Anime/Manga Genre

Auto racing (also known as automobile racing or car racing) is a motorsport involving racing car. It is one of the world's most popular sports. Racing began soon after the construction of the first successful petrol-fueled auto. Before that time people raced in other...

Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life." It is also a subgenre of industrial rock music. The name is derived from cybernetics and punk and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk,"...

"Comedy" has a popular meaning (any discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy). This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in Ancient...

A drama film is a film that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption put the characters in...

Horror films originate from the horror genre and are designed to elicit fright, fear, terror, or horror from viewers. In horror film plots, evil forces, events, or characters, sometimes of supernatural origin, intrude into the everyday world. Horror movies usually...

Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of an evil —- or, occasionally, misunderstood —- supernatural element into everyday...

Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and capitalization) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games,...

is a Japanese word used in English to refer to manga intended for boys. Examples include Dragon Ball, Rurouni Kenshin, Pokémon, Bleach, One Piece, Inuyasha, Shaman King, Naruto and Yu-Gi-Oh. Shōnen anime and manga is typically characterized by high-action, often...

is a term used in English to refer to manga and anime aimed at a female audience between the ages of 10 and 18. The term is a transliteration of the Japanese 少女, literally Young girl. Works aimed at this target audience are generally seen as melodramatic stories of...

Wuxia or Wǔxiá (, Mandarin , Hanyu Pinyin: Wǔxiá, Cantonese Pinyin: mou5 hap6), literally meaning "martial (arts) heroes", is a distinct quasi-fantasy sub-genre of the martial arts genre in literature, television and cinema. Wǔxiá has figured prominently in the popular...

Yaoi (やおい) is a publishing genre which focuses on male/male relationships and is marketed at females. The genre originated in Japan and encompasses manga, anime, novels and dōjinshi. In Japan, this genre is called "Boys' Love" or simply "BL", and "yaoi" as a genre name...

The term supernatural or supranatural (Latin: super, supra "above" + natura "nature") pertains to entities, events or powers regarded as beyond nature, in that they cannot be explained by the laws of the natural world. Religious miracle are typical of such ...

is a term that is applied to anime or manga that deals with love between young men, especially of the variety. The genre itself dealt with romanticized but non-sexual relationships between men. The predecessor of shōnen-ai was . Shōnen-ai is less sexually explicit...

, also known by the wasei-eigo construction , is a Japanese jargon term for content and a genre involving love between women in manga, anime, and related Japanese media. Yuri can focus either on the sexual or the emotional aspects of the relationship, the latter...

Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting. The genre is usually associated with the overall look, feel and themes of the European Middle Ages (including architecture, dress and technology), while...

Josei manga (, lit. "woman", ; also known as redīsu (レディース), or "ladies", or redikomi (レディコミ), lit. "ladies' comics"), is a term that refers to the target demographic of manga created mostly by women for late teenage and adult female audiences. The male equivalent to...

Action movies are a film genre where action sequences, such as fights, shootout, stunt, car chase or explosions either take precedence or, in finer examples of the genre, are used as a form of exposition and character development. Notable directors who are respected...