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Chinese word for comic. They are similar to manga and manwha but of Chinese origin.

Includes the Chinese translation for manga.
You're reading a manhua?

Check out this manhua I bought thought Chinese website.

Which one are better? manga, manhwa, or manhua?
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Oppa is a word used by korean females to address male older than them who they are close to (biological or not).

It's often used in a romantic relationship when a girl refers to her boyfriend (or the girl hitting on a guy) who is older/same age as her.

Oppa literally means "older brother"

The male version of this word is hyung.
Do you want to go on a date with me oppa?

I told oppa that I'll come home early today.
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A type of genre in manga or anime that is targeted toward girls preteen and below.

It features an ordinary girl who one day receive magical power and transform into her alter-ego magical superpower to battle evil.

The transformation process is always the same with the girl posing and her boy basked in shining light while the clothes magically attach themselves to the girl. For an unknown reason, the villain always wait until the magical girl is done transforming and they are never attacked in middle of transformation.

magical girls often wears sexy, revealing clothes and mini-skits. As well as cutie-looking weapon.

The less prominent, male version of this is magical boy
Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura are magical girl anime
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Rape is Love is a common stereotype in cheap literature, manga, drama, or movie. This concept is often used to show intense (often S&M) sex scene without having to bother developing a good plot line. This technique is used so that the readers feel less guilty about reading/watching rape story.

The rapist expresses his love by raping the girl, and girl hates it. but later comes to realize that it's just a way a guy expresses his love for her.

The rapist is usually really handsome/smart/rich.
The victim is an ordinary person.

This technique can commonly be found in Japaneses smut and yaoi.
OMG, I'm so sick of these cheap Rape is Love yaoi plot.

Rape is Love story: Akira loved Hina so much, but was too embarrassed to say. When Hina walked into his room, he just couldn't help anymore and raped her. Hina looked at him in disgust, but Akira felt insecurity at loving her so he acted mean toward her. Hina was confused at how great she responded to sex, and realized Akira's soft gesture. She fell in love.
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A genre in manga and anime where a single (often ordinary) guy is liked and followed by bunch of girls (3 or more) who are all madly in love with him. The girls often fight each other to get the guy's attention.

female version of this is reverse harem
Rana 1/2 is a harem manga
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The electronic copy of original manga, manhwa, or manhua that is about to go though scanlation

sometimes used as shortened form of the word scanlation
Can i get a raw scan of naruto before it's released?

Look at this site, they have awesome scans.
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In the scanlation process, the staff who take the translated text and place them in the empty "cleaned" speech bubble using Photoshop or other programs.

The scanlation process requires raw provider, translator, editor (broken down into cleaner and typesetter) and the quality checker.
I love that manga so much i applied to the typesetter position in that scanlation group!
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