There are various ways to say "crossdressing" in Japanese, depending on what you mean.

1. josou
   女装
   Literally "female clothes," can refer to guys crossdressing. This is the most common term.
2. dansou
   男装
   Literally "male clothes," can refer to girls crossdressing.
3. iseisou
   異性装
   Literally "opposite-gender clothes," means crossdressing in general. This is the least common term.

In Japanese, dansou 男装 normally means crossdressing, in the sense of girls wearing "male clothes." The opposite, guys wearing "female clothes," is called josou 女装, and is more common in anime.

In Japanese, josou 女装 means "female attire," but it's typically a term for crossdressing, in the sense of a guy wearing female clothes. It's also romanized josō, with a macron for the long vowel.

The opposite, girls wearing a "male attire," is called dansou 男装, but it's less common in anime.

In Japanese, nyotaika 女体化, meaning literally "female-body-fication," refers to a man turning into a woman, a boy into a girl, etc, as a gender bender scenario in anime, manga, and other fiction, in which a character changes sex through magical or sci-fi means. It's also called nyota にょた.

For becoming male, the term is nantaika 男体化 instead.

In Japanese, nantaika 男体化, meaning literally "male-body-fication," refers a woman to turning into a man, a girl into a boy, etc. Generally, this refers to gender bender scenarios in anime, in which a character changes sex through magical or sci-fi means.

For becoming female, the is nyotaika 女体化 instead.

In the English anime community, a reverse trap is a girl that looks like a boy, typically in the sense of a character that's canonically a girl, but whose design leads the audience or other characters to mistake her for a boy. Whether a character counts as a reverse trap may vary from person to person.

A "trap" is an anime slang for a boy that looks like a girl. The "reverse" comes from the Japanese word gyaku 逆, which is prefixed to things in Japanese to reverse the genders, e.g. gyaku-haaremu 逆ハーレム, "reverse harem."

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In anime, a trap is a boy that looks like a girl, or, more typically, a girl that turns out to be actually a boy, because the author drew a girl, and then used this female design for a character that's canonically male. A reverse trap is the reverse: when a boy turns out to be actually a girl.

What "looks like" means exactly, and what counts as a trap or doesn't varies from person to person, such that the same character may be considered a trap to one person, but not to another.

In the image below, there are exactly six male and six female characters, ordered by hair length. Some of them are crossdressing. If you can't guess their gender correctly, congratulations, you've found a trap.

In Japanese, otokonoko 男の子 means "boy," literally "male child." This post, however, is about otokonoko 男の娘, "male girl," an Japanese anime slang for boys that look like girls, that translates to English as the anime slang "trap," or the gay slang "femboy."

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    • Otoko no Musume
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  • 雄んなの子
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In Japanese, guro グロ, meaning literally "grotesque," katakanized gurotesuku グロテスク, refers to a genre of body horror, depicting gore, death, and other disturbing imagery. In English, guro often refers to this as a genre of drawn pornography (hentai), although shounen anime, targeted at teenagers, sometimes feature guro scenes.

This can range from imagery depicting organs, guts, spilled out from a character cut apart, slashed, crushed, pierced, blood splattered around, physical deformities, fleshy monstrosities, gross infections, executions, etc. In summary, it's all pretty gross, makes you feel bad, it's kimochi-warui 気持ち悪い, and for the faint of heart can be pretty traumatized overall.

• Context: in Psycho-Pass, a sci-fi utopia is created by monitoring everybody's mental health as likelihood to commit crime. A gun called a "dominator" is used to subdue individuals with a high criminal coefficient. If hit by its bullet, the person explodes from inside, splattering blood and guts everywhere. The character above was next to someone who was hit. She was left traumatized, raising her criminal coefficient.

Not to be confused with kuro 黒, "black," affected by rendaku 連濁, e.g. gangugo ガングロ.

WARNING: this article includes examples of guro imagery from anime.

In anime, ryona リョナ typically refers to scenarios where a female character is defeated in a fight, getting beaten, captured, or otherwise harmed physically or psychologically in one way or another. It originates in female game characters' moans of agony sounding similar to moans of sexual pleasure, as in Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, and so on. Nowadays, ryona is a genre for works that focus on violence, too.

WARNING: this article contains images featuring violence, blood, and bruises. It's for informative purposes only. The author doesn't condone violence against women, men, asexual sentient minerals, etc.

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In Japanese, shibari 縛り means "binding" or "tying," and may refer to some sort of "restraint," "binding," or "tie." It's the noun form of the verb shibaru 縛る, which means "to bind" or "to tie up."