Valkyria Chronicles Concepts

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

Darsens are a race in Valkyria Chronicles.

Drama is a concept used in story telling to invoke an emotional reaction from the audience by using serious themes; such as tragedy, suspense, and death.

Explosions are featured in a wide array of anime/manga, created from various weapons/attacks.

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 act of killing all or most of a race or religion, genocide is murder at a far more vast and heinous level.

An intense battle between two or more characters using firearms

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

Someone > Someone > Someone

Death of a major character.

Common visual conventions seen in manga and anime to convey emotions, often for comical effect.

Squad 1 is Faldio's squad in the Valkyria Chronicles anime series.

Squad 7 is Welkin's group of troops in the Valkyria Chronicles anime series.

A story or event centered around human misery. Characters in the story face suffering, dread, and destruction.

"Tsundere" is a portmanteau of two Japanese phrases: "tsuntsun" and "deredere" and refers to characters who act hostile to the object of their affections, but secretly (or not-so-secretly) harbor feelings for them.

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.

Valkyrur (Valkyria) is a race that is distinguished by their spiral lance and shields clad in cobalt flames.

The massive battle of death between 2 factions or nations. Can either be because of religion, need for power or wealth, hatred of the other faction/nation etc.