Psychological: Titles that deal with the philosophy of a state of mind in most cases detailing abnormal psychology.
Romance: Any love related story.
School Life: Having a major setting of the story deal with some type of school.
Sci-Fi: Science fiction, titles involving twists on technology and other science related phenomena which are contrary or stretches of the modern day scientific world.
Seinen: Titles meant for young men targets the age 18-25, has stories that address issues of adulthood.
Shotacon: Representing a sexual attraction to young or under-age boys.
Shoujo: Work intended for females involves a lot of romance and strong character development.
Shoujo Ai: Less extreme version of Yuri "Girl Love"
Shounen: Work intended for males involves a lot of fighting and/or violence.
Shounen Ai: Less extreme version of Yaoi "Boy Love"
Slice of Life: A genre representing day to day tribulations of one or many characters. Challenges or events can happen in real life and the stories are usually but no all the time, mirroring our own world and timeline.
Smut: Deals with series that are profane or offensive, particularly with regards to sexual content.
Sports: Titles that are related to plots involving sports
Supernatural: Titles where amazing and unexplained powers or events that defy the laws of physics happen.
Tragedy: Titles that contain events that result in a great loss misfortune.
Yaoi: Titles about relationships between guys
Yuri: Titles about relationships between girls
Now thats the end of all the genres.
Most works fall under a few of these genres at a time, because some of them can work with each other, now I hope this helps remove the fear that some people have of unknown genres and will entice people into reading new titles.
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