Sekirei Concepts

A type of censorship used in non-pornographic anime and manga. Instead of pixelating or covering nipples or genitals, they're simply not drawn.

Originally compiled by Darrin Bright and Ryan Shellito at the California Polytechnical Institute, they explain much of the abnormal physics phenomena we see in most anime.

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?

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Commonly seen in anime and manga, less-developed girls are often envious of those with larger breasts.

A term given to an altercation between two women.

Chibi means to be small in stature. In anime/manga the term is used for a character that is small in appearance and exaggerated features.

When a character's clothes become torn from an attack, such as an explosion or energy blast.

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".

Huge spikes, multiple colors, gravity-defying ponytails... and it's probably all natural somehow too.

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.

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

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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.

A character can harness their power and shoot energy-based projectiles from their body.

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.

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.

The concept of strangers who eventually become roommates.

The "Gainax Bounce" refers to breasts bouncing around gratuitously in anime, often in ways that seem to defy physics.

Someone skilled with computers who is able to break into secure programs and alter them. A hacker's motives vary, some do it for malicious reasons, some for heroic ones, and others just for fun.

The term "harem" is frequently used to describe manga and anime series that feature one man surrounded by a variety of female romantic candidates.

An act when someone gives up something of great importance for a greater good.

Just your average person!

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.

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.

The act of taking another person's life.

The Naked Apron is a fetish cosplay. The wearer will either be in underwear or naked with an apron covering their front.

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.

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

The character has a chance of ending up with the protagonist. It means either the protagonist or the heroine(or maybe both) have feelings for the other.

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

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

Sekirei are extraterrestrial superpowered beings with a genetic code similar to humans who crashed landed on earth in 1999 and was found by students Hiroto Minaka and Takami Sahashi.

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.

In anime and manga, girls sometimes admire each other's assets, to the point of groping either with or without permission. This concept applies to any part of the body and either gender, but it's usually all about boobs.

A thin type of clothing which clings to the skin and shows off every curve and crevice of the body's natural form.

A guy may have the best of intentions, but sometimes he may accidentally grab a boob. These things happen.

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.

When large is standard and the majority of female characters are big-breasted, usually with very few exceptions.