Genres

This page presents you with an overview on our movies genres and offers you the option to list titles by their main or subsidiary genres.

Main genres

Action – All about fighting and violence
Action Comedy – Light-hearted action which doesn’t need to be taken seriously
Action Drama – Besides action it also puts emphasis on elaborated characters and social conflicts.
Adventure – Just like in live action adventure movies, this is all about eventful and risky journeys to exotic places.
Comedy – Is supposed to make the audience laugh.
Crime Fiction – Deals with crimes and their solutions.
Drama – Has a conflictual and dramatic plot.
Fighting-Shounen – Action for male teenagers which is almost solely about fighting
Ganbatte – The main character wants to climb to the top in a certain sport or another competitive activity.
Ghost Stories – Creepy tales about ghosts and other beings of (Japanese) folklore
Hentai – A pornographic title
Horror – Deals with the escape from or the battle with (mostly supernatural) threatening beings. The protogonist is constantly in a frightening situation.
Indefinite – Can’t be assigned a specific genre.
Nonsense-Comedy – A comedy that has an especially meaningless and crazy humor
Romance – Deals with romantic relationships between the protagonists.
Romantic Comedy – A cheerful and mostly comical love story
Romantic Drama – A dramatic and serious love story
Sentimental Drama – An especially emotional drama that tries to trigger strong feelings within the audience
Slice of Life Drama – A serene and sometimes mundane drama about everyday conflicts
Thriller – A suspenseful story about one or more people that have to face a seemingly desperate situation

Subsidiary Genres

Action – All about fighting and violence
Adventure – Just like in live action adventure movies this is all about eventful and risky journeys to exotic places.
Boys Love – The focus of the story is on love relations between men. (Yaoi/Shounen Ai/Bara)
Comedy – Is supposed to make the audience laugh.
Crime Fiction – Deals with crimes and their solutions.
Drama – Has a conflictual and dramatic plot.
Ecchi – Describes either sex-related humor or generally sexual scenes, but not actual intercourse.
Eroticism – In our case eroticism describes titles which are neither ecchi nor hentai. It may come to sex between the characters.
Excessive Violence – The violence is over the norm the average human can stand.
Fantasy – This genre is about magical powers and supernatural creatures.
Fighting-Shounen – Action for male teenagers which is almost solely about fighting
Ganbatte – The main character wants to climb to the top in a certain sport or another competitive activity.
Ghost Stories – Creepy tales about ghosts and other beings of (Japanese) folklore
Girls Love – The focus of the story is on love relations between women. (Yuri/Shoujo Ai)
Harem – The main character is being wooed by many women/men.
Hentai – A pornographic title
Horror – Deals with the escape from or the battle with (mostly supernatural) threatening beings. The protogonist is constantly in a frightening situation.
Magical Girl – A young girl with supernatural powers is able to transform into an alter ego to secretly fight villains.
Mecha – The focus is on big combat robots which usually have to be piloted by a character.
Psychological Drama – Deals with the entity that is man and his mind. In most cases the protagonist is subject to emotional pressure.
Romance – Deals with romantic relationships between the protagonists.
Science-Fiction – This genre deals with powers and creatures, which can (in one way or another) be explained scientifically.
Slice of Life – This title deals with the everyday life of the protagonists.
Sports – The focus of the story is on some kind of sports.
Supernatural Drama – In contrast to obvious fantasy or obvious sci-fi, this genre deals with supernatural beings or powers of which the causes are unknown.
Thriller – A suspenseful story about one or more persons that have to face a seemingly desperate situation