| List of Anime Terms |
ANIME: Japanese for animation, In America only Japanese animation, but in Japan all animation. BISHUJO: Beautiful Woman BISHONEN: Beautiful man, referded to young men mostly in their teens. BIDANSHI: Beautiful man, older man adult. CHARA: Character CHIBI: Small DOJINSHI: Fam produced manga. Fan fiction in manga form. HENSHIN: Transformation. HENTAI: Adult Anime, litraly means perveted. KAITOU: mystreious theif. KAWAII: Cute, cool. MAHOU SHOUJO: Girl with magic powers MANGA: Graphic Novel, many anime is based off of manga MECHA: Machine anime, such as Mobil Suit Gundam Wing NIHON: Japan OVA (OAV): Original Video Animation OTAKU: Genaric term for an overly obsessive anime fan. For example, El Anime Hombre or Anime Girl. SD, SUPER DEFORMED: Exagerated anime character. Used for comic effect. SHOUJO: Girls anime such as Card Captor Sakura or Sailor Moon. SHONEN: Boy's anime such as Cutey Honey or Tenchi Muyo. YAOI: Homosexual Hentai. (Sorry to whomever is offended by this.) |
| So, you want to be in the revolution eh? Well your gonna have to talk like an Otaku then. Here's a list of some words that we use. You're not an otaku till you know them. |