ANIME CLASSIFICATION

The wide world of the anime is divided in

a series of genders, which are
classified according to the people for which
they are addressed; thou,
properly, these gender can be divided or
categorized into nine:

1. Shoujo.- The one which is addressed to

young teens, also called "love
stories" gender: Candy Candy, Sailor Moon,
etc. The heroes are women and the
youngest girls immediately identify
themselves with these characters.

2. Shounen.- Thinking about the male public

(teens and adolescents). Commonly
it has been criticized by the "excess" of
violence, with too much blood,
cruel endless battles and massive
destruction.

3. Fantasy.- Those of mythological stories

like Final Fantasy, Slayers, etc.,
with legendary world, magic powers and
brilliant swords.

4. Adventure.- This is Dragon Ball series

case, where all the plot is about
accomplishing certain goal, for which it is
necessary to travel around towns
and even planets.

5. Futurist.- Speaking generally, these kind

of anime make reference to the
end of the world in a not very distant time
between which we can find:
Robotech, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Akira,
etc.

6. Mecha.- It is one of the most popular

icons of the anime, where robots are
used for wars (planes, special suits, etc.)
Is on of the most important
styles of the cartoon, such as Macross,
Bubble Gum Crisis, Genocyber, Guyver,
etc.

7. Childish.- For children in pre-school and

elementary education, with easy
and understandable arguments. Sometimes they
contain educational material,
besides from entertaining, for example:
Pokémon.

8. Hentai.- These kind are only for adults,

they contain scenes not
acceptable to to be seen by children, like
Blue Girl. Some consider these to
be simply pornography, thought that shows
once more the differences among the
concepts of moral and decency in orient and
occident. However, it is
necessary to remember that the same thing
was thought, at the beginning,
about sculpture, painting and pictures about
the naked human body.
Nonetheless, today they are considered the
most pure and prettiest artistic
manifestation.

9. A mixture of several plot types, like

Magic Knight Rayearth.