Anime

Anime is the name used for Japanese animated TV shows and has a distinctive style different to western cartoons, it started in the 20th centenary and over time has developed many different genre's and art styles.

Anime can be divided into two main genere's depending on target audience; shoujo (teenage girl's anime/girls anime) and shounen (teenage boy's anime/boys anime). There are also other genre's for example josei (which is aimed at adult females) but sometimes this is still categorised as shoujo since the term is used far more generally in anime now. 

Anime genre's aren't much different to book or film genre's except in what there called and most of the time you'll find a mixture of three or more genre's for one anime series.

Action: Probably the most popular genre, mostly aimed at boys but there a lot of action shoujo anime's. 

Adventure: Usually aimed at boys, these anime are pretty self explanatory

Fantasy: Traditional fantasy anime aren't very popular at all but a lot of anime have fantasy aspects, especially magic.

Mahou Shoujou/Magical Girl: Very popular with young girls, these anime are usually based around a schoolgirl who gains magical powers by saving some magical creature and go on to defend the world. 

Slice-of-life: Usually comedy, these anime are based around the daily activity's of a girl/boy

Comedy: Not very serious at all.

Mecha: These anime are usually about giant human shaped robots (like transformers) and are very popular with boys.

Si-fi: Usually aimed at boys and is mostly used alongside mecha.


Romance: Almost very shoujo anime has some romance in it. 


Horror: These anime are usually aimed at a older audience then others and can range from slight creepiness to bloody murder scenes.

I have decided to make my anime a Shoujo action fantasy with si-fi aspects because these are my favourite kind of genre's.