The basic types of manga cover much of what the western world has already offered, like drama, science fiction, fantasy, and the like. However, manga and anime have many unique styles exclusive to them that do not actually exist elsewhere. That is their legacy.
In music, we learn how black metal is not death metal. If you aim to be a professional anime reviewer, you must be able to distinguish the many classifications of animated work. Here are some of them.
Those with robots are technically called mecha. Short for mechanical, this category resides in an alt universe where all robots exist. Well, they might not be super huge, they can be little machines compressed to make a large one, but as long they can have human pilots, then they fall under mecha.
Two romance sub categories are harem and ecchi. Harem refers to shows with a lone male central character with many female characters competing to win his love, and are usually living in the same house with him. Ecchi is a perverted but humorous approach to romantic films and may even be called softcore, but because they never show explicit content, they cannot be classified as hentai. Hentai is the harcore porn of the anime world, where tentacle rape has originated along with other bizarre fetishes.
Cute, barely legal girls can fight crime and evil. But when they do, they usually transform into some kind of a superhero with costumes and makeup and headdresses. It is not all war and violence, though. The magical girl anime genre will still uncover the daily life of the transforming heroine, including her relationships in love and friendship.
If you find films that feature a superstar that has everything, that is an idol manga. Generally constituting of people from humble beginnings who rise to overkill stardom, there is an entire culture dedicated and built around them. Many of this kind of work can fall under the slice of life classification.
Living things that almost look like very cuddly animals are actually trainable monsters, and they are the central characters of monster battle movies. Card games can become a real life deal between life and death with card battle animations. These are perhaps the most popular and familiar kind, and they are often paired with game merchandise.
Shonen ai refers to manga containing a male homosexual relationship at its core, while shoujo ai is for lesbian relationships. They are not pornographic, but rather romantic. The sexually explicit ones are the yaoi for the male and the yuri for the female.
There are subcultures dedicated to each form of anime, and infiltrating them will help you become familiar to the works. But perhaps the most helpful hint in actually determining the genre is to know the target audience of the show, as for example, shonen ai and shoujo ai are for young boys and girls while yaoi and yuri are for adults. Their alternate universes are cues and their characters are the giveaways, but the real deal is about for whom they are intended.
In music, we learn how black metal is not death metal. If you aim to be a professional anime reviewer, you must be able to distinguish the many classifications of animated work. Here are some of them.
Those with robots are technically called mecha. Short for mechanical, this category resides in an alt universe where all robots exist. Well, they might not be super huge, they can be little machines compressed to make a large one, but as long they can have human pilots, then they fall under mecha.
Two romance sub categories are harem and ecchi. Harem refers to shows with a lone male central character with many female characters competing to win his love, and are usually living in the same house with him. Ecchi is a perverted but humorous approach to romantic films and may even be called softcore, but because they never show explicit content, they cannot be classified as hentai. Hentai is the harcore porn of the anime world, where tentacle rape has originated along with other bizarre fetishes.
Cute, barely legal girls can fight crime and evil. But when they do, they usually transform into some kind of a superhero with costumes and makeup and headdresses. It is not all war and violence, though. The magical girl anime genre will still uncover the daily life of the transforming heroine, including her relationships in love and friendship.
If you find films that feature a superstar that has everything, that is an idol manga. Generally constituting of people from humble beginnings who rise to overkill stardom, there is an entire culture dedicated and built around them. Many of this kind of work can fall under the slice of life classification.
Living things that almost look like very cuddly animals are actually trainable monsters, and they are the central characters of monster battle movies. Card games can become a real life deal between life and death with card battle animations. These are perhaps the most popular and familiar kind, and they are often paired with game merchandise.
Shonen ai refers to manga containing a male homosexual relationship at its core, while shoujo ai is for lesbian relationships. They are not pornographic, but rather romantic. The sexually explicit ones are the yaoi for the male and the yuri for the female.
There are subcultures dedicated to each form of anime, and infiltrating them will help you become familiar to the works. But perhaps the most helpful hint in actually determining the genre is to know the target audience of the show, as for example, shonen ai and shoujo ai are for young boys and girls while yaoi and yuri are for adults. Their alternate universes are cues and their characters are the giveaways, but the real deal is about for whom they are intended.
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