Anime categories

[jholovacs]

For giggles (because I'm a geek) I decided to categorize the anime I've watched based on common elements. So far I've come up with a list of about 30, and I was wondering if anyone would like to add to it:

1, 'Mecha', 'Piloted robots are featured in this anime.'
2, 'Romance', 'This anime features a romantic theme.'
3, 'Violence', 'This anime features graphic violence.'
4, 'Magic/ Mind Powers', 'This anime features characters with magical or mind powers.'
5, 'FanService', 'This anime features gratuitious images of semi-clothed women and/ or "panty-shots".'
6, 'Harem', 'This anime has one protagonist of one gender, surrounded by many protagonists of the opposite gender.'
7, 'Obligatory "First Kiss" Episode', 'This anime features a significant amount of animation time on at least one of the protagonists first kiss.'
8, 'Ecchi', 'This anime features graphic sexual content.'
9, 'Obligatory "Oops I slipped/ tripped and grabbed your breasts by accident" Scene', 'That's fairly self-descriptive, isn't it?'
10, 'Obligatory "Oops I opened the door to see you naked or in the process of [un]dressing" Scene', 'Self-Descriptive'
11, 'Obligatory "We almost kissed but something interrupted us" Scene', 'Self Descriptive'
12, 'Episode devoted to Cute and Fuzzy or Just Plain Odd animal character', 'At least one episode in the series is dedicated to a completely plot-irrelevant animal character.'
13, 'Obligatory Hot Springs Episode', 'At least one episode involves the protagonist(s) at a hot spring resort of some kind.'
14, 'Obligatory School Festival Episode', 'At least one episode involves a festival put on by the high school.'
15, 'School Life', 'This anime features a significant number of scenes at the protagonist's school.'
16, 'Moe: Girl With Glasses', 'There's an attractive girl with glasses as one of the main characters'
17, 'Moe: Blond with Big Boobs', 'There's a blond with big boobs as one of the main characters'
18, 'Moe: 98% of all women have a "D" cup or larger', 'There's something in the water in this anime; every girl has ginourmous boobs.'
19, 'Moe: Naughty/ Innocent little girl lolita', 'One of the main characters in this anime is a prepubescent girl that finds herself in ambiguously sexual situations.'
20, 'Homosexual Comic Relief', 'One of the protagonists is often embarrassed by an aggressive same-gender pursuit.'
21, 'Moe: Cat Girls', 'At least one of the characters is a "cat girl" of some kind'
22, 'Obligatory Cosplay Episode', 'At least one episode has the protagonists running around in a costume, usually a sexy one.'
23, 'The Guy Should Have Brain Damage By Now', 'An underlying theme to this anime is one of the protagonists is routinely beaten to a pulp.'
24, 'The Obligatory "Walk in on two or more characters in an embarrasing pose/ position" scene', 'A scene with an embarrassing walk-on: usually an element of homosexual Comic relief or Lolita action'
25, 'The Obligatory "Some girl is comparing and contrasting boobs with her hands" scene', 'Self Descriptive'
26, 'The Obligatory Nosebleed', 'One of the protagonists routinely suffers from nosebleeds after witnessing something raunchy.'
27, 'The Ridiculously Complex Explanation of why someone is doing something that doesn't make sense', 'A character's life philosophy that explains their seemingly random yet meaningful acts, explained but never understood, aka Tres Kushrinada's "I want to be a loser" speech.'
28, 'The Enormously Suspenseful Buildup to Something Stupid', 'You've watched this anime through 11 episodes, wondering what was the pro/ antagonist's motivation... only to be struck speechless by the stupidity of the plot, i.e., the plot took off without knowing where it was going to land.'
29, 'The Baffling Ending that makes you say, "WTF?"', 'Three Words: Neon Genesis Evangelion. Nuff said.'
30, 'The Depressing Ending that makes you want to kill yourself', 'Everybody's dead, no dreams fulfilled, and the world sucks. That, and taxes.'
31, 'The Incomplete Ending that makes you ask, "Well How Did It End?"', 'It started off good, was going strong... and stopped. Did I miss something?'
32, 'The Abrupt Ending', 'In other words the ending where you ask yourself, "Did I blink?"'

Any additions people have are welcome.

[asutedjo909]

wow... you really have time to do all of this list eh? nothing to add, too little times, too many to do. any other guys?

[wolfangel87]

I am astonished

[OverLord01]

I am shocked by how large the list is!

[baley7]

lol I have one addiction :P

'Never ending fights' The fights scenes in these anime usually take a couple of dozen episodes just to heat up. In most of the cases the anime is as long as a soap opera (example Dragonball Z/GT)

[caitlin]

Awesome XD
Can't think of any additions, right now.
I'd like to know some examples of some of those categories, other than the ones you made obvious XD

[Otaku108]

I think one of my favorites "Love Hina" can nab about 90-95% of this list in classifications... and the scary thing is I'm not joking.

also:
29, 'The Baffling Ending that makes you say, "WTF?"', 'Three Words: Neon Genesis Evangelion. Nuff said.'
dude the last 10 eps were like that @.@

[shortlex]

OMG.. you forgot hentai.. how could you

blasphemy !

[Kazeumi]

Originally Posted by short_lex

OMG.. you forgot hentai.. how could you

blasphemy !

I think he just confused it with ecchi.

The term ecchi is applied to anime or manga that has vague sexual content (such as skimpy clothing, partial or full nudity), but does not show sexual intercourse.

[shortlex]

Originally Posted by Kazeumi

I think he just confused it with ecchi.

The term ecchi is applied to anime or manga that has vague sexual content (such as skimpy clothing, partial or full nudity), but does not show sexual intercourse.

nooo.. i know what ecchi is that would usually be incorporated with mostly harme and romance anime. eg. please twins

I was refering to the actual genre. anyone up for bible black