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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 866 person(s)
Highlighted by 985 person(s)
Search Authors for Action (1057 total)
Search Series for Action (4319 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 1616 person(s)
Highlighted by 1867 person(s)
Search Authors for Adult (1471 total)
Search Series for Adult (9364 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 770 person(s)
Highlighted by 734 person(s)
Search Authors for Adventure (439 total)
Search Series for Adventure (2269 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 905 person(s)
Highlighted by 1267 person(s)
Search Authors for Comedy (1829 total)
Search Series for Comedy (10282 total)
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| Doujinshi |
Fan based work inspired by official anime or manga. For MangaUpdates, original works DO NOT fall under this category
Filtered by 2365 person(s)
Highlighted by 1032 person(s)
Search Authors for Doujinshi (1773 total)
Search Series for Doujinshi (11298 total)
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| Drama |
A work meant to bring on an emotional response, such as instilling sadness or tension.
Filtered by 726 person(s)
Highlighted by 568 person(s)
Search Authors for Drama (881 total)
Search Series for Drama (7255 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 1632 person(s)
Highlighted by 1774 person(s)
Search Authors for Ecchi (430 total)
Search Series for Ecchi (2128 total)
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| Fantasy |
Anything that involves, but not limited to, magic, dream world, and fairy tales.
Filtered by 795 person(s)
Highlighted by 836 person(s)
Search Authors for Fantasy (887 total)
Search Series for Fantasy (4455 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 1245 person(s)
Highlighted by 1079 person(s)
Search Authors for Gender Bender (151 total)
Search Series for Gender Bender (1253 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 818 person(s)
Highlighted by 713 person(s)
Search Authors for Harem (126 total)
Search Series for Harem (673 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 3544 person(s)
Highlighted by 2961 person(s)
Search Authors for Hentai (1763 total)
Search Series for Hentai (9593 total)
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| Historical |
Having to do with old or ancient times.
Filtered by 734 person(s)
Highlighted by 435 person(s)
Search Authors for Historical (316 total)
Search Series for Historical (1909 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 1255 person(s)
Highlighted by 599 person(s)
Search Authors for Horror (247 total)
Search Series for Horror (1276 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 1509 person(s)
Highlighted by 1103 person(s)
Search Authors for Josei (976 total)
Search Series for Josei (4233 total)
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| Lolicon |
Representing a sexual attraction to young or under-age girls.
Filtered by 2979 person(s)
Highlighted by 1082 person(s)
Search Authors for Lolicon (146 total)
Search Series for Lolicon (1208 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 834 person(s)
Highlighted by 634 person(s)
Search Authors for Martial Arts (111 total)
Search Series for Martial Arts (601 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 990 person(s)
Highlighted by 1117 person(s)
Search Authors for Mature (149 total)
Search Series for Mature (1593 total)
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| Mecha |
A work involving and usually concentrating on all types of large robotic machines.
Filtered by 1252 person(s)
Highlighted by 423 person(s)
Search Authors for Mecha (95 total)
Search Series for Mecha (429 total)
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| Mystery |
Usually an unexplained event occurs, and the main protagonist attempts to find out what caused it.
Filtered by 646 person(s)
Highlighted by 472 person(s)
Search Authors for Mystery (282 total)
Search Series for Mystery (1414 total)
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| Psychological |
Usually deals with the philosophy of a state of mind, in most cases detailing abnormal psychology.
Filtered by 719 person(s)
Highlighted by 525 person(s)
Search Authors for Psychological (172 total)
Search Series for Psychological (1175 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 1010 person(s)
Highlighted by 1726 person(s)
Search Authors for Romance (2129 total)
Search Series for Romance (12653 total)
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| School Life |
Having a major setting of the story deal with some type of school.
Filtered by 808 person(s)
Highlighted by 774 person(s)
Search Authors for School Life (690 total)
Search Series for School Life (5315 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 769 person(s)
Highlighted by 498 person(s)
Search Authors for Sci-fi (349 total)
Search Series for Sci-fi (1931 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 832 person(s)
Highlighted by 1117 person(s)
Search Authors for Seinen (2098 total)
Search Series for Seinen (7014 total)
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| Shotacon |
Representing a sexual attraction to young or under-age boys.
Filtered by 2925 person(s)
Highlighted by 874 person(s)
Search Authors for Shotacon (128 total)
Search Series for Shotacon (1182 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 1904 person(s)
Highlighted by 1901 person(s)
Search Authors for Shoujo (2219 total)
Search Series for Shoujo (12347 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 2940 person(s)
Highlighted by 1146 person(s)
Search Authors for Shoujo Ai (119 total)
Search Series for Shoujo Ai (891 total)
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| Shounen |
A work intended and primarily written for males. These works usually involve fighting and/or violence.
Filtered by 942 person(s)
Highlighted by 1168 person(s)
Search Authors for Shounen (2217 total)
Search Series for Shounen (5109 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 4394 person(s)
Highlighted by 2136 person(s)
Search Authors for Shounen Ai (466 total)
Search Series for Shounen Ai (3774 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 616 person(s)
Highlighted by 569 person(s)
Search Authors for Slice of Life (461 total)
Search Series for Slice of Life (3164 total)
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| Smut |
Deals with series that are considered profane or offensive, particularly with regards to sexual content
Filtered by 1613 person(s)
Highlighted by 1296 person(s)
Search Authors for Smut (97 total)
Search Series for Smut (1559 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 1050 person(s)
Highlighted by 490 person(s)
Search Authors for Sports (250 total)
Search Series for Sports (1335 total)
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| Supernatural |
Usually entails amazing and unexplained powers or events which defy the laws of physics.
Filtered by 677 person(s)
Highlighted by 618 person(s)
Search Authors for Supernatural (594 total)
Search Series for Supernatural (3489 total)
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| Tragedy |
Contains events resulting in great loss and misfortune.
Filtered by 980 person(s)
Highlighted by 486 person(s)
Search Authors for Tragedy (128 total)
Search Series for Tragedy (1064 total)
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| Yaoi |
This work usually involves intimate relationships between men.
Filtered by 6507 person(s)
Highlighted by 3035 person(s)
Search Authors for Yaoi (1444 total)
Search Series for Yaoi (9931 total)
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| Yuri |
This work usually involves intimate relationships between women.
Filtered by 3544 person(s)
Highlighted by 1634 person(s)
Search Authors for Yuri (97 total)
Search Series for Yuri (935 total)
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