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These are tropes that originate in Japan and are found in Japanese Media. Before adding a page here, please ensure that it doesn't fall under a sub index. Also, please make sure that it actually originates in Japan, and that simply isn't the place you've run into it the most.

Sub Indexes

• Japanese Stock Phrases: Stock phrases from Japan.
• Japanese Visual Arts Tropes: Visual style of drawn and rendered artwork from Japan. Most visual tropes from anime/manga will be here. Using these is the key to becoming Animesque.
• Japanese Animation Tropes: subset of Visual Art tropes that requires being animated.
• Stock Japanese Characters: Stock characters that have originated in Japan. Several (such as Ninja) have been adopted by the outside world.

Tropes

• Adjective Noun Fred (language/title trope)
• Bishonen Line (powerup visualization trope)
• Biting the Handkerchief (melodrama trope)
• Bokukko (dialogue/characterization trope)
• Cherry Blossoms (symbolism trope)
• Cicadian Rhythm (setting trope)
• Cosplay Cafe
• Date Crepe (stock date food)
• Eyelid Pulltaunt (insulting physical gesture, from Japan)
• Festival Episode
• Four is Death (language/pun/superstition trope)
• Headbutt Thermometer
• Henohenomoheji (written Japanese language trope)
• Hime Cut (personal appearance trope)
• Hot Springs Episode (fanservice trope)
• Idiot Crows (symbolism trope as well)
• Image Song
• Jesus Taboo (symbolism trope)
• Kappa (stock Japanese monster)
• Kawaisa
• Keigo
• Kimono Fanservice
• Kimono Is Traditional
• Kitsune (stock Japanese monster)
• Kotatsu
• Measuring Day
• Meido
• Noblewoman's Laugh
• Oba San
• Odango Hair
• Onee-sama
• One, Two, Three, Four, Go!
• Paperfan Of Doom (stock physical comedy)
• Paper Talisman (stock prop)
• Patient Childhood Love Interest (stock romance character type)
• Robeast (standard giant monster)
• School Swimsuit (stock costume)
• Seiza Squirm (Body Language trope)
• The Seven Mysteries (plotting trope, relative of Rule of Three)
• Seven is Nana (language trope)
• Smashing Watermelons (cultural passtime)
• Sprint Scrubbing
• Standing In The Hall
• Stealth Clothes (stock Japanese Costume)
• Surprise Santa Encounter
• Takarazuka
• Teru Teru Bozu (stock Japanese prop)
• The Thing That Goes Doink (stock Japanese prop)
• The Tokyo Fireball
• Visual Kei
• Years Too Early (stock Japanese insult)
• Youkai (stock Japanese monster)
• Widget Series (a type of show built around Japanese popculture jokes)

Anime Tropes

Japanese Visual Arts Tropes

Names to Know in Anime

Anime

Japanese Visual Arts Tropes