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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 556 person(s)
Highlighted by 663 person(s)
Search Authors for Action (712 total)
Search Series for Action (3040 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 944 person(s)
Highlighted by 1217 person(s)
Search Authors for Adult (1003 total)
Search Series for Adult (5194 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 481 person(s)
Highlighted by 512 person(s)
Search Authors for Adventure (310 total)
Search Series for Adventure (1609 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 547 person(s)
Highlighted by 894 person(s)
Search Authors for Comedy (1137 total)
Search Series for Comedy (6321 total)
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| Doujinshi |
Fan based art inspired by official anime or manga.
Filtered by 1485 person(s)
Highlighted by 731 person(s)
Search Authors for Doujinshi (963 total)
Search Series for Doujinshi (6509 total)
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| Drama |
A work meant to bring on an emotional response, such as instilling sadness or tension.
Filtered by 440 person(s)
Highlighted by 402 person(s)
Search Authors for Drama (586 total)
Search Series for Drama (4715 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 1014 person(s)
Highlighted by 1244 person(s)
Search Authors for Ecchi (291 total)
Search Series for Ecchi (1415 total)
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| Fantasy |
Anything that involves, but not limited to, magic, dream world, and fairy tales.
Filtered by 487 person(s)
Highlighted by 585 person(s)
Search Authors for Fantasy (630 total)
Search Series for Fantasy (2903 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 719 person(s)
Highlighted by 721 person(s)
Search Authors for Gender Bender (83 total)
Search Series for Gender Bender (684 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 432 person(s)
Highlighted by 409 person(s)
Search Authors for Harem (69 total)
Search Series for Harem (339 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 2141 person(s)
Highlighted by 1983 person(s)
Search Authors for Hentai (1070 total)
Search Series for Hentai (5354 total)
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| Historical |
Having to do with old or ancient times.
Filtered by 465 person(s)
Highlighted by 279 person(s)
Search Authors for Historical (191 total)
Search Series for Historical (1227 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 763 person(s)
Highlighted by 421 person(s)
Search Authors for Horror (157 total)
Search Series for Horror (920 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 846 person(s)
Highlighted by 728 person(s)
Search Authors for Josei (317 total)
Search Series for Josei (2108 total)
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| Lolicon |
Representing a sexual attraction to young or under-age girls.
Filtered by 1808 person(s)
Highlighted by 700 person(s)
Search Authors for Lolicon (115 total)
Search Series for Lolicon (657 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 516 person(s)
Highlighted by 429 person(s)
Search Authors for Martial Arts (86 total)
Search Series for Martial Arts (436 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 571 person(s)
Highlighted by 763 person(s)
Search Authors for Mature (131 total)
Search Series for Mature (1046 total)
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| Mecha |
A work involving and usually concentrating on all types of large robotic machines.
Filtered by 807 person(s)
Highlighted by 299 person(s)
Search Authors for Mecha (53 total)
Search Series for Mecha (321 total)
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| Mystery |
Usually an unexplained event occurs, and the main protagonist attempts to find out what caused it.
Filtered by 413 person(s)
Highlighted by 329 person(s)
Search Authors for Mystery (159 total)
Search Series for Mystery (841 total)
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| Psychological |
Usually deals with the philosophy of a state of mind, in most cases detailing abnormal psychology.
Filtered by 447 person(s)
Highlighted by 361 person(s)
Search Authors for Psychological (88 total)
Search Series for Psychological (647 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 598 person(s)
Highlighted by 1131 person(s)
Search Authors for Romance (973 total)
Search Series for Romance (7340 total)
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| School Life |
Having a major setting of the story deal with some type of school.
Filtered by 492 person(s)
Highlighted by 547 person(s)
Search Authors for School Life (390 total)
Search Series for School Life (3233 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 466 person(s)
Highlighted by 355 person(s)
Search Authors for Sci-fi (225 total)
Search Series for Sci-fi (1351 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 518 person(s)
Highlighted by 770 person(s)
Search Authors for Seinen (1197 total)
Search Series for Seinen (4196 total)
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| Shotacon |
Representing a sexual attraction to young or under-age boys.
Filtered by 1840 person(s)
Highlighted by 569 person(s)
Search Authors for Shotacon (93 total)
Search Series for Shotacon (747 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 1111 person(s)
Highlighted by 1352 person(s)
Search Authors for Shoujo (1769 total)
Search Series for Shoujo (9801 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 1764 person(s)
Highlighted by 780 person(s)
Search Authors for Shoujo Ai (63 total)
Search Series for Shoujo Ai (477 total)
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| Shounen |
A work intended and primarily written for males. These works usually involve fighting and/or violence.
Filtered by 589 person(s)
Highlighted by 814 person(s)
Search Authors for Shounen (1512 total)
Search Series for Shounen (3597 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 2748 person(s)
Highlighted by 1463 person(s)
Search Authors for Shounen Ai (348 total)
Search Series for Shounen Ai (2760 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 374 person(s)
Highlighted by 400 person(s)
Search Authors for Slice of Life (271 total)
Search Series for Slice of Life (1633 total)
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| Smut |
Deals with series that are considered profane or offensive, particularly with regards to sexual content
Filtered by 984 person(s)
Highlighted by 878 person(s)
Search Authors for Smut (58 total)
Search Series for Smut (935 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 680 person(s)
Highlighted by 353 person(s)
Search Authors for Sports (160 total)
Search Series for Sports (928 total)
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| Supernatural |
Usually entails amazing and unexplained powers or events which defy the laws of physics.
Filtered by 421 person(s)
Highlighted by 426 person(s)
Search Authors for Supernatural (392 total)
Search Series for Supernatural (2187 total)
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| Tragedy |
Contains events resulting in great loss and misfortune.
Filtered by 614 person(s)
Highlighted by 303 person(s)
Search Authors for Tragedy (50 total)
Search Series for Tragedy (492 total)
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| Yaoi |
This work usually involves intimate relationships between men.
Filtered by 3926 person(s)
Highlighted by 1923 person(s)
Search Authors for Yaoi (1078 total)
Search Series for Yaoi (7001 total)
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| Yuri |
This work usually involves intimate relationships between women.
Filtered by 2161 person(s)
Highlighted by 1104 person(s)
Search Authors for Yuri (77 total)
Search Series for Yuri (550 total)
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