| I feel like someone just slapped random genre tags they thought the Anime would fall into, without actually watching it. -___- It is definitely NOT a "Mystery", and has no properties of a "Mystery" whatsoever. I agree with all the other tags, but I think it should also be tagged as "Romance". |
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| NIce i was just wondering why its tag's are so different here on MAL. So it is romance after all , glad to hear it ,now i can finally put it in my Romance Plan to Watch list. |
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| Is it really romance? Haven't really seen that many romance scenes in this show outside of comedy scenes. |
Sir_Lexa said: Is it really romance? Haven't really seen that many romance scenes in this show outside of comedy scenes. Well if you've read the manga or novels, you'd know what I'm talking about =) But I'll leave those spoilers out. Also, there have been hints that Ririchiyo has indeed fallen for Miketsukami |
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| I would just leave it at Supernatural and Comedy. Not sure why Shounen is even tagged and lol'd at the Mystery tag. |
| I haven't read the source material, but it seems to be a romance to me also, though it's just hints right now of several of them.... As for shounen, no- it doesn't feel; like one to me either actually- it didn't seem anything like one t me, and honestly neither did Pandora hearts- but that also got a shounen classification *Shrugs* As for genre tags in general. I don't pay attention to them at all, unless I'm curious about something I'm already watching. It doesn't matter what they say if it sounds interesting enough I'll give it a try. |
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Paul said: I would just leave it at Supernatural and Comedy. Not sure why Shounen is even tagged and lol'd at the Mystery tag. Shounen is the target audience. The manga is apparently a Shounen title, thus the anime is Shounen as well, hence the 'Shounen' tag. And Mystery fits, as long as you don't use the 'detective/crime story' definition of Mystery: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_fiction Judging by the show, in terms of genre, I'd tag it as Supernatural, Comedy and maybe Romance (though it's not really about the Romance, so YMMV on that one). |
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| Oh man then it's not romance? No relationship , love etc ? just some hint which can be interpreted any possible way but it stays foggy till the end right ? Should i delete romance tag from this anime then ? |
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greenmarty said: Oh man then it's not romance? No relationship , love etc ? just some hint which can be interpreted any possible way but it stays foggy till the end right ? Should i delete romance tag from this anime then ? Yes, I'd call it a romance. It's been made obvious it is one, in my opinion. |
windeen-windyMar 29, 2012 7:15 PM
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| *I just finished and i do think it could be categorized as a romance. But i feel like doing so almost makes it a spoiler. *I agree that it is a comedy *I don't think it is a shounen in particular, even thought i also didn't find it that much of a shoujo. *It didn't strike me as a mystery at first. But I can see how it could fit into that category. there are mysteries it it that are important of the plot, hinted at throughout the show, and only revealed at the end. |
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| Well it's not really a mystery if Miketsukami tells you everything 'mysterious' about him in one episode.. |
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edmond321 said: Well it's not really a mystery if Miketsukami tells you everything 'mysterious' about him in one episode.. Agreed. He pretty much told us a lot about himself at the start, only thing that could be classified as "Mystery" was the fact that he kept saying she saved him (If I remember right) and that he had known her for a while, and he'd been waiting to meet her. I wouldn't really consider his secrets about what he had to do to free himself of his imprisonment a mystery- they were secrets but nothing much really felt like a mystery to me honestly.... |
windeen-windyMar 30, 2012 5:42 AM
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| I don't know who decides the genres on this site. They're just wrong a lot of the time. Okay, if were making up genre tags for this: Zee530 said: and pedophilia.Comedy, supernatural, annoying |
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DraconisMarch said: I don't know who decides the genres on this site. They're just wrong a lot of the time. Okay, if were making up genre tags for this: Zee530 said: and pedophilia.Comedy, supernatural, annoying @Draco: Knew you'd say that, hehe. Anyways, out with the Mystery, in with the Romance? I personally believe that tagging a show as 'mystery', is only justified when throughout the story, questions are raised that simply need to be answered in order to comprehend the bigger picture. Mysteries that are longing for a solution. She isn't wondering who Miketsukami is, where he came from, nor what his intentions are but to serve her. Unless the viewer is supposed to pine after him, what exactly makes him or this show a mystery? |
| Yeah the description and tags got me into this Totally blew me off with it being some queer stuff Ended up being disappointed |
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| Well its easy why is tagged as shounen: because it is published on a shonen magazine. so even if the mangaka is a shoujo mangaka and all her works are shoujo, she published Inu x boku in a shonen magazine. Result: IT cannot be labelled as shoujo, never, even if its clearly a shoujo. |
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desolato said: Questioning a person's backstory makes it a mystery? Then more than half of the shows in existence would be dubbed mysteries. Everything's a mystery until we know their backstory!Anyways, out with the Mystery, in with the Romance? I personally believe that tagging a show as 'mystery', is only justified when throughout the story, questions are raised that simply need to be answered in order to comprehend the bigger picture. Mysteries that are longing for a solution. She isn't wondering who Miketsukami is, where he came from, nor what his intentions are but to serve her. Unless the viewer is supposed to pine after him, what exactly makes him or this show a mystery? |
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DraconisMarch said: You clearly read that wrong. She was agreeing that it IS NOT a mystery because all that's vaguely mysterious is merely backstory. This show is just comedy and romance with some supernatural mixed in.desolato said: Questioning a person's backstory makes it a mystery? Then more than half of the shows in existence would be dubbed mysteries. Everything's a mystery until we know their backstory!Anyways, out with the Mystery, in with the Romance? I personally believe that tagging a show as 'mystery', is only justified when throughout the story, questions are raised that simply need to be answered in order to comprehend the bigger picture. Mysteries that are longing for a solution. She isn't wondering who Miketsukami is, where he came from, nor what his intentions are but to serve her. Unless the viewer is supposed to pine after him, what exactly makes him or this show a mystery? |
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| You know what genre this really is? Abnormal slice of life. If everyone wasn't some monster/mythological creature incarnation, it would just be people doing their own thing, a bodyguard, some girl that likes said bodyguard, a hotheaded wannabe "yankee" who's in love with a tsuntsun girl, a crazy douchebag, and a bunch of other random people. |
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edmond321 said: I feel like someone just slapped random genre tags they thought the Anime would fall into, without actually watching it. -___- It is definitely NOT a "Mystery", and has no properties of a "Mystery" whatsoever. I agree with all the other tags, but I think it should also be tagged as "Romance". An Example of MAL mistakes |
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| I think it should be tagged as Romance too. |
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| This show is mystery but only in case someone tries to figure out under which genres it should be categorized. After finishing it i agree on romance tag, if not anything else, its basically story about two ppl who met each other and fallen in love and they overcame some obstacles along the way. That's one of the definition of romance genre, isn't it ? |
greenmartyMay 13, 2012 4:00 PM
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| The Shounen tag makes no sense, and I agree that Romance should be added. MAL isn't the best place to see what genres an anime leads under. Animenewsnetwork is more accurate in that respect. |
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| Yes, I also do not have a problem with the Shounen tag - as I quite enjoyed this rom-com myself. |
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| Romance tag definitely needs to stay. Yeah okay, nobody is openly dating I suppose, but there are SO many emotions in this anime. Feelings are also romance, even if there aren't relationships. Mystery... I don't think so. If the whole story was about Soushi and his past, discovering it step by step, then yes. Otherwise, we can tag any anime where somebody's story isn't known to the audience (and/or other characters) a mystery. Comedy - yes. Shounen - yes (despite the cross-appeal). I would put (contemporary) Fantasy instead of Supernatural though... But then a lot of Supernatural/Fantasy titles on MAL are tagged oddly in my mind. I think someone on the previous page mentioned Slice of Life. I might actually consider it Slice of Life, albeit a not very ordinary life. |
daisy23 said: I agree about the romance tag. But it IS shonen. Remember that what defines a manga if it is shonen/seinen/shojo... is the magazine where it is published, not the contents itself Inu x Boku is released in Square Enix's Gangan Joker, a shonen magazine with male demographic even if the story looks more adequate for a shojo magazine (but hey females also read shonen and there are males who read shojo). .... Shounen isn't defined according to some magazine publishing but instead its determined at very early stage of production, It's answer to one of basic business question "At which segment are we gonna target ?/Who are our costumers?" Publishing in magazine is a result of this decision thus its the other way around, It is published there because it was decided that target audience are young boys/girls/young adults/etc. But Anime adaptations of Manga can sometime change genre too to be able to get attention of wider audience and make more money that way. daisy23 said: ..... That's why original anime not based on manga usually don't have a proper "shonen","shojo" or "seinen" tag. On this i agree but it's not because there was no manga but it's usually question of money. Anime that's not adaptation of manga needs to attract wide audience to earn enough (and more) to cover production while manga adaptation is often already known thanks to the manga. As for Inu x Boku I say this one is combination of shounen/shoujo and it should be tagged as neither or both. |
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| I just watched the final episode. I honestly don't know why the romance debate is even going on. How can anyone not see the romance? o_o' |
| I am sorry for digging up this old thread, but it felt needless to create a new one, because.... This Is Not Shounen ! No matter how you look at it it is shoujo ! Even someone that has literally only watched 2 anime can identify this as shoujo. The true is that it doesn't really matter, I mean the anime was good and all, but I had my hopes I was going to watch a shounen anime so I had high expectations, only to be ruined within the first episode. I would really like to have a debate over this, but I am not very knowledgeable about this subject and my communication skills aren't good enough either (much like the heroin). |
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| well its tag as shounen, but idk why i feel like watching shoujo on this anime |
| stupid people think shounen means naruto |
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