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| x Yuri |
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The Rose of Versailles |
Yuri (百合), also known by the wasei-eigo construction Girls Love (ガールズラブ, gāruzu rabu), 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...
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| Simoun | |||
| Kannazuki no Miko | |||
| x Science fiction |
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Blue Submarine No. 6 |
Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that aren't necessarily accepted by mainstream science. such as extra-terrestrial life forms, alien worlds, esp, and time travel,...
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| Rideback | |||
| x Shōnen |
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Blue Submarine No. 6 |
Shōnen manga (少年漫画) refers to manga marketed to a male audience roughly between the ages of 10 and 18. Examples include Dragon Ball, Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Saint Seiya, Rurouni Kenshin, InuYasha, Yu Yu Hakusho, Flame of Recca,, Detective Conan,...
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| Hunter × Hunter | |||
| x Josei |
Josei manga (女性, lit. "woman", pronounced [dʑosei]), also known as "ladies" (レディース, redīsu) or "ladies' comics" (レディコミ, redikomi, lit. "LadyComi"), is a term that refers to the target demographic of manga created mostly by women for late teenage and...
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| x Yaoi |
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Yaoi (やおい) (aka Boys' Love) is a popular term for female-oriented fictional media that focus on homoerotic or homoromantic male relationships, usually created by female authors. Originally referring to a specific type of dōjinshi (self-published...
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| x Shōjo |
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The term Shōjo, shojo, or shoujo manga (少女漫画, shōjo manga) refers to manga marketed to a female audience roughly between the ages of 10 and 18. The name romanizes the Japanese 少女 (shōjo), literally: "young girl". Shōjo manga covers many subjects in...
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| x Shōnen-ai |
Shōnen-ai (少年愛, boy-love (paiderastia)) is a term that is applied to anime or manga that deals with love between young men, especially of the bishōnen (美少年, bishōnen) variety. The genre itself dealt with romanticized but non-sexual relationships...
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| x Comedy |
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Naruto |
Comedy (from the Greek κωμωδία, komodia) as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the...
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| Hikaru no Go | |||
| Ranma ½ | |||
| x Fantasy |
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Naruto |
Fantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, the majority of fantasy works have been literature. Since the 1950s however, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic...
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| Hikaru no Go | |||
| Ranma ½ | |||
| x Supernatural |
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Hellsing |
The term supernatural or supranatural (Latin: super, supra "above" + natura "nature") pertains of being above or beyond what is natural; unexplainable by natural law or phenomena. Religious miracles are typically supernatural claims, as are spells...
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| x Action |
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Naruto |
Action movies are a film genre where in the story is largely told through physical action as opposed to dialogue. The action typically involves individual efforts on the part of the hero. While action has long been an element of films, the "Action...
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| x Wuxia | Romance of the Three Kingdoms |
Wuxia or Wǔxiá (simplified Chinese: 武侠; traditional Chinese: 武俠 Wǔxiá, Mandarin: [ùɕjǎ]; Cantonese Pinyin: Mou5 Hap6: Taiwanese/Hokkien: Bu Kiap) is a broad genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists usually set in ancient...
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| x Drama |
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Naruto |
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" (Classical Greek: δράμα, dráma), which is derived from "to do" (Classical Greek: δράω, dráō). The enactment of drama in theatre,...
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| Hikaru no Go | |||
| x Horror |
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Hellsing |
Horror fiction is a genre of fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle and horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a disturbing supernatural element into everyday human...
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| x Auto racing |
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Speed Racer |
Auto racing (also known as automobile racing or car racing) is a motorsport involving racing cars. It is one of the world's most watched television sports.
Racing began soon after the construction of the first successful petrol-fueled automobiles....
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| x Cyberpunk |
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Serial Experiments Lain |
Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life". The name is a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk", published in 1983. It...
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| Bubblegum Crisis | |||
| Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex | |||
| x Mecha |
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Mecha, also known as meka or mechs, are walking vehicles controlled by a pilot, often appearing in anime, science fiction, or other genres involving a fantastic or futuristic element. Mecha are generally, though not necessarily, bipedal, with arms,...
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| x Real Robot |
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Rideback |
Real Robot (リアルロボット, Riaru Robotto) is a genre of Japanese animation. The genre contains robots that are powered by conventional power sources and weapons explainable by real world science, and that use ranged weapons (especially guns and cannons)...
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| Gundam | |||
| Patlabor | |||
| x Edutainment | Hikaru no Go |
Edutainment (also educational entertainment or entertainment-education) is a form of entertainment designed to educate as well as to amuse.
It can be argued that edutainment has existed for millennia in the form of parables and fables that promoted...
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| x Youth |
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Hikaru no Go |
Youth is the period between childhood and adulthood, described as the period of physical and psychological development from the onset of puberty to maturity and early adulthood. Definitions of the specific age range that constitutes youth vary. An...
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| x School |
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Hikaru no Go |
A school (from Greek σχολή (scholē), originally meaning "leisure", and also "that in which leisure is employed", "school"), is an institution designed to allow and encourage students (or "pupils") to learn, under the supervision of teachers. Most...
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| x Martial arts |
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Ranma ½ |
Martial arts or fighting arts are systems of codified practices and traditions of training for combat. Martial arts all have a very similar objective: defend oneself or others from physical threat. In addition, some martial arts are linked to...
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| x Teen |
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Ranma ½ |
Teen films (also called teen movie or teenpic) is a film genre targeted at teenagers and young adults in which the plot is based upon the special interests of teenagers, such as coming of age, first love, rebellion, conflict with parents, teen angst...
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| x Mecha Anime |
Mecha anime cover all series that revolve around the use of piloted robotic armors in battle, which is broken down into two subcategories of Super Robot and Real Robot. Mecha series cover a wide variety of genres from comedy to drama, though are...
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