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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 218 person(s)
Highlighted by 305 person(s)
Search Authors for Action (443 total)
Search Series for Action (1593 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 373 person(s)
Highlighted by 570 person(s)
Search Authors for Adult (344 total)
Search Series for Adult (1700 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 196 person(s)
Highlighted by 230 person(s)
Search Authors for Adventure (216 total)
Search Series for Adventure (914 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 215 person(s)
Highlighted by 421 person(s)
Search Authors for Comedy (642 total)
Search Series for Comedy (2975 total)
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| Doujinshi |
Fan based art inspired by official anime or manga.
Filtered by 648 person(s)
Highlighted by 348 person(s)
Search Authors for Doujinshi (475 total)
Search Series for Doujinshi (2715 total)
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| Drama |
A work meant to bring on an emotional response, such as instilling sadness or tension.
Filtered by 183 person(s)
Highlighted by 179 person(s)
Search Authors for Drama (377 total)
Search Series for Drama (2360 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 399 person(s)
Highlighted by 650 person(s)
Search Authors for Ecchi (171 total)
Search Series for Ecchi (704 total)
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| Fantasy |
Anything that involves, but not limited to, magic, dream world, and fairy tales.
Filtered by 207 person(s)
Highlighted by 258 person(s)
Search Authors for Fantasy (397 total)
Search Series for Fantasy (1554 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 335 person(s)
Highlighted by 329 person(s)
Search Authors for Gender Bender (42 total)
Search Series for Gender Bender (281 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 68 person(s)
Highlighted by 82 person(s)
Search Authors for Harem (23 total)
Search Series for Harem (119 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 800 person(s)
Highlighted by 899 person(s)
Search Authors for Hentai (284 total)
Search Series for Hentai (1533 total)
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| Historical |
Having to do with old or ancient times.
Filtered by 211 person(s)
Highlighted by 127 person(s)
Search Authors for Historical (92 total)
Search Series for Historical (537 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 335 person(s)
Highlighted by 205 person(s)
Search Authors for Horror (117 total)
Search Series for Horror (519 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 334 person(s)
Highlighted by 257 person(s)
Search Authors for Josei (122 total)
Search Series for Josei (520 total)
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| Lolicon |
Representing a sexual attraction to young or under-age girls.
Filtered by 783 person(s)
Highlighted by 327 person(s)
Search Authors for Lolicon (28 total)
Search Series for Lolicon (146 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 200 person(s)
Highlighted by 196 person(s)
Search Authors for Martial Arts (49 total)
Search Series for Martial Arts (193 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 219 person(s)
Highlighted by 363 person(s)
Search Authors for Mature (95 total)
Search Series for Mature (649 total)
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| Mecha |
A work involving and usually concentrating on all types of large robotic machines.
Filtered by 350 person(s)
Highlighted by 143 person(s)
Search Authors for Mecha (40 total)
Search Series for Mecha (199 total)
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| Mystery |
Usually an unexplained event occurs, and the main protagonist attempts to find out what caused it.
Filtered by 162 person(s)
Highlighted by 145 person(s)
Search Authors for Mystery (102 total)
Search Series for Mystery (420 total)
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| Psychological |
Usually deals with the philosophy of a state of mind, in most cases detailing abnormal psychology.
Filtered by 186 person(s)
Highlighted by 160 person(s)
Search Authors for Psychological (56 total)
Search Series for Psychological (269 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 229 person(s)
Highlighted by 475 person(s)
Search Authors for Romance (503 total)
Search Series for Romance (3512 total)
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| School Life |
Having a major setting of the story deal with some type of school.
Filtered by 196 person(s)
Highlighted by 258 person(s)
Search Authors for School Life (178 total)
Search Series for School Life (1416 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 197 person(s)
Highlighted by 162 person(s)
Search Authors for Sci-fi (141 total)
Search Series for Sci-fi (728 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 209 person(s)
Highlighted by 335 person(s)
Search Authors for Seinen (361 total)
Search Series for Seinen (1118 total)
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| Shotacon |
Representing a sexual attraction to young or under-age boys.
Filtered by 866 person(s)
Highlighted by 285 person(s)
Search Authors for Shotacon (28 total)
Search Series for Shotacon (234 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 452 person(s)
Highlighted by 626 person(s)
Search Authors for Shoujo (1138 total)
Search Series for Shoujo (5850 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 777 person(s)
Highlighted by 360 person(s)
Search Authors for Shoujo Ai (24 total)
Search Series for Shoujo Ai (138 total)
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| Shounen |
A work intended and primarily written for males. These works usually involve fighting and/or violence.
Filtered by 228 person(s)
Highlighted by 378 person(s)
Search Authors for Shounen (578 total)
Search Series for Shounen (1213 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 1367 person(s)
Highlighted by 706 person(s)
Search Authors for Shounen Ai (219 total)
Search Series for Shounen Ai (1297 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 147 person(s)
Highlighted by 165 person(s)
Search Authors for Slice of Life (94 total)
Search Series for Slice of Life (501 total)
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| Smut |
Deals with series that are considered profane or offensive, particularly with regards to sexual content
Filtered by 419 person(s)
Highlighted by 380 person(s)
Search Authors for Smut (31 total)
Search Series for Smut (447 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 300 person(s)
Highlighted by 146 person(s)
Search Authors for Sports (82 total)
Search Series for Sports (469 total)
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| Supernatural |
Usually entails amazing and unexplained powers or events which defy the laws of physics.
Filtered by 178 person(s)
Highlighted by 183 person(s)
Search Authors for Supernatural (243 total)
Search Series for Supernatural (1034 total)
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| Tragedy |
Contains events resulting in great loss and misfortune.
Filtered by 248 person(s)
Highlighted by 105 person(s)
Search Authors for Tragedy (24 total)
Search Series for Tragedy (142 total)
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| Yaoi |
This work usually involves intimate relationships between men.
Filtered by 1990 person(s)
Highlighted by 903 person(s)
Search Authors for Yaoi (768 total)
Search Series for Yaoi (4033 total)
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| Yuri |
This work usually involves intimate relationships between women.
Filtered by 920 person(s)
Highlighted by 528 person(s)
Search Authors for Yuri (45 total)
Search Series for Yuri (224 total)
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