DICTIONARY

For the rookies, this is a useful dictionary about anime stuff related that can be handful at the time your are about to decide to watch anime and not get lost on the go.

• Anime (/ˈænəˌmeɪ/) (Japanese: アニメ Hepburn: anime, [aɲime] (listen), plural: anime)is hand-drawn and computer animation originating from or associated with Japan. The word anime is the Japanese term for animation, which means all forms of animated media. Outside Japan, anime refers specifically to animation from Japan or as a Japanese-disseminated animation style often characterized by colorful graphics, vibrant characters and fantastical themes. The culturally abstract approach to the word's meaning may open up the possibility of anime produced in countries other than Japan. For simplicity, many Westerners strictly view anime as a Japanese animation product.Some scholars suggest defining anime as specifically or quintessentially Japanese may be related to a new form of Orientalism.

• Demographic genres

1. Kodomo (子 供? Literally "child"): anime focused on children.
2. Shōnen (少年? Literally "boy" or "boy"): Anime for teenage boys or pre-teens starring a teenage boy, in which there are usually magical elements and combats of all kinds.
3. Shōjo (少女? Literally "girl" or "girl"): anime focused on a female adolescent audience, usually with a main character a girl
4. Seinen (青年? Literally "man"): anime focused on adult men. Contains high level of violence, sometimes gore, sexual scenes and more mature thematic than the classified for teenagers
5. Josei (女性? Literally "woman"): animate young adult women as target audience. Where it covers the dramatic genres or accounts of life, also on sex and more mature subject from the feminine point of view.

• Thematic genres

1. Comedy: animations with a great sense of humor, in which scenes or situations similar to those of other animations are represented, common names are used in the animes, they do things similar to the usual life
2. Cyberpunk: their stories happen in worlds where technological advances take a crucial part in the problems posed, along with some degree of disintegration or radical change in the social order, in addition their aesthetics is also very characteristic.
3. Ecchi: perverted situations presented to comedy. Usually focuses on characters of school age and sexual awakening.If the eroticism is overexploited, using it in most of the scenes, it becomes fan service. The difference between these is that the Ecchi uses the erotic scenes moderately
4. Gekiga: term coined by Yoshihiro Tatsumi to refer to a dramatic, darker, more serious and realistic style of telling the stories. The term, literally, means "dramatic images"
5. Gore: anime literally bloody or with a great amount of terror, closely related to cinema
6. Harem: tells stories where several women are attracted to the same man who is usually the co-star of the anime
7. Inverse Harem: tells stories where many men are attracted to the same woman
8. Hentai (変 態? Literally "pervert") although within Japan the term is not used, but Ero-Anime エ ロ ア ニ メ (erotic animation): they are stories with explicit sexual content, however unlike Western pornography, their narrative universes are much richer and more complex
9. Isekai: Stories where the protagonist is transported to a fantasy world, where magic and fantastic creatures exist
10. Jidaigeki: these are stories with historical content, mostly located in the Edo period.
11. Kemono: humans with animal traits or vice versa, usually aimed at children.
12. Mahō shōjo also known as Magical girl: characterized by narrating stories of girls with magical powers that must fight against some evil power.
13. Mecha: their stories are about giant robots which have the responsibility to save the world from an inhuman enemy. Two subgenres are distinguished: the Real Robots (realistic operation) and the Super Robots (supernatural functioning).
14. Post-apocalyptic: stories that take place in devastated worlds, although they are similar to dystopias are different by the time the story unfolds
15. Romakome: romantic comedies
16. Sentai: their stories portray superheroes who are considered in some cases counterparts of Westerners.
17. Shotacon or Lolicon: their stories focus on romances between young children or also between young children and adults, in many cases gender roles are volatile
18. Shōjo-ai or Yuri: their stories focus on romances between girls or women. The first of the second is differentiated in the content, whether explicit or not
19. Shōnen-ai or Yaoi: their stories focus on romances between boys or men. The first of the second is differentiated in the content, whether explicit or not.

*translated from https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime#G%C3%A9neros

OTAKU TERMS

• Otaku, It is popularly used in Japan and other countries and has become synonymous with passionate fans of anime or manga.