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Welcome to the Genre page.
Here you can see how Baka-Updates - Manga defines each genre. You can also see other statistics such as how many people filter or highlight each specific genre.
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| Action |
A work typically depicting fighting, violence, chaos, and fast paced motion.
Filtered by 447 person(s)
Highlighted by 551 person(s)
Search Authors for Action (672 total)
Search Series for Action (2557 total)
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| Adult |
Contains content that is suitable only for adults. Titles in this category may include prolonged scenes of intense violence and/or graphic sexual content and nudity.
Filtered by 758 person(s)
Highlighted by 1012 person(s)
Search Authors for Adult (804 total)
Search Series for Adult (3937 total)
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| Adventure |
If a character in the story goes on a trip or along that line, your best bet is that it is an adventure manga. Otherwise, it's up to your personal prejudice on this case.
Filtered by 389 person(s)
Highlighted by 417 person(s)
Search Authors for Adventure (285 total)
Search Series for Adventure (1352 total)
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| Comedy |
A dramatic work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone and that usually contains a happy resolution of the thematic conflict.
Filtered by 431 person(s)
Highlighted by 752 person(s)
Search Authors for Comedy (948 total)
Search Series for Comedy (5049 total)
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| Doujinshi |
Fan based art inspired by official anime or manga.
Filtered by 1248 person(s)
Highlighted by 609 person(s)
Search Authors for Doujinshi (734 total)
Search Series for Doujinshi (5022 total)
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| Drama |
A work meant to bring on an emotional response, such as instilling sadness or tension.
Filtered by 344 person(s)
Highlighted by 330 person(s)
Search Authors for Drama (559 total)
Search Series for Drama (3931 total)
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| Ecchi |
Possibly the line between hentai and non-hentai, ecchi usually refers to fanservice put in to attract a certain group of fans.
Filtered by 815 person(s)
Highlighted by 1071 person(s)
Search Authors for Ecchi (233 total)
Search Series for Ecchi (1065 total)
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| Fantasy |
Anything that involves, but not limited to, magic, dream world, and fairy tales.
Filtered by 402 person(s)
Highlighted by 478 person(s)
Search Authors for Fantasy (570 total)
Search Series for Fantasy (2361 total)
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| Gender Bender |
Girls dressing up as guys, guys dressing up as girls.. Guys turning into girls, girls turning into guys.. I think you get the picture.
Filtered by 584 person(s)
Highlighted by 603 person(s)
Search Authors for Gender Bender (74 total)
Search Series for Gender Bender (554 total)
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| Harem |
A series involving one male character and many female characters (usually attracted to the male character). A Reverse Harem is when the genders are reversed.
Filtered by 325 person(s)
Highlighted by 306 person(s)
Search Authors for Harem (49 total)
Search Series for Harem (267 total)
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| Hentai |
Adult sexual content in an illustrated form where the FOCUS of the manga is placed on sexually graphic acts.
Filtered by 1783 person(s)
Highlighted by 1667 person(s)
Search Authors for Hentai (894 total)
Search Series for Hentai (4201 total)
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| Historical |
Having to do with old or ancient times.
Filtered by 389 person(s)
Highlighted by 235 person(s)
Search Authors for Historical (166 total)
Search Series for Historical (950 total)
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| Horror |
A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.
Filtered by 629 person(s)
Highlighted by 358 person(s)
Search Authors for Horror (157 total)
Search Series for Horror (801 total)
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| Josei |
Literally "Woman". Targets women 18-30. Female equivalent to seinen. Unlike shoujo the romance is more realistic and less idealized. The storytelling is more explicit and mature.
Filtered by 664 person(s)
Highlighted by 568 person(s)
Search Authors for Josei (267 total)
Search Series for Josei (1301 total)
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| Lolicon |
Representing a sexual attraction to young or under-age girls.
Filtered by 1519 person(s)
Highlighted by 589 person(s)
Search Authors for Lolicon (83 total)
Search Series for Lolicon (444 total)
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| Martial Arts |
As the name suggests, anything martial arts related. Any of several arts of combat or self-defense, such as aikido, karate, judo, or tae kwon do, kendo, fencing, and so on and so forth.
Filtered by 425 person(s)
Highlighted by 345 person(s)
Search Authors for Martial Arts (69 total)
Search Series for Martial Arts (356 total)
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| Mature |
Contains subject matter which may be too extreme for people under the age of 17. Titles in this category may contain intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content and/or strong language.
Filtered by 459 person(s)
Highlighted by 635 person(s)
Search Authors for Mature (124 total)
Search Series for Mature (959 total)
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| Mecha |
A work involving and usually concentrating on all types of large robotic machines.
Filtered by 663 person(s)
Highlighted by 251 person(s)
Search Authors for Mecha (52 total)
Search Series for Mecha (272 total)
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| Mystery |
Usually an unexplained event occurs, and the main protagonist attempts to find out what caused it.
Filtered by 328 person(s)
Highlighted by 265 person(s)
Search Authors for Mystery (150 total)
Search Series for Mystery (669 total)
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| Psychological |
Usually deals with the philosophy of a state of mind, in most cases detailing abnormal psychology.
Filtered by 360 person(s)
Highlighted by 297 person(s)
Search Authors for Psychological (78 total)
Search Series for Psychological (514 total)
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| Romance |
Any love related story. We will define love as between man and woman in this case. Other than that, it is up to your own imagination of what love is.
Filtered by 465 person(s)
Highlighted by 926 person(s)
Search Authors for Romance (727 total)
Search Series for Romance (5600 total)
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| School Life |
Having a major setting of the story deal with some type of school.
Filtered by 398 person(s)
Highlighted by 458 person(s)
Search Authors for School Life (347 total)
Search Series for School Life (2626 total)
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| Sci-fi |
Short for science fiction, these works involve twists on technology and other science related phenomena which are contrary or stretches of the modern day scientific world.
Filtered by 388 person(s)
Highlighted by 294 person(s)
Search Authors for Sci-fi (197 total)
Search Series for Sci-fi (1100 total)
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| Seinen |
From Google:
Seinen means "young Man." Manga and anime that specifically targets young adult males around the ages of 18 to 25 are seinen titles. The stories in seinen works appeal to university students and those in the working world. Typically the story lines deal with the issues of adulthood.
Filtered by 425 person(s)
Highlighted by 629 person(s)
Search Authors for Seinen (899 total)
Search Series for Seinen (2931 total)
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| Shotacon |
Representing a sexual attraction to young or under-age boys.
Filtered by 1555 person(s)
Highlighted by 482 person(s)
Search Authors for Shotacon (77 total)
Search Series for Shotacon (536 total)
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| Shoujo |
A work intended and primarily written for females. Usually involves a lot of romance and strong character development.
Filtered by 890 person(s)
Highlighted by 1142 person(s)
Search Authors for Shoujo (1463 total)
Search Series for Shoujo (7683 total)
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| Shoujo Ai |
Often synonymous with yuri, this can be thought of as somewhat less extreme. "Girl's Love", so to speak.
Filtered by 1487 person(s)
Highlighted by 656 person(s)
Search Authors for Shoujo Ai (42 total)
Search Series for Shoujo Ai (299 total)
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| Shounen |
A work intended and primarily written for males. These works usually involve fighting and/or violence.
Filtered by 482 person(s)
Highlighted by 689 person(s)
Search Authors for Shounen (1139 total)
Search Series for Shounen (2688 total)
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| Shounen Ai |
Often synonymous with yaoi, this can be thought of as somewhat less extreme. "Boy's Love", so to speak.
Filtered by 2336 person(s)
Highlighted by 1251 person(s)
Search Authors for Shounen Ai (298 total)
Search Series for Shounen Ai (2199 total)
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| Slice of Life |
As the name suggests, this genre represents day-to-day tribulations of one/many character(s). These challenges/events could technically happen in real life and are often -if not all the time- set in the present timeline in a world that mirrors our own.
Filtered by 300 person(s)
Highlighted by 333 person(s)
Search Authors for Slice of Life (181 total)
Search Series for Slice of Life (1128 total)
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| Smut |
Deals with series that are considered profane or offensive, particularly with regards to sexual content
Filtered by 803 person(s)
Highlighted by 731 person(s)
Search Authors for Smut (60 total)
Search Series for Smut (788 total)
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| Sports |
As the name suggests, anything sports related. Baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, golf, and racing just to name a few.
Filtered by 558 person(s)
Highlighted by 286 person(s)
Search Authors for Sports (150 total)
Search Series for Sports (796 total)
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| Supernatural |
Usually entails amazing and unexplained powers or events which defy the laws of physics.
Filtered by 342 person(s)
Highlighted by 358 person(s)
Search Authors for Supernatural (354 total)
Search Series for Supernatural (1730 total)
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| Tragedy |
Contains events resulting in great loss and misfortune.
Filtered by 492 person(s)
Highlighted by 248 person(s)
Search Authors for Tragedy (42 total)
Search Series for Tragedy (374 total)
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| Yaoi |
This work usually involves intimate relationships between men.
Filtered by 3344 person(s)
Highlighted by 1636 person(s)
Search Authors for Yaoi (891 total)
Search Series for Yaoi (5635 total)
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| Yuri |
This work usually involves intimate relationships between women.
Filtered by 1798 person(s)
Highlighted by 932 person(s)
Search Authors for Yuri (79 total)
Search Series for Yuri (446 total)
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