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Back to life
Also known as resurrection. This is when a previously dead character is restored back to life. |
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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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Beauty Pageant
A Beauty Pageant is a contest to see who is the most attractive which can consist of talent competitions and more. Normally, usually just used for fan service in manga/anime. |
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Big Boobs
What is anime without the over-sexualization of women's breasts? |
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Breast Envy
Commonly seen in anime and manga, less-developed girls are often envious of those with larger breasts. |
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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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Cooking
Someone or something to do with cooking. |
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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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Date
Going on a date with... |
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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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Energy Blast
A character can harness their power and shoot energy-based projectiles from their body. |
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Espionage
This is the act of secretly watching a person or group to gather information, often for political purposes. Spies typically disguise themselves so that they might sneak around. Espionage is also frequently tied to assassination plots. |
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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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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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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. |
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Heterochromia
Characters with two different eye colors. |
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Humans
Just your average person! |
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Japanese Honorifics
Japanese Honorifics are best described as a sign of respect and endearment. Politeness is an important part of Japanese culture and language. |
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Kidnapping
Capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment . |
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Love Confession
Telling someone you love them. It usually takes a lot of courage to say it. |
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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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Maids & Butlers
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. |
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Manga Iconography
Common visual conventions seen in manga and anime to convey emotions, often for comical effect. |
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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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Naked Apron
The Naked Apron is a fetish cosplay. The wearer will either be in underwear or naked with an apron covering their front. |
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Nosebleed
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. |
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Origin Story
The tale of how a hero or villain came to be who they are. |
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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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Pettanko
A "Pettanko" character is a female who is flat-chested or has small breasts and is either concerned by it or proud of it. |
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Revealing Attire
A concept where characters wear revealing or risque clothing. |
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Shinigami
Shinigami are death gods, a recurring concept in multiple anime, notably in Bleach and Death Note |
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Simulcast
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. |
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Skinship Grope
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. |
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Snaggletooth
A common theme in character designs when a character has one tooth that hangs out like a fang. Typically used to show a sassy or rough personality. |
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Students
A Student is one who is enrolled or attends classes at a school, college, or university. A popular theme among many manga and animes. |
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Thanks for the Mammary
A guy may have the best of intentions, but sometimes he may accidentally grab a boob. These things happen. |
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The Revelation
The idea that a major event/item/history is explained to the protagonist. With the main character and reader aware of the truth, everything is approached with a new view. |
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Transfer Student
A new student who comes from another school, they typically come from a mysterious background or they arrive to spark some changes in the story. |
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Unreal Hair/Eye Color
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. |
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Zettai Ryouiki
Literally meaning "Absolute Territory", zettai ryouiki is the area of uncovered thigh between the skirt and the knee sock. |