The game rules dictate that one or more players are the enemy, pitting the characters against each other. PVP anime are often a Battle Royale setup where players must kill each other off until only one remains. Not to be confused with PVE anime (player versus environment).
Urban Dictionary: PV Abbreviation for Potential Victim. Commonly used to refer to a girl/guy with whom you are considering courtship/elopement/copulation/mating/etc. Typically used by people who are less than attractive to begin with; therefore their person-of-desire is considered "prey". Abbreviation for Potential Victim.
Recently though, its definition has softened up a bit, and is often used to refer to one’s self as an anime fan in a sort of self-deprecating way.
Term for voice actors/actresses in anime. When referring to the Japanese voices in English speaking circles, seiyuu is used over the more general words voice actor or VA. There are also some other differences, like how seiyuu’s roles are considered almost sacred and even over many decades, the same seiyuu will be attached to the same characters.
Photovoltaic (PV) essentially means electricity from the energy of the sun and is derived from the words “photo” with the Greek meaning light and “voltaic” meaning voltage.
PV stands for Promotional Video (usually music video)
Original video animationOriginal video animation (Japanese: オリジナル・ビデオ・アニメーション, Hepburn: orijinaru bideo animēshon), abbreviated as OVA and sometimes as OAV (original animation video), are Japanese animated films and series made specially for release in home video formats without prior showings on television or in theaters, though the first ...
In anime, an OAD is an Original Animation DVD. Sometimes, these are referred to as OAVs or, Original Animation Videos.
The music used in a show. This includes background music, mood music, incidental music and opening and ending theme music. For longer TV series, there is often too much music to release on a single CD, so several OSTs will be released (often called OST1, OST2, etc.)
VOCALOID Fanmade Promotion Video, also known as Fanmade PV, is the phrase used within the VOCALOID community to describe a video set to music featuring a VOCALOID. PVs are commonly seen on video-sharing sites such as niconico and, sometimes, YouTube.
An Original Net Animation (ONA) is an anime that is directly released onto the Internet(1) while an Original Video Animation (OVA) is an animated film or series made specially for release in home-video formats.
Some of the creators produce OVA stories relevant to the original anime series, making them canon. Without watching such an OVA that is canon, you might miss some vital part of the story of the original series. Due to which if the OVA is canon, you should watch it to have a better idea of the original anime series.
Ilse's Notebook is canon. The second OVA is a "just for fun" thing, it's not really canon. The third OVA doesn't really impact the story or change anything, so you can consider it to be canon.
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OVAs are not special episodes, as its own name states: Original Video Animation (OVA) they were made for video consumption and had no limitations (censorship) with the intention to expand the market to a more mature audience.
Anime pfp, is a short term for anime profile picture and most of the people use it to express their love or admiration towards their favorite character.
This is pretty simple, when we like a certain character in an anime series or movies, some people have the urge to make the anime characters their profile picture, because of the character’s personality or their looks that may be funny looking or appealing to the eyes.
Starting in the mid-2000s with hit light novels like Boogiepop and Others and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, light novels began as a way to sell niche and out of the ordinary stories to a less traditional audience.
Derived from the word “moeru” or “to burn”, moe refers not necessarily to a character, but to the feeling the viewer gets when seeing such a character, the cuteness that lights your heart on fire with a desire to protect or cherish something cute.
Associated with the older side of the shoujo genre, this character type is the rich haughty girl, often drawn with drill curls in her hair. This type of character can range from comcially exaggerated to just a refined personality.
Manga adaptations into anime notoriously run into the issue where the studio runs out of manga source material to adapt, and has to create anime original content with varying levels of involvement from the original mangaka.