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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 1008 person(s)
Highlighted by 1090 person(s)
Search Authors for Action (1424 total)
Search Series for Action (5422 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 1946 person(s)
Highlighted by 2065 person(s)
Search Authors for Adult (2765 total)
Search Series for Adult (16500 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 902 person(s)
Highlighted by 796 person(s)
Search Authors for Adventure (540 total)
Search Series for Adventure (2664 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 1075 person(s)
Highlighted by 1349 person(s)
Search Authors for Comedy (2477 total)
Search Series for Comedy (13274 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 2811 person(s)
Highlighted by 1134 person(s)
Search Authors for Doujinshi (2621 total)
Search Series for Doujinshi (14530 total)
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| Drama |
A work meant to bring on an emotional response, such as instilling sadness or tension.
Filtered by 862 person(s)
Highlighted by 612 person(s)
Search Authors for Drama (1186 total)
Search Series for Drama (9123 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 1979 person(s)
Highlighted by 1957 person(s)
Search Authors for Ecchi (665 total)
Search Series for Ecchi (2779 total)
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| Fantasy |
Anything that involves, but not limited to, magic, dream world, and fairy tales.
Filtered by 935 person(s)
Highlighted by 894 person(s)
Search Authors for Fantasy (1139 total)
Search Series for Fantasy (5502 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 1485 person(s)
Highlighted by 1185 person(s)
Search Authors for Gender Bender (206 total)
Search Series for Gender Bender (1678 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 1015 person(s)
Highlighted by 802 person(s)
Search Authors for Harem (183 total)
Search Series for Harem (1082 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 4337 person(s)
Highlighted by 3304 person(s)
Search Authors for Hentai (2825 total)
Search Series for Hentai (15679 total)
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| Historical |
Having to do with old or ancient times.
Filtered by 861 person(s)
Highlighted by 458 person(s)
Search Authors for Historical (480 total)
Search Series for Historical (2414 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 1489 person(s)
Highlighted by 656 person(s)
Search Authors for Horror (375 total)
Search Series for Horror (1704 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 1781 person(s)
Highlighted by 1251 person(s)
Search Authors for Josei (1201 total)
Search Series for Josei (5508 total)
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| Lolicon |
Representing a sexual attraction to young or under-age girls.
Filtered by 3568 person(s)
Highlighted by 1202 person(s)
Search Authors for Lolicon (184 total)
Search Series for Lolicon (1728 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 966 person(s)
Highlighted by 668 person(s)
Search Authors for Martial Arts (159 total)
Search Series for Martial Arts (764 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 1160 person(s)
Highlighted by 1199 person(s)
Search Authors for Mature (235 total)
Search Series for Mature (1937 total)
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| Mecha |
A work involving and usually concentrating on all types of large robotic machines.
Filtered by 1510 person(s)
Highlighted by 448 person(s)
Search Authors for Mecha (160 total)
Search Series for Mecha (554 total)
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| Mystery |
Usually an unexplained event occurs, and the main protagonist attempts to find out what caused it.
Filtered by 761 person(s)
Highlighted by 508 person(s)
Search Authors for Mystery (333 total)
Search Series for Mystery (1719 total)
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| Psychological |
Usually deals with the philosophy of a state of mind, in most cases detailing abnormal psychology.
Filtered by 855 person(s)
Highlighted by 582 person(s)
Search Authors for Psychological (256 total)
Search Series for Psychological (1538 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 1227 person(s)
Highlighted by 1932 person(s)
Search Authors for Romance (2747 total)
Search Series for Romance (16485 total)
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| School Life |
Having a major setting of the story deal with some type of school.
Filtered by 952 person(s)
Highlighted by 813 person(s)
Search Authors for School Life (1027 total)
Search Series for School Life (7053 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 908 person(s)
Highlighted by 546 person(s)
Search Authors for Sci-fi (495 total)
Search Series for Sci-fi (2407 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 1024 person(s)
Highlighted by 1219 person(s)
Search Authors for Seinen (2949 total)
Search Series for Seinen (9455 total)
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| Shotacon |
Representing a sexual attraction to young or under-age boys.
Filtered by 3495 person(s)
Highlighted by 969 person(s)
Search Authors for Shotacon (160 total)
Search Series for Shotacon (1466 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 2238 person(s)
Highlighted by 2112 person(s)
Search Authors for Shoujo (2896 total)
Search Series for Shoujo (15425 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 3542 person(s)
Highlighted by 1289 person(s)
Search Authors for Shoujo Ai (174 total)
Search Series for Shoujo Ai (1136 total)
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| Shounen |
A work intended and primarily written for males. These works usually involve fighting and/or violence.
Filtered by 1114 person(s)
Highlighted by 1264 person(s)
Search Authors for Shounen (3393 total)
Search Series for Shounen (7059 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 5146 person(s)
Highlighted by 2418 person(s)
Search Authors for Shounen Ai (684 total)
Search Series for Shounen Ai (4582 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 719 person(s)
Highlighted by 623 person(s)
Search Authors for Slice of Life (646 total)
Search Series for Slice of Life (4430 total)
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| Smut |
Deals with series that are considered profane or offensive, particularly with regards to sexual content
Filtered by 1919 person(s)
Highlighted by 1410 person(s)
Search Authors for Smut (186 total)
Search Series for Smut (2281 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 1219 person(s)
Highlighted by 525 person(s)
Search Authors for Sports (371 total)
Search Series for Sports (1739 total)
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| Supernatural |
Usually entails amazing and unexplained powers or events which defy the laws of physics.
Filtered by 798 person(s)
Highlighted by 669 person(s)
Search Authors for Supernatural (814 total)
Search Series for Supernatural (4465 total)
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| Tragedy |
Contains events resulting in great loss and misfortune.
Filtered by 1173 person(s)
Highlighted by 525 person(s)
Search Authors for Tragedy (198 total)
Search Series for Tragedy (1434 total)
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| Yaoi |
This work usually involves intimate relationships between men.
Filtered by 7726 person(s)
Highlighted by 3524 person(s)
Search Authors for Yaoi (1931 total)
Search Series for Yaoi (12350 total)
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| Yuri |
This work usually involves intimate relationships between women.
Filtered by 4300 person(s)
Highlighted by 1853 person(s)
Search Authors for Yuri (201 total)
Search Series for Yuri (1463 total)
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