Genre(s)

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Here you can see how f - Manga defines each genre. You can also see other statistics such as how many people filter or highlight each specific genre.

Action A work typically depicting fighting, violence, chaos, and fast paced motion. Filtered by 619 person(s) Highlighted by 729 person(s) Search Authors for Action (790 total) Search Series for Action (3281 total)   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 1083 person(s) Highlighted by 1373 person(s) Search Authors for Adult (1069 total) Search Series for Adult (5855 total)   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 538 person(s) Highlighted by 561 person(s) Search Authors for Adventure (340 total) Search Series for Adventure (1731 total)   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 618 person(s) Highlighted by 978 person(s) Search Authors for Comedy (1247 total) Search Series for Comedy (7012 total)   Doujinshi Fan based work inspired by official anime or manga. For MangaUpdates, original works DO NOT fall under this category Filtered by 1633 person(s) Highlighted by 800 person(s) Search Authors for Doujinshi (1076 total) Search Series for Doujinshi (7213 total)   Drama A work meant to bring on an emotional response, such as instilling sadness or tension. Filtered by 492 person(s) Highlighted by 442 person(s) Search Authors for Drama (632 total) Search Series for Drama (5095 total)   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 1146 person(s) Highlighted by 1369 person(s) Search Authors for Ecchi (316 total) Search Series for Ecchi (1574 total)   Fantasy Anything that involves, but not limited to, magic, dream world, and fairy tales. Filtered by 553 person(s) Highlighted by 640 person(s) Search Authors for Fantasy (708 total) Search Series for Fantasy (3204 total)   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 824 person(s) Highlighted by 812 person(s) Search Authors for Gender Bender (91 total) Search Series for Gender Bender (815 total)   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 511 person(s) Highlighted by 467 person(s) Search Authors for Harem (66 total) Search Series for Harem (394 total)   Hentai Adult sexual content in an illustrated form where the FOCUS of the manga is placed on sexually graphic acts. Filtered by 2395 person(s) Highlighted by 2189 person(s) Search Authors for Hentai (1157 total) Search Series for Hentai (5999 total)   Historical Having to do with old or ancient times. Filtered by 522 person(s) Highlighted by 314 person(s) Search Authors for Historical (211 total) Search Series for Historical (1355 total)   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 862 person(s) Highlighted by 450 person(s) Search Authors for Horror (170 total) Search Series for Horror (1012 total)   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 958 person(s) Highlighted by 803 person(s) Search Authors for Josei (565 total) Search Series for Josei (2722 total)   Lolicon Representing a sexual attraction to young or under-age girls. Filtered by 2081 person(s) Highlighted by 781 person(s) Search Authors for Lolicon (122 total) Search Series for Lolicon (766 total)   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 587 person(s) Highlighted by 480 person(s) Search Authors for Martial Arts (88 total) Search Series for Martial Arts (472 total)   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 656 person(s) Highlighted by 857 person(s) Search Authors for Mature (127 total) Search Series for Mature (1110 total)   Mecha A work involving and usually concentrating on all types of large robotic machines. Filtered by 900 person(s) Highlighted by 323 person(s) Search Authors for Mecha (66 total) Search Series for Mecha (342 total)

Mystery Usually an unexplained event occurs, and the main protagonist attempts to find out what caused it. Filtered by 464 person(s) Highlighted by 366 person(s) Search Authors for Mystery (182 total) Search Series for Mystery (932 total)   Psychological Usually deals with the philosophy of a state of mind, in most cases detailing abnormal psychology. Filtered by 512 person(s) Highlighted by 399 person(s) Search Authors for Psychological (102 total) Search Series for Psychological (738 total)   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 678 person(s) Highlighted by 1265 person(s) Search Authors for Romance (1316 total) Search Series for Romance (8465 total)   School Life Having a major setting of the story deal with some type of school. Filtered by 549 person(s) Highlighted by 594 person(s) Search Authors for School Life (451 total) Search Series for School Life (3596 total)   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 529 person(s) Highlighted by 387 person(s) Search Authors for Sci-fi (257 total) Search Series for Sci-fi (1460 total)   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 581 person(s) Highlighted by 841 person(s) Search Authors for Seinen (1433 total) Search Series for Seinen (4952 total)   Shotacon Representing a sexual attraction to young or under-age boys. Filtered by 2092 person(s) Highlighted by 634 person(s) Search Authors for Shotacon (98 total) Search Series for Shotacon (824 total)   Shoujo A work intended and primarily written for females. Usually involves a lot of romance and strong character development. Filtered by 1255 person(s) Highlighted by 1474 person(s) Search Authors for Shoujo (1915 total) Search Series for Shoujo (10549 total)   Shoujo Ai Often synonymous with yuri, this can be thought of as somewhat less extreme. "Girl's Love", so to speak. Filtered by 1966 person(s) Highlighted by 864 person(s) Search Authors for Shoujo Ai (88 total) Search Series for Shoujo Ai (591 total)   Shounen A work intended and primarily written for males. These works usually involve fighting and/or violence. Filtered by 649 person(s) Highlighted by 895 person(s) Search Authors for Shounen (1646 total) Search Series for Shounen (3892 total)   Shounen Ai Often synonymous with yaoi, this can be thought of as somewhat less extreme. "Boy's Love", so to speak. Filtered by 3058 person(s) Highlighted by 1640 person(s) Search Authors for Shounen Ai (376 total) Search Series for Shounen Ai (3023 total)   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 418 person(s) Highlighted by 433 person(s) Search Authors for Slice of Life (309 total) Search Series for Slice of Life (1892 total)   Smut Deals with series that are considered profane or offensive, particularly with regards to sexual content Filtered by 1118 person(s) Highlighted by 973 person(s) Search Authors for Smut (63 total) Search Series for Smut (1027 total)   Sports As the name suggests, anything sports related. Baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, golf, and racing just to name a few. Filtered by 768 person(s) Highlighted by 383 person(s) Search Authors for Sports (179 total) Search Series for Sports (1024 total)   Supernatural Usually entails amazing and unexplained powers or events which defy the laws of physics. Filtered by 480 person(s) Highlighted by 467 person(s) Search Authors for Supernatural (419 total) Search Series for Supernatural (2400 total)   Tragedy Contains events resulting in great loss and misfortune. Filtered by 690 person(s) Highlighted by 347 person(s) Search Authors for Tragedy (55 total) Search Series for Tragedy (581 total)   Yaoi This work usually involves intimate relationships between men. Filtered by 4443 person(s) Highlighted by 2162 person(s) Search Authors for Yaoi (1134 total) Search Series for Yaoi (7499 total)   Yuri This work usually involves intimate relationships between women. Filtered by 2421 person(s) Highlighted by 1225 person(s) Search Authors for Yuri (85 total) Search Series for Yuri (646 total)