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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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Censorship And Localization
The history of anime censorship largely involves the early anime releases and the question of their place in the larger media model. |
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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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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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Fighters
The character knows well how to defend him or herself. |
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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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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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Hypnosis
To influence or control someone using hypnosis. |
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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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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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Military
The force of defense and offense of a nation. Are mostly equiped with the best weapons that the nation can provide. |