Shoujo : Means 'Girl', but can also translated as Shoujo (Genre). Read/watch by girls (Magical Girl, Romance)
example for General : Cardcaptor Sakura.
13+ : La Corda d‘oro ~Primo Passo~

Shonen : Means 'Boy', 7-15, but can also translated as Shonen (Genre). Read/watch by boys (Action, Adventure)
Example for General : Digimon
13+ : Naruto

Josei : Young women or older (16+). But is also a genre, read by young women (Boys love, complicated story).
16+ : Romeo x Juliet.
18+ : Nana

Seinen : Young men or older (16+). But can also translated as genre, read by young men (Bloody violence, sex scene).
16+ : Death Note
18+ : Air Gear

Yaoi : Boyslove (or shonen-ai). A love relation between boys. Usually being read by josei.
Example : Loveless

•> Seme : Attacker
•> Uke : Receiver
(Because this is an All-age forum, I'd only explain the words like that.)

Yuri : Girlslove. A love relation between girls. Usually being read by seinen.
Example : Strawberry Panic

•> Class S : Term which used for Strong relationship between School Girls.

Shonen-Ai : Literally means 'Boys Love', Shonen-Ai isn't as explicit as yaoi. It's only a light romance relationship between 2 guys.

Shojo-Ai : Literally means 'Girls Love', Shojo-Ai isn't as explicit as yuri. It's only a light romance relationship between 2 girls.

Ecchi : Nudity/Nude, pornography by material. A genre which usually read by Men. Ecchi itself came from 'Hentai', 'H' spelled in Japanese is 'Ecchi'.
Example : Tenjo Tenge

Hentai : Almost the same meaning as Ecchi, the meaning of it is 'Strange' or 'Abnormal'. Usually a more extreme nudity, yaoi, yuri. And is more to a 'treatment', not the picture.
Example : (No example for safety sake)

Harem : A genre of anime where only 1 boy surrounded by many pretty girls.
Example : Ai Yori Aoshi

Reversed Harem : A genre of anime where only 1 girl surrounded by many pretty/handsome boys.
Example : Saiunkoku Monogatari

Bishojo : Pretty Girls.

Bishonen : Beautiful/Handsome Boys.

Drama CD : A CD of anime with dialog from the anime/manga (or sometimes original dialog) which doesn’t have graphics. Only voice. Usually the seiyuu of CD Drama are different from the anime.

Seiyuu : Dubber in Japanese.
Example : Midorikawa Hikaru (Mikagami Tokiya-Flame of Recca), Hirano Aya (Amane Misa-Death Note), etc.

Moé : 'Moe' doesn't have an exact meaning, it's a term to describe attraction to a character. The term has come to be used as a general term for a hobby, enthusiasm, or fetish (non-sexual). Moe are occasionally treated as synonymous "genres". However, most artists define moe not as a reference to a character so much as any personality that elicits a protective or loving response from the audience. For instance, being naive is very often considered as a favoured feature, but characters who have a complicated and extreme deep thoughts may also be considered as moe depending on the audience.
Thus make moe have some 'parts'.

•>Tsundere : A character who's hardly tell how they feel. Tsundere itself come from 'Tsun-tsun' and 'Dere-dere' Tsun-tsun means the mean or cruel side of the character, sometimes do mean things to the person they like.
Dere-dere means the shy and nice side of the character, blushed everytime they near the person they like. (or probably it's the opposite side, i sometimes got confused -_-'..)
•>Yandere : The opposite of Tsundere. They're Dere-dere, but has a darker side of their attitude.
•>Kemonomimi : Animal ears. Real or fake.
•>Tsukkomi : A very straight person, or serious. Doesn't really care about what the others do.
•>Meganekko : Megane means glasses, and Ko means girl. Simple, a person with glasses.


Lolicon : An older boy who fall in love with a girl who’s much younger than him. This can also have more vulgar meaning.
Example : Eichi with Mitsuki (Full Moon Wo Sagashite)

Shoutacon : An older girl who fall in love with a boy who’s much younger than her.
Example : Asuna with Negi (Negima!)

Nijikon : Tend to love 2D anime characters than real people.
Example :

Otaku : A fanboy/girl who's obesessed with something.
Example : Kohunbutsu Taishi (Comic Party), almost all characters in Genshiken.

•> Fujoshi : Female Fans who like the relationship between two men (In Anime/Manga/Games, sometimes Real-Life) and tend to imagine the relationship into Shonen Ai/Yaoi. It's also used for female fans of Shonen ai/Yaoi Anime/Manga/etc.
•> Ota-gei : Otaku who loves Japanese Female Idols.


Anime : An animation made by Japan, with Japanese staffs (sometimes Korean or sometimes another countries). Usually the characters have big eyes and slim body.

Manga : Comic book from Japan. The art style is the same with anime.

Manhwa : COmic book from Korea. The art style looks almost the same with manga, btu if you check it clearly, there're some differences.

Doujinshi : Fanmade manga. you can buy it, or read the scans.

Lolita : Girls that are attractively cute, they sometimes are little and very cute.

Shota : Little boys that are insanely cute. nuff said

Ahoge : A single(or more) hair standing out from top of head.
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This list is made so if you people don't understand some Anime terms, i hope this list will help you.
There might be some mistakes in the list, feel free to lecture me >_>
And if you want, ask terms that isn't in the list. :)

And, the meaning of Moe. I took it from wikipedia but fixed some words so it'll be easier to understand.

Loli! :3

*watches Lucky Star*
I don't get how they could have talked about food for 8 minutes in the first episode ..

I'd like to comment on a couple of definitions.

-I think "shotacon" and "lolicon" are used exclusively regarding stories with graphic sexual content. So, Full Moon Wo Sagashite and Negima! wouldn't be considered within these subgenres of sorts, unless you're referring to a fanstory (a doujinshi, a fanfiction) depicting the characters in a sexual situation.

-I'm not sure about the term "hentai" in Japan (though it does mean "pervert" in Japanese), but in America it's used to refer to only het (man/woman) sexually explicit stories. I remember some people labelling doujinshis as "hentai" when there were Gundam Wing stories, and I automatically thought, what, is this a DJ in which Duo is a girl or something?

-Well, in my "otaku experience" I've seen that practically most CD dramas feature the same cast as those of the anime or game they're based upon. I'd say the "hook" of a CD drama is its seiyuu cast, therefore the voice actors tend to be the same.

-While "otaku" does refer to an obsessed fan in Japan (and it's a rather derogative term in that country), I think that in the rest of the world it simply refers to an anime or manga fan. So, for instance, I like sci-fi stories and I'm into the Gundam saga, being a Gundam otaku an all that, but I wouldn't say I'm obsessed with the story. And I don't think many people who call themselves "otakus" will consider them as "obsessed". I suggest sticking to the terms as we usually use them in "our contexts".

And may I suggest something as well? You could add the terms "fanfiction" and "doujinshi" to the list, for there are some people who aren't into fandoms and therefore don't know what these words refer to. I've met some people, for instance, who didn't know that a "Harry Potter fanfiction" (even if that's not referred to manga/anime) was a story written by a fan, and thought it was a legitimate and official story. Or when I scanned some of my doujinshis and posted them in my blog; I was asked for permission to reupload such scans to a forum, but that person didn't know those were explicitly sexual stories without relation to the original works. (Also, take into consideration that a "doujinshi" is any work, be it a manga, a novel or an item such as a poster or pin, made and published by a fan, not only those "pretty manga stories". In America, though, we mostly refer to such manga stories as "doujinshis".)

Thanks for correcting ;)

1) Shoutacon & Lolicon, I got the term from Baby Love manga. And then again, Negima is included as 'Shotacon' manga by its fans, the same goes for Fullmoon.

2) Hentai means pervert/abnormal/strange. That's why yaoi & yuri are included in Hentai, even if there're no sex scene in it.

3) That's why i wrote, 'Usually'. The casts who're different from the anime cast, are based from manga. Drama CDs that're based from manga usually have casts that're choosen by the readers & the manga-ka. And when the manga's adapted to anime, the casts usually different. But it's not always.

4) Thanks for this! I always got confused with the term 'Otaku' itself. When i said it's only for anime/manga, some people say it's wrong.

5) I totally forgot about them, thank you. I'll edit this list when i have some more terms.

Might I add to some of the meanings there....

Otaku was actually derived from the term which means another persons house or family {お宅,　御宅 otaku} or a second person pronoun {roughly equivalent to usted in Spanish}. The slang term we see it as is today, which is only written in hiragana (おたく) or katakana (オタク), appeared in the 80's. There's a few differnet kinds of anime being anime otaku (one who sometimes enjoys many days of excessive anime watching with no rest), manga otaku (a fan of Japanese graphic novels), pasokon otaku (personal computer geeks), g¨¥mu otaku (playing video games), wota, (before referred as "idol otaku") that are extreme fans of idols, heavily promoted singing girls. There are also tetsud¨­ otaku or denshamania (metrophiles) or gunji otaku (military geeks). These may be the most common uses of the word, it can also be used for anything else like cooking, martial arts, painting, etc. I also would like to add that the female term is Fujoshi. Some of Japan's otaku use the term to describe themselves and their friends semi-humorously, accepting their position as obsessive fans, and some even use the term proudly, attempting to reclaim it from its negative connotations. In general colloquial usage however, most Japanese would consider it undesirable to be described in a serious fashion as "otaku"; many even consider it to be a genuine insult.

I think you should also add the abbreviation of loli, as people seem to commonly refer it to such when putting out that idea. The word generally means pedophile or ephebophilia{sexual attraction to adolescents}. Lolicon complex, specifically, means Paraphilia, but the abbreviation lolicon can refer to an individual that has the paraphilia as well. I also think Kawaii needs to be listed too.

I forgot to comment this in my previous message. Yes, there are lots of terms when it comes to manga and anime, and many are used in different contexts in Japan and the rest of the world. For instance, "otaku"; in Japan, as I said, it's a derogative term (think of it as calling someone "nerd"), but we people in the rest of the world have no problem with referring to ourselves as "otakus". So, for us, it's only a way to say "anime/manga fan", and such term we use this word. That's why I think we should limit this glosary to terms as we commonly use them.

I still hold my comment on this, about shotacon and lolicon referring mostly to sexually explicit stories. Yes, I know, fans might refer to these mangas/animes by these terms, but can we be completely sure they're right? Ok, I don't want to say that all fans that call those stories are wrong (I myself refer to Gravitation as being a bit on the shota side sometimes, even if there's no explicit sex depicted in either the manga or the anime version), but I do feel using "shota" and "loli" as so much of general terms might lead to confusion among certain people.

Hmmm... I don't know about Japan, but in America we fans use mainly hentai for het stories, and yuri = female/female while yaoi = male/male. Shouldn't be limit the terms to these definitions, as to avoid confusion? Hentai certainly means what you've given as definitions, but we're talking here about terms as they're used in manga/anime and fandoms (and not in a common, daily routine context).

Er... I think I've understood what you meant (I'm a bit blunt, excuse me). So you're saying that original CD dramas (audio dramas that are adaptations from mangas or books) feature a cast that might be different from the cast of the anime, once an animated version is released, right? That's what happened with Angel Sanctuary for instance; the CD dramas were released prior to the 3-part OVAs and featured a completely different cast. But if the CD drama is based upon an anime, the general rule is that the same seiyuu from the show will star it. Was that so...?

Yes, I'll add it along with shota. But kawaii, it's Japanese. And not only used in anime/manga.

About Otaku. Anime/Manga fans, not all of them are Otaku. Even though we admit it. Otaku has quite a bad means, because it doesn't mean 'maniac' or 'geek'. But more to people who only care about what they're obsessed with. In Japanese, Otaku described as Loner, rarely leave house, etc. See Genshiken anime for example.
But still, some people translated Otaku as a fan of anime/manga. I won't say it's comletely wrong tho.

@Scyllua
1) Hm, I never heard about Shotacon/Lolicon as explicit story before you said it. I guess I'll have to search info again for this term.

2) In Japan, it's the genre for explicit (by graphic & story)anime/manga. Not only het, Yaoi & yuri also in it.

3) Yup. That's what I mean.

Note : Maybe i misconceive what you meant, duh, my English is bad =_=

Thank you for your hard work. :) You did an awesome job. :)

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