Dementia-Anime with Characters that might be falling into Insanity or is already crazy
Historical-Takes place around a historical time , place , and/or event in history
Music-Anime that is focused on a rock/pop group
Sci-fi-Anime that might take place in the future, or have some kind invasion happening
Sports-Anime that focuses on a type of sport , like baseball , tennis ect..
Demons-Anime with demons in it
Horror-Anime that is scary
Mystery-Where there is a case to be solved
Seinen-this is anime mostly for college age males
Superpower-Where the characters have powers
Drama-A serious anime with a dark or serious plot
Josei-aimed at women , this is a very rare anime genre and not much is published in the west
Parody-anime that makes fun of something
Shoujo-or the short term Shojo. Which is similar in writing to Shojou which means a note or letter , or Shoujou which means symptom of a disease. This is anime aimed at girls
Supernatural-Anime that has creatures that go bump in the night or have weird things going on
Ecchi-this is perverted anime
Kids-anime made just for little kids
Police-Anime about a certain police force
Shoujo Ai-This focuses on the Relationship between two females and usually doesn't have any explicit content, unlike in Yuri
Thriller-Anime that will have you on the edge of your seat.
Sources: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/lexicon.php?id=48
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090522153912AA7uVHS
you know, i've never heard of seinen until today. and ecchi isn't hentai right?
ReplyDeletehehe you learn something new everyday ^.^ and no ecchi is'nt hentai...because it will never actually show any sex scenes , however some echhi tries to get as close as it can to it lol
ReplyDeleteWonderful list :P I can't wait for your reviews! I can't wait, I just can't wait!
ReplyDeleteI was very happy to see Evangelion on here, that's gotta be one of my all time favorite animes
ReplyDeleteIm very happy that i put one of your favorite anime up :)
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