Database Guidelines: Tags

This document provides explanations for various tags used to categorize anime, manga, movies, TV shows, and other media content.

Content Tags

1. 4-Koma A comic strip format consisting of four panels arranged vertically. This style is popular in Japanese manga and often features comedic content with a punchline in the final panel. Applicable to: Manga

2. Action Content featuring exciting action sequences where conflicts between characters are usually resolved through physical power. The narrative focuses on individual characters’ strengths and weaknesses rather than collective achievements. Applicable to: Anime, Manga, Movies, TV Shows

3. Adaptation Content that has been adapted from another medium, such as manga adapted to anime or novels adapted to manga. Applicable to: Manga

4. Adult Cast Content featuring mature characters who have reached adulthood and display mature behavior, not just characters who are chronologically over 18. Applicable to: Anime

5. Adventure Stories where characters are thrust into unfamiliar situations or lands and face unexpected dangers. The narrative focuses on how characters react to events during their journey, showing personal growth or setbacks based on their choices. Applicable to: Anime, Manga, Movies, TV Shows

6. Aliens Content featuring extraterrestrial beings or focusing on interactions between humans and alien species. Applicable to: Manga

7. Animals Content prominently featuring animals as significant characters or central to the plot. Applicable to: Manga

8. Animation Content created using animation techniques to simulate movement from a series of static images. Applicable to: Movies, TV Shows

9. Anthology A collection of separate works or stories presented together, often with a common theme or by different creators. Applicable to: Manga

10. Anthropomorphic Content featuring non-human entities with human characteristics, behaviors, or appearances. Applicable to: Anime

11. Avant Garde Experimental content that challenges conventional storytelling methods. These works often evoke unsettled feelings by rejecting traditional perspectives and may include deconstructions of familiar genres. Applicable to: Anime

12. Award Winning Content that has received prestigious or professional awards in Japan, such as the Tokyo Anime Award or Japan Media Arts Festival awards. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

13. Boys’ Love Content focusing on romantic or sexual relationships between male characters. In Japan, this term (and its abbreviation BL) typically refers to media created by women for female audiences. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

14. CGDCT (Cute Girls Doing Cute Things) Content featuring adorable female characters engaging in everyday activities in a lighthearted, often moe-focused manner. Applicable to: Anime

15. Childcare Content focusing on the raising and nurturing of children, often featuring characters who work as caregivers or are responsible for children. Applicable to: Anime

16. Comedy Content that prioritizes uplifting the audience through humor, amusement, or entertainment. Comedy stories typically have episodic structures or happy endings, with narratives focused on evoking amusement. Applicable to: Anime, Manga, Movies, TV Shows

17. Cooking Content centered around food preparation, culinary arts, or cooking competitions. Applicable to: Manga

18. Crime Content focusing on criminal activities, investigations, or the justice system. Applicable to: Manga, Movies, TV Shows

19. Crossdressing Content featuring characters who routinely dress as the opposite sex while still identifying with their biological sex, often resulting in mistaken identity situations. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

20. Delinquents Content featuring characters who engage in rebellious behavior, often portrayed as school troublemakers or youth gang members. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

21. Demons Content featuring demonic entities or characters with demonic powers. Applicable to: Manga

22. Detective A subset of Mystery content featuring professional investigators or amateur sleuths working to solve crimes or puzzling events. Characters must either be employed as investigators or sought out for their case-solving reputation. Applicable to: Anime

23. Documentary Non-fiction content that documents reality, often educational or informative in nature. Applicable to: Movies, TV Shows

24. Doujinshi Self-published works, typically manga, created by amateur artists or small publishers, often as fan fiction of existing works. Applicable to: Manga

25. Drama Plot-driven stories focused on realistic characters experiencing human struggle. These narratives explore what it means to be human through relatable conflicts and emotions, even if the settings or characters themselves are fantastical. Applicable to: Anime, Manga, Movies, TV Shows

26. Ecchi Content with suggestive sexual themes or fanservice, but not explicit enough to be considered pornographic. Applicable to: Anime

27. Educational Content designed to teach or inform viewers about specific subjects or concepts. Applicable to: Anime

28. Erotica Content with explicit sexual themes or depictions, more graphic than Ecchi but presented in an artistic or romantic manner. Applicable to: Anime

29. Family Content focusing on family relationships, suitable for family viewing, or addressing family-oriented themes. Applicable to: Movies, TV Shows

30. Fan Colored Manga that was originally black and white but has been colored by fans rather than official publishers. Applicable to: Manga

31. Fantasy Content featuring magical powers or fantastical creatures that cannot be explained by modern science and are commonplace to much of the main cast. Fantasy can take place in imaginary worlds, alternate universes, or Earth as we know it. Applicable to: Anime, Manga, Movies, TV Shows

32. Full Color Manga that is published in full color rather than the traditional black and white format. Applicable to: Manga

33. Gag Humor Content featuring exaggerated, often absurd comedy focused on quick jokes and visual gags rather than complex humor. Applicable to: Anime

34. Genderswap Content where characters change gender, either temporarily or permanently, often through magical or scientific means. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

35. Ghosts Content featuring spirits of the dead or focusing on ghost stories and hauntings. Applicable to: Manga

36. Girls’ Love Content focusing on romantic or sexual relationships between female characters. In Japan, this is commonly referred to as “Yuri.” Applicable to: Anime, Manga

37. Gore Content featuring graphic or excessive bloodshed, violence, or mutilation. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

38. Gourmet Content focusing on the preparation and consumption of food or drink, often featuring chefs, food connoisseurs, or detailed cooking processes and reactions to tasting. Applicable to: Anime

39. Gyaru Content featuring or focusing on gyaru culture, a Japanese fashion subculture characterized by dyed hair, elaborate makeup, and distinctive fashion. Applicable to: Manga

40. Harem Content featuring a protagonist (usually male) surrounded by multiple potential romantic interests (usually female). Applicable to: Anime, Manga

41. Hentai Explicitly pornographic anime or manga content. Applicable to: Anime

42. High Stakes Game Content centered around games or competitions with significant consequences for winning or losing, often life-changing or life-threatening. Applicable to: Anime

43. Historical Content set in a past historical period, often featuring historical events, figures, or settings. Applicable to: Anime, Manga, Movies

44. Horror Content designed to create and maintain a sense of dread, eliciting shock, fear, or disgust through atmosphere and frightening scenarios. The mood is of equal or greater importance than setting and characterization. Applicable to: Anime, Manga, Movies, TV Shows

45. Idols (Female) Content focusing on female idol performers, their careers, performances, and the idol industry. Applicable to: Anime

46. Idols (Male) Content focusing on male idol performers, their careers, performances, and the idol industry. Applicable to: Anime

47. Incest Content featuring romantic or sexual relationships between family members. Applicable to: Manga

48. Isekai Content where characters are transported to, reborn, or trapped in a parallel universe, another world, or a virtual reality setting. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

49. Iyashikei A subset of Slice of Life content designed to “heal” the audience by creating a calming feeling or emotional catharsis. These stories feature peaceful, mundane, and nostalgic atmospheres with little conflict. Applicable to: Anime

50. Kids Content specifically created for or focusing on children as the primary audience. Applicable to: TV Shows

51. Loli Content featuring young or young-looking female characters, often in a cute or innocent manner. Applicable to: Manga

52. Long Strip Manga formatted as a continuous vertical strip designed for scrolling on digital devices, rather than traditional page-by-page reading. Applicable to: Manga

53. Love Polygon Content featuring complex romantic relationships involving multiple characters with feelings for each other, creating a web of romantic connections. Applicable to: Anime

54. Love Status Quo A subset of Romance content featuring couples experiencing cute, blush-inducing moments in daily life settings. These stories prioritize adorable interactions over relationship development, maintaining a “status quo” of awareness between characters. Applicable to: Anime

55. Magic Content featuring magical elements, spells, or supernatural powers. Applicable to: Manga

56. Magical Girls Content featuring female characters who can transform into heroines with magical powers, often fighting evil while maintaining secret identities. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

57. Martial Arts Content focusing on various forms of combat training, fighting techniques, or martial arts competitions. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

58. Mecha Content featuring large robots or mechanical suits piloted by humans, often in combat scenarios. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

59. Medical Content set in medical environments or focusing on healthcare professionals, medical procedures, or health-related issues. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

60. Military Content focusing on armed forces, military operations, or war from a strategic perspective. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

61. Monster Girls Content featuring female characters with monstrous or non-human traits while maintaining humanoid forms. Applicable to: Manga

62. Monsters Content featuring monstrous creatures or beings as significant elements of the story. Applicable to: Manga

63. Music Content centered around music creation, performance, or the music industry. Applicable to: Anime, Manga, Movies

64. Mystery Content where characters investigate crimes or puzzling circumstances, working to answer who, what, why, or how questions. The narrative focuses on collecting evidence, identifying suspects, and theorizing explanations. Applicable to: Anime, Manga, Movies, TV Shows

65. Mythology Content incorporating elements from traditional myths, legends, or folklore from various cultures. Applicable to: Anime

66. News Content focused on reporting current events or providing news coverage. Applicable to: TV Shows

67. Ninja Content featuring ninja characters or focusing on ninja traditions, techniques, and conflicts. Applicable to: Manga

68. Office Workers Content focusing on characters who work in office environments, often exploring workplace relationships and challenges. Applicable to: Manga

69. Official Colored Manga that has been colored by the official publisher or creator, rather than being released in traditional black and white. Applicable to: Manga

70. Oneshot Self-contained manga stories published as a single chapter rather than as part of a series. Applicable to: Manga

71. Organized Crime Content focusing on criminal organizations such as yakuza, mafia, or gangs. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

72. Otaku Culture Content related to otaku (people with obsessive interests, particularly in anime and manga), featuring characters heavily involved in anime-related media, attending conventions, cosplaying, or creating anime/manga. Applicable to: Anime

73. Parody Content that imitates and exaggerates other works or genres for comedic effect. Applicable to: Anime

74. Performing Arts Content focusing on artistic expression through body movements and/or voice, such as dance, theater, opera, circus, folk music, or rakugo. Applicable to: Anime

75. Pets Content focusing on the relationship between humans and their animal companions. Applicable to: Anime

76. Philosophical Content exploring profound questions about existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Applicable to: Manga

77. Police Content focusing on law enforcement officers and their work. Applicable to: Manga

78. Post-Apocalyptic Content set in a world or civilization after a catastrophic disaster or event. Applicable to: Manga

79. Psychological Content exploring the mental states, perceptions, and thought processes of characters, often delving into complex psychological themes. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

80. Racing Content focusing on competitive racing sports, whether with vehicles, animals, or on foot. Applicable to: Anime

81. Reality Unscripted content featuring real people in real or contrived situations. Applicable to: TV Shows

82. Reincarnation Content where characters die and are reborn as different entities, often with memories of their previous lives. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

83. Reverse Harem Content featuring a protagonist (usually female) surrounded by multiple potential romantic interests (usually male). Applicable to: Anime, Manga

84. Romance Content focusing on falling in love and developing romantic relationships. The narrative centers on characters’ thoughts and emotions, illustrating connections between them and explaining their reactions to events or conflicts. Applicable to: Anime, Manga, Movies

85. Samurai Content featuring samurai warriors or set in feudal Japan focusing on samurai culture and conflicts. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

86. School Content set primarily in educational institutions, focusing on student life and school-related activities. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

87. Sci-Fi Content featuring imagined technological advancements or natural settings that could be explained by science in the future. The narrative focuses on societal or individual repercussions caused by these imagined technologies or phenomena. Applicable to: Anime, Manga, Movies, TV Shows

88. Self-Published Content that has been published by the creator without the involvement of traditional publishing companies. Applicable to: Manga

89. Sexual Violence Content containing depictions of sexual assault or non-consensual sexual acts. Applicable to: Manga

90. Shota Content featuring young or young-looking male characters, often in a cute or innocent manner. Applicable to: Manga

91. Showbiz Content focusing on the entertainment industry, featuring characters who work as performers (actors, models) or in business development (managers, producers). Applicable to: Anime

92. Slice of Life Content focusing on seemingly random and mundane periods of characters’ lives without a central plot driving toward a specific destination. These stories often lack overarching conflict and resolution, with conflicts appearing and dissipating naturally. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

93. Soap Serialized dramas typically featuring multiple related storylines dealing with emotional relationships. Applicable to: TV Shows

94. Space Content set primarily in outer space or focusing on space exploration and related themes. Applicable to: Anime

95. Sports Content focusing on training for and participating in sports, with the goal of improving athletic abilities to win competitions or achieve social standing. The narrative emphasizes collective support and achievement. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

96. Strategy Game Content focusing on games that require strategic thinking and planning rather than physical prowess. Applicable to: Anime

97. Super Power Content featuring human characters with superhuman abilities that are specific to them and directly used to progress the plot. These powers should be unique to the story and not simply magic or common supernatural abilities. Applicable to: Anime

98. Superhero Content featuring characters with extraordinary abilities who use them to protect others and fight evil. Applicable to: Manga

99. Supernatural Content set on Earth that incorporates elements unexplainable by science, such as creatures from folklore, urban legends, or superstition. These supernatural elements should be prevalent throughout the story and necessary for the main narrative. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

100. Survival Content where characters struggle to stay alive in hostile environments or dangerous situations. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

101. Suspense Content designed to create anticipation and excitement through twists, turns, and red herrings. Uncertainty is maintained throughout, often by withholding information, misdirection, or subverting expectations. Applicable to: Anime

102. Talk Content featuring discussions, interviews, or conversations as the primary format. Applicable to: TV Shows

103. Thriller Content designed to evoke excitement, suspense, surprise, and anxiety in the audience. Applicable to: Manga, Movies

104. Time Travel Content featuring characters moving between different points in time, whether to the past or future. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

105. Traditional Games Content focusing on traditional board games, card games, or other non-digital games. Applicable to: Manga

106. Tragedy Content featuring sorrowful or disastrous events that befall the main characters, often ending unhappily. Applicable to: Manga

107. TV Movie Films produced specifically for television broadcast rather than theatrical release. Applicable to: Movies

108. Urban Fantasy Fantasy stories set on Earth in industrialized societies where fantastical elements occur within the normal world rather than in separate magical realms. Applicable to: Anime

109. Vampire Content featuring vampire characters or focusing on vampire mythology. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

110. Video Game Content based on or heavily featuring video games, gaming culture, or virtual worlds. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

111. Villainess Content featuring female antagonists or anti-heroines, often in stories where they are reincarnated as villainous characters from fiction. Applicable to: Anime, Manga

112. Virtual Reality Content set partially or entirely within computer-generated environments that simulate physical presence. Applicable to: Manga

113. Visual Arts Content focusing on the creation of physical art objects using established art forms such as drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics, or calligraphy. Applicable to: Anime

114. War Content focusing on armed conflicts between nations or groups, often depicting the realities of warfare. Applicable to: Movies, TV Shows

115. Politics Content focusing on political systems, political activities, or the acquisition and exercise of political power. Applicable to: TV Shows

116. Web Comic Comics originally published on the internet rather than in print. Applicable to: Manga

117. Western Content set in the American Old West featuring cowboys, outlaws, and frontier life. Applicable to: Movies, TV Shows

118. Workplace Content set primarily in work environments, focusing on professional relationships and career-related challenges. Applicable to: Anime

119. Wuxia A genre of Chinese fiction featuring martial artists in ancient China, often with fantastical elements. Applicable to: Manga

120. Zombies Content featuring reanimated corpses or zombie apocalypse scenarios. Applicable to: Manga

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