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Adult Child
Someone who never grew up on the inside |
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Aliens
Beings from another planet. |
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Alternate Reality
An alternate reality is a universe that is different from the main world of a series. This world can be different in just small ways and it will still resemble the main reality, or it can be completely different and not be similar at all to the universe the protagonist had known. |
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Androids
A type of robot or synthetic organism designed to look and act like a human. |
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Arranged Marriage
A marriage that is arraigned through a meeting and interview process or between families. Many times, the participants may have never even met one another. |
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Bad Ass Fight Scene
A fight scene or epic battle that stands above the norm of what the series offers and goes down in history as one of the best combat encounters in the series. The perfect combination of epicness and animation. |
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Bad Turned Good
Also known as redemption. This is when someone who was previously wicked decided to become good. |
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Baseball
Baseball is a field sport played between two teams. The sport is very popular in the United States, Japan, and elsewhere throughout the world. It has also been a popular theme in anime and manga for more than 50 years. |
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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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Best Friends
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Bounty Hunter
Doing deals for large amounts of cash. Usually hunts people wanted by the law. |
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Cat Fight
A term given to an altercation between two women. |
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Chick Magnet
All the girls fall in love with him. |
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Choushin
The Creators of the Tenchi Muyo Multiverse |
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Comedy
Nearly every anime has a comedic moment here or there. Everyone likes to laugh. |
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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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Corrupt Leaders
Power corrupts. Bureaucratic power (especially tied to other powers) is no exception. |
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Cross-Dressing
The act of wearing clothes commonly associated with the opposite gender. |
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Crossover
A concept where several characters from different, separate stories and series meet up. |
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Crying
What someone does when upset/sad. Sometimes people can also cry from sheer joy. |
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Date
Going on a date with... |
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Delinquents
One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws, often used to describe younger individuals such as high schoolers who cause trouble. |
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Destiny
The belief of predetermined events. |
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Dojikko
In anime, a cute, clumsy girl. Her klutziness usually hurts other people more than herself. |
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Doppelgänger
A double or look-alike of another person. |
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Dreams & 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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Duel
Prearranged fight with two people. It is used in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor. |
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Energy Blast
A character can harness their power and shoot energy-based projectiles from their body. |
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Engagement
An engagement is a promise to marriage. |
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Explosion
Explosions are featured in a wide array of anime/manga, created from various weapons/attacks. |
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Facefault
When people are surprised/shocked because of someone's stupidity. |
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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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Father
Fatherhood as a concept. A man who has conceived or raised a child. |
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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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Fog
Fog is a collection of water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface. It is used in animes or manga to build a atmospheric element. |
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Folklore
A concept used to describe characters who are based on myths, legends, and even religion. |
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Gambler
Someone who plays games of chance on a regular basis in hopes of getting rich quick. |
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Ghosts
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. |
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Ghost Stories
A concept given to the telling of scary stories, folktales and urban legends. |
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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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Heroic Sacrifice
An act when someone gives up something of great importance for a greater good. |
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Housewife
A wife who makes a career out of tending to the daily household requirements. |
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Hypnosis
To influence or control someone using hypnosis. |
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Japanese Festival
Japanese Festivals are referred to in Japan as 'Matsuri'. Festivals can be local affairs or even nationwide holidays. In many ways similar to Fairs in the US. |
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Kidnapping
Capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment . |
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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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Lecher
Characters who exercise their strong libidinous desires in unwholesome ways, such as peeping on the objects of their desire, making inappropriate comments, stealing underwear etc. Though typically middle-aged or elderly men with a penchant for young girls, there are probably a few dirty old women out there. |
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Light Hawk Wings
Large blades of powerful energy used as a defensive ability by Juraian spaceships and certain individuals. |
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Love Confession
Telling someone you love them. It usually takes a lot of courage to say it. |