Anime is loved by many people because of its varied and interesting storyline. This is because the anime genre is quite diverse. Not only comedy, romance, or Slice of Life which is quite common, it turns out there are 45 different anime genres, you know.
With a specific genre category, you can choose the criteria of the anime you like. Here are 45 anime genres that can increase your knowledge. Read more.
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dock. A-1 Pictures/ Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso1. Romance: This anime genre features the love story of the main character with spices in the relationship, such as conflict, romantic stories, and also emotional sides that drain the audience’s feelings.
2. Adventure: An anime genre that tells the story of the characters’ journey to achieve a certain mission or goal.
3. Drama: Telling the life of the main character realistically. In addition, this genre is also full of emotions and exciting conflicts.
4. Comedy: Presenting a story full of humor and laughter. The story is light and often has a happy ending.
5. Slice of Life: Daily life stories that contain moral values of life.
6. Action: In short, aaction featuring a story full of action, fights, and battles. Lots of stunning moves, techniques, and effects in action anime.
7. Fantasy: Providing stories full of magical powers and full of imagination. The fantasy genre also presents many things that do not exist in the real world, such as monsters or strange creatures.
8. Horror: This genre of anime features scary anime stories with various invisible creatures or ghosts.
9. Mystery: If horror provides a scary story, mystery anime presents a story full of puzzles in crimes or murders solved by the main character.
10. Supernatural: The fantasy genre features all characters who have unique powers. However, the genre supernatural presents a human who becomes half demon or monster.
11. Mecha: Technological sophistication in the form of robots or machines in an anime.
12. Psychological: Presenting a story about a main character who suffers from mental disorders, sometimes makes the audience quite disturbed by various scenes concerning the psyche.
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Sunrise Doc.13. Sci-Fi: Sci-Fi showing the advancement of science with futuristic technology. This genre of anime is set in the future.
14. Demons: Featuring creatures such as demons or monsters.
15. Games: This genre features fairly gruesome gameplay and often involves characters being part of the game.
16. Ecchi: Anime that displays sexual or indecent content.
17. Harem: Focusing on the story of a man surrounded by female characters.
18. Reverse Harem: A female character who is liked by many male characters. Anime in the harem and reverse harem genres usually contain romance.
19. Isekai: An extension of the fantasy genre. The Isekai genre features the adventures of characters from the real world who go on adventures to other worlds.
20. Reverse Isekai: The opposite of Isekaithis anime tells the story of the main character or other characters from another world who accidentally arrive in the human world.
21. Historical: Closely related to history.
22. Josei: A love story of a couple whose main female character is older, namely 18-30 years old.
23. Martial Arts: This genre presents stories about martial arts.
24. Kids: Anime that presents stories for children from 5–13 years old.
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dock. A-1 Pictures/ Uta no Prince Sama25. Musical: Musical anime presents a story about the struggle of anime characters to become the best singers. This anime is full of musical accompaniment that is often sung by the characters.
26. Cyberpunk: Almost similar to Sci-Fithe difference Cyberpunk presents a story full of advanced technology and full of violent scenes.
27. Post Apocalyptic: Tells about events after the end of the world or apocalypse.
28. Parody: Imitating anime characters from other anime in a funny and entertaining way.
29. Police: An anime genre that presents police and detective missions in a case.
30. Shoujo: Like puppy love, Shoujo presents a love story between a girl and a boy aged 10–18 years.
31. Seinen: An anime genre that focuses on male main characters aged 18–30 years.
32. Shounen: Almost similar to Shoujo, Shounen presenting male main characters in the age range of 10–18 years to highlight the changes in the male main character from being weak to becoming strong.
33. Space: Having an outer space setting, anime characters usually go on adventures to explore outer space or other planets.
34. Sports: The story of the struggle of the main character who becomes an athlete. This anime genre usually has an exciting conflict before the main character achieves victory or is a champion.
35. Yaoi/Shounen Ai: Focus on male characters who have special relationships with other male characters.
36. Yuri/Shoujo Ai: This anime focuses on a female character who has a special relationship with another female character.
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Angel Beats. (Doc. PA Works/Angel Beats)37. School: Featuring a story that takes place in a school. This anime genre is usually combined with romance, drama, or slice of life.
38. Samurai: Tells the story of the main character who is a samurai and life in the samurai era in Japan.
39. Tragedy: This genre presents a disaster experienced by the main character. The tragedy that occurs can be death, murder, terror, or natural disaster.
40. Super Power: This genre presents stories about main characters who have super powers.
41. Vampire: Tells about vampires, blood-sucking creatures that usually terrorize the main character. However, there are also many stories of vampires who can transform into human figures.
42. Thriller: The story is quite challenging and tense. Sometimes the presence of antagonistic characters makes the story thriller more exciting.
43. Hentai: This anime is almost similar to Ecchibut highlights adult scenes. This genre can only be watched by adult audiences.
44. Magic: Focus on magical things and the wizarding world.
45. Military: Tells the story of a military battle between two warring parties.
Well, those are 45 anime genres that are quite diverse. Which one do you like the most?
First published August 03, 2022, republished August 14, 2024.
