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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, and time travel, often...
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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, Detective Conan, One Piece, Rurouni Kenshin, InuYasha, Yu Yu Hakusho, Yu-Gi-Oh, and D.Gray-Man...
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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) 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 works) parody of...
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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 a...
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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 film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor. Also, films in this style typically have a happy ending (the black comedy being an exception). One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were...
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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 to an order of existence beyond the scientifically visible universe. Religious miracles are typically supernatural claims, as are spells and curses,...
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| x Action |
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Naruto |
Action movies are a film genre wherein the story is largely told through physical action as opposed to dialog. The action typically involves individual efforts on the part of the hero. While action has long been an element of films, the "Action film...
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| Hellsing | |||
| Speed Racer | |||
| x Wuxia | Romance of the Three Kingdoms |
Wuxia or Wǔxiá (traditional Chinese: 武俠; simplified Chinese: 武侠, Mandarin IPA: [ùɕiɑ̌], Hanyu Pinyin: Wǔxiá, Cantonese Pinyin: mou5 hap6: Taiwanese/Hokkien: bu kiap) is a broad genre of Chinese fiction that concerns itself with martial arts...
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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, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a supernatural element into everyday human experience. Since...
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| x Auto racing |
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Speed Racer |
Auto racing (also known as automobile racing, motor 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...
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| x Cyberpunk |
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex |
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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| Serial Experiments Lain | |||
| Bubblegum Crisis | |||
| x Mecha |
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Samurai 7 |
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 that could be explained by real world science, and these robots used ranged weapons ...
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| Macross | |||
| Gundam | |||
| 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. Edutainment typically seeks to instruct or socialize its audience by embedding lessons in some familiar form...
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| x Hobbies and interests | Hikaru no Go | ||
| 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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| Ranma ½ | |||
| 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 are systems of codified practices and traditions of training for combat. While they may be studied for various reasons, martial arts share a single objective: to physically defeat other persons and to defend oneself or others from...
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| x Teen |
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Ranma ½ |
The teen film (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...
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