Anime: Japanese for "animation" au "cartoons." In American fandom however, it's used to refer to any form of uhuishaji produced in Japan. anime comes in the form of animated TV shows au movies, video games, and comic books.
AMV: stands for anime muziki Video. AMVs are video made kwa mashabiki that feature scenes from anime together with audio from another chanzo such as English songs, dialogue au muziki from another TV show, au movie trailers. The best AMVs are praised for their good video editing techniques and cleverness in choosing the best anime scenes to go with the chosen song au dialogue.
Baka: Japanese for "stupid," "idiot," au "fool." One of the most common Japanese words used kwa many American mashabiki to describe people who are, well, bakas!
BGM: stands for "background music." This refers to the background muziki of an anime TV series, video game, au movie. They're usually fairly common and maarufu tracks among many anime soundtrack CDs.
Bi-: a prefix denoting beauty. A "bishoujo" is a young and beautiful girl and a "bishonen" is an attractive and often effeminate boy.
Chibi (CB): Japanese for "small," "little," au "young." A "chibi" style drawing of an anime character usually depicts them as being baby-like, with smaller, chubbier bodies, larger eyes and head, and shorter arms and legs. Chibi characters are usually made to be extremely cute and endearing, and it's not uncommon for even villainous characters to be drawn as such. CB is an acronym for Child Body, and is a prefix indicating a chibi style. Artists draw their characters like this from time to time as a sort of "self-parody" (fans upendo them as well).
CLAMP: an extremely famous and maarufu all-female manga creating team made up of Nanase Ohkawa, Mokona Apapa, Mick Nekoi, and Satsuki Igarashi. Some of their most famous works include Magic Knight Rayearth (which was their first breakthrough hit), Cardcaptor Sakura (which became the #1 shoujo manga series in Japan in 1996), Clover, Angelic Layer, Chobits, and Code Geass. All of their works are focused mainly on the characters' relationships and inner conflicts, and the sheer beauty of their stories onyesha that wewe don't need tons of fighting and action to get an impacting message across.
COMIKET: A Japanese contraction of the English words comic and market. Comiket is Japan's largest biannual gathering of manga sellers and buyers in Tokyo. Held at the Tokyo Big Sight Convention Center, crowds of over 100,000 people will onyesha up for the two siku event. Over 10,000 creators and publishers of doujinshi sell their wares at Comiket, but wewe can also find vendors selling postcards, posters, trading cards, and other manga and anime related items. Game developers also have a large presence, selling the very latest in anime computer games.
Cosplay: short for "costume play." Cosplay is the act of dressing up as an anime character. Many mashabiki tend to do this at big anime conventions such as anime Expo.
Dandere: Dandere is mostly being confused with kuudere since they are largely similar, especially in terms of personalities. Kuudere means a cool person who still socializes on acceptable levels. Dandere means a person who barely even opens her mouth, coming off as quiet au emotionless. However, when she is together with her zaidi familiarized group of friends, she may opened up and even appear looking cute and sweet. She can really turned extraordinary cute if she stays with that perfect someone.
Doujinshi: Japanese for "fanzine." Doujinshi refers to unofficial manga produced kwa fans. These fan-made stories can use already existing anime and manga characters au original ones. They're usually distributed online, but in Japan, some of the better doujinshi is sold in stores.
Dub: refers to editing out the original dialogue of a foreign TV onyesha au movie and replacing it with dialogue of a different language. In the anime world, the "dub" refers to the English language version of an anime.
Ecchi: derived from the Japanese pronunciation of the letter "H" (from the Japanese word "hentai," which means "pervert"). It refers to anime with an amount of sometimes humorous indecency, usually involving gratituous nudity and sexual situations.
Ending theme: also called an "ending song" au "outro". Refers to the song sung at the end of every episode of an anime series while the end credits role, along with a sequence of uhuishaji that usually flows with the words of the song. Almost every anime has an ending theme that usually changes each season au if the anime's plot changes significantly. The ending theme is almost always followed kwa a preview of the anime's inayofuata episode, and is usually zaidi calm, slow, and gentle than the opening theme.
Face Fault: an exaggeration of facial features meant to convey extreme shock au surprise, often seen in anime. A flabbergasted character's mouth will open until it literally hits the floor and eyes will become larger than usual. Most often a face fault is accompanied kwa the character simply falling over from shock.
Fandub: like a fansub (see Fansub), except rather than adding subtitles, the Japanese dialogue is edited out and replaced with a fan-made English dialogue. Fandubs are much rarer than fansubs.
Fansub: refers to an anime episode au movie with subtitles made kwa mashabiki themselves and not kwa official companies. They are distributed among the anime market mostly via the Internet. They are very maarufu among anime mashabiki because many fansubs are made for episodes au sinema of anime that hasn't yet been officially released and dubbed/subtitled kwa American companies. Depending on who wewe ask, they could be considered somewhat illegal, but so far they're generally tolerated since most fansubbers create fansubs purely out of passion and not to make a profit. Also, fansubs help promote the anime market and they open opportunities for American companies to acquire the rights to anime shows that are currently maarufu fansubs.
Fan fic: short for "fan fiction". Refers to original stories written kwa mashabiki using already existing anime/manga characters and plot lines.
Fan art: art made kwa mashabiki depicting characters from an anime au manga.
Fan service: usually used to refer to scenes in anime that don't have much purpose but are there mainly to please any adolescent male viewers. Such scenes include a female character taking a kuoga au bath, having her panties show, etc. On a zaidi positive note, shabiki service could also refer to anything shown in an anime that is unrelated to the story but is pleasing to the fans, such as cute animals, flashy outfits, au cool action scenes.
Filler: refers to an episode of an anime series that does not occur in the series' original manga (and thus, not created kwa the original author). The purpose of filler episodes is to give the manga time to catch up with the anime au to make the anime last longer than the manga. Since the stories of filler episodes are not made kwa the series' original creator, they usually involve events in which nothing extremely significant is done au accomplished that affects the actual main storyline. Instead, these episodes usually focus zaidi on character development, au they could just be randomly funny au cute episodes in an otherwise serious au action-packed anime series.
Graphic novel: a book made up of chapters from a manga series. They're usually around 150 to 200 pages long. Most manga is originally sold in a series of chapters in weekly magazines. About 10 of these chapters make up a graphic novel. The Japanese word for graphic novel is "tankouban" (see Tankouban).
Hentai: Japanese for "pervert." Hentai is an actual genre of anime that includes major nudity and sexual situations.
Hiragana: Japanese characters/letters used for words of Japanese origin only au words without a based Chinese kanji reading. Japanese grammar particles and certain Japanese names are also written in hiragana.
Image song: a song from an anime sung kwa one of its characters usually about his/her thoughts and feelings. These songs are usually only heard on the anime's soundtrack CDs and are always sung kwa the actual voice actor/actress of the character.
J-pop and J-rock: refers to Japanese maarufu au rock music, similar to English pop and rock but with its own unique sound. A lot of anime use existing songs kwa Japanese artists and almost all of them have at least one available soundtrack CD (usually the longer and zaidi maarufu an anime is, the zaidi soundtracks it gets).
Josei - manga that target zaidi mature women. It is the female equivalent to Seinen manga. Unlike shoujo manga, the romance is zaidi realistic and less idealized. The storytelling is zaidi explicit and mature.
Kanji: Japanese characters/letters based directly on Chinese writing. Each kanji usually has a specific meaning and several readings.
Katakana: Japanese characters/letters used to write words of a foreign origin. Fantasy-based words, sound effects, and some characters' names are written in katakana.
Kawaii: Japanese for "cute." A very maarufu word used among American anime mashabiki used to describe things that are, well, cute.
Kun: An honorific used for addressing au referring to children and teenagers, particularly males, au in an adult setting, used to address an inferior. In anime, wewe see this term used zaidi and zaidi to address females, especially ones who tend to act rather "masculine".
Kuudere: Applies to girl who are, well, cool, and eventually proceeds to zaidi of the “dere” side whenever she is with the right person. Kuudere can be expressive, though barely. Basically, kuuderes are mostly cool and collected. Their direct interactions are another trait of this archetype.
Manga: Japanese for "comics". In American fandom it's used to refer to Japanese comics specifically. Unlike American comics which are basically limited to the superhero and comedy genres, the manga industry is enormous in Japan and manga encompasses an extremely wide range of genres and tastes. Most anime TV shows have a manga series that they're based on.
Mangaka: Japanese for comic book artist, ocassionally used with the same meaning kwa englisg-speaking fans.
Nani: Japanese word for what? It's usually expressed kwa characters when they don't understand something au are suprised kwa what they heard.
Mecha: a genre of anime/manga that involves giant, often anthropomorphic robots that are usually piloted kwa humans. Examples of mecha anime include Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gundam Series, and Code Geass.
Moe: A fairly hivi karibuni but increasingly maarufu type of anime character and also a genre. Moe refers to the archetype of cute, warm, innocent, and often times under-age girls in anime that evoke some passion au arousal from male viewers. The stereotypical moe character is a cute, polite, naive, submissive, and vulnerable young girl who makes others want to protect her.
OAV au OVA: stands for Original uhuishaji Video au Original Video Animation. OAVs are usually a series of anime episodes made exclusively for nyumbani video release and not for TV au cinema. OAV's usually have longer and better episodes (since they don't have to worry about TV censorship) and better animation. An OAV could be based on an already existing anime TV series au it could be a totally original story.
Opening theme: also called an "opening song"or "intro". Refers to the song sung at the start of every episode of an anime series while the beginning credits role, much like the "theme songs" of many American TV shows. However, the songs of anime opening themes are usually much zaidi symbolic and they're made to flow specifically with the uhuishaji being shown. Almost every anime has an opening theme that usually changes each season au if the anime's plot changes significantly. The opening theme is usually zaidi fast-paced, exciting, and enticing than the ending theme.
OST: stands for Original Sound Track. An OST is a muziki CD including all of the major background muziki and songs from a aliyopewa anime series.
Otaku: a derogatory Japanese word used to refer to anyone who's totally obsessed with any one thing. In American anime fandom however, it's less derogatory and is used to refer to someone who's obsessed with anime and manga.
Sama: The very formal honorific used when talking to au about someone who is much older and wiser, au someone whom wewe admire to the point of near worship. The honorific is gender neutral and used when referring to men au women. Used primarily to onyesha great respect to an individual, as in "Miyazaki-sama is a distinguished artist."
San: The formal, polite honorific one uses when talking to au about someone of equal social status. The honorific is gender neutral and used when referring to adult men au women.
Scanlation: Like a fansub, except for manga instead of anime. A scanlation of a manga is when the original Japanese uandishi is edited out and replaced with a fan's translation.
Seinen - manga that is meant for a zaidi mature male audience. It is the male equivalent of Josei manga. Seinen titles are typically darker and zaidi somber than their Shonen counterparts.
Seiyuu: Japanese for "voice actor/actess." American anime mashabiki use it to refer to the Japanese people who do the voices for anime characters. Like the anime shows themselves, seiyuus have their own shabiki following too.
Senpai: An honorific used kwa a young person when talking to au about a benefactor au senior in a social organization. The usage of this honorific is encountered time and again in anime, mostly when students are talking to au about their senior classmates. Used as a noun, it would just mean, "our seniors", au "our upperclassmen".
Side story: a story set in the same world as an already existing anime/manga but focusing on different subjects, such as minor characters, new characters, au subtle plots that aren't really talked about in the actual series.
Shoujo: Japanese for "girl" but it's also an anime/manga genre. Shoujo anime/manga usually have a target audience of young girls and involve a lot of emotional female characters and effeminate, attractive male characters. They're drawn in a pretty, flowery, romantic style and the plots are mainly focused on character relationships and interpersonal conflicts. Examples of shoujo anime/manga include Kaichou wa Maid-sama!, Ouran High School Host Club, and Fruits Basket.
Shounen: Japanese for "boy" but it's also an anime/manga genre. Shounen anime/manga usually have a target audience of young boys and involve mostly fiery male characters (who usually have super powers of some kind) and evil, villainous characters (many of which eventually become good guys). They're drawn in a sharp, hard-core style and are mainly focused on fast-paced but often complex plot lines, with a lot of fighting and action scenes. Examples of shounen anime/manga include Dragon Ball Z, One Piece, Bleach, and Naruto.
Sub: short for "subtitled." Refers to the anime in the original Japanese dialogue with subtitles in another language (usually English).
Tankouban: Japanese word for a volume au graphic novel of a manga series (see Graphic Novel).
Tsundere: is a Japanese concept of a character archetype which describes a person with a conceited, irritable, and/or violent personality that suddenly becomes modest and loving when triggered kwa some sort of cause (such as being alone with someone). It can also describe a contradictory personality which is good-willed on the inside, but with a harsh attitude on the outside.
Yandere: Japanese term for a personality that is initially extremely loving and gentle, then at one point becomes deranged au psychotic, often brutally so. wewe can cosider it the opsite of tsundere.
Yaoi: an anime/manga story in which the plot is centered around a romance relationship between two male characters, usually at least one of them being very effeminate.Yaoi is mostly seen in the world of anime shabiki art and shabiki fics, in which the mashabiki (usually girls) take the male characters of a particular anime/manga series and put them in gay relationships. Yaoi relationships are also referred to as "shounen-ai," meaning "boy's love."
Yuri: the same as yaoi (see Yaoi above), but with the romance relationship being between two female characters. Yuri relationships are also referred to as "shoujo-ai," meaning "girl's love."
AMV: stands for anime muziki Video. AMVs are video made kwa mashabiki that feature scenes from anime together with audio from another chanzo such as English songs, dialogue au muziki from another TV show, au movie trailers. The best AMVs are praised for their good video editing techniques and cleverness in choosing the best anime scenes to go with the chosen song au dialogue.
Baka: Japanese for "stupid," "idiot," au "fool." One of the most common Japanese words used kwa many American mashabiki to describe people who are, well, bakas!
BGM: stands for "background music." This refers to the background muziki of an anime TV series, video game, au movie. They're usually fairly common and maarufu tracks among many anime soundtrack CDs.
Bi-: a prefix denoting beauty. A "bishoujo" is a young and beautiful girl and a "bishonen" is an attractive and often effeminate boy.
Chibi (CB): Japanese for "small," "little," au "young." A "chibi" style drawing of an anime character usually depicts them as being baby-like, with smaller, chubbier bodies, larger eyes and head, and shorter arms and legs. Chibi characters are usually made to be extremely cute and endearing, and it's not uncommon for even villainous characters to be drawn as such. CB is an acronym for Child Body, and is a prefix indicating a chibi style. Artists draw their characters like this from time to time as a sort of "self-parody" (fans upendo them as well).
CLAMP: an extremely famous and maarufu all-female manga creating team made up of Nanase Ohkawa, Mokona Apapa, Mick Nekoi, and Satsuki Igarashi. Some of their most famous works include Magic Knight Rayearth (which was their first breakthrough hit), Cardcaptor Sakura (which became the #1 shoujo manga series in Japan in 1996), Clover, Angelic Layer, Chobits, and Code Geass. All of their works are focused mainly on the characters' relationships and inner conflicts, and the sheer beauty of their stories onyesha that wewe don't need tons of fighting and action to get an impacting message across.
COMIKET: A Japanese contraction of the English words comic and market. Comiket is Japan's largest biannual gathering of manga sellers and buyers in Tokyo. Held at the Tokyo Big Sight Convention Center, crowds of over 100,000 people will onyesha up for the two siku event. Over 10,000 creators and publishers of doujinshi sell their wares at Comiket, but wewe can also find vendors selling postcards, posters, trading cards, and other manga and anime related items. Game developers also have a large presence, selling the very latest in anime computer games.
Cosplay: short for "costume play." Cosplay is the act of dressing up as an anime character. Many mashabiki tend to do this at big anime conventions such as anime Expo.
Dandere: Dandere is mostly being confused with kuudere since they are largely similar, especially in terms of personalities. Kuudere means a cool person who still socializes on acceptable levels. Dandere means a person who barely even opens her mouth, coming off as quiet au emotionless. However, when she is together with her zaidi familiarized group of friends, she may opened up and even appear looking cute and sweet. She can really turned extraordinary cute if she stays with that perfect someone.
Doujinshi: Japanese for "fanzine." Doujinshi refers to unofficial manga produced kwa fans. These fan-made stories can use already existing anime and manga characters au original ones. They're usually distributed online, but in Japan, some of the better doujinshi is sold in stores.
Dub: refers to editing out the original dialogue of a foreign TV onyesha au movie and replacing it with dialogue of a different language. In the anime world, the "dub" refers to the English language version of an anime.
Ecchi: derived from the Japanese pronunciation of the letter "H" (from the Japanese word "hentai," which means "pervert"). It refers to anime with an amount of sometimes humorous indecency, usually involving gratituous nudity and sexual situations.
Ending theme: also called an "ending song" au "outro". Refers to the song sung at the end of every episode of an anime series while the end credits role, along with a sequence of uhuishaji that usually flows with the words of the song. Almost every anime has an ending theme that usually changes each season au if the anime's plot changes significantly. The ending theme is almost always followed kwa a preview of the anime's inayofuata episode, and is usually zaidi calm, slow, and gentle than the opening theme.
Face Fault: an exaggeration of facial features meant to convey extreme shock au surprise, often seen in anime. A flabbergasted character's mouth will open until it literally hits the floor and eyes will become larger than usual. Most often a face fault is accompanied kwa the character simply falling over from shock.
Fandub: like a fansub (see Fansub), except rather than adding subtitles, the Japanese dialogue is edited out and replaced with a fan-made English dialogue. Fandubs are much rarer than fansubs.
Fansub: refers to an anime episode au movie with subtitles made kwa mashabiki themselves and not kwa official companies. They are distributed among the anime market mostly via the Internet. They are very maarufu among anime mashabiki because many fansubs are made for episodes au sinema of anime that hasn't yet been officially released and dubbed/subtitled kwa American companies. Depending on who wewe ask, they could be considered somewhat illegal, but so far they're generally tolerated since most fansubbers create fansubs purely out of passion and not to make a profit. Also, fansubs help promote the anime market and they open opportunities for American companies to acquire the rights to anime shows that are currently maarufu fansubs.
Fan fic: short for "fan fiction". Refers to original stories written kwa mashabiki using already existing anime/manga characters and plot lines.
Fan art: art made kwa mashabiki depicting characters from an anime au manga.
Fan service: usually used to refer to scenes in anime that don't have much purpose but are there mainly to please any adolescent male viewers. Such scenes include a female character taking a kuoga au bath, having her panties show, etc. On a zaidi positive note, shabiki service could also refer to anything shown in an anime that is unrelated to the story but is pleasing to the fans, such as cute animals, flashy outfits, au cool action scenes.
Filler: refers to an episode of an anime series that does not occur in the series' original manga (and thus, not created kwa the original author). The purpose of filler episodes is to give the manga time to catch up with the anime au to make the anime last longer than the manga. Since the stories of filler episodes are not made kwa the series' original creator, they usually involve events in which nothing extremely significant is done au accomplished that affects the actual main storyline. Instead, these episodes usually focus zaidi on character development, au they could just be randomly funny au cute episodes in an otherwise serious au action-packed anime series.
Graphic novel: a book made up of chapters from a manga series. They're usually around 150 to 200 pages long. Most manga is originally sold in a series of chapters in weekly magazines. About 10 of these chapters make up a graphic novel. The Japanese word for graphic novel is "tankouban" (see Tankouban).
Hentai: Japanese for "pervert." Hentai is an actual genre of anime that includes major nudity and sexual situations.
Hiragana: Japanese characters/letters used for words of Japanese origin only au words without a based Chinese kanji reading. Japanese grammar particles and certain Japanese names are also written in hiragana.
Image song: a song from an anime sung kwa one of its characters usually about his/her thoughts and feelings. These songs are usually only heard on the anime's soundtrack CDs and are always sung kwa the actual voice actor/actress of the character.
J-pop and J-rock: refers to Japanese maarufu au rock music, similar to English pop and rock but with its own unique sound. A lot of anime use existing songs kwa Japanese artists and almost all of them have at least one available soundtrack CD (usually the longer and zaidi maarufu an anime is, the zaidi soundtracks it gets).
Josei - manga that target zaidi mature women. It is the female equivalent to Seinen manga. Unlike shoujo manga, the romance is zaidi realistic and less idealized. The storytelling is zaidi explicit and mature.
Kanji: Japanese characters/letters based directly on Chinese writing. Each kanji usually has a specific meaning and several readings.
Katakana: Japanese characters/letters used to write words of a foreign origin. Fantasy-based words, sound effects, and some characters' names are written in katakana.
Kawaii: Japanese for "cute." A very maarufu word used among American anime mashabiki used to describe things that are, well, cute.
Kun: An honorific used for addressing au referring to children and teenagers, particularly males, au in an adult setting, used to address an inferior. In anime, wewe see this term used zaidi and zaidi to address females, especially ones who tend to act rather "masculine".
Kuudere: Applies to girl who are, well, cool, and eventually proceeds to zaidi of the “dere” side whenever she is with the right person. Kuudere can be expressive, though barely. Basically, kuuderes are mostly cool and collected. Their direct interactions are another trait of this archetype.
Manga: Japanese for "comics". In American fandom it's used to refer to Japanese comics specifically. Unlike American comics which are basically limited to the superhero and comedy genres, the manga industry is enormous in Japan and manga encompasses an extremely wide range of genres and tastes. Most anime TV shows have a manga series that they're based on.
Mangaka: Japanese for comic book artist, ocassionally used with the same meaning kwa englisg-speaking fans.
Nani: Japanese word for what? It's usually expressed kwa characters when they don't understand something au are suprised kwa what they heard.
Mecha: a genre of anime/manga that involves giant, often anthropomorphic robots that are usually piloted kwa humans. Examples of mecha anime include Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gundam Series, and Code Geass.
Moe: A fairly hivi karibuni but increasingly maarufu type of anime character and also a genre. Moe refers to the archetype of cute, warm, innocent, and often times under-age girls in anime that evoke some passion au arousal from male viewers. The stereotypical moe character is a cute, polite, naive, submissive, and vulnerable young girl who makes others want to protect her.
OAV au OVA: stands for Original uhuishaji Video au Original Video Animation. OAVs are usually a series of anime episodes made exclusively for nyumbani video release and not for TV au cinema. OAV's usually have longer and better episodes (since they don't have to worry about TV censorship) and better animation. An OAV could be based on an already existing anime TV series au it could be a totally original story.
Opening theme: also called an "opening song"or "intro". Refers to the song sung at the start of every episode of an anime series while the beginning credits role, much like the "theme songs" of many American TV shows. However, the songs of anime opening themes are usually much zaidi symbolic and they're made to flow specifically with the uhuishaji being shown. Almost every anime has an opening theme that usually changes each season au if the anime's plot changes significantly. The opening theme is usually zaidi fast-paced, exciting, and enticing than the ending theme.
OST: stands for Original Sound Track. An OST is a muziki CD including all of the major background muziki and songs from a aliyopewa anime series.
Otaku: a derogatory Japanese word used to refer to anyone who's totally obsessed with any one thing. In American anime fandom however, it's less derogatory and is used to refer to someone who's obsessed with anime and manga.
Sama: The very formal honorific used when talking to au about someone who is much older and wiser, au someone whom wewe admire to the point of near worship. The honorific is gender neutral and used when referring to men au women. Used primarily to onyesha great respect to an individual, as in "Miyazaki-sama is a distinguished artist."
San: The formal, polite honorific one uses when talking to au about someone of equal social status. The honorific is gender neutral and used when referring to adult men au women.
Scanlation: Like a fansub, except for manga instead of anime. A scanlation of a manga is when the original Japanese uandishi is edited out and replaced with a fan's translation.
Seinen - manga that is meant for a zaidi mature male audience. It is the male equivalent of Josei manga. Seinen titles are typically darker and zaidi somber than their Shonen counterparts.
Seiyuu: Japanese for "voice actor/actess." American anime mashabiki use it to refer to the Japanese people who do the voices for anime characters. Like the anime shows themselves, seiyuus have their own shabiki following too.
Senpai: An honorific used kwa a young person when talking to au about a benefactor au senior in a social organization. The usage of this honorific is encountered time and again in anime, mostly when students are talking to au about their senior classmates. Used as a noun, it would just mean, "our seniors", au "our upperclassmen".
Side story: a story set in the same world as an already existing anime/manga but focusing on different subjects, such as minor characters, new characters, au subtle plots that aren't really talked about in the actual series.
Shoujo: Japanese for "girl" but it's also an anime/manga genre. Shoujo anime/manga usually have a target audience of young girls and involve a lot of emotional female characters and effeminate, attractive male characters. They're drawn in a pretty, flowery, romantic style and the plots are mainly focused on character relationships and interpersonal conflicts. Examples of shoujo anime/manga include Kaichou wa Maid-sama!, Ouran High School Host Club, and Fruits Basket.
Shounen: Japanese for "boy" but it's also an anime/manga genre. Shounen anime/manga usually have a target audience of young boys and involve mostly fiery male characters (who usually have super powers of some kind) and evil, villainous characters (many of which eventually become good guys). They're drawn in a sharp, hard-core style and are mainly focused on fast-paced but often complex plot lines, with a lot of fighting and action scenes. Examples of shounen anime/manga include Dragon Ball Z, One Piece, Bleach, and Naruto.
Sub: short for "subtitled." Refers to the anime in the original Japanese dialogue with subtitles in another language (usually English).
Tankouban: Japanese word for a volume au graphic novel of a manga series (see Graphic Novel).
Tsundere: is a Japanese concept of a character archetype which describes a person with a conceited, irritable, and/or violent personality that suddenly becomes modest and loving when triggered kwa some sort of cause (such as being alone with someone). It can also describe a contradictory personality which is good-willed on the inside, but with a harsh attitude on the outside.
Yandere: Japanese term for a personality that is initially extremely loving and gentle, then at one point becomes deranged au psychotic, often brutally so. wewe can cosider it the opsite of tsundere.
Yaoi: an anime/manga story in which the plot is centered around a romance relationship between two male characters, usually at least one of them being very effeminate.Yaoi is mostly seen in the world of anime shabiki art and shabiki fics, in which the mashabiki (usually girls) take the male characters of a particular anime/manga series and put them in gay relationships. Yaoi relationships are also referred to as "shounen-ai," meaning "boy's love."
Yuri: the same as yaoi (see Yaoi above), but with the romance relationship being between two female characters. Yuri relationships are also referred to as "shoujo-ai," meaning "girl's love."
