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<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ahoge <span style="font-weight: normal;">(<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" xml:lang="ja">アホ毛</span><span class="t_nihongo_help noprint"><sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Help:Installing Japanese character sets" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets"><span class="t_nihongo_icon" style="color: #0000ee; font-size: 9px; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; padding: 0px 0.1em;">?</span></a></sup></span>)</span></dt><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">A single strand of hair that sticks out of a character's head. It literally means "stupid hair" and usually indicates that the character is stupid. However, there are exceptions to this, so it is not an absolute rule. It differs from antenna hair, in which there are two or more locks of hair sticking up as opposed to one. Characters that have an ahoge include Araragi Koyomi from<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Bakemonogatari" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakemonogatari">Bakemonogatari</a>, his ahoge being unique due to its gesture responses to certain situations, Himeko Katagiri from <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Pani Poni" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pani_Poni">Pani Poni</a>, Konata Izumi from <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Lucky Star (manga)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Star_(manga)">Lucky Star</a>, Edward Elric from<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Fullmetal Alchemist" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullmetal_Alchemist">Fullmetal Alchemist</a> (although he is one of the exceptions to the "stupid" rule), Megumi Momono from <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Mahoraba" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahoraba">Mahoraba</a>, Kenji Harima from <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="School Rumble" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_Rumble">School Rumble</a>, Tomoe Yoh from <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Starry Sky" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starry_Sky">Starry Sky</a>, the Italy brothers, Canada, the United States, Norway, Austria, Taiwan, Greece, Turkey, Seborga, Kugelmugel, Australia, Hutt River, and South Korea (whose ahoge has different expressions,) from<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Hetalia: Axis Powers" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetalia:_Axis_Powers">Hetalia: Axis Powers</a>, <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Saber (Fate/stay night)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saber_(Fate/stay_night)">Saber (Fate/stay night)</a>, and Shun Kazami from Bakugan.</dd><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Anime" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime">Anime</a> <span style="font-weight: normal;">(<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" xml:lang="ja">アニメ</span><span class="t_nihongo_help noprint"><sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Help:Installing Japanese character sets" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets"><span class="t_nihongo_icon" style="color: #0000ee; font-size: 9px; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; padding: 0px 0.1em;">?</span></a></sup></span>)</span></dt><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">A Japanese style of motion picture animation,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_anime_and_manga#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> yet is more commonly used by Westerners to refer to animation produced exclusively in Japan. Otherwise, the term refers to all animation according to the Japanese language.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap;">[<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from May 2012">citation needed</span></a>]</sup></dd><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Anime music video" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime_music_video">Anime music video</a></dt><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Often abbreviated AMV, video clips from at least one anime series arranged to fit a musical piece playing in the background.<sup id="cite_ref-Steiff_2010_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_anime_and_manga#cite_note-Steiff_2010-2">[2]</a></sup></dd><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Anime Music Story Video</dt><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Similar to the term above, but instead of just music that fits whatever's happening to the anime, the music and anime fit in a particular way to make a story - to give the AMV meaning, thus creating the AMSV.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap;">[<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from December 2012">citation needed</span></a>]</sup></dd><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Aniparo <span style="font-weight: normal;">(<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" xml:lang="ja">アニパロ</span><span class="t_nihongo_help noprint"><sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Help:Installing Japanese character sets" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets"><span class="t_nihongo_icon" style="color: #0000ee; font-size: 9px; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; padding: 0px 0.1em;">?</span></a></sup></span>)</span></dt><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Literally, "anime parody"—anime characters being used by fans in a parodic way.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_anime_and_manga#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup></dd></dl>
