Female stock characters in anime and manga

thumb|A manga-style depiction of young girls wearing lingerie. Lolicon artwork often blends childlike characteristics with erotic undertones. In Japanese popular culture, is a genre of fictional media which focuses on young or young-looking girl characters, particularly in a sexually suggestive, fetishistic or erotic context. The term, a portmanteau of the English-language phrase "Lolita complex", also refers to desire and affection for such characters (, "loli"), and their fans. Associated mainly with stylized imagery in manga, anime, and video games, lolicon in otaku culture is generally und

genre of anime and manga

thumb|250px|A typical example of a tsundere character

thumb|200px|Moe (slang)|Moe-style illustration of an original character

thumb|Modern miko in Meiji Shrine, [[Tokyo, in 2000]]

Japanese term meaning the "personification of an idealized Japanese woman"

is an alternative fashion trend among young Japanese women which peaked in popularity around the year 2000 and evolved from gyaru.

sub-genre of action films and animation that portrays a female protagonist who makes use of firearms to defend against or attack a group of antagonists

female pink-collar employee

archetypal figure

is a Japanese term meaning , and the female equivalent to the male in Japanese culture. The usage of the word refers to either the leader of a girl gang or the entire gang itself, and is not used to refer to any one member of a girl gang.

thumb|right|Unofficial Moe anthropomorphism|personification of Wikipedia and mascot Wikipe-tan assembling a 3D jigsaw puzzle that collapses thumb|A dojikko girl spills a plate with an octopus and [[salad]] , in otaku culture terminology, refers to an extremely clumsy female (doji means "blunder" in Japanese). The type is used as a stock character in Japanese light novels, anime, and manga.

fanbase of the homoerotic fiction genre

thumb|250px|2B (Nier: Automata)|2B, a popular kuudere character

stock character often associated with romantic comedy anime and manga series