Anime Genres
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Best Girls
100
This type of show typically features more than two female characters go head-over-heels for a single male character. Anime in this category is typically within the comedy and romance genre.
Harem
100
Stubborn, prideful, and carrying two customized swords. This character is a member of the Demon Killing Corps and a traveling companion of Tanjirou Kamado. He is often seen wearing the head of a boar.
Inosuke
100
Bunch of losers break a microwave, also time travel.
Steins Gate
100
The story follows Asta, a young boy born without any magic power. This is unknown to the world he lives in because seemingly everyone has some sort of magic power. With his fellow mages from the Black Bulls, Asta plans to become the next Wizard King.
Black Clover
100
From Demon Slayer: She is the little sister of Tanjiro Kamado, and has been turned into a demon. However, she is able to keep her own state of mind and she does not eat people which is essential for a demon to survive.
Nezuko Kamado
200
These anime usually depict a beautiful relationship that humans will have developed with technology often depicting the protagonist as a partner with his or her robot/suit/vehicle/whatever it is.
Mech/Mecha
200
Loud, annoying, and always dressed in an orange style outfit; this character is constantly yelling and wanting to fight in order to show how strong they have become.
Goku
200
Rubber band tries fighting people.
One Piece
200
One of the best rom-coms ever made, Ryuuji Takasu is a gentle high school student with a love for housework; but in contrast to his kind nature, he has an intimidating face that often gets him labeled as a delinquent. On the other hand is Taiga Aisaka, a small, doll-like student, who is anything but a cute and fragile girl. Equipped with a wooden katana and feisty personality, Taiga is known throughout the school as the "Palmtop Tiger.”
Toradora
200
From Cowboy Bebop: One of the members of the bounty hunting crew in the anime series Cowboy Bebop.Often seen with a cigarette and in a revealing outfit complete with bright yellow hot pants and a matching, revealing top, black suspenders, white boots, and a long-sleeved red shirt worn normally through the sleeves, not to mention her signature headband. She is brash, egotistical, and quite lazy, despite taking plenty of time to pamper and care for her own appearance.
Faye Valentine
300
Stories depicted in this genre are realistically set in the domain of real life. Nothing out-of-the-blue happens, but that’s the point! Everyday life is portrayed in a realistic light, with nothing out of the extraordinary wrecking the premise.
Slice of Life
300
This character is “The Pretty Guardian who fights for love and justice!”. With an assortment of friends dressed up as pretty as prism, and a blonde-bun hairstyle that is iconic, they fight evil by moonlight and win love by daylight.
Sailor Moon
300
Two samurai and a girl chase a man by his smell.
Samurai Champloo
300
After dying a laughable and pathetic death on his way back from buying a game, high school student and recluse Kazuma Satou finds himself sitting before a beautiful but obnoxious goddess named Aqua. She provides the NEET with two options: continue on to heaven or reincarnate in every gamer's dream—a real fantasy world! Choosing to start a new life, Kazuma is quickly tasked with defeating a Demon King who is terrorizing villages. But before he goes, he can choose one item of any kind to aid him in his quest, and the future hero selects Aqua. But Kazuma has made a grave mistake—Aqua is completely useless!
Konosuba
300
From Black Clover: A member of the Black Bull squad. She was inducted to the squad around the same time as Asta. She is the second daughter of the Clover Kingdom's family, House Silva, which is affiliated with royalty and the younger sister of the captain of Silver Eagle Squad. She uses water type magic and is a tsundere.
Noelle Silva
400
This genre/subgenre specifically targets female viewers around the age range of 10-18. The protagonist is traditionally female and the narrative focuses on romance as well as personal growth. The world in these shows are often very idealized.
Shoujo
400
Cute, smart, and diligent. This character is often seen checking her phone in order to keep an eye on her precious love interest for whom she is incredibly obsessed with. Just do not interfere or try to cause harm to that love interest, or you will face cruel and incredibly painful punishment at the hands of this pink haired character.
Yuno Gasai
400
Nudist giants terrorize spider-people.
Attack on Titan
400
Part of the “cute girls doing cute things” subgenre, this school based anime involves sporting competitions between other schools in fierce military combat with the use of tanks.
Girls und Panzer
400
From Naruto: Generally overbearing, if not crude, toward those around her, often not being afraid to speak her mind. A keen analyst, and can easily deduce an opponent's strategies and weaknesses soon after a battle begins. For actual combat she uses her giant iron fan that, in addition to serving as a makeshift club, can be used to glide upon in order to intimidate her foes.
Temari
500
For this category, one might refer to something mythical, mystical, bizarre, or something outside the bounds of accepted reality. There’s a shadow of mystery often found in shows involved with this genre.
Supernatural
500
Formerly known as Momonga, this character is the main protagonist of the Overlord Series. An undead dressed in the finest robes available. He is the guildmaster of his friend’s guild, Overlord of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, and the creator of Pandora’s Actor. He is regarded as the highest of the Almighty Forty-One Supreme Beings by the NPCs of Nazarick. A popular nickname for this character given by the fandom of the series is that of “Bone Daddy”.
Ainz Ooal Gown
500
Local boy pierces the heavens, also robots.
Gurren Lagann
500
Holo is a powerful wolf deity who is revered in the small town of Pasloe for blessing the annual harvest. Yet as years go by and the villagers become more self-sufficient, Holo has been reduced to a mere folktale. When a traveling merchant named Kraft Lawrence stops at the settlement, Holo offers to become his business partner if he takes her to her northern home of Yoitsu. The savvy trader recognizes Holo's unusual ability to evaluate a person's character and accepts her proposition.
Spice & Wolf
500
From DanMachi/Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: After descending to the Lower World, she was taken care of by her friend, Hephaestus but was soon asked to live on her own and gave her a room at an abandoned church. She tried to create her own familia but wasn't able to recruit even a single person. After failing to recruit for the 50th time, she noticed Bell Cranel and decided to secretly follow him. She noticed that Bell was trying to enter a familia but was rejected multiple times and is in the same boat as her. She then took the chance to recruit him, which Bell happily agreed upon; becoming the first member of her familia.
Hestia
