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Action
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Adventure
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Autobiographical Novel
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A novel using autofiction techniques, or a merge of autobiographical and fictive elements.

Biography
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a detailed description of (part of) a person's life written by someone else; non-fiction

Comedy
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Diary
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autobiographical writing in the form of a diary, non-fiction

Drama
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Ecchi
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Essay
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non-fiction version of a short story

Fairy Tales
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folk/fairy tales or content borrowing heavily from them

Fantasy
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Hentai
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Historical Fiction
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Where a fictional plot takes place during real historical events.

History
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Non-fiction discussion of historical people, events, and eras

Horror
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Humanities
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The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative. Includes ancient and modern languages, literature, law, history, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts such as music and theatre. non-fiction

Mahou Shoujo
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Mecha
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Medical Drama
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drama relating to the practice of medicine

Music
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Mystery
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Political & Social Science
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study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies; non-fiction

Private Detective
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Features prominently a private detective / meitantei / 名探偵 involved in solving the case(s)

Psychological
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Romance
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Satire
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A type of social commentary where the use of exaggeration, irony, and/or parody is used to joke about a social custom, tradition, or practice.

Sci-Fi
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Slice Of Life
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Sports
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Supernatural
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Thriller
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War (Genre)
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War time activities such a weapons, fighting, battle, and military situations are discussed

4-Koma
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A manga in the 'yonkoma' format, which consists of four equal-sized panels arranged in a vertical strip.

Achromatic
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Contains animation that is primarily done in black and white.

Achronological Order
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Chapters or episodes do not occur in chronological order.

Acting
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Centers around actors or the acting industry.

Adaption
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This work was adapted from a work of a different medium. alt: adaptation

Adoption
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Features a character who has been adopted by someone who is neither of their biological parents.

Adult Content
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Contains sexual or explicit content.

Adultery
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A person in a monogamous relationship performing sexual acts with someone other than their partner. May also be known as infidelity or cheating.

Advertisement
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Produced in order to promote the products of a certain company.

Afterlife
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Partly or completely set in the afterlife.

Age Gap
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Prominently features romantic relations between people with a significant age difference.

Age Regression
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Prominently features a character who was returned to a younger state.

Agender
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Prominently features agender characters.

Agriculture
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Prominently features agriculture practices.

Airsoft
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Centers around the sport of airsoft.

Akita Dialect
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JPN Only

Features the Akita dialect of Japanese (秋田弁, Akita-ben)

Alchemy
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Features character(s) who practice alchemy.

Aliens
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Prominently features extraterrestrial lifeforms.

Alternate Universe
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Features multiple alternate universes in the same series.

American Football
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Centers around the sport of American football.

Amnesia
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Features a character who suffers from memory loss (amnesia) unrelated to dementia

Anachronism
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Prominently features elements that are out of place in the historical period the work takes place in, particularly modern elements in a historical setting.

Ancient China
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Either set in ancient China or in a fictional country modeled after ancient China.

Ancient Egypt
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Either set in ancient Egypt or in a fictional country modeled after ancient Egypt.

Ancient Japan
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Either set in ancient Japan or in a fictional country modelled after ancient Japan.

Andalusia
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ESP Only

Things in Andalusia Andalusian dialect/accent

Angels
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Prominently features spiritual beings usually represented with wings and halos and believed to be attendants of God.

Animal Cruelty
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One or more animals are harmed in the story.

Animal Death
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One or more animals die in this story.

Animal Protagonist
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The main character is an animal.

Animals
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Prominently features animal characters in a leading role.

Animation
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Anthology
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A collection of separate works collated into a single release.

Anthropomorphism
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Contains non-human character(s) that have attributes or characteristics of a human being.

Anti-Hero
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Features a protagonist who lacks conventional heroic attributes and may be considered a borderline villain.

Apocalypse
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The total destruction and end of the world.

Archaeology
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The study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

Archery
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Centers around the sport of archery, or prominently features the use of archery in combat.

Arranged Marriage
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Features two characters made to marry each other, usually by their family.

Art History
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Content that discusses the history and development of painting, sculpture, and the other visual arts.

Artificial Intelligence
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Intelligent non-organic machines that work and react similarly to humans.

Asexual
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Features a character who isn't sexually attracted to people of any sex or gender.

Assassins
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Centers around characters who murder people as a profession.

Astronomy
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Relating or centered around the study of celestial objects and phenomena, space, or the universe.

Athletics
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Centers around sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, or walking.

Augmented Reality
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Prominently features events with augmented reality as the main setting.

Autobiographical
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Real stories and anecdotes written by the author about their own life.

Aviation
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Regarding the flying or operation of aircraft.

Badminton
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Centers around the sport of badminton.

Ballet
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Features the art of ballet.

Band
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Main cast is a group of musicians.

Bar
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Partly or completely set in a bar.

Baseball
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Centers around the sport of baseball.

Basketball
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Centers around the sport of basketball.

Battle Royale
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Centers around a fierce group competition, often violent and with only one winner.

BDSM
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Contains content relating to sexual bondage, discipline, sadism, and/or masochism.

Bestiality
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A human engages in sexual acts with an animal.

Biographical
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Based on true stories of real persons living or dead, written by another.

Bisexual
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Features a character who is romantically or sexually attracted to people of more than one sex or gender.

Body Horror
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Features characters who undergo horrific transformations or disfigurement, often to their own detriment.

Body Swapping
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Centers around individuals swapping bodies with one another.

Boxing
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Centers around the sport of boxing.

Boys' Love
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Prominently features romance between two males, not inherently sexual. Alt: yaoi, mlm, BL

Bromance
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a close but non-sexual relationship between two men.

Bullying
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Prominently features the use of force for intimidation, often in a school setting.

Buried Alive
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Prominently features a character being buried alive. This tag includes both premature burials as well as being buried alive as a result of a cave-in or similar.

Butler
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Prominently features a character who is a butler.

Café
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Partially or completely set in a café (alt: cafe).

Calligraphy
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Centers around the art of calligraphy.

Canary Islands
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ESP Only

Things in Canary Islands dialect/accent

Cancer
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Cancer is discussed in some amount of detail.

Cannibalism
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Prominently features the act of consuming another member of the same species as food.

Card Battle
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Centers around individuals competing in card games.

Cars
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Centers around the use of automotive vehicles.

Cat
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Book involves one or multiple cats.

Centaur
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Prominently features a character with a human upper body and the lower body of a horse.

CGI
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Prominently features scenes created with computer-generated imagery.

Cheerleading
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Centers around the activity of cheerleading.

Chibi
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Features "super deformed" character designs with smaller, rounder proportions and a cute look.

Child Abuse
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Maltreatment or neglect of a child or children.

Child Protagonist
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The main character is a child.

Childcare
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Features characters taking care of children.

Chile
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ESP Only

Things with the Chilean dialect/accent

Chimera
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Features a beast made by combining animals, usually with humans.

Christmas
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Set during or having to do with Christmas holidays

Chuunibyou
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Prominently features a character with "Middle School 2nd Year Syndrome", who either acts like a know-it-all adult or falsely believes they have special powers.

Circus
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Prominently features a circus.

Class Struggle
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Contains conflict between different social classes. Generally between an dominant elite and a suffering oppressed group.

Class-S
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Historical genre featuring romantic friendships (or occasionally relationships) in an all-girls religious school environment. (For modern yuri works, please use the Class-S Themes tag).

Class-S Themes
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Modern yuri works with themes and settings heavily resembling or influenced by the historical Class-S genre.

Classic Literature
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Discusses or adapts a work of classic world literature.

Clone
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Prominently features a character who is an artificial exact copy of another organism.

Closed Circle Mystery
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A type of mystery story, typically murder, wherein the list of suspects is artificially limited to a small group. ie, in an isolated house, on a small island, etc.

Coastal
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The setting is primarily a coastal area.

College
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Partly or completely set in a college or university.

Colombia
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ESP Only

Things with Colombian dialect/accent

Coming Of Age
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Centers around a character's transition from childhood to adulthood.

Conspiracy
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Contains one or more factions controlling or attempting to control the world from the shadows.

Corona Virus
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Relating to the 2020 pandemic era and/or the COVID-19 virus

Cosmic Horror
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A type of horror that emphasizes human insignificance in the grand scope of cosmic reality; fearing the unknown and being powerless to fight it.

Cosplay
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Features dressing up as a different character or profession.

Crime
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Centers around unlawful activities punishable by the state or other authority.

Criminal Organization
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Prominently features a group of people who commit crimes for illicit or violent purposes.

Crossdressing
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Prominently features a character dressing up as the opposite sex.

Crossover
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Centers around the placement of two or more otherwise discrete fictional characters, settings, or universes into the context of a single story.

Cuba
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ESP Only

Things in Cuba Cuban dialect/accent

Cult
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Features a social group with unorthodox religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs and practices.

Cultivation
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Features characters using training, often martial arts-related, and other special methods to cultivate life force and gain strength or immortality.

Cute Boys Doing Cute Things
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Centers around male characters doing cute activities, usually with little to no emphasis on drama and conflict.

Cute Girls Doing Cute Things
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Centers around female characters doing cute activities, usually with little to no emphasis on drama and conflict.

Cyberpunk
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Set in a future of advanced technological and scientific achievements that have resulted in social disorder.

Cyborg
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Prominently features a human character whose physiological functions are aided or enhanced by artificial means.

Cycling
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Centers around the sport of cycling.

Dancing
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Centers around the art of dance.

Death Game
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Features characters participating in a game, where failure results in death.

Death Of A Minor
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One or more children/teens die

Death Of A Parent
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One or more characters lose one or more of their parents.

Death Of A Sibling
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One or more siblings of the main character pass away.

Death Of An Adult
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One or more adults die.

Delinquents
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Features characters with a notorious image and attitude, sometimes referred to as "yankees".

Dementia
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A character has dementia

Demons
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Prominently features malevolent otherworldly creatures.

Denpa
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Works that feature themes of social dissociation, delusions, and other issues like suicide, bullying, self-isolation, paranoia, and technological necessity in daily lives. Classic iconography: telephone poles, rooftops, and trains.

Desert
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Prominently features a desert environment.

Detective
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Features a character who investigates and solves crimes.

Dinosaurs
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Prominently features Dinosaurs, prehistoric reptiles that went extinct millions of years ago.

Disability
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A work that features one or more characters with a physical, mental, cognitive, or developmental condition that impairs, interferes with, or limits the person's ability to engage in certain tasks or actions.

Dissociative Identities
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A case where one or more people share the same body.

Divine Beasts
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Creatures from Chinese mythology, eg dragon, phoenix, turtle etc.

Documentary
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Dog
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Book involves one or multiple dogs.

Dolls
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A doll or dolls are prominently featured in this work

Domestic Violence
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A person suffers verbal, physical, and/or sexual violence at the hands of their romantic partner

Dragons
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Prominently features mythical reptiles which generally have wings and can breathe fire.

Drawing
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Centers around the art of drawing, including manga and doujinshi.

Drugs
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Prominently features the usage of drugs such as opioids, stimulants, hallucinogens etc.

Dubbed
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An audiovisual work originally produced with audio in one language that has been dubbed into another

Duck
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Prominently features a duck or multiple ducks

Dullahan
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Prominently features a character who is a Dullahan, a creature from Irish Folklore with a head that can be detached from its main body.

Dungeon
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Prominently features a dungeon environment.

Dwarf
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Prominently features a character who is a fantasy/folklore dwarf

Dystopian
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Partly or completely set in a society characterized by poverty, squalor or oppression.

E-Sports
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Prominently features professional video game competitions, tournaments, players, etc.

Economics
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Centers around the field of economics.

Educational
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Primary aim is to educate the audience.

Elf
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Prominently features a character who is an elf.

Ensemble Cast
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Features a large cast of characters with (almost) equal screen time and importance to the plot.

Environmental
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Concern with the state of the natural world and how humans interact with it.

Episodic
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Features story arcs that are loosely tied or lack an overarching plot.

Epistolary
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A novel written as a series of letters. The term may also refer to works that include or are composed of other documents (diary entries, blog posts, newspaper articles) as well.

Ero Guro
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Japanese literary and artistic movement originating in the 1930's. Works have a focus on grotesque eroticism, sexual corruption, and decadence.

Espionage
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Prominently features characters infiltrating an organization in order to steal sensitive information.

Fairy
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Prominently features a character who is a fairy.

Fairy Tale
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This work tells a fairy tale, centers around fairy tales, or is based on a classic fairy tale.

Fake Relationships
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Features characters who enter into a pretend romance for various reasons, but it often evolves into a genuine relationship over time.

Family
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Family Life
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Centers around the activities of a family unit.

Fashion
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Centers around the fashion industry.

Female Harem
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Main cast features the protagonist plus several female characters who are romantically interested in them.

Female Protagonist
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Main character is female.

Femboy
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Features a boy who exhibits characteristics or behaviors considered in many cultures to be typical of girls.

Fencing
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Centers around the sport of fencing.

Figure Skating
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Centers around the sport of figure skating performed on ice.

Firefighters
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Centered around the life and activities of rescuers specialised in firefighting.

Fishing
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Centers around the sport of fishing.

Fitness
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Centers around exercise with the aim of improving physical health.

Flash
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Created using Flash animation techniques.

Flash Fiction
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A fictional narrative of extreme brevity

Folklore
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Traditional stories, customs, and beliefs of a people passed down through generations, usually orally

Food
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Centers around cooking or food appraisal.

Football
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Centers around the sport of football (known in the USA as "soccer").

Foreign
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Partly or completely set in a country outside the country of origin.

Found Family
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Features a group of characters with no biological relations that are united in a group providing social support.

Fugitive
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Prominently features a character evading capture by an individual or organization.

Full CGI
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Almost entirely created with computer-generated imagery.

Full Color
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Manga fully colored or drawn in color.

Full Furigana
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JPN Only

All or almost all kanji have furigana.

Full Hiragana
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JPN Only

Text is written in hiragana and/or katakana, little to no kanji in the text

Galicia
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ESP Only

Things in Galicia Galician accent

Gambling
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Centers around the act of gambling.

Gangs
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Centers around gang organizations.

Gay
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Features a character who identifies as a man and is romantically or sexually attracted to men.

Gender Bending
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Prominently features a character who dresses and behaves in a way characteristic of another gender, or has been transformed into a person of another gender.

Geology
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The science of Earth, other planetary bodies, and rocks.

Germany
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Partly or completely set in Germany.

Ghost
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Prominently features a character who is a ghost.

Go
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Centered around the game of Go.

Goblin
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A goblin is a monstrous creature from European folklore. They are almost always small and grotesque, mischievous or outright malicious, and greedy. Sometimes with magical abilities.

Gods
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Prominently features a character of divine or religious nature.

Golf
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Centers around the sport of golf.

Gore
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Prominently features graphic bloodshed and violence.

Graphic Violence
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Graphically violent scenes present

Guatemala
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ESP Only

Things in Guatemala Guatemalan dialect/accent

Guns
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Prominently features the use of guns in combat.

Gyaru
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Prominently features a female character who has a distinct American-emulated fashion style, such as tanned skin, bleached hair, and excessive makeup. Also known as gal.

Haenyeo
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KOR Only

Features the predominantly female profession of diving to harvest molluscs, seaweed, and other sea life.

Handball
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Centers around the sport of handball.

Handicraft
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Involves sewing, knitting, paper-making or other crafty hobbies.

Henshin
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Prominently features character or costume transformations which often grant special abilities.

Heterosexual
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Prominently features a romance between a man and a woman, not inherently sexual.

High School
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Institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place.

Hikikomori
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Prominently features a character who withdraws from social life, often seeking extreme isolation.

Hiroshima Dialect
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JPN Only

Features the Hiroshima dialect of Japanese (広島弁, Hiroshima-ben).

Historical
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Partly or completely set during a real period of world history.

Hokkaidō Dialect
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JPN Only

Features the Hokkaidō dialect of Japanese (北海道弁, Hokkaidou-ben)

Homeless
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Prominently features a character that is homeless.

Homophobia
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Dislike of or prejudice against gay, lesbian, or bisexual people, or those who are perceived to be such.

Horticulture
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The story prominently features plant care and gardening.

Idol
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Centers around the life and activities of an idol.

Incest
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Sexual/romantic relations (or thoughts of such relations) between people closely related to each other.

Interviews
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Contents is mainly comprised of interviews. This tends to apply to non-fiction books most often.

Isekai
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Features characters being transported into an alternate world setting and having to adapt to their new surroundings.

Iyashikei
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Primary aim is to heal the audience through serene depictions of characters' daily lives.

Josei
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Target demographic is adult females.

Judo
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Centers around the sport of judo.

Kabuki
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JPN Only

Kabuki is a classical form of Japanese theater mixing dramatic performance with traditional dances, featuring heavily decorated costumes and elaborate make-up.

Kaiju
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Prominently features giant monsters.

Kansai Dialect
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JPN Only

Features the Kansai dialect of Japanese (関西弁, Kansai-ben).

Karate
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Works featuring the martial art of karate.

Karuta
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Centers around the game of karuta.

Kemonomimi
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Prominently features humanoid characters with animal ears.

Kendo
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Centers around the sport of kendo.

Kidnapping
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Features the act of kidnapping

Kids
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Target demographic is young children.

Kuudere
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Prominently features a character who generally retains a cold, blunt and cynical exterior, but once one gets to know them, they have a very warm and loving interior.

Kyudo
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Centers around Japanese archery (弓道) (as distinct from Western archery).

Lacrosse
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A team game played with a ball and lacrosse sticks.

Language Acquisition
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Content relates to language learning.

Language Barrier
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A barrier to communication between people who are unable to speak a common language.

Law / Legal
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Centered around the activities of people working in the field of law such as lawyers and judges.

Lesbian
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Features a character who identifies as a woman and is romantically or sexually attracted to women.

LGBTQ+ Themes
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Prominently features characters or themes associated with the LGBTQ+ community [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, asexual & other terms (such as non-binary and pansexual)].

Linguistics
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The study of languages

Live Action
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Action in films or television involving filming real people, as contrasted with animation or computer-generated effects.

Lost Civilization
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Featuring a civilization with few ruins or records that exist in present day knowledge.

Love Triangle
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Centered around romantic feelings between more than two people. Includes all love polygons.

Mafia
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Centered around Italian organised crime syndicates.

Magic
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Prominently features magical elements or the use of magic.

Mahjong
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Centered around the game of mahjong.

Maids
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Prominently features a character who is a maid.

Makeup
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Centers around the makeup industry.

Male Harem
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Main cast features the protagonist plus several male characters who are romantically interested in them.

Male Pregnancy
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mpreg, manpreg, male character getting pregnant

Male Protagonist
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Main character is male.

Marriage
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Centers around marriage between two or more characters.

Martial Arts
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Centers around the use of traditional hand-to-hand combat.

Mathematics
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Centers around mathematics

Maze
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Labyrinth

Medicine
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Centered around the activities of people working in the field of medicine.

Memory Manipulation
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Prominently features a character(s) who has had their memories altered.

Mental Illness
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Features one or more characters with a disorder that affects mood, thinking and behavior.

Mermaid
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A mythological creature with the body of a human and the tail of a fish.

Meta
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Features fourth wall-breaking references to itself or genre tropes.

Mexico
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ESP Only

Things with the Mexico dialect/accent

Military
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Centered around the life and activities of military personnel.

Miscarriage
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A character has a miscarriage or the topic is discussed in some amount of detail.

Misgendering
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Reference to a transgender person that does not reflect their gender identity.

Mixed Gender Harem
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Main cast features the protagonist plus several people, regardless of gender, who are romantically interested in them.

Miyazaki Dialect
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JPN Only

Features the Miyazaki dialect of Japanese (宮崎弁, Miyazaki-ben)

MMORPG
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Contains or is set in a massive multiplayer online roleplaying game

Monster
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A monster is any fictional creature, usually found in legends or horror fiction, that is often hideous and may produce fear or physical harm by either its appearance or its actions

Monster Boy
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Prominently features a male character who is a part-monster.

Monster Girl
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Prominently features a female character who is part-monster.

Mopeds
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Prominently features mopeds.

Motorcycles
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Prominently features the use of motorcycles.

Multiple Languages
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At least one language other than the target language is prominently featured.

Multiple POV
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A work with at least two or more points of view / narrators, who may or may not get equal page time

Mummy
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A mummy is a dead body which was preserved long ago by being rubbed with special oils and wrapped in cloth.

Murder
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Someone killing someone else on purpose.

Musical
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Features a performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance.

Mutual Pining
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Characters not yet in a relationship both like each other but haven't confessed their feelings.

Mythology
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Prominently features mythological elements, especially those from religious or cultural tradition.

Nara Dialect
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JPN Only

Features the Nara dialect of the Japanese language (奈良弁, Nara-ben).

Necromancy
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When the dead are summoned as spirits, skeletons, or the undead, usually for the purpose of gaining information or to be used as a weapon.

Nekomimi
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Humanoid characters with cat-like features such as cat ears and a tail.

Ninja
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Prominently features Japanese warriors traditionally trained in espionage, sabotage and assasination.

No Dialogue
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This work contains no dialogue.

No Furigana
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JPN Only

Little to no furigana present.

Noir
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Stylized as a cynical crime drama with low-key visuals.

Nonbinary
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Features a character who doesn't fit neatly into or fits outside of the male/female gender binary non-binary; genderqueer

Nonconsensual Medical Procedures
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Medical procedures are preformed on a patient against their will.

Novelization
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A novelization is a derivative novel that adapts the story of a work created for another medium, such as a film, TV series, stage play, comic book, or video game.

Nudity
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Features a character wearing no clothing or exposing intimate body parts.

Nun
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Prominently features a character who is a nun.

Office
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Features people who work in a business office.

Office Lady
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Prominently features a female office worker or OL.

Oiran
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Prominently features a courtesan character of the Japanese Edo Period.

Ojou-Sama
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Features a wealthy, high-class, oftentimes stuck up and demanding female character.

Okinawa Dialect
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Needs Approval
JPN Only

Features characters that speak Okinawa dialect

Omegaverse
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A subgenre of speculative erotic fiction. Its premise is that a dominance hierarchy exists in humans, which are divided into dominant "alphas", neutral "betas", and submissive "omegas". Also known as alpha/beta/omega.

One-Shot
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In comics, a one-shot is a work composed of a single standalone issue or chapter, contrasting a limited series or ongoing series, which are composed of multiple issues or chapters.

One-Sided
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A character's feelings for another character remain unanswered or misunderstood for a majority of the story or until the very end.

Onsen
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The work features or at least partially takes place at an onsen (hot spring) or ryokan

Orphan
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Prominently features a character that is an orphan.

Otaku Culture
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Centers around the culture of a fanatical fan-base.

Outdoor
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Centers around hiking, camping or other outdoor activities.

Pandemic
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Prominently features a disease prevalent over a whole country or the world.

Parallel Text
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Text placed alongside its translation into another language to create a bilingual text

Paranoid Fiction
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A work that explores the subjective nature of reality and how it can be manipulated by forces in power. These forces can be external, such as a totalitarian government, or they can be internal, such as a character's mental illness or refusal to accept the harshness of the world they are in.

Parenthood
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Centres around the experience of raising a child.

Parkour
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Centers around the sport of parkour.

Parody
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Features deliberate exaggeration of popular tropes or a particular genre to comedic effect.

Partial Furigana
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JPN Only

Features a fair amount of kanji both with and without Furigana.

Pedophilia
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Adults showing sexual interest in and/or engaging in sexual acts with minors

Peru
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ESP Only

Things in Peru Peruvian dialect/accent

PG12
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JPN Only

Japanese age restriction: Children i.e. persons that are 12 years old or less need "Parental Guidance", in other words they are allowed to watch it together with their parents.

Philosophy
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Relating or devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.

Photography
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Centers around the use of cameras to capture photos.

Physical Illness
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Focuses on a disease or disorder of the body. (alt: sickness, illness)

Picture Book
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A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children.

Pirates
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Prominently features sea-faring adventurers branded as criminals by the law.

Poetry
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Literature in metrical form; also known as verse

Poker
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Centers around the game of poker or its variations.

Police
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Centers around the life and activities of law enforcement officers.

Police Procedural
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A subgenre of detective fiction that emphasizes the investigative procedure of police officers, police detectives, or law enforcement agencies as the protagonists, as contrasted with those that focus on non-police investigators such as private investigators.

Politics
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Centers around politics, politicians, or government activities.

Popular Science
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Popular Science (or pop-science) books are books explaining scientific concepts written for a general, lay-person audience.

Post-Apocalyptic
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Partly or completely set in a world or civilization after a global disaster.

Pottery
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Prominently features pottery as a hobby or occupation.

POV
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Point of View; features scenes shown from the perspective of the series protagonist.

Primarily Adult Cast
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Main cast is mostly composed of characters above a high school age.

Primarily Child Cast
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Main cast is mostly composed of characters below a high school age.

Primarily Female Cast
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Main cast is mostly composed of female characters.

Primarily Male Cast
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Main cast is mostly composed of male characters.

Primarily Teen Cast
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Main cast is mostly composed of teen characters.

Prison
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Partly or completely set in a prison.

Prophecy
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Features a major or minor prophecy

Prostitution
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A character or characters perform sexual services for money

Puppetry
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Animation style involving the manipulation of puppets to act out scenes.

Questionable Consent
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A sexual relationship is presented in a positive light wherein one or more parties have not provided clear consent. In many cases, without the positive framing, the act(s) could be intepreted as assault. Also known as "dubious consent".

R15+
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JPN Only

Japanese age restriction

Rakugo
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Rakugo is the traditional Japanese performance art of comic storytelling.

Real Robot
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Prominently features mechanical designs loosely influenced by real-world robotics.

Reality
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Rebirth
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Features the main character reborn at a younger age in their own life and body, typically after an unsatisfying or unfair death, with the memories of their first try.

Rehabilitation
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Prominently features the recovery of a character who became incapable of social life or work.

Reincarnation
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Features a character being born again after death, typically as another person or in another world.

Religion
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Centers on the belief that humanity is related to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements.

Restaurant
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Features a business that prepares and serves food and drinks to customers. Also encompasses cafés and bistros.

Revenge
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Prominently features a character who aims to exact punishment in a resentful or vindictive manner.

Rhythmic Gymnastics
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Centers on the sport of rhythmic gymnastics

Rioplatense
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ESP Only

Things in Argentine/Uruguay dialect/accent

Robots
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Prominently features humanoid machines.

Rotoscoping
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Animation technique that animators use to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, to produce realistic action.

Royal Affairs
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Centered around royal characters, such as kings, queens, princes, and princesses and themes of power, politics, romance, and intrigue within a royal or noble setting.

Rugby
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Centers around the sport of rugby.

Rural
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Partly or completely set in the countryside.

Sacrifice
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Features a character or animal that is sacrificed.

Samurai
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Prominently features warriors of medieval Japanese nobility bound by a code of honor.

Satirical
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Prominently features the use of comedy or ridicule to expose and criticise social phenomena.

School
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Partly or completely set in a primary or secondary educational institution.

School Club
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Partly or completely set in a school club scene.

School Factions
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Features a conflict between two or more school factions, castes, etc

Scuba Diving
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Prominently features characters diving with the aid of special breathing equipment.

Seinen
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Originally published in a seinen magazine. These publications typically, but not exclusively, target adult male audiences.

Self Harm
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A character self-harms/self-injures.

Self Help
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Non-fiction books focused on personal growth. They often offer advice for enhancing one’s life, designed to inspire readers to make positive changes. They often include exercises and anecdotes to illustrate key concepts and encourage practical application.

Sexism
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Discrimination or prejudice based on one's sex or gender, especially against women

Sexual Assault
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A person is sexually assaulted or there is reference to it happening to someone

Shapeshifting
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Features character(s) who changes one's appearance or form.

Shinigami
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JPN Only

Literally: "Death gods" - supernatural beings whose job is to take human lives in Japanese mythology 死神

Ships
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Prominently features the use of sea-based transportation vessels.

Shogi
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Centers around the game of shogi.

Shoujo
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Target demographic is teenage and young adult females.

Shounen
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Target demographic is teenage and young adult males.

Shrine Maiden
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Prominently features a character who is a shrine maiden.

Skateboarding
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Centers around or prominently features skateboarding as a sport.

Skeleton
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Prominently features skeleton(s) as a character.

Slapstick
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Prominently features comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions or embarrassing events.

Slavery
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Prominently features slaves, slavery, or slave trade.

Smoking
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Tobacco usage

Smut
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The story prominently features adult sexual content in a way that aims to titillate

Soap
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Soccer
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Centers around the sport of soccer / football

Software Development
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Centers around characters developing or programming a piece of technology, software, gaming, etc.

Space
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Partly or completely set in outer space.

Space Opera
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Centers around space warfare, advanced technology, chivalric romance and adventure.

Spain
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ESP Only

Things in Spain Spanish dialect/accent

Spanish But Not Castellano
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ESP Only

A Spanish work largely or exclusively in one of the other co-official languages (Catalan, Euskera, Gallego ...)

Spearplay
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Prominently features the use of spears in combat.

Spy
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Features at least one character who operates as a spy

Stalking
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A character is stalked or is a stalker

Steampunk
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Prominently features technology and designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery.

Stop Motion
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Animation style characterized by physical objects being moved incrementally between frames to create the illusion of movement.

Student-Teacher Relationship
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Features a relationship between a student and their teacher or other school faculty.

Succubus
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Prominently features a character who is a succubus, a creature in medieval folklore that typically uses their sexual prowess to trap and seduce people to feed off them.

Suicide
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The act or an instance of taking or attempting to take one's own life voluntarily and intentionally.

Sumo
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Centers around the sport of sumo.

Super Power
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Prominently features characters with special abilities that allow them to do what would normally be physically or logically impossible.

Super Robot
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Prominently features large robots often piloted by hot-blooded protagonists.

Superhero
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Prominently features super-powered humans who aim to serve the greater good.

Surfing
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Centers around surfing as a sport.

Surreal Comedy
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Prominently features comedic moments that defy casual reasoning, resulting in illogical events.

Survival
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Centers around the struggle to live in spite of extreme obstacles.

Suspense
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A story which prominently features elements which cause anxiety or uncertainty around outcomes

Swimming
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Centers around the sport of swimming.

Swordplay
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Prominently features the use of swords in combat.

Table Tennis
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Centers around the sport of table tennis (also known as "ping pong").

Talk
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Tanks
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Prominently features the use of tanks or other armoured vehicles.

Tanned Skin
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Prominently features characters with tanned skin.

Teacher
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Protagonist is an educator, usually in a school setting.

Teens' Love
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Sexually explicit love-story between individuals of the opposite sex, specifically targeting females of teens and young adult age.

Tennis
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Centers around the sport of tennis.

Terrible People Doing Terrible Things
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Story features unlikeable characters doing unpleasant things, typically of a petty, vicious, and/or passive aggressive nature.

Terrorism
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Centers around the activities of a terrorist or terrorist organization.

Theatre
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Centers around the performing art of theatre (dramas, plays, stage acting)

Time Loop
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Where characters re-experience a span of time which is repeated, sometimes more than once.

Time Manipulation
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Prominently features time-traveling or other time-warping phenomena.

Time Skip
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Features a gap in time used to advance the story.

Time Travel
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A character travels through time.

Tokusatsu
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Prominently features elements that resemble special effects in Japanese live-action shows

Tomboy
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Features a girl who exhibits characteristics or behaviors considered in many cultures to be typical of boys.

Torture
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The act of deliberately inflicting severe pain or suffering upon another individual or oneself as a punishment or with a specific purpose.

Tournament
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A competition involving at least three competitors.

Tragedy
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Centers around tragic events and unhappy endings.

Trains
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Prominently features trains.

Transgender
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Features a character whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.

Translation
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This work was translated from another language.

Travel
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Centers around character(s) moving between places a significant distance apart.

Triads
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Centered around Chinese organised crime syndicates.

Truancy
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A character refusing to go to school even though they're of compulsory school age. Alt: 不登校; futōkō; futoukou

True Crime
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Contents focus on real crime cases that have occurred

Tsundere
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Prominently features a character who acts cold and hostile in order to mask warmer emotions.

Twins
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Prominently features two or more siblings that were born at one birth.

Unicorn
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The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead.

Unreliable Narrator
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The narrator offers a subjective , misleading, or partial view of events, either intentionally or unintentionally.

Unrequited Love
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Having unreciprocated feelings of love towards another character.

Urban
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Partly or completely set in a city.

Urban Fantasy
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Set in a world similar to the real world, but with the existence of magic or other supernatural elements.

Utopia
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A paradise or perfect society in which everyone is happy.

Vampire
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Prominently features a character who is a vampire.

Video Games
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Centers around characters playing video games.

Vikings
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Prominently features Scandinavian seafaring pirates and warriors.

Villainess
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Centers around or prominently features a villainous noble lady.

Virtual World
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Partly or completely set in the world inside a video game.

Volleyball
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Centers around the sport of volleyball.

Vtuber
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Prominently features a character who is either an actual or fictive VTuber.

War
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Partly or completely set during wartime.

Water Polo
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Centers around the sport of water polo.

Werewolf
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Prominently features a character who is a werewolf.

Western
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Witch
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Prominently features a character who is a witch.

Work
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Centers around the activities of a certain occupation.

Wrestling
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Centers around the sport of wrestling.

Writing
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Centers around the profession of writing books or novels.

Wuxia
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Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists in Ancient China.

Xianxia
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A fantasy genre influenced by Taoism, Buddhism, and Chinese mythology, often involving spirits, immortals, and mythical creatures. 仙俠; 仙侠

Yakuza
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Centered around Japanese organised crime syndicates.

Yandere
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Prominently features a character who is obsessively in love with another, to the point of acting deranged or violent.

Youkai
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Prominently features supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore. 妖怪; Yōkai;

Yuri
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Prominently features romance between two females, not inherently sexual. Also known as Girls' Love. 百合; GL; Lesbian, wlw

Yuri Bait
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Uses yuri to draw you in, but then never actually follows through with it

Zombie
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Prominently features reanimated corpses which often prey on live humans and turn them into zombies.

Zoology
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The scientific study of animals.