Japanese Visual Arts Tropes
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. Also see Manga Effects.
Subindex:
- Japanese Animation Tropes: where the trope in question is visual art, but requires animation or attached sound.
Tropes
- Airplane of Love (visual symbolism trope)
- Anime First
- Beam of Enlightenment
- Big Ol' Eyebrows
- Bishie Sparkle
- Blank White Eyes
- Blush Sticker
- Cat Smile
- Comical Angry Face
- Corner of Woe
- Cross-Popping Veins
- Drop the Washtub
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness
- Frilly Upgrade
- Giving Up the Ghost (visual gag, not related to Near-Death Clairvoyance or other Out of Body Experience)
- Hotblooded Sideburns
- Instant Cosplay Surprise
- Instant Seiza
- Kamehame Hadoken
- Kewpie Doll Surprise
- Love Bubbles
- Luminescent Blush
- Mukokuseki
- Paper Cutting
- Puni Plush
- Shonen Hair
- Snot Bubble
- Sprouting Ears
- Standard Bleeding Spots
- Super-Deformed
- Sweat Drop
- Tareme Eyes
- Tsurime Eyes
- A Twinkle in The Sky
- Visible Sigh
- Waterfall Puke
- Yonkoma