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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 545 person(s)
Highlighted by 646 person(s)
Search Authors for Action (711 total)
Search Series for Action (3000 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 923 person(s)
Highlighted by 1194 person(s)
Search Authors for Adult (980 total)
Search Series for Adult (5079 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 472 person(s)
Highlighted by 497 person(s)
Search Authors for Adventure (304 total)
Search Series for Adventure (1584 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 534 person(s)
Highlighted by 873 person(s)
Search Authors for Comedy (1111 total)
Search Series for Comedy (6210 total)
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| Doujinshi |
Fan based art inspired by official anime or manga.
Filtered by 1453 person(s)
Highlighted by 725 person(s)
Search Authors for Doujinshi (915 total)
Search Series for Doujinshi (6341 total)
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| Drama |
A work meant to bring on an emotional response, such as instilling sadness or tension.
Filtered by 429 person(s)
Highlighted by 393 person(s)
Search Authors for Drama (573 total)
Search Series for Drama (4617 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 986 person(s)
Highlighted by 1226 person(s)
Search Authors for Ecchi (285 total)
Search Series for Ecchi (1379 total)
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| Fantasy |
Anything that involves, but not limited to, magic, dream world, and fairy tales.
Filtered by 479 person(s)
Highlighted by 572 person(s)
Search Authors for Fantasy (623 total)
Search Series for Fantasy (2850 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 711 person(s)
Highlighted by 707 person(s)
Search Authors for Gender Bender (85 total)
Search Series for Gender Bender (668 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 427 person(s)
Highlighted by 395 person(s)
Search Authors for Harem (67 total)
Search Series for Harem (321 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 2096 person(s)
Highlighted by 1957 person(s)
Search Authors for Hentai (1036 total)
Search Series for Hentai (5223 total)
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| Historical |
Having to do with old or ancient times.
Filtered by 459 person(s)
Highlighted by 272 person(s)
Search Authors for Historical (190 total)
Search Series for Historical (1200 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 752 person(s)
Highlighted by 416 person(s)
Search Authors for Horror (150 total)
Search Series for Horror (911 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 827 person(s)
Highlighted by 713 person(s)
Search Authors for Josei (311 total)
Search Series for Josei (2051 total)
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| Lolicon |
Representing a sexual attraction to young or under-age girls.
Filtered by 1781 person(s)
Highlighted by 693 person(s)
Search Authors for Lolicon (115 total)
Search Series for Lolicon (631 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 512 person(s)
Highlighted by 422 person(s)
Search Authors for Martial Arts (85 total)
Search Series for Martial Arts (433 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 563 person(s)
Highlighted by 746 person(s)
Search Authors for Mature (126 total)
Search Series for Mature (1019 total)
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| Mecha |
A work involving and usually concentrating on all types of large robotic machines.
Filtered by 795 person(s)
Highlighted by 295 person(s)
Search Authors for Mecha (49 total)
Search Series for Mecha (317 total)
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| Mystery |
Usually an unexplained event occurs, and the main protagonist attempts to find out what caused it.
Filtered by 408 person(s)
Highlighted by 324 person(s)
Search Authors for Mystery (154 total)
Search Series for Mystery (824 total)
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| Psychological |
Usually deals with the philosophy of a state of mind, in most cases detailing abnormal psychology.
Filtered by 440 person(s)
Highlighted by 358 person(s)
Search Authors for Psychological (88 total)
Search Series for Psychological (632 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 587 person(s)
Highlighted by 1111 person(s)
Search Authors for Romance (933 total)
Search Series for Romance (7138 total)
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| School Life |
Having a major setting of the story deal with some type of school.
Filtered by 485 person(s)
Highlighted by 535 person(s)
Search Authors for School Life (379 total)
Search Series for School Life (3153 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 458 person(s)
Highlighted by 351 person(s)
Search Authors for Sci-fi (224 total)
Search Series for Sci-fi (1328 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 507 person(s)
Highlighted by 759 person(s)
Search Authors for Seinen (1166 total)
Search Series for Seinen (4084 total)
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| Shotacon |
Representing a sexual attraction to young or under-age boys.
Filtered by 1806 person(s)
Highlighted by 563 person(s)
Search Authors for Shotacon (89 total)
Search Series for Shotacon (722 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 1092 person(s)
Highlighted by 1328 person(s)
Search Authors for Shoujo (1750 total)
Search Series for Shoujo (9649 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 1729 person(s)
Highlighted by 774 person(s)
Search Authors for Shoujo Ai (59 total)
Search Series for Shoujo Ai (441 total)
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| Shounen |
A work intended and primarily written for males. These works usually involve fighting and/or violence.
Filtered by 576 person(s)
Highlighted by 800 person(s)
Search Authors for Shounen (1493 total)
Search Series for Shounen (3570 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 2699 person(s)
Highlighted by 1439 person(s)
Search Authors for Shounen Ai (344 total)
Search Series for Shounen Ai (2706 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 366 person(s)
Highlighted by 393 person(s)
Search Authors for Slice of Life (269 total)
Search Series for Slice of Life (1607 total)
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| Smut |
Deals with series that are considered profane or offensive, particularly with regards to sexual content
Filtered by 960 person(s)
Highlighted by 863 person(s)
Search Authors for Smut (55 total)
Search Series for Smut (924 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 669 person(s)
Highlighted by 342 person(s)
Search Authors for Sports (157 total)
Search Series for Sports (915 total)
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| Supernatural |
Usually entails amazing and unexplained powers or events which defy the laws of physics.
Filtered by 413 person(s)
Highlighted by 422 person(s)
Search Authors for Supernatural (386 total)
Search Series for Supernatural (2150 total)
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| Tragedy |
Contains events resulting in great loss and misfortune.
Filtered by 600 person(s)
Highlighted by 300 person(s)
Search Authors for Tragedy (47 total)
Search Series for Tragedy (463 total)
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| Yaoi |
This work usually involves intimate relationships between men.
Filtered by 3858 person(s)
Highlighted by 1891 person(s)
Search Authors for Yaoi (1052 total)
Search Series for Yaoi (6895 total)
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| Yuri |
This work usually involves intimate relationships between women.
Filtered by 2119 person(s)
Highlighted by 1088 person(s)
Search Authors for Yuri (73 total)
Search Series for Yuri (530 total)
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