Japanese Media Tropes

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.

See also:
 * Manga Effects - visual effects used in manga
 * Anime Genres
 * Boys Love Tropes
 * Magical Girl Tropes
 * Mecha Tropes
 * Anime Settings
 * Useful Notes/Japan
 * Japanese Media

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 Pull Taunt (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
 * Paper Fan 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)