Otaku Dictionary
Anime are often much better at telling horrific stories because they can exceed the bounds placed on live-action shows. Given whatever laws an anime’s wor...
Readmore Laughter can often be quite healing, and people frequently turn to shows if they’re looking for something to make them feel better. Anime are no exception...
Readmore Whether you’ve been following it as it airs or you’re waiting for it to release on Netflix, you may have noticed that music plays a pretty important role ...
Readmore With a huge well of inspiration to draw from, the genre of historical anime is one of the most varied out there. In this piece, we’ll be discussing variou...
Readmore Last time, we explored the ins and outs of three classic manga visual gags: sweat drops, sprouting animal ears, and growing mushrooms on one’s head. Today...
Readmore Western comics have their own classic jokes and symbols that we can understand without even thinking about them: a lightbulb above the head representing a...
Readmore The shounen genre in both anime and manga is famous the world over, even if someone might not recognize it initially. Popular anime adaptations like Narut...
Readmore Set a thousand years in the future, Shinsekai Yori envisions a reality where humanity has declined leaving only an astonishingly small percentage of survi...
Readmore Harem is a subgenre of light novels, manga, and anime involving polygynous/polyandrous relationships. A polygynous/polyandrous relationship is a relations...
Readmore There are seemingly endless numbers of anime genres out there, appealing to an incredibly wide audience with how different each one can be. Many of these ...
Readmore Fantasy is easily one of the biggest and most popular genres of anime. Many, many anime every season fall into the blanket term of “fantasy.” But did you ...
Readmore If the typical harem anime features your average guy surrounded by wonderful girls fawning over him, girls need to cheer up because it has its counterpart...
Readmore As far as we know, shounen-ai, yaoi and BL anime depict romance, or sexual relationship between two male characters. Usually, these shows are full of cute...
Readmore Like many other countries in East Asia, Japan was culturally influenced by China which was the most powerful and culturally significant country in the...
Readmore When a sad anime manages to touch us, it has the potential to mold us into kinder, more emotionally balanced beings. If you trust the words of psychoanaly...
Readmore In Part 1, we explored the history of manga publication in America—from redrawn versions of Astro Boy to flipped artwork to authentic Tokyopop manga volum...
Readmore When it comes to watching anime, there are a lot of confusing terms and jargon that get thrown around a lot. While you may know some, even as a fan it’s h...
Readmore Oddly enough, the Magical Girl genre owes its origin to American television. The makers of the first two works to claim the name, Mahoutsukai Sally and Hi...
Readmore In a seemingly utopic Japan set in the 22nd century, the young and intelligent Akane Tsunemori starts off on her career path as she decides to pursue work...
Readmore Samurai in media dates back long before the motion picture camera was ever invented. In fact, they’ve been portrayed in plays for the five or six centurie...
Readmore We all have a basic idea of sports anime. A plucky high school boy equipped with nothing but a do-or-die attitude and a strange talent enters into a hot-b...
Readmore Just like American comics, Japanese anime and manga have their characters with their own unique super powers. The notion of super powers can be traced bac...
Readmore Whether it’s anime, Hollywood, Bollywood, Hong Kong, or Korean cinema, action as a whole is a wide spectrum with sub-categories that each qualifies as the...
Readmore So you’re all ready to go to your first cosplay event in Japan. Maybe you’re living in Japan and it’s time for you to take the plunge. Maybe you’ve bought your ...
Readmore Because cosplay originated in Japan, many cosplayers around the world dream of visiting the birthplace of their favourite hobby. Many cosplayers do eventually t...
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![What Makes a Sad Anime? [Definition; Meaning]](https://honeysanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Hinamatsuri-Wallpaper-300x169.jpg "What Makes a Sad Anime? [Definition; Meaning]")
![Why Is It Called a Shoujo-Ai Anime? [Definition; Meaning]](https://honeysanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/strawberry-panic-dvd-300x441.jpg "Why Is It Called a Shoujo-Ai Anime? [Definition; Meaning]")
![What Constitutes a Magical Girl/Mahou Shoujo Anime? [Definition; Meaning]](https://honeysanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Mahou-Shoujo-Madoka-Magica-Wallpaper-300x314.jpg "What Constitutes a Magical Girl/Mahou Shoujo Anime? [Definition; Meaning]")
![What Goes Into a Samurai Anime? [Definition; Meaning]](https://honeysanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Yoroiden-Samurai-Troopers-Ronin-Warriors-dvd-300x422.jpg "What Goes Into a Samurai Anime? [Definition; Meaning]")
![What Makes Up a Sports Anime? [Definition; Meaning]](https://honeysanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Hajime-no-Ippo-Wallpaper-300x300.jpg "What Makes Up a Sports Anime? [Definition; Meaning]")
![What Constitutes a Super Power Anime? [Definition; Meaning]](https://honeysanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/inuyasha-wallpaper-300x300.jpg "What Constitutes a Super Power Anime? [Definition; Meaning]")
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