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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 511 person(s)
Highlighted by 595 person(s)
Search Authors for Action (701 total)
Search Series for Action (2859 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 860 person(s)
Highlighted by 1131 person(s)
Search Authors for Adult (882 total)
Search Series for Adult (4547 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 441 person(s)
Highlighted by 460 person(s)
Search Authors for Adventure (309 total)
Search Series for Adventure (1522 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 492 person(s)
Highlighted by 821 person(s)
Search Authors for Comedy (1020 total)
Search Series for Comedy (5770 total)
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| Doujinshi |
Fan based art inspired by official anime or manga.
Filtered by 1365 person(s)
Highlighted by 681 person(s)
Search Authors for Doujinshi (822 total)
Search Series for Doujinshi (5770 total)
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| Drama |
A work meant to bring on an emotional response, such as instilling sadness or tension.
Filtered by 398 person(s)
Highlighted by 369 person(s)
Search Authors for Drama (545 total)
Search Series for Drama (4342 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 913 person(s)
Highlighted by 1166 person(s)
Search Authors for Ecchi (264 total)
Search Series for Ecchi (1274 total)
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| Fantasy |
Anything that involves, but not limited to, magic, dream world, and fairy tales.
Filtered by 447 person(s)
Highlighted by 524 person(s)
Search Authors for Fantasy (590 total)
Search Series for Fantasy (2656 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 660 person(s)
Highlighted by 662 person(s)
Search Authors for Gender Bender (79 total)
Search Series for Gender Bender (627 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 387 person(s)
Highlighted by 367 person(s)
Search Authors for Harem (66 total)
Search Series for Harem (315 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 1965 person(s)
Highlighted by 1841 person(s)
Search Authors for Hentai (958 total)
Search Series for Hentai (4773 total)
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| Historical |
Having to do with old or ancient times.
Filtered by 430 person(s)
Highlighted by 251 person(s)
Search Authors for Historical (178 total)
Search Series for Historical (1110 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 697 person(s)
Highlighted by 395 person(s)
Search Authors for Horror (155 total)
Search Series for Horror (875 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 765 person(s)
Highlighted by 667 person(s)
Search Authors for Josei (269 total)
Search Series for Josei (1628 total)
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| Lolicon |
Representing a sexual attraction to young or under-age girls.
Filtered by 1659 person(s)
Highlighted by 649 person(s)
Search Authors for Lolicon (93 total)
Search Series for Lolicon (534 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 476 person(s)
Highlighted by 382 person(s)
Search Authors for Martial Arts (83 total)
Search Series for Martial Arts (396 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 523 person(s)
Highlighted by 703 person(s)
Search Authors for Mature (127 total)
Search Series for Mature (988 total)
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| Mecha |
A work involving and usually concentrating on all types of large robotic machines.
Filtered by 741 person(s)
Highlighted by 275 person(s)
Search Authors for Mecha (47 total)
Search Series for Mecha (296 total)
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| Mystery |
Usually an unexplained event occurs, and the main protagonist attempts to find out what caused it.
Filtered by 381 person(s)
Highlighted by 299 person(s)
Search Authors for Mystery (152 total)
Search Series for Mystery (773 total)
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| Psychological |
Usually deals with the philosophy of a state of mind, in most cases detailing abnormal psychology.
Filtered by 407 person(s)
Highlighted by 331 person(s)
Search Authors for Psychological (85 total)
Search Series for Psychological (588 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 542 person(s)
Highlighted by 1033 person(s)
Search Authors for Romance (833 total)
Search Series for Romance (6432 total)
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| School Life |
Having a major setting of the story deal with some type of school.
Filtered by 451 person(s)
Highlighted by 494 person(s)
Search Authors for School Life (355 total)
Search Series for School Life (2925 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 426 person(s)
Highlighted by 327 person(s)
Search Authors for Sci-fi (204 total)
Search Series for Sci-fi (1241 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 474 person(s)
Highlighted by 713 person(s)
Search Authors for Seinen (1025 total)
Search Series for Seinen (3513 total)
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| Shotacon |
Representing a sexual attraction to young or under-age boys.
Filtered by 1706 person(s)
Highlighted by 533 person(s)
Search Authors for Shotacon (83 total)
Search Series for Shotacon (609 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 1016 person(s)
Highlighted by 1254 person(s)
Search Authors for Shoujo (1640 total)
Search Series for Shoujo (8849 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 1628 person(s)
Highlighted by 728 person(s)
Search Authors for Shoujo Ai (43 total)
Search Series for Shoujo Ai (360 total)
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| Shounen |
A work intended and primarily written for males. These works usually involve fighting and/or violence.
Filtered by 538 person(s)
Highlighted by 755 person(s)
Search Authors for Shounen (1369 total)
Search Series for Shounen (3260 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 2548 person(s)
Highlighted by 1364 person(s)
Search Authors for Shounen Ai (323 total)
Search Series for Shounen Ai (2538 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 337 person(s)
Highlighted by 366 person(s)
Search Authors for Slice of Life (223 total)
Search Series for Slice of Life (1374 total)
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| Smut |
Deals with series that are considered profane or offensive, particularly with regards to sexual content
Filtered by 896 person(s)
Highlighted by 808 person(s)
Search Authors for Smut (63 total)
Search Series for Smut (882 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 626 person(s)
Highlighted by 314 person(s)
Search Authors for Sports (161 total)
Search Series for Sports (864 total)
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| Supernatural |
Usually entails amazing and unexplained powers or events which defy the laws of physics.
Filtered by 389 person(s)
Highlighted by 393 person(s)
Search Authors for Supernatural (353 total)
Search Series for Supernatural (1979 total)
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| Tragedy |
Contains events resulting in great loss and misfortune.
Filtered by 550 person(s)
Highlighted by 274 person(s)
Search Authors for Tragedy (40 total)
Search Series for Tragedy (430 total)
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| Yaoi |
This work usually involves intimate relationships between men.
Filtered by 3652 person(s)
Highlighted by 1790 person(s)
Search Authors for Yaoi (962 total)
Search Series for Yaoi (6292 total)
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| Yuri |
This work usually involves intimate relationships between women.
Filtered by 1977 person(s)
Highlighted by 1026 person(s)
Search Authors for Yuri (79 total)
Search Series for Yuri (508 total)
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