A curated collection of kinks and fetishes whose charge comes from a non-real referent or a media and fandom artifact: anime and manga tropes, fantasy creatures, transformation, cosplay, and online subcultures. These cut across the catalog's categories, gathered here so they can be explored together.
Every interest in this collection has a referent that does not exist, or exists only as a drawing, a costume or a screen name. Anime archetypes, monsters and merfolk, the transformation of a body into something else, the character a fan becomes at a convention. Forty-five entries, gathered here because they share a source rather than a subject. Most are filed in Identity and Transformation, a family whose entries are about becoming, and this collection is the part of that family that fiction wrote.
The word fandom dates to the early twentieth century and the science-fiction clubs that coined it; the interests here are what happened when fandom met the internet, and then met adult art. Thirty-five of the 45 are filed as uncommon or rare, which is the profile of a collection made of specific things: a reader who searches for yandere or kemonomimi knows the word already and wants the page.
What the collection gathers
The unifying rule is that the charge comes from something that cannot be met in person, and the members divide by what that something is. Characters first: fictosexuality, attraction to fictional characters as such, and its performed cousin VTuber attraction; the anime personality types, dere archetypes and yandere among them; and the drawn conventions of adult manga, ahegao, mindbreak and futanari, which are tropes before they are interests.
The collection holds two identities that are not kinks and says so on their pages. Therianthropy and otherkin describe people who experience themselves as, in part, a non-human being, and both entries are marked non-sexual; they are here because the vocabulary grew up in the same communities and a reader who finds one will look for the other. Plushie fetish sits at the border between comfort and eroticism and the entry keeps both readings.
The monsters raise a question the FAQ below answers: an interest in a tentacled creature or a werewolf is an interest in a fiction, and the catalog files attraction to real animals elsewhere, under a content notice, because the two have nothing in common except a word. Hypnokink is here for the same reason a stage act is: the fantasy is trance and suggestion as a scene, and the entry says what the evidence on hypnosis does and does not support.
The Japanese vocabulary
A third of the collection's names are Japanese, and the words are precise in a way the English borrowings are not. Kemonomimi means animal ears, and the entry separates the catgirl from the kitten play that shares her ears; futanari, ahegao and nyotaimori are terms of art for a drawing convention, a facial expression and a way of serving sushi; zentai is a contraction of zenshin taitsu, full-body tights. The catalog keeps the loanwords because they are what people type. Each is defined against its English neighbour.
How the ranking reads
Nothing here reaches 8 percent. The furry fandom, dere archetypes and fictosexuality lead, each at an estimated 1.5 to 3 percent of adults, and the tail runs down to ghost fetish and petrification at a twentieth of a percent. That is the profile of interests that live in art rather than practice: each is small, the family is large, and a reader arriving from one drawing style or one archetype will find its neighbours filed beside it.
Common questions
Can someone be genuinely attracted to a character who does not exist?
Yes, and it is common enough to have acquired its own vocabulary. Fictosexuality names attraction directed at fictional characters, and VTuber attraction at a performed persona layered over a real person. For most people it sits alongside attraction to actual partners. Where it becomes exclusive and unwanted, the distress rather than the object is what merits attention.
Is an interest in monsters or tentacles an interest in animals?
No. The referents are invented: monster fetish, tentacle erotica, alien fetish and teratophilia turn on non-human forms that exist only in art, usually humanoid and usually able to speak. The appeal is generally scale, strangeness or a power imbalance no human partner could stage, and nothing in it requires or implies a real animal.
Why do anime archetypes appear in a catalog of kinks?
Because they work as shorthand for a dynamic rather than for a body type. Dere archetypes and yandere name recognisable patterns of affection and possessiveness, ahegao a stylised expression of overwhelm, kemonomimi the minimal animal marker of ears and tail. Fans use the labels precisely, which is why they survive translation into stated interests.
Does erotic hypnosis actually work?
Not in the way fiction depicts it. Hypnokink relies on suggestibility, focused attention and a willing subject, and it cannot make anyone act against a settled objection. Tropes of an overwritten mind, such as mindbreak, are fantasy content rather than technique. Susceptibility varies widely between people, which is why consent is negotiated before a session rather than during it.
Is cosplay a fetish?
Overwhelmingly not. Costuming is a craft and a social activity, and most people doing it at a convention have no erotic investment in it whatsoever. Cosplay fetish names the narrower interest in the costume itself as a source of arousal, which it shares with full-coverage forms such as zentai and kigurumi masking. Inferring the first from the second is the standard error.
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