Anime and Manga Terminology

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 116. Chapters: Anime, Manga, Hentai, Yaoi, Shotacon, Sh jo manga, Yuri, Mecha, Sh nen manga, Otaku, Ecchi, Catgirl, Cosplay, Fansub, Original video animation, Lolicon, Super deformed, Seinen manga, Bish jo game, Bara, Glossary of anime and manga, D jinshi, Anime music video, Magic gun, Original English-language manga, Omorashi, Late night anime, Scanlation, Moe anthropomorphism, Manga iconography, Super Robot, Eyecatch, Itasha, Real Robot, Anime-influenced animation, Josei manga, Class S, Futanari, Fandub, Harem, Tank bon, Fan service, Mangaka, Mecha Musume, Mecha anime, Light novel, Image song, BL game, La nouvelle manga, Gekiga, Superflat, Omake, Alternative manga, Yonkoma, MAD Movie, Ansatsuken, Niigata Comic Market, Animation director, kina otomodachi, Timeskip, Bun, Flower of Life, Gaiden, Original net animation, Chibi, Compilation movie, Film comic, Henshin, Kaoani, Children's anime and manga, Wotagei, Bunkobon, Story manga. Excerpt: Yaoi ) also known as Boys' Love, is a Japanese popular term for female-oriented fictional media that focus on homoerotic or homoromantic male relationships, usually created by female authors. Originally referring to a specific type of d jinshi (self-published works) parody of mainstream anime and manga works, yaoi came to be used as a generic term for female-oriented manga, anime, dating sims, novels and d jinshi featuring idealized homosexual male relationships. The main characters in yaoi usually conform to the formula of the seme lit. "attacker") who pursues the uke lit. "receiver"). In Japan, the term has largely been replaced by the rubric Boys' Love B izu Rabu), which subsumes both parodies and original works, and commercial as well as d jinshi works. Although the genre is called Boys' Love (commonly abbreviated as "BL"), the males featured are pubescent or older. Works featuring prepube...