These are visual art tropes that originated in Japan. This covers all aspects of drawn and rendered art styles and tropes that originated in Japan, regardless of whether they stay there or not. Things that are Animesque are purposely invoking these tropes.
Subindex:
- Japanese Animation Tropes: where the trope in question is visual art, but requires animation or attached sound.
- Manga Effects: Visual tropes originating in manga.
Tropes
- Airplane of Love (visual symbolism trope)
- Anime Hair
- Beam of Enlightenment
- Big Anime Eyes
- Big Ol' Eyebrows
- Bishie Sparkle
- Blank Face of Shame
- Blank White Eyes
- Blush Sticker
- Cat Smile
- Comical Angry Face
- Corner of Woe
- Cross-Popping Veins
- Drop the Washtub
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness
- Empty Eyes
- Face Fault
- Frilly Upgrade
- Giving Up the Ghost (visual gag, not related to Near-Death Clairvoyance or other Out-of-Body Experience)
- Hot-Blooded Sideburns
- Instant Cosplay Surprise
- Instant Seiza
- Inverted Portrait
- Kamehame Hadoken
- Kewpie Doll Surprise
- Kishotenketsu
- Love Bubbles
- Luminescent Blush
- Moe Stare
- Mukokuseki
- Nose Bleed
- Paper Cutting
- Puni Plush
- Quivering Eyes
- Reflectionless Useless Eyes
- Shonen Hair
- Shy Blue-Haired Girl
- Sleep-Mode Size
- Snot Bubble
- Sprouting Ears
- Standard Bleeding Spots
- Super-Deformed
- Sweat Drop
- Tareme Eyes
- Tsurime Eyes
- A Twinkle in the Sky
- Visible Sigh
- Visual Novel Shot
- Waterfall Puke
- Yonkoma
