say it.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The term generally used when anime is broadcast--usually online--in countries outside of Japan around the same time as it airs in Japan, usually within one week or even within 24 hours.

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

Visible marks on the body that indicate where clothing was worn while the wearer was out in the sun.

A Teacher is a type of person who is in charge of educating others in some form of higher learning or skill. The Japanese title is "Sensei".

A Olympic team sport played on a beach or indoor court in which two teams of six players are separated by a net and each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court.