Fourty- Nine laws of Anime: (Oddly enough, there are only forty-six...)

Originally compiled and edited by Darrin Bright and Ryan Shellito

1. Law of Metaphysical Irregularity
The normal laws of physics do not apply.

2. Law of Differentiated Gravitation
Whenever someone or something jumps, is thrown, or otherwise is rendered airborn, gravity is reduced by a factor of 4.

3. Law of Sonic Amplification, First Law of Anime Acoustics
In space, loud sounds, like explosions, are even louder because there is no air to get in the way.

4. Law of Constant Thrust, First Law of Anime Motion
In space, constant thrust equals constant velocity.

5. Law of Mechanical Mobility, Second Law of Anime Motion
The larger a mechanical device is, the faster it moves. Armored Mecha are the fastest objects known to human science.

6. Law of Temporal Variability
Time is not a constant. Time stops for the hero whenever he does something 'cool' or 'impressive'. Time slows down when friends and lovers are being killed and speeds up whenever there is a fight.

7. First Law of Temporal Mortality
'Good Guys' and 'Bad Guys' both die in one of two ways. Either so quick they don't even see it coming, OR it's a long drawn out affair where the character gains much insight to the workings of society, human existence or why the toast always lands butter side down.

8. Second Law of Temporal Mortality
It takes some time for bad guys to die... regardless of physical damage. Even when the 'Bad Guys' are killed so quickly they didn't even see it coming, it takes them a while to realize they are dead. This is attributed to the belief that being evil damages the Reality Lobe of the brain.

9. Law of Dramatic Emphasis
Scenes involving extreme amounts of action are depicted with either still-frames or black screens with a slash of bright color (usually red or white).

10, Law of Dramatic Multiplicity
Scenes that only happen once, for instance, a 'Good Guy' kicks the 'Bad Guy' in the face, are seen at least 3 times from 3 different angles.

11. Law of Inherent Combustability
Everything explodes. Everything.
First Corollary - Anything that explodes bulges first.
Second Corollary - Large cities are the most explosive substances known to human science. Tokyo in particular seems to be the most unstable of these cities, sometimes referred to as "The Matchstick City".

12. Law of Phlogistatic Emission
Nearly all things emit light from fatal wounds.

13. Law of Energetic Emission
There is alway an energy build up (commonly referred to as an energy 'bulge') before Mecha or space craft weapons fire. Because of the explosive qualities of weapons, it is believed that this is related to the Law of Inherent Combustability.

14. Law of Inverse Lethal Magnitude
The destructive potential of a weapon is inversly proportional to its size.
First Corollary- Small and cute will always overcome big and ugly. Also know as the A-Ko phenomenon.

15. Law of Inexhaustability
No one EVER runs out of ammunition. That is of course unless they are cornered, out-numbered, out-classed, and unconscious.

16. Law of Inverse Accuracy
The accuracy of a 'Good Guy' when operating any form of fire-arm increases as the difficulty of the shot increases. The accuracy of the 'Bad Guys' when operating fire-arms decreases when the difficulty of the shot decreases. (Also known as the Stormtrooper Effect)
Example: A 'Good Guy' in a drunken stupor being held upside down from a moving vehicle will always hit, and several battalions of 'Bad Guys' firing on a 'Good Guy' standing alone in the middle of an open field will always miss.
First Corollary - The more 'Bad Guys' there are, the less likely they will hit anyone or do any real damage.
Second Corollary - Whenever a 'Good Guy' is faced with insurmountable odds, the 'Bad Guys' line up in neat rows, allowing the hero to take them all out with a single burst of automatic fire and then escape.
Third Corollary- Whenever a 'Good Guy' is actually hit by enemy fire, it is in a designated 'Good Guy Area', usually a flesh wound in the shoulder or arm, which restricts the 'Good Guy' from doing anything more strenuous than driving, firing weaponry, using melee weapons, operating heavy machinery, or doing complex martial arts maneuvres.

17. Law of Transient Romantic Unreliability
Minmei is a bimbo.

18. Law of Hemoglobin Capacity
The human body contains over 12 gallons of blood, sometimes more, under high pressure.

19. Law of Demonic Consistency
Demons and other supernatural creatures have at least three eyes, loads of fangs, tend to be yellow-green or brown (but black is not unknown), and can only be hurt by bladed weapons.

20. Law of Militaristic Unreliability
Huge galaxy-wide armadas, entire armies, and large war-machines full of cruel, heartless, bloodthirsty warriors can be stopped and defeated with a single insignificant example of a caring/loving emotion or a song.

21. Law of Tactical Unreliability
Tactical geniuses aren't...

22. Law of Inconsequential Undetectability
People never notice the little things... Like missing body parts, or wounds the size of Seattle.

23. Law of Juvenile Intellectuality
Children are smarter than adults. And almost always twice as annoying.

24. Law of Americanthropomorphism
Americans in Anime appear in one of two roles, either as a really nasty skinny 'Bad Guy' or a big stupid 'Good Guy'.
First Corollary - The only people who are more stupid than the big dumb Americans are the American translators. (Sometimes referred to as the Green Line Effect.)
Second Corollary - The only people who are more stupid than the American translators are the American editors and censors.

25. Law of Mandibular Proportionality
The size of a person's mouth is directly proportional to the volume at which they are speaking or eating.

26. Law of Feline Mutation
Any half-cat/half-human mutation will invariably:
a) be female
b) will possess ears and sometimes a tail as a genetic mutation
c)and wear as little clothing as possible, if any.

27. Law of Conservation of Firepower
Any powerful weapon capable of destroying/defeating an opponent in a single shot will invariably be reserved and used only as a last resort.

28. Law of Technological User-Benevolence
The formal training required to operate a spaceship or mecha is inversely proportional to its complexity.

29. Law of Melee Luminescence
Any being displaying extremely high levels of martial arts prowess and/or violent emotions emits light in the form of a glowing aura. This aura is usually blue for 'good guys' and red for 'bad guys'. This is attributed to Good being higher in the electromagnetic spectrum than Evil.

30. Law of Non-anthropomorphic Antagonism
All ugly, non-humanoid alien races are hostile, and usually hell-bent on destroying humanity for some obscure reason.

31. Law of Follicular Chroma Variability
Any color in the visible spectrum is considered a natural hair color. This color can change without warning or explanation.

32. Law of Follicular Permanence
Hair in anime is pretty much indestructable, and can resist any amount of meteorological conditions, energy emissions, physical abuse, or explosive effects and still look perfect. The only way to hurt someone's hair is the same way you deal with demons... with bladed weapons!

33. Law of Topological Aerodynamics, First Law of Anime Aero-Dynamics
ANY shape, no matter how convoluted or odd-looking, is automatically aerodynamic.

34. Law of Probable Attire
Clothing in anime follows certain predictable guidelines.
--Female characters wear as little clothing as possible, regardless of whether it is socially or meteorologically appropriate. Any female with an excessive amount of clothing will invariably have her clothes ripped to shreds or torn off somehow. If there is no opportunity to tear off the afore-mentioned female's clothes, then she will inexplicably take a shower for no apparent reason (also known as the Gratuitous Shower Scene).
--Whenever there is a headwind, a Male characters will invariably wear a long cloak which doesn't hamper movement and billows out dramatically behind him.
First Corollary(Cryo-Adaptability) - All anime characters are resistant to extremely cold temperatures, and do not need to wear heavy or warm clothing in snow.
Second Corollary (Indecent Invulnerability) - Bikinis render the wearer invulnerable to any form of damage.

35. Law of Musical Omnipotence
Any character capable of musical talent (singing, playing an instrument, etc.) is automatically capable of doing much more "simple" things like piloting mecha, fighting crime, stopping an intergalactic war, and so on... especially if they have never attempted these things before.

36. Law of Quitupular Aggultination
Also called "The Five-man Rule," when "Good Guys" group together, it tends to be in groups of five. There are five basic positions, which are:
a) The Hero/Leader
b) His girlfriend
c) His Best Friend/Rival
d) A Hulking Brute
e) A Dwarf/Kid
Between these basic positions are distributed several attributes, which include:
--Extreme Coolness
--Amazing intelligence
--Incredible Irritation

37. Law of Extradimensional Capacitance
All anime females have an extradimensional storage space of variable volume somewhere on their person from which they can instantly retrieve any object at a moment's notice.
First Corollary (The Hammer Rule) - The most common item stored is a heavy mallet, which can be used with unerring accuracy on any male who deserves it. Other common items include costumes/uniforms, power suits/armor, and large bazookas.

38. Law of Hydrostatic Emission
Eyes tend to be rather large in Anime. This is because they contain several gallons of water, which may be instantaneously released at high pressure through large tear ducts. The actual volume of water contained in the eyes is unknown, as there is no evidence to suggest that these reservoirs are actually capable of running out. The reason water tends to collect in the eyes is because Anime characters only have one large sweat gland, which is located at the back of the head. When extremely stressed, embarrassed, or worried, this sweat gland exudes a single but very large drop of sebaceous fluid.

39. Law of Inverse Attraction
Success at finding suitable mates is inversely proportionate to how desperately you want to be successful. The more you want, the less you get.
First CorollaryUnfortunately, this law seems to apply to Otaku in the real world...

40. Law of Nasal Sanguination
When sexually aroused, males in Anime don't get erections, they get nosebleeds. No one's sure why this is, though... the current theory suggests that larger eyes means smaller sinuses and thinner sinus tissue (see Law #38 above). Females don't get nosebleeds, but invariably get one heck of a blush along the cheeks and across the nose, suggesting a lot of bloodflow to that region.

41. Law of Xylolaceration
Wooden or bamboo swords are just as sharp as metal swords, if not sharper.

42. Law of Juvenile Omnipotence
Always send a boy to do a man's job. He'll get it done in half the time and twice the angst.

43. Law of Quadrotriscadecophobia
There is no Law #43.

44. Law of Nominative Clamovocation
The likelihood of success and damage done by a martial arts attack is directly proportional to the volume at which the full name of the attack is announced.

45. Law of Uninteruptable Metamorphosis
Regardless of how long or involved the transformation sequence or how many times they've seen it before, any 'Bad Guys' witnessing a mecha/hero/heroine transforming are too stunned to do anything to interrupt it.

46. Law of Flimsy Incognition
Simply changing into a costume or wearing a teensy mask can make you utterly unrecognizable to even your closest friends and relatives

Anime Tropes to get Ideas from to make Fanfic Characters:

Adjective Noun Fred
Against the Setting Sun
Airplane Arms
Airplane of Love
All Anime is Naughty Tentacles
Anime Accent Absence
Anime Anatomy
Anime Catholicism
Anime First
Anime Hair
The Anime of the Game
Anime Theme Song
Ending Theme
Arc Break
Artificial Riverbank
Aspect Montage
Big Ol' Eyebrows
Bishie Sparkle
Biting The Handkerchief
Blank White Eyes
Bleached Underpants
Blush Sticker
Body Sushi
Bokukko
Cast Full of Pretty Boys
Cat Smile
Caught the Heart on His Sleeve
Chains Of Love
Chaste Teens
Cherry Blossoms
Cicadian Rhythm
Class Is In Room X01
Corner of Woe
Credits Jukebox
Cross-Popping Veins
Cry Cute
Cultural Translation
Cut-and-Paste Translation
Cute Little Fangs
Date Crepe
Detached Sleeves
Dojikko
Drop The Washtub
Dull Eyes of Unhappiness
Electric Slide
Excited Episode Title!
Eyes Always Shut
Eye Catch
Facefault
Fan Sub
Festival Episode
Field of Blades
Filler Villain
Finger Suck Healing
Finger Twiddling
Fist Of Enthusiasm
Frills of Justice
Four Is Death
Furo Scene
Gecko Ending
Gender Vocabulary Slip
Giving Up The Ghost
Good Bad Translation
Headbutt
Thermometer
Henohenomoheji
Hexagonal Speech Balloon
Hime Cut
Hotblooded Sideburns
Hot Springs Episode
Human Hummingbird
I Am Your Opponent
Idiot Crows
Image Song
Impossibly Graceful Giant
Improbably Female Cast
Inaction Sequence
Instant Cosplay
Surprise Instant Seiza
Inverted Portrait
Jesus Taboo
Kamehame Hadoken
KawaisaKeigoKewpie Doll
Surprise Kiai
Kotatsu
Kung-Fu Wizard
Last Episode Theme
RepriseLightning Glare
Lip Lock
Losing Face
Loudspeaker
TruckLove
ChartLover
Tug of War
Luminescent Blush
MacekreMad
Lib Anime
TitleMagical Girl
Queenliness
TestMeasuring Day
Meido
Mismatched Eyes
Moe
CoupletMoe Stare
Motorcycle On The Coast
RoadMukokuseki
Noblewoman's Laugh
Non-Serial Movie
No Smoking
Oba-san
Oddly Visible Eyebrows
Odango Hair
Ondo
Onee-sama
One, Two, Three, Four, Go!
Original Video Animation (aka OVA or OAV)
Otaku O'Clock
Overtook the Manga
Panty Fighter
Patient Childhood
Love Interest
Paper Cutting
Paper Fan of Doom
Paper Master
Paper Talisman
Petal Power
Pervert Revenge Mode
Phenotype Stereotype
Pointless Band-Aid
Portmanteau Series Nickname
Pretty Freeloaders
Public Bathhouse Scene
Puni Plush
Quivering Eyes
Rain Aura
Red EyeRelationship
Voice Actor
Returning The Handkerchief
RobeastRules Of Anime
Running Sequence
Sand Bridge At Low Tide
Schrödinger's Cast
School Swimsuit
Seiza
Squirm
Seven Is Nana
The Seven Mysteries
Shonen Hair
Shonen Upgrade
Short Anime Movie
Shy Blue-Haired Girl
Sideways Smile
"Silly Me" Gesture
Sitting on the Roof
Sleep Mode Size
Sliding Scale Of Anime Obscurity
Smashing Watermelons
Snot Bubble
Sparkling Stream of Tears
Spice Up The Subtitles
Sprint Scrubbing
Sprouting Ears
Standard Bleeding Spots
Standing In The Hall
Star System
Stealth Clothes
Super-Deformed
Surprise Santa Encounter
Sweat Drop
Swirling Dust
Tareme Eyes
Teru Teru Bozu
Theme Deck
The Thing That Goes Doink
This and That
The Tokyo Fireball
Too Long; Didn't Dub
Tournament Arc
Transfer Student Uniforms
Truncated Theme Tune
Tsurime Eyes
A Twinkle in the Sky
Twisted Knee Collapse
Unusual Ears
Visible Sigh
Visual Novel Shot
Waterfall Puke
Wind Turbine Power
Widget Series
Years Too Early
Youkai
Kappa
Kitsune

Boys Love Characterization:

Anime Anatomy: This is more common in the less sexually explicit series, but also shows up in the full-on erotic stories, which can be confusing if you're not used to it. Yes, that glowing cone of light is meant to be a penis.
Bastard Boyfriend
Spectacled Sadist
BishōnenCast Full of Gay: For series that don't go with Everyone is Bi.
Cast Full of Pretty BoysCloset KeyDepraved Bisexual: Usually villains, although the kinkier semes can go there.
Depraved Homosexual: Ditto.
Everyone is Bi: Rule #1 of BL: no guy, however straight, is capable of resisting a sufficiently hot other guy.
Gayngst: also Angst, Wangst, and Melodrama in general.
Good Eyes, Evil Eyes - Ukes typically have wide eyes to show their youth and innocence. Semes typically have narrow eyes to show their maturity and sophistication. Though, today this rule somewhat no longer applied.
Ho Yay
If It's You, It's Okay: If neither Cast Full of Gay nor Everyone is Bi applies, it's likely this.
Incompatible Orientation - usually very temporary.
Keet
Long-Haired Pretty
BoyOne Head Taller: Mostly Seme but some Uke are taller.
Rape As Backstory
Rape Is Love
SemeShirtless Scene
Single-Target Sexuality: Also good for those cases where neither Cast Full of Gay nor Everyone is Bi apply.
Stupid Sexy Flanders
UkeWholesome Crossdresser: Pretty much only for ukes. Not true anymore...

Anime Settings-Settings that show up frequently in anime, manga and other Eastern pop-culture works.

Artificial Riverbank
Cool Starship
Days of Future Past
Elaborate University High
Elevator School
Ghibli Hills
Japanese Architecture
Jidai Geki
Role-Playing Game Verse
Ryokan (inn)
Shrines and Temples
Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe
Tokyo Tower
Trapped in Another World