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TV Genre | The Rose of Versailles |
, 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...
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| Science fiction |
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Book Subject | Blue Submarine No. 6 |
Science fiction film is a film genre that uses speculative, science-based depictions of imaginary phenomena such as extra-terrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds, and time travel, often along with technological elements such as futuristic spacecraft,...
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| Shōnen |
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Blue Submarine No. 6 |
sometimes transliterated as shounen or shonen, is a Japanese word used in English to refer to manga intended for young boys. Examples include Detective Conan (名探偵 コナン Meitantei Conan or Case Closed), Dragon Ball, Rurouni Kenshin, Bleach, The Guyver,...
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| Josei |
, also known as or , 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 josei is seinen. In Japanese, the word josei means simply "female" and has no...
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| Yaoi |
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Yaoi (やおい) is a popular term for fictional media that focuses on homosexual male relationships, yet is generally created by and for females. Originally referring to a specific type of dōjinshi parody of mainstream anime and manga works, yaoi came to...
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refers to manga marketed to a female audience roughly between the ages of 10 and 18. The term is a transliteration of the Japanese 少女, literally young girl. Shōjo manga covers many subjects in a variety of narrative and graphic styles, from...
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| Shōnen-ai |
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.
Shōnen-ai is less sexually explicit than yaoi,...
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TV Genre | Naruto |
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...
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| Fantasy |
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Book Subject | Naruto |
Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting. Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and...
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| Horror Film |
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Horror films are movie that strive to elicit fear, horror and terror from viewers. In horror film plots, evil forces, events, or characters, sometimes of supernatural origin, intrude into the everyday world. Horror movies usually include a central...
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| Supernatural |
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TV Genre | Hellsing |
The term supernatural or supranatural (Latin: super, supra "above" + natura "nature"). The supernatural pertains to entities, events or powers regarded as beyond nature, in that they cannot be explained by the currently understood laws of the...
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| Action |
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Film genre | Naruto |
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. The action...
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| Wuxia | Film genre | Romance of the Three Kingdoms |
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...
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| Drama |
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Film genre | Naruto |
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. It is derived from a Greek word meaning "action" (Classical Greek / dráma), derived from "to do" (Classical Greek / dráō).
Dramas are performed in various media: theatre, radio,...
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| Horror fiction |
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Book Subject | Hellsing |
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 a supernatural element into everyday human experience. Since...
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| Auto racing |
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Broadcast Genre | Speed Racer |
Auto racing (also known as automobile racing, motor racing or car racing) is a motorsport involving racing car. 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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Book Subject | 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 derived from cybernetics and punk and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk," published in 1983, although...
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