Ranma ½ Concepts

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

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

Christmas is a holiday that is celebrated on December the 25th where people often exchange presents.

A genre/concept that appears in many anime series, notably Case Closed.

The act of wearing clothes commonly associated with the opposite gender.

A long-lasting spell that causes negative results to the cursed one and sometimes those around him/her.

An engagement is a promise to marriage.

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

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.

Something that isn't from the manga. Could be characters, episodes, and so forth.

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.

As the name suggests, it's a situation where a character's gender is switched.

A ghost is a dead persons spirit that roams the earth usually attached to where they died or refusing to go to the after life until there are finished on earth.

Just your average person!

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

Someone > Someone > Someone

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 ninja is a (typically Japanese) warrior, trained in martial arts fighting styles, and whom typically specializes in stealthy tactics and unorthodox arts of war.

The act of controling an individual, making him preform actions at your will.

An East Asian belief myth where the gods tie an invisible red string around the ankles of men and women who are destined to be soul mates and will one day marry each other.

When someone returns an cruel favor to another after what has been done to them or an loved one.

Shadows are the monsters of the Persona series that can take forms of a person's deepest resentments or wishes.

The ability to travel from one era to another, forward and/or backward.