Otaku Dictionary
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While convenience stores are a common sight across the world, the Japanese have truly mastered and embraced the concept perhaps more so than any other cou...
Readmore Have you ever wondered how Jerry Jewell can portray Russian characters like Victor Nikiforov so eloquently? Have you ever wanted to pull off a noble Briti...
Readmore In Japan, ikebana is known as the art of flower arranging. It is highly regarded as an art and could easily be compared to a living sculpture. Many design...
Readmore The world of yokai is filled with strange and unusual creatures. Many of these are immensely strange to western cultures that don’t believe in ghosts and ...
Readmore Bell Cranel is, first and foremost, an adventurer. Throughout the course of Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka, also known as DanMac...
Readmore Out of the numerous yokai, a broad classification of supernatural beings and creatures in Japanese traditional folklore and mythology, kappa are among the...
Readmore Drama Anime are stories that have a plot featuring exciting, emotional, or unexpected series of events or sets of circumstances. The plot of a drama makes...
Readmore Slice-of-Life anime are stories that view cut-out sequences of events in the characters’ lives. The story generally focuses on mundane experiences in scho...
Readmore Aimed by definition at a young female audience, shoujo is probably the epitome of the genre preferred by the ladies! Just like every other genre, it comes...
Readmore Your Favorite Manga Visual Gags, Explained! – Chibi Mode, Referential Art Shift, Henohenomoheji Face
If you’ve been reading manga and watching anime for long enough, you’ll recognize a number of strange visual gags that don’t make inherent sense to Wester...
Readmore We Westerners have become accustomed to manga’s unique weirdness over time, but some jokes still go over our heads. Why did a crow caw in the background w...
Readmore BL anime are those kinds of shows depicting homosexual relationships between bishounen. Usually, there's a sweet boy who falls in love with another cutie ...
Readmore 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...
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![[Anime Culture Monday] All About Konbini, Japanese Convenience Stores](https://honeysanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Net-juu-no-Susume-Capture-300x169.jpg "[Anime Culture Monday] All About Konbini, Japanese Convenience Stores")
![What is a Kappa? [Definition; Meaning]](https://honeysanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Sarazanmai-Wallpaper-4-300x298.jpg "What is a Kappa? [Definition; Meaning]")
![What is a Harem Anime? [Definition; Meaning]](https://honeysanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Saenai-Heroine-no-Sodatekata-Wallpaper-300x213.jpg "What is a Harem Anime? [Definition; Meaning]")
![What is a Reverse Harem Anime? [Definition; Meaning]](https://honeysanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Kamigami-no-Asobi-Wallpaper-300x215.jpg "What is a Reverse Harem Anime? [Definition; Meaning]")
![Why Is It Called a Bishounen & Fujoshi-Friendly Anime? [Definition, Meaning]](https://honeysanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Fruits-Basket-Wallpaper-300x415.jpg "Why Is It Called a Bishounen & Fujoshi-Friendly Anime? [Definition, Meaning]")