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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 604 person(s)
Search Authors for Action (705 total)
Search Series for Action (2883 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 865 person(s)
Highlighted by 1133 person(s)
Search Authors for Adult (902 total)
Search Series for Adult (4664 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 445 person(s)
Highlighted by 467 person(s)
Search Authors for Adventure (308 total)
Search Series for Adventure (1528 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 498 person(s)
Highlighted by 828 person(s)
Search Authors for Comedy (1035 total)
Search Series for Comedy (5853 total)
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| Doujinshi |
Fan based art inspired by official anime or manga.
Filtered by 1371 person(s)
Highlighted by 685 person(s)
Search Authors for Doujinshi (830 total)
Search Series for Doujinshi (5834 total)
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| Drama |
A work meant to bring on an emotional response, such as instilling sadness or tension.
Filtered by 401 person(s)
Highlighted by 374 person(s)
Search Authors for Drama (550 total)
Search Series for Drama (4369 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 920 person(s)
Highlighted by 1175 person(s)
Search Authors for Ecchi (274 total)
Search Series for Ecchi (1308 total)
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| Fantasy |
Anything that involves, but not limited to, magic, dream world, and fairy tales.
Filtered by 451 person(s)
Highlighted by 536 person(s)
Search Authors for Fantasy (610 total)
Search Series for Fantasy (2703 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 662 person(s)
Highlighted by 665 person(s)
Search Authors for Gender Bender (79 total)
Search Series for Gender Bender (633 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 390 person(s)
Highlighted by 371 person(s)
Search Authors for Harem (63 total)
Search Series for Harem (309 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 1973 person(s)
Highlighted by 1854 person(s)
Search Authors for Hentai (976 total)
Search Series for Hentai (4872 total)
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| Historical |
Having to do with old or ancient times.
Filtered by 433 person(s)
Highlighted by 257 person(s)
Search Authors for Historical (183 total)
Search Series for Historical (1134 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 703 person(s)
Highlighted by 399 person(s)
Search Authors for Horror (157 total)
Search Series for Horror (882 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 773 person(s)
Highlighted by 679 person(s)
Search Authors for Josei (275 total)
Search Series for Josei (1679 total)
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| Lolicon |
Representing a sexual attraction to young or under-age girls.
Filtered by 1674 person(s)
Highlighted by 655 person(s)
Search Authors for Lolicon (102 total)
Search Series for Lolicon (571 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 478 person(s)
Highlighted by 390 person(s)
Search Authors for Martial Arts (86 total)
Search Series for Martial Arts (407 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 525 person(s)
Highlighted by 706 person(s)
Search Authors for Mature (128 total)
Search Series for Mature (980 total)
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| Mecha |
A work involving and usually concentrating on all types of large robotic machines.
Filtered by 749 person(s)
Highlighted by 279 person(s)
Search Authors for Mecha (50 total)
Search Series for Mecha (306 total)
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| Mystery |
Usually an unexplained event occurs, and the main protagonist attempts to find out what caused it.
Filtered by 383 person(s)
Highlighted by 305 person(s)
Search Authors for Mystery (151 total)
Search Series for Mystery (778 total)
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| Psychological |
Usually deals with the philosophy of a state of mind, in most cases detailing abnormal psychology.
Filtered by 412 person(s)
Highlighted by 338 person(s)
Search Authors for Psychological (86 total)
Search Series for Psychological (597 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 546 person(s)
Highlighted by 1040 person(s)
Search Authors for Romance (867 total)
Search Series for Romance (6649 total)
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| School Life |
Having a major setting of the story deal with some type of school.
Filtered by 454 person(s)
Highlighted by 501 person(s)
Search Authors for School Life (368 total)
Search Series for School Life (2977 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 430 person(s)
Highlighted by 332 person(s)
Search Authors for Sci-fi (206 total)
Search Series for Sci-fi (1254 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 476 person(s)
Highlighted by 719 person(s)
Search Authors for Seinen (1052 total)
Search Series for Seinen (3640 total)
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| Shotacon |
Representing a sexual attraction to young or under-age boys.
Filtered by 1716 person(s)
Highlighted by 537 person(s)
Search Authors for Shotacon (83 total)
Search Series for Shotacon (652 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 1024 person(s)
Highlighted by 1264 person(s)
Search Authors for Shoujo (1657 total)
Search Series for Shoujo (8995 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 1639 person(s)
Highlighted by 732 person(s)
Search Authors for Shoujo Ai (44 total)
Search Series for Shoujo Ai (365 total)
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| Shounen |
A work intended and primarily written for males. These works usually involve fighting and/or violence.
Filtered by 543 person(s)
Highlighted by 763 person(s)
Search Authors for Shounen (1380 total)
Search Series for Shounen (3292 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 2571 person(s)
Highlighted by 1376 person(s)
Search Authors for Shounen Ai (321 total)
Search Series for Shounen Ai (2572 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 372 person(s)
Search Authors for Slice of Life (242 total)
Search Series for Slice of Life (1436 total)
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| Smut |
Deals with series that are considered profane or offensive, particularly with regards to sexual content
Filtered by 900 person(s)
Highlighted by 814 person(s)
Search Authors for Smut (62 total)
Search Series for Smut (892 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 631 person(s)
Highlighted by 321 person(s)
Search Authors for Sports (160 total)
Search Series for Sports (882 total)
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| Supernatural |
Usually entails amazing and unexplained powers or events which defy the laws of physics.
Filtered by 392 person(s)
Highlighted by 399 person(s)
Search Authors for Supernatural (368 total)
Search Series for Supernatural (2018 total)
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| Tragedy |
Contains events resulting in great loss and misfortune.
Filtered by 557 person(s)
Highlighted by 281 person(s)
Search Authors for Tragedy (41 total)
Search Series for Tragedy (433 total)
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| Yaoi |
This work usually involves intimate relationships between men.
Filtered by 3674 person(s)
Highlighted by 1803 person(s)
Search Authors for Yaoi (976 total)
Search Series for Yaoi (6449 total)
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| Yuri |
This work usually involves intimate relationships between women.
Filtered by 1986 person(s)
Highlighted by 1033 person(s)
Search Authors for Yuri (80 total)
Search Series for Yuri (530 total)
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