We've added a new genre: "Topical". This is from the description:

"Primarily focuses on one major topic, such as the game Go in Hikaru no Go or bread making in Yakitate!! Japan"

Please help us update any series that seems to fit that description!

Update: It seems that people are seeing this category in a few different ways than I originally intended, so I'm going to suspend this until I figure out how to deal with that.

"Topical"? That sounds so cheesy as a label. XD I wonder if "theme" would have been a better label. (Well, maybe I don't really...)

Personally, if I saw that label on a manga I'd go "Eh?"

I just don't see how it helps for the genre area since aren't these genre labels also used as a search method?

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A lot of mangas could fall under this category, maybe too many. Like, any manga that focuses on a single idea would take this.

i agree with Xeronia that way more then half of the manga would be in that catagory.

and yet still there's no ShowBiz entertainment world music related genre's like these manga's
Skip Beat!, Honey Hunt, KaiKan Phrase, Ingenuo, Handsome Girlfriend, and ect.
ilike to read these type of manga but its hard to tell which will be like these.

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i thought there was a plan to make less genres....
but more is good too
more > less

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Hehe, so my suggestion still made it through, in some form

To be honest, "topical" isn't what I suggested. Nor did I still care for my "profession" genre to be added.
I just thought it was funny, after the backlash I got, for it to be added.

I only meant it for series that have a specific actual, real life thing associated with them, for instance, Baseball is topical (if the entire series deals with baseball), tennis for prince of tennis, Go for hikaru no go, etc. Someone added "Yu-gi-oh" which would not be topical in the sense that I envisioned... so I guess I'm going to have to figure out how to word this a bit differently.

What ur aim is to have mangas focused mainly on a single real life topic right...
so maybe u should call it something else

if not....then explain it better and like have a place that when u add a genre the description shows up underneath it or something.........since topical actually does fit the name:
similarly to "topical" comedian: comedian who uses relative real life specific subjects in his/her work like baseball, cooking, Dick cheney, police

the bad thing about this is that u might have to add a sub-genre section

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I agree with most of the people here that say that it's too broad...

I don't know... I don't think it would help anything if it was added, and it seems really confusing tbh... The less confusion the better, isn't it?

what is its purpose?

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It's not bad. There's quite a lot of manga dealing with multiple topic as well. And BLOOODY too many cant be call one or multi topics. like vampire Juji kai, what topic do you call it ? or yu yu Hakusho.

Topical is useful for sport manga and game (mmo, mmorpg) manga.

I think having more specific topics as genre, like sports, would be better. And I also think we should drop tragedy as a genre, cause it's too similar to drama