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This section provides some information about Anime - the types, genres, including related terms. I hope this will be useful to those who wish to understand anime better and also to beginners in the field of anime. Hope you find this section useful. XD.
Anime (アニメ) simply means Japanese animation. It is generally influenced by or based upon Japanese comics referred to as manga. But sometimes, it may also be based on novels like Gensomaden Saiyuuki from the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West or Legend of Condor Hero from the novel by Jin Yong of the same title.
Anime has a wide variety of genres and categories. Its stories can take the nature of an adventure, science fiction, children's stories, romance, medieval fantasy, erotica (hentai), occult/horror, or action. Most anime include a variety of thematic elements like humor, romance, and even poignant social commentary.
Generally released in theaters, films represent the highest budgets and generally the highest video quality. Popular anime movies include Akira, and Spirited Away. Some are only released at film or animation festivals and are shorter and sometimes lower in production values. Other types of films include compilation movies, which are television episodes edited together and presented in theaters for various reasons, and are hence a concentrated form of a television serial like Rahxephon. These may, however, be longer than the average movie. There are also theatrical shorts derived from existing televisions series and billed in Japanese theaters together to form feature-length showing.
OVA (Original Video Animation; sometimes OAV, or Original Animated Video) anime is often similar to a television miniseries. OVAs are typically two to twenty episodes in length; one-shots are particularly short, usually less than film-length. They most commonly released directly to video. As a general rule OVA anime tends to be of high quality, approaching that of films. Titles tend often have a very regular, continuous plot which is best enjoyed if all episodes are viewed in sequence.
Television series anime is syndicated and broadcast on television on a regular schedule. Television series are generally low quality compared to OVA and film titles, because the production budget is spread out over many episodes rather than a single film or a short series. Most episodes are about 23 minutes in length, to fill a typical thirty-minute time slot with added commercials. One full season is 26 episodes, and many titles run half seasons, or 13 episodes. It is uncommon for subsequent episodes to be completely unrelated to each other (as seen in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex), so viewers can enjoy the show even if an episode is missed. All TV series anime episodes will have opening credits, closing credits, and often an "eyecatch", a very short scene, often humorous or silly, that is used to signal the start or end of the commercial break. "Eyecatch" scenes are only found in TV series anime. Opening credits may be found in OVA releases, but that is not a certainty. These features are not found in movies.
It is very common for one title to spawn several different releases. A title that starts as a popular television series might then have a movie produced at a later date. A good example is Tenchi Muyo—originally an OVA, Tenchi Muyo! spawned three movies, three television series, and several spinoff titles and specials.
Bishōjo - Japanese for 'beautiful girl', blanket term that can be used to describe any anime that features pretty girls.
Bishōnen - Japanese for 'beautiful boy' blanket term that can be used to describe any anime that features "pretty" and elegant boys and men.
Ecchi - Japanese for 'indecent sexuality'. Contains mild sexual humor, example: Love Hina.
Hentai - Japanese for 'sexual perversion'. Pornographic anime, erotica.
Yaoi - Homo-erotic hentai featuring men, intended for females.Yuri - Homo-erotic hentai featuring women.
Shota - As in 'shotaro complex' - erotic anime featuring young boys.
Lolicon - As in 'lolita complex' - erotic anime featuring young girls.
Josei - Japanese for 'young woman', this is anime or manga that is aimed at young women, and is one of the rarest forms.
Mecha - Anime or manga featuring giant robots, example the various Gundam series.
Moé - Anime or manga featuring characters that are extremely perky or cute.
Progressive - "Art films" or extremely stylized anime, example Voices of a Distant Star.
Seinen - Anime or manga targeted at young adults, example Ghost in the Shell.
Shōjo - Japanese for 'young lady' or 'little girl', refers to anime or manga targeted at girls, example Cardcaptor Sakura.
Mahō Shōjo -Subgenre of Shoujo known for 'Magical Girl' stories, example Sailor Moon.
Sentai - Japanese for 'taskforce', refers to any show that involves a superhero team, example Cyborg 009.
Shōjo-ai - Japanese for 'girl-love', refers to anime or manga that focus on love and romance between female characters, example Revolutionary Girl Utena.
Shōnen - Japanese for 'boys', refers to anime or manga targeted at boys, example Dragon Ball Z.
Shōnen-ai - Japanese for 'boy-love', refers to anime or manga that focus on love and romance between male characters, example Gravitation.
Fanservice or fan service - (Japanese simply "saabisu", "service") refer to elements in a story that are superfluous to a storyline, but designed to amuse or excite the audience. The following are some forms of fanservice:
1.Sexual - The typically understood definition is inclusion of racy or sexual content (usually female, but also male) to titillate the viewer, such as nudity. Shower scenes are very common in anime of the 1980s and 1990s, while many more recent TV series use trips to onsen (Japanese hot springs), or "obligatory" holiday episodes,often to tropical locales, in order to showcase the characters in bathing suits; all aim to depict characters in states of relative undress when it would otherwise be out of place with the tone of a series.
In anime two common types of fanservice are the panty shot and jiggling breasts, both often overused to an almost silly level (that is often what is desired). An example is the series Tenjo Tenge. A third type is the nude transformation sequence.
2.Cosplay - In anime and manga, another type of fan service is having one or more of the characters cosplay, particularly in in a costume that is part of a Japanese clothing fetish. Popular costumes include:
CatgirlA character from an(other) anime, manga, or video game
Hadaka apron
Kimono
Yukata; traditional worn at onsen and for summer festivals, particularly Obon and Tanabata
Uniforms
Bunny girl
Maid
Miko
Nurse
Policewoman
Race queen
Waitress (especially one from Anna Miller's)
School uniform
Bloomers (girl's warm weather gym shorts)
Sailor fuku
Girls' official school swimsuit (one of two or three types of one-piece suits)
3.Cameo - Often, movies will attempt to include cameo appearances by prominent figures who are or were associated with the work on which it is based. This either takes the form of actual appearances or character names. For instance, in the anime Love Hina especially in the OAV's, its writer Ken Akatmatsu made a cameo appearance and played a significant part in the story's development (I think^_^).
Fansub - short for "fan subtitled"; a copy of a foreign movie or television show which has been subtitled by "fans" into their native language. This has been done to provide shows that would otherwise be unavailable in one's native language, but with the growth in the popularity of anime, fansubs' purpose has expanded to include programs that would be commercially unviable (i.e. older or niche appeal market titles) in one's country or simply to reduce the amount of time one would wait to see a particular program. Translations of signage on screen and cultural notes are often added. Also, many anime viewers feel there is too much censorship of anime broadcast on TV, especially in scenes related to nudity, which is common in Japan (even in children's shows) but is typically considered inappropriate in the United States. Portrayal of nudity in the media has long been controversial in the United States.
Hammerspace - is an extra-dimensional storage area that can be accessed instantly. The concept is jokingly used to explain how characters in animation, comics and games are capable of producing objects out of thin air, usually from behind their backs or other hidden areas.
The hammerspace draws its name from a semi-common cliché in humorous anime and manga: Male character X offends or otherwise angers female character Y. Y then draws a wooden mallet –- ranging in size from large to downright ludicrous -- out of nowhere and bashes X with it. Hammering is purely for comic relief, and neither advances the plot nor causes permanent damage. The term was largely made famous by fans of Ranma ½. Kaori's 100 ton mallet is also a regular feature in the manga and anime City Hunter . Hammerspace does have parallels in western animation. For instance, in Warner Brothers cartoons, characters often pull all sorts of things -- guns, disguises, umbrellas -- from behind their backs.
In Japanese anime, Hammerspace may have been inspired by the fact that the traditional samurai carried their katana swords in sheaths on their backs rather than at their waists, as was more common in the rest of the world; therefore Japanese would find it less odd for someone to reach over his or her shoulder and produce a weapon.
Here is a compilation of Common Expressions found in Animes. The list is quite long so I used a different page for this. Hope you like it!XD
Anime Expressions - Click Here
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Source: Original text from the article in Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia: Anime
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