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Jan 14, 2020 1:52 AM
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As the title says, what's your favorite genre and why? I'm not sure which mine is but I've noticed that sports anime tend to get me more in my feels
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Jan 14, 2020 1:55 AM
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Comedy
I want anime to entertain me and things that make me laugh entertain me the most. Doesn't mean that every 10/10 has to be a comedy show though.
Jan 14, 2020 1:58 AM
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Military fiction. It doesn't matter if it's history, fantasy or sci fi, my dad's in the army and that made me love weapons and tactics.
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Jan 14, 2020 2:00 AM
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Yuri and CGDGT mixed together!!! And noting is better then when my lesbian angels are kissing!!!,,,YEEEES!!! We need more lesbian kissing in anime!!!







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action, science fiction, fantasy, psychological in that order
Jan 14, 2020 2:04 AM
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Maybe sci-fi, detective and mystery in general but there are not many of those, even less good ones.
I like comedies too, but rarely they make them suitable for my taste.
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dark mahou shoujo, superpower, psychological
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Jan 14, 2020 2:08 AM
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I favor drama stories and fantasy and sci-fi settings.
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Jan 14, 2020 2:09 AM
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My favourite genre would be old-school Mecha. I just love machines, explosions and the war-themes that most of them have.
Jan 14, 2020 2:12 AM
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Psychological/Thriller, Dementia, Cyberpunk, Space Opera, Yuri.
Jan 14, 2020 2:13 AM

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A lot of the shows I love(10/10) have Drama tag, so Drama it is.
Jan 14, 2020 2:14 AM

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I love Slice of Life including CGDCT and comedy.I also love a healthy dose of battle shounen thou.
Jan 14, 2020 2:26 AM

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I'm a sucker for a romance (but I prefer romantic comedies and not drama).

I also love comedy, fantasy and shounen.

The only things I'm very unlikely to watch are sports (because I also dc about sports irl) and mecha because I don't really wanna watch robots and machines.
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Jan 14, 2020 2:43 AM

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My favourite anime is action mixed with comedy.

Another favourite is sports.

Other favourites are slice of life, romance, comedy, music, mystery mixed with thriller, or thriller on it's own.

My favourites in quantity, is romance.
Jan 15, 2020 4:24 PM
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I really like Mystery shows, especially the ones that include time travel.

Like ERASED and Steins Gate.
Jan 15, 2020 4:26 PM
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I love me some mons.

Also old school fantasy, from the days before isekai and mandatory harems.
Jan 15, 2020 4:27 PM

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I think I like sports/game anime the best (lumping them together because they're very very similar). Something about the shounen-type progression "from chumps to champs" never fails to get me excited.
Jan 15, 2020 4:30 PM

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I have a number of them and it's difficult to really give any one supremacy over the others, but in general I love in equal measure,

Thriller, Drama, Slice of Life, Horror, and (transgressive) Romance. Close runners up could be Adventure, Historical, and Sci-Fi, only weighed down by the amount of subpar content that seems to exist in them.

To be highly specific, a dramatic Slice of Life with a tragic or transgressive romance story or a thriller with a complex multi-level conflict with factions motivated by clearly defined opposing goals and rival ideologies, with existential stakes on which the fate of a whole people or way of life rests, would be my favorite of all.
Jan 15, 2020 4:34 PM
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comedy. I really like very funny shows that do still have a nice plot and everything though, like the irresponsible Captain Tylor.
Jan 15, 2020 4:50 PM

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Action mixed with comedy. I also really enjoy slice of life (but the josei, not the 'cute girls doing cute things' type of sol).
Jan 15, 2020 4:55 PM

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Sports- I like them for some of the reasons I like battle shounen, the characters training to get better, learning moves/techniques epic "battles", comradeship (in team ones) and rivalry. Theres also something interesting about seeing sports from a different perspective and learning more about sports than I ever would have imagined there would be to know. It also seems like the genre where i can almost always tell if I'm going to like it or not, which is probably most of them if we don't count shows like Free! (Dont care about sports IRL other than playing football and basketball when I was younger)

Comedy- pretty simple, love laughter and all the fun that comes with comedy shows, especially darker comedies like Dorohedoro because I like dark things, though my love for dark comedy is obvious looking at my name
Jan 15, 2020 5:31 PM

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Honestly idk, I'm interested in all kinds of genres

But I guess the Adventure genre is a pretty good pick.
Jan 15, 2020 5:35 PM

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Adventure. Alway was, always will be.
Jan 16, 2020 6:04 PM

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Death match/battle royale. Get a bunch of characters and have them kill each other. That's all the story you need.
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Jan 16, 2020 6:08 PM

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Shonen is my favorite but I also really like Comedy and Romance.



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Jan 16, 2020 6:11 PM
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While it's not really an anime genre and more part of the mystery genre, I like classic detective stuff, especially when it's more of a noir feel.
Jan 16, 2020 6:15 PM

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Psychological.
I've always been very interested in how several occurrences can affect the mind, how it damages and changes characters. If done right this can lead to some very emotional and disturbing writing.
Jan 16, 2020 7:44 PM

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Best genre is dementia. I enjoy subtlety and I hate when things are overtly stated not giving the person time to think.
Good subtle and interesting animes are:


Jan 17, 2020 1:36 AM
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Idk military? I like those because they are fun and cute looking most of the time.
Jan 17, 2020 1:41 AM

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Psychological. Anime is really good at it. Shounen ai or shoujo ai would be #1 though if there were more good shounen ai/shoujo ai out there, aha.
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Jan 17, 2020 1:45 AM
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i like many.. mystery, romance, drama, slice of life, fantasy, sci-fi, psychological, thriller, dementia, supernatural, seinen, josei, comedy..
Jan 17, 2020 2:32 AM
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My favorite Anime genre is comedy! ^__^
Jan 17, 2020 2:37 AM

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Hard to say since I like a lot of stuff but battle shounen & sports are among the easiest ones to enjoy for me, even if they aren't particularly good. Other genres I like more when they're well done but I'm also more critical towards them and don't enjoy them as easily, like mystery or sci-fi or psychological drama.
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Jan 17, 2020 2:40 AM

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I've got no idea, I just like anime. Based on favourites I guess there's a general slant towards seinen stuff, but I don't really consider that a genre.
Jan 17, 2020 2:41 AM
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I'll go with slice of life, and since I'm also trash, yaoi for suure.
Jan 17, 2020 2:49 AM
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CGDCT, SoL and Historical. Also reverse harem - but I guess I only like it in theory, since 90% of anime in this genre are just plain bad(
Jan 17, 2020 3:01 AM
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Genres:
Different types of fantasy, either being high, dark or urban fantasy or a SOL mixed with fantasy like Natsume.
Tho my favorites are often quite dark.
I just love the settings and the imagination behind them and many characters in it.
Also I like different mythologies and love how they are included.
These are all too many to make a list here, but I could tell most of my favorites are fantasy.

In combination with this, I also like adventure very much, but also SOL adventure(drama) like SoraYori or in combination with something historical.
I like to see other places and when the characters meet new peope there.

Historical is great too, I like medieval ages, especially asians, because I have seen so much european medieval ages already, or maybe sometimes in a vuctorian or steampunk setting. I really like the aeathetics and some themes of steampunk.

Sometimes I also like SOL drama and romances (straight, lesbian and gay), but I got more picky with anime romances, because quite many I finished (rarely finished them in comparison tho), or tried, were quite naive.
Drama is always welcomed and there are just a few I didn't like so much at all.
Romance is... straight romances are imo often in the middle field with a few really good or really bad. BL / GL romances are either really great or utter trash with little inbetween lol

About demographics:
Funnily many of my favs are battle shounen, who often met my preferences more than others, because I liked many characters, I liked the stories and themes and the worlds and they are often mixed with adventure.
But I dropped Naruto, Bleach, Dragonball, One Piece and a few others.

Although I really like some seinen and josei too. Seinen is a mixed back, because you know, brutality doesn't equal maturity. The opposite is the case. But I especially loved some of the "calm" seinen or SOL seinen.
Josei is a mixed bag as well. Either it's very mature or sexualizing of guys and with a strange appeal I won't to hop on the train. Or they are weird adaptions from otome games.

Shoujo tho often were pretty naive or just too cute for me. I don't like most old shoujo styles at all, many newer ones are okay to good.
Most shoujo romances couldn't get me tho and the heroines are utter bores, who are too emotionally fragile to be enjoyable. I'm not interested in watching a teenager girl being overdramatic, which is ofc true for some, but I'm not interested in watching these romances in particular. They are the female equivalent to the generic male protagonist.
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Battle shounen, ecchi, harem anime.
As long as anime has fanservice, action and gore I am in.
Jan 17, 2020 5:42 AM

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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Shounen, Supernatural

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What I decided so far and they are
Action and Supernatural
Jan 17, 2020 7:19 AM

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Best: Action and echii by far

Worst: Romcom, comedy


I don't hate comedy, but most action and echii anime have better comedy than pure comedy anime . JoJo for example has better comedy than almost any comedy focused anime.
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Psychological,romance if mature and not typical.



Jan 17, 2020 7:26 AM

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Any genre with bromance in it.

Usually battle shounen, sports.
Jan 17, 2020 7:26 AM
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Spokon and Slice of Life about Anime.
Horror and Psychological about Manga.

Aniway with a good plot...I like all genres.
Jan 17, 2020 7:34 AM
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Psychological Horror
-its scarier to know that you cant escape from the horror because it came from yourself.

Drama
-stories that leave a strong impression even after i finished watching it for days, weeks.
-i connected with the story; feels personal



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Sci-fi and Fantasy. Recently the fantasy genre has been filled though, with crap isekais and I'm like 'why you gotta do my favourite genre dirty like this?' Lol
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Jan 17, 2020 8:01 AM

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Shoujo Ai + Slice of Life is the most wholesome thing ever.

But Slice of Life woud be my first pick.

Jan 17, 2020 8:32 AM

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romcom drama is probably what I enjoy the most

Jan 17, 2020 11:40 AM
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Sports- I like them for some of the reasons I like battle shounen, the characters training to get better, learning moves/techniques epic "battles", comradeship (in team ones) and rivalry. Theres also something interesting about seeing sports from a different perspective and learning more about sports than I ever would have imagined there would be to know. It also seems like the genre where i can almost always tell if I'm going to like it or not, which is probably most of them if we don't count shows like Free! (Dont care about sports IRL other than playing football and basketball when I was younger)

Comedy- pretty simple, love laughter and all the fun that comes with comedy shows, especially darker comedies like Dorohedoro because I like dark things, though my love for dark comedy is obvious looking at my name

You totally just explained what I couldn't put into words when it comes to sports anime (I do personally like Free! though). There's just something about the whole team spirit that I absolutely love. I think it's the trust between teammates and how they always have faith in each other. Not to sound like an antisocial loner, cause I personally see myself as a very social person, but I just don't have that type of friendship and trust as the teammates in sports anime have - so I love seeing it on screen.
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Sci-fi and Fantasy. Recently the fantasy genre has been filled though, with crap isekais and I'm like 'why you gotta do my favourite genre dirty like this?' Lol

Do you have any good fantasy recommendations for me? I personally really like isekai but I can see that a lot of fantasy fans don't really see isekai as fantasy and more as its own genre.
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