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Angel
Angels are beings that reside in Heaven. They are often portrayed with wings, halos, or both. |
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Bathing Scene
Bathing Scenes, while occasionally meaningful to plot or character development, are generally excuses for fan service. |
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Big Boobs
What is anime without the over-sexualization of women's breasts? |
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Breast Expansion
A concept typically found in hentai, but not limited to it, breasts may suddenly begin to grow larger in size with little or no explanation. |
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Cat
Feline animal with four legs and says "meow." Many are found hanging around animes and mangas. |
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Cat Fight
A term given to an altercation between two women. |
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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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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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Crazy Anime Hair
Huge spikes, multiple colors, gravity-defying ponytails... and it's probably all natural somehow too. |
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Crying
What someone does when upset/sad. Sometimes people can also cry from sheer joy. |
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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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Drunk
Someone who loves to consume alcohol, and typically overdoes it. |
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Ecchi
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. |
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Elf
Elves are a race found in a lot of fantasy media. They are recognizable by their elongated ears and often have longer lifespans than humans. |
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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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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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Fan Service Fight
A battle that features excessive fanservice. |
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Flashback
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. |
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Forced Combat
A concept where people are forced to fight against their will against an opponent or opponents who are sometimes also fighting against their will. Usually done under the threat of death, and for the entertainment of morally corrupt individuals. |
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Gainax Bounce
The "Gainax Bounce" refers to breasts bouncing around gratuitously in anime, often in ways that seem to defy physics. |
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God
A God can be a guardian or a ruler with nearly unlimited powers or sense of consciousness. Most of them are creators or controlers of a sertain element or concept, but there are also gods who are destroyers wile some can be both. |
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Horror And Monsters
A common theme in several anime and manga. |
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Human
Just your average person! |
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Hybrids
Hybrid characters are often a mixture of different background that are normally thought to be in opposition. These are mostly seen as a mixture of humans with either aliens, spirits, or demons. |
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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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Knight
The character is officially a knight. He/She usually values honor above everything else and fights for justice. There are perhaps exceptions... |
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Masochist
A Masochist is a type of person who attains gratification out of physical or emotional pain. Abuse/Humiliation. |
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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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Monkeys
One of the races of animal people from ThunderCats. |
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Ninja
A ninja is a (typically Japanese) warrior, trained in martial arts fighting styles, and whom typically specializes in stealthy tactics and unorthodox arts of war. |
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Panty Shot
Gratuitous exposure of a character's panties, possibly the biggest fan service concept in anime and manga. |
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Pirates
A Pirate is one who steal at sea or and plunders at land. It can also be a term used for adventurers who don't follow the laws of the land. |
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Possession
The act of controling an individual, making him preform actions at your will. |
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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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Priest
The character is working as a priest, a guide and teacher of God. Often leads holy rituals such as marriage and burials. |
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Princess
A female heir to a royal throne. |
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Protagonist
The main character of a story or plot. Most forms of fiction have the protagonist as a hero but there are rare occasions with an evil or not-so-noble protagonist. |
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Rain
In addition to being just weather, the rain can symbolize many things. It can represent life, foreshadowing, sadness, and many things. |
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Regeneration
The ability to repair or heal oneself, particularly at an accelerated or unusual rate. |
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Revealing Attire
A concept where characters wear revealing or risque clothing. |
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Reverse Harem
If a "harem" anime features one man surrounded by female love interests, a "reverse harem" features one woman surrounded by male love interests. Prototypical reverse harems: Ouran High School Host Club, La Corda d'Oro, Fushigi Yugi. |
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Robot Girl
Mechanical or electronic automatons that have identifiable female characteristics. They may or may not behave with human-like emotion. |
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Royalty
Someone part of a royal family. |
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Sisters
Female members of a family that share the same parents. |
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Snake
A elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes. Snakes are featured in a lot of different countries religions. |
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Split Personality
A condition where a character has two or more personalities sharing one body. |
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Sports
A common theme in many mangas and animes. |