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Ala Alba
A group made by Negi's students to help him find his missing Father |
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Bad Ass Fight Scene
A fight scene or epic battle that stands above the norm of what the series offers and goes down in history as one of the best combat encounters in the series. The perfect combination of epicness and animation. |
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Catgirl
Girls with cat-like features, primarily ears and tail. Feline mannerisms are also common. |
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Clone
A Clone is a biological copy of any organic creature. A Clone is mostly created through science and is sometimes abused to an extent. |
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Clothing Damage
When a character's clothes become torn from an attack, such as an explosion or energy blast. |
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Collateral Damage
Collateral Damage is a military term describing a situation where soldiers destroy property or kill civilians by accident or on purpose. Example:Dragon Ball Z, there is a lot of property damages and lives lost when Majin Buu blows up the whole city. |
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Comedy
Nearly every anime has a comedic moment here or there. Everyone likes to laugh. |
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Cosmo Entelecheia
Cosmo Entelecheia is a secret society |
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Damsel In Distress
A maiden is in peril and only her one true hero can save her. |
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Dark Past
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. |
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Dragon
A legendary creature that is typically reptilian, that can fly and can breathe fire and sometimes ice. |
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Dreams and Nightmares
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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Energy Blast
A character can harness their power and shoot energy-based projectiles from their body. |
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Exaggerated Emotional Iconography
Common visual conventions seen in manga and anime to convey emotions, often for comical effect. |
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Explosion
Explosions are featured in a wide array of anime/manga, created from various weapons/attacks. |
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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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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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Fantasy And Fairy Tales
A type of story often containing talking creatures and magical enchantments. |
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Gar
Gar is an American-made term that counters the concept of "moe." A character who is gar (or who someone else claims to be "gar for") is a character of such intense masculinity that he (or, occasionally, she) inspires feelings of worship. |
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Harem
The term "harem" is frequently used to describe manga and anime series that feature one man surrounded by a variety of female romantic candidates. Prototypical harems: Tenchi Muyo!, Love Hina. |
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Horror And Monsters
A common theme in several anime and manga. |
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It's a Trap
A phrase used to describe a situation where someone mistakes a man/transsexual for an attractive woman. Not to be confused with "Crossplay" even though this can be said in that situation. |
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Ki
Ki is considered to be life force or life energy. Often in Japanese anime and manga, exceptional martial artists are able to harness the Ki for various superhuman feats. It is also referred to as Chi or Qi in Chinese. |
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Magic
Magic is an often used term in fiction. It is the concept of affecting the universe through supernatural methods and breaking the physical laws. |
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Martial Arts
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 |
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Pactio
A Pactio is a provisional contract created by a magi and anybody granting their partner magical abilities. Joculatrix Monachans |
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Tournament
A battle between participants to see who is the strongest. It usually involves brackets and moving up the line, but it can also be in other formats such as a "survival of the fittest" format. |
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Training
Specialized strategies and methods of exercise used in various anime and manga series to develop characters and prepare them for performing in events. |
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Transformation
The Idea of a character transforming into a animal, monster, creature, demon, or other types of creatures. |