What’s your new anime genre idea?

VirtuShi said:
I personally like the selection of different genres in anime.
Though I never feel like there’s enough of them.

If you could have any new genre of anime, what genre would you pick?

There is always room for more anime and I personally feel like there are a lot of genres that haven’t been explored yet.
What’s your pick for next best anime genre!

For me it’s got to be war. From what I understand, it is difficult to animate but I feel like there is nothing nitty and gritty and realistic style kind of like war films out there right now. There is youjo senki which I love and a few other mentionable ones but I really feel that there is a lot more to offer.

What are your guys thoughts?

Missaliensan said:

Nah I don't think war would be something particularly interesting since I don't believe that anime is the best medium for portraying realistic, dark and gritty war stories.

Theo1899 said:
I don't know if "short violent 80s/90s OVA with tits" is considered a genre but we need more of those

Catalano said:
Workplace genre, something like that working anime or even after the rain and wotakoi. Got tired of high school stuff and romance between 15 year olds

OnionKnightRises said:
Silent. We've gotten some silent anime shorts that are great like La Maison en Petits Cubes, and I want more artsy fartsy stuff with no dialogue, using pure visuals and the BGM to tell a story. And none of that "it's silent but there's text boxes" kind of shit, that defeats the purpose of silent and forcing you to use character expressions to tell the audience what the character's feeling.

Zaphkiel_El_Rem said:
More apocalyptic anime. Not necessarily zombies again but that's fine too.

ysphyr said:
I actually thought you’re asking for ideas for the brand new genre that doesn’t exist yet. Wracked my brain thinking and came to realization everything’s already been made.

But since the task is not that hard - I wish there were some more anime with old characters, like Inuyashiki and Alice to Zouroku.

Lil_hentai said:
Just more non-fantasy stuff with "realistic" settings with war/military/crime themes, but of course with the typical anime exagguration included.

Im referring to stuff like Samurai Champloo, Sword of the stranger, Vinland saga, Kingom, Black Lagoon, Vagabond, Jormungand.

I feel like theres so little of these types of shows.

ysphyr said:


I’ll certainly give it a try! I’ll need more time though as to create a brand new genre you need to come with some new story/setting/etc first.

fuckgendo said:
Sukeban!!!! There are some short old ova that are really old and some other characters in other series that HAVE sukeban characters but it’s not the main focus

Lil_hentai said:


Sure there are anime that are actually too realistic but for me personally it takes away the anime charm cause i love bullshit like Roberta shattering a sword with her teeth in the Black Lagoon OVA lol.

yotamdin said:
Ok so there's this normal guy in our world who suddenly gets transported to a fantasy world similar to most rpg games, where they now need to live and thrive there, maybe they'll save the world or just try to go back home, I call it isekai which means another world in japanese

On a serious note tho the amount of steampunk themed animes is criminally low, I know it's more of an aesthetic than a genre but its still one of my favourites in all of media

Catalano said:
Workplace genre, something like that working anime or even after the rain and wotakoi. Got tired of high school stuff and romance between 15 year olds

RazR32 said:
I feel like especially the anime you can't put in a specific genre are "perfect" and there should be more of them. So I wouldn't like to see specific genres more but other shows "compared to" as in my example Attack on Titan.

Let me explain: I take Isekai here. Shows like Konosuba, Re:Zero or SAO. They all have a huge fanbase and are praised a lot. I personally enjoyed all of them, but they are somewhat stereotypes. You unconsciously put them into a genre and I feel like this automatically lowers the standards. And that doesn't make it unique for me.

I would love to see more shows like Attack on Titan. Not similar to the Titan stuff as a genre.
AOT is something unique, the story has a complexity I never saw before (I can't even believe that the author didn't planned the whole story from beginning to ending), plot twists, characters and their motives, that seem kind of familiar, but again: As you can't put it in a category really, it's different and I love it. I can't go into detail, my explanation would be too long :D

So again, I would love to see more shows like AOT, not in a genre that AOT might fits in, (because it doesn't fit in any), but with a similar structure of storytelling, character and plot development.

I hope this counts as an answer here hehehe

VirtuShi said:


Any answer is welcome!! Though I do want to finish AOT, I got through a lot of it but just put it on hold when I went away. I’ve only heard good things about it and it seems like it constantly evolves!

So anime with no defining genre and instead has its own identity? I never thought of that so instead of genres you’d like to focus on how anime develop their themes and show similar shows in that sense?

RazR32 said:


Yea exactly! I feel like AOT is the first of it's kind and will be the only one.There should be more shows out of the norm (hmm maybe this is a genre itself "out of the norm" hehe) I can add you and talk a bit more about this in the future, but for now I will keep it short.
It's not even about the genre, it starts even before.. with the topic!

Example again: If there is a show where characters, receive their abilities through there eyes (and even have a specific pattern) a lot of people would think of it like it's a copy from naruto (byakugan, sharingan etc.) But if you change the topic a bit --> they have these eyes with the pattern, but it's not about the power the receive thorugh it (like the sharingan). If it's, for example, about the looks of it, the topic changes from maybe fighting --> fashion. It's a new topic, a new idea. "These eyes" were there before but if you change a simple detail, it doesn't fit into the "naruto genre" anymore and it becomes it's own, unique one, until someone takes this idea. AOT in this case, is perfect! You can change it maybe, but the main topic is the titans. And if you would have titans in another show you think like "Ahh an AOT copy".

Maybe the example is a bit too superficial, but that's the first thing that came in mind lol

Catalano said:
Workplace genre, something like that working anime or even after the rain and wotakoi. Got tired of high school stuff and romance between 15 year olds

Theo1899 said:
I don't know if "short violent 80s/90s OVA with tits" is considered a genre but we need more of those

ysphyr said:


Ok, the best I came up with in an hour is a SoL modification but a main character is a tree. Hahah, that’s what you get walking in the park. Btw I’m 1000% sure this already exists, if anyone can link me to the said work, I’ll be eternally grateful.

As for your desired plot motive - I’m not sure I got it right since I haven’t watched Your Name yet. Do you want like two characters maybe living in different timelines/worlds and the same (but unrelated) thing happens to both of them and they reflect on it in a different way? And maybe they connect at some point of the story?

tlato_but said:
A personal opinion, but we need more shows about politics, not talking about ideological discussions nor communist subtext, but rather about normal things that politicians do, parliamentary commisions, debates, electoral campaigning, closed doors meetings, doing TV spots, interviews, foreign relations, etc.

VirtuShi said:
I was debating about saying this as my suggestion. It was like my third drafted idea. I love seeing how people put politics into media and I love it when they incorporate it well. Reminds me of playing persona 5 and watching parasyte. I loved them so much

tlato_but said:


Well, my idea was more centred on the actual politics stuff, let's say doing a campaign on the desert, doing a press conference to talk about the new health care law, debating on the constitution comitee, stuff like that.

filifjonkan said:
I would actually like some more social anime, trying to explain the culture and ways of life in Japan. There are many topics to be spoken of; the capital sentence (why, oh why Japan?!), hikikiomori, the suicide rates and so on and so forth..Pretty boring, but I would think of it as very interesting, actually.

VirtuShi said:
Oh I see. I never thought about a show going in that direction. I suppose that would be pretty cool. You ever thought about expanding on the idea?

Mayuka said:
I don't have any new ideas.

I just want to watch more speculative fiction like Shinsekai Yori. That is one of the ONLY anime that is considered that genre.