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36 genres
Fantasy
9,075 novelsAnything that involves, but not limited to, magic, dream world, and fairy tales.
Romance
8,322 novelsA story in this genre focus heavily on the romantic relationship between two or more people.
Action
5,862 novelsA work typically depicting fighting, violence, chaos, and fast paced motion.
Adventure
5,729 novelsExploring new places, environments or situations. This is often associated with people on long journeys to places far away encountering amazing things.
Comedy
5,080 novelsA dramatic work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone and that usually contains a happy resolution of the thematic conflict.
Drama
4,443 novelsA work meant to bring on an emotional response, such as instilling sadness or tension. Novels that often show life or characters through conflict and emotions. In general, the different parts of the story tend to form a
MTL
3,514 novelsMachine-translated novels. Translation quality may not be perfect, but the chapters arrive much faster.
Supernatural
2,874 novelsUsually entails amazing and unexplained powers or events which defy the laws of physics.
Slice of Life
2,643 novelsNovels with no focused plot. This genre tends to be naturalistic and mainly focuses around the main characters and their everyday lives. Often there will be some philosophical perspectives regarding love, relationships,
Harem
2,439 novelsA series involving one male character and many female characters (usually attracted to the male character). A Reverse Harem is when the genders are reversed.
Martial Arts
2,025 novelsThe novel has a focus on any of several arts of combat or self-defense. These may include aikido, karate, judo, or tae kwon do, kendo, fencing, and so on and so forth.
Xuanhuan
1,889 novelsSimilar to xianxia, Xuanhuan may contain immortal cultivation. However, unlike xianxia, which is more focused on becoming immortal and tighter on chinese mythology, Xuanhuan is a broader, more loose genre. Basically, if
School Life
1,850 novelsHaving a major setting of the story deal with some type of school.
Yaoi
1,684 novelsThis work usually involves intimate relationships between men. Mutually exclusive with shounen ai.
Mature
1,593 novelsContains subject matter which may be too extreme for a younger audience. Content that deals with mature themes such as gore, sex, or violence.
Sci-fi
1,332 novelsShort for science fiction, these works involve twists on technology and other science related phenomena which are contrary or stretches of the modern day scientific world.
Mystery
1,275 novelsUsually an unexplained event occurs, and the main protagonist attempts to find out what caused it.
Adult
1,225 novelsContains mature content that is suitable only for adults. Titles in this category may include prolonged scenes of intense violence and/or graphic sexual content and nudity.
Historical
1,129 novelsNovels whose setting is in the past. Frequently these follow historical tales, sagas or facts. World with kingdom setting that are not from actual history saga, tales, are not included.
Josei
1,086 novelsLiterally [Woman]. Targets women 18-30. Female equivalent to seinen. Unlike shoujo the romance is more realistic and less idealized. The storytelling is more explicit and mature.
Shounen
1,058 novelsA work intended and primarily written for younger male audience. These works usually involve, but not limited to, fighting and/or violence.
Tragedy
1,046 novelsContains events resulting in great loss and misfortune that's basically shaped or influence the entire story.
Psychological
956 novelsUsually deals with the philosophy of a state of mind, in most cases detailing abnormal psychology.
Shoujo
838 novelsA work intended and primarily written for females. Usually the story is from the point of view of a young female protagonist and usually involves romance and drama.
Smut
727 novelsErotic work of fiction that's mainly targeted toward females. Smut stories often gives heavy focus on love and relationships between the main characters.
Shounen Ai
719 novelsOften synonymous with Yaoi, this can be thought of as somewhat less extreme and only hints at a relationship between two males. [Boy's Love], so to speak. Mutually exclusive with yaoi.
Xianxia
710 novelsXianxia is fictional martial art stories where the main goal of the population is cultivating to Immortality, seeking eternal life and the pinnacle of strength. Xianxia stories features supernatural elements, influenced
Seinen
704 novelsSeinen means 'Young Man.' Novels that specifically targets young adult males around the ages of 18 to 25 are Seinen titles. Typically the story lines deal with the issues of adulthood.
Ecchi
586 novelsPossibly the line between hentai and non-hentai, ecchi usually refers to fanservice put in to attract a certain group of fans.
Horror
452 novelsNovels whose focus is to scare the audience.
Gender Bender
351 novelsGirls dressing up as guys, guys dressing up as girls. Guys turning into girls, girls turning into guys.
Yuri
243 novelsThis work usually involves intimate relationships between women. Mutually exclusive with shoujo ai.
Mecha
219 novelsA work involving and usually concentrating on all types of large robotic machines.
Wuxia
219 novelsWuxia is a fictional stories about mortal humans who can achieve superhuman ability through martial arts training or internal energy cultivation. Wuxia is usually depicted in an ancient china setting. Despite any existen
Sports
156 novelsAs the name suggests, story with sports as one of its main element. Baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, golf, and racing just to name a few.
Shoujo Ai
92 novelsOften synonymous with Yuri, this can be thought of as somewhat less extreme and only hints at a relationship between two females. [Girl's Love], so to speak. Mutually exclusive with yuri.