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Anime and manga genres

  • Harem (genre)The genre emerged in Japan during the 1970s. It gained significant popularity through the late 1980s and 1990s with the advent of dating simulator games.
  • EcchiThe word ecchi began as a simple abbreviation of hentai in the 1950s. Japanese youth started using the letter H to refer to sex during that decade.
  • Yuri (genre)The word yuri translates literally to lily, a common Japanese feminine name. White lilies have been used since the Romantic era of Japanese literature to…
  • Magical girlIn 1962, a young girl named Akko opened a small silver compact in the pages of Himitsu no Akko-chan. This moment marked the first time a magical girl used an…
  • HentaiThe word hentai first appeared in Japanese psychology texts during the Meiji era to describe abnormal sexual desire. Richard von Krafft-Ebing's German…
  • IsekaiIn 1929, the first Buck Rogers comic strip appeared, centering on a Pittsburgh mine worker trapped in a cave-in and preserved for four hundred years.