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← view full thread · Anime should be categorized by their primary category
Can you elaborate what you mean by as "main category"
I think genres? If I'm interpreting them correctly, they're suggesting that entries be given a single 'main' genre and that should be the genre counted towards the anime stats on one's profile.
For example, something like SAO is a 'Romance,' but the vast majority (I assume) of people watching it aren't watching because it's a Romance, and rather because it's an action-adventure video game show.
However, it was hard to even find an adventure show that had "Romance" so I really don't think that shows being multiple genres would affect stats that much. If someone has a lot of Romance on their stats, it's probably because they've watched a lot of Romance. Media doesn't stop being itself just because someone doesn't like what it is. ¯\(ツ)/¯
Yeah thats what I was figuring they meant its just sort of weird because there isn't really a "main category" currently tracked and idk what that would mean for many titles.
I feel like a much more realistic request of this nature would be splitting up genres further, instead of having romance and comedy as two genres, if something is a romcom then that is its genre and other such things.
All in all it would be a rather huge undertaking and I really don't know how big of a fan I am of it due to how overarching of a change this would be for what would likely be very minimal gains
(also every time I've ever brought up maybe trying to reconsider what genre's we should put on titles I get very minimal feedback from other mods so short of just doing it all myself I just don't see much happening in this regard)
Apologies, I meant "genre".
An example: Jujutsu Kaisen has "Drama" associated to it, but I think that when doing stats, Jujutsu should not be counted as "Drama", as it's inaccurate to portray it as such. It's clearly an "Action" anime primarily.
Dragonball Z and Naruto are labelled "Comedy" as well. That's not what I think about when I think about a "Comedy anime".
So imagine someone seeing a profile with only Shonen and thinking "oh yeah, this guy is all about comedy anime": Completely misleading.
I like to think theres 6 main types of anime:
Action (includes aventure, sports),
Comedy (romance-comedy/parody, slapstick),
Slice of Life-Comedy ("lite" comedy, cuties doing cute things),
Slice of Life-Drama (coming-of-age, iyashikei),
Romance-Drama (mature relationships, politics, tragedy)
and Thriller (psychological, horror, gory action)- continue this thread →
Sure, that looks fair.
Now imagine that Dragonball Z and Naruto count as "Comedy" on your profile.