Talk:List of genres

Superhero Fiction
Superhero Fiction is repeated twice on this page: under Adventure and Speculative Fiction. The definitions are slightly different, but I was wondering if they should be changed to the same. Bfotino (talk) 20:13, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

wouldn't it be better under action than either of those two? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.100.228.156 (talk) 04:41, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Influence of japanese culture in genre
Why is are there so many niche japanese genres represented on this page? Magical girl as a subgenre? I doubt that it is significant or influential enough to be worth mentioning on this page. User:Two dudes in Korea 23:15, 24 august 2012 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.108.40.169 (talk)

Japanese buisness intrigue
Why is there no section on the Japanese business intrigue genre? I guess Asian literature is not important to Wikipedia, so its genres are not, either. Sad. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.224.242.246 (talk) 02:37, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Do-It-Yourself
DIY or Do-It-Yourself (or sans hyphens: Do It Yourself) is a well known genre, but it's missing entirely from this article.

Television shows like, This Old House, books on how to remodel your [fill in the blank], abound, but there nothing whatsoever in this article. CmdrDan (talk) 05:35, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Animation is not a genre
I'm not sure where it should be moved, however the animation genre on the page is very misleading. Animation is a medium, the subgenres listed are also mediums. These affect the creative process but not the narrative structure and I believe it's misleading to include them the way they are currently represented since live-action on the page gets real genres such as drama, comedy, etc. Funny animal is a genre shared by comics and animation because it affects the narrative (animals are the characters and can run on cartoon physics) which is different from a film like Fox and the Hound which is a fill-blown drama. SandSan (talk) 14:31, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

should animation and live action be moved up a level, so they could be shown as a medium, or a non-genre category? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.100.228.156 (talk) 04:27, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Removal of Mecha Anime genre from literary genres
I removed Mecha Anime genre from literary genres > Science Fiction considering that it is impossible for an Animation, in this case Anime, to be shown in a literary form. If someone wants to re-add it they should make sure they either call it just mecha or maybe robotics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.100.228.156 (talk) 04:26, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

where the Adventure literary genre should go
Currently there are only two sub-genres listed under adventure, and one of the two, shounen manga, isn't really a genre as much as it's a declaration of which age group it targets (shounen). I propose two things, firstly the moving of adventure to being a sub-genre of action, since I can't think of scenario where you can have an adventure without having action (and we would make Superhero fiction a level lower: Action>Adventure>Superhero fiction). Secondly, I propose removing shounen manga as a sub-genre since its basically fulfills the place of action-adventure genre in japan as far as literature goes and thus is already covered by the sub-genre adventure. I'll leave it up to someone else to act on this if they feel it's right, if only because I'm tired.--76.100.228.156 (talk) 04:55, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Steampunk under retropunk
Considering the other things under retropunk, and the description of retropunk I decided that steampunk should be under retropunk and moved it down a level. This also meant that clockpunk needed to be moved down a level as well, which I did as well. If someone, though I doubt it, disagrees with this move, they can respond to this and change it, though considering the other things under retropunk (Atompunk, Dieselpunk), especially DIESELpunk (Diesel and steam based worlds being very similar concepts) it would be hard arguing changing it back without a rework of retropunk.76.100.228.156 (talk) 20:59, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Animation Section Rework
Someone has screwed up everything under animation. Currently it list different techniques instead of genres. This wiki page is a "list of Genres", not a list of techniques, It doesn't matter how it was animated as long as it isn't 100% live action (not sure where stuff like "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" would go though). You can have a claymation comedy, or an Anime comedy but they would both still be comedies. I don't want to deal with all the formatting it would take but someone else will come along and fix it. for now, I'm removing everything under "Animation" and leaving it blank, or with a note so this doesn't happen again.76.100.228.156 (talk) 21:20, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Did a little framework which people can flesh out, mostly the most general genre categories, like Comedy and Science Fiction, but no descriptions/explanations. Hopefully someone will fill it out and add sub-genre's.76.100.228.156 (talk) 21:37, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Speculative fiction a genre?
Speculative fiction is more of a genre category than a genre. I've also heard the term super-genre for it. Science fiction, and fantasy are both genres that are considered to be in the broader category of speculative fiction. Because of this I don't think speculative fiction should be listed here as a genre. Other thoughts? Tucsonhorse (talk) 23:15, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Tragedy
Tragedy is widely known genre but not on the list?--180.74.39.172 (talk) 03:45, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Unreferenced mess
Every single bullet point needs a reference. Without one, we get ridiculous errors like serials, soap operas, miniseries, TV movies and others being listed as "unscripted". Bright☀ 15:10, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

(A rather wide-reaching) suggestion to change the overall structure
Looking at the list I think that we should change the structure, the first section should look something like this Basic genres(HEADING) comedy, horror, thriller, sci-fi, romance, drama, slice-of-life, action, adventure, mystery, fantasy, musical (film and tv only) maybe pornography/erotic fiction, maybe sports, tragedy, supernatural and western

Then I think there should be two subheadings, "subgenres" and "crossgenres". Cross genres being anything which combines elements of two genres, such as paranormal romance, occult detective, or tragicomedy (including things which are literally just two genre names mashed together like adventure-fantasy). Subgenres would be thinks like steampunk, magical realism, dystopia, utopia, space opera, cyberpunk, found footage horror and urban fantasy (genres within genres, and things too specific to be a basic genre like apocolyptic fiction). It should include genres born from anime & manga (harem, isekai, mecha, magical girl), as well as comics (superhero), (the list seems to be missing a couple of these because someone took a silly overreach, and decided because the main heading is called "literary genres" that they shouldn't be there anywhere on the list, even though comics and manga are literature). The genres in the subgenre/crossgenre section shouldn't be broken into subheadings like "sci-fi subgenres".

Then finally a non-fiction genre section, eg, biographical, autobiographical, memoir, sex-ed, documentary, biopic and perhaps a section which includes everything in the unscripted television heading right now, like reality tv, hidden camera shows, game shows, quiz shows, variety shows, music programming, sports coverage, the news and so forth (there are also newsreels which showed in theatres AFAIK)

Anyway, share some thougts I guess, thanks 203.59.138.98 (talk) 15:41, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Settings as genres?
Why are there so many settings and subsettings listed as genres, here? The genre is supposed to tell what the story is about, not where it is happening. Sci-Fi and Fantasy are settings, not genres (and Cyberpunk and Isekai are subsettings within those, for example). They don't tell what will happen within the pages, they only say where or how it will look. -- 190.178-y-lo-que-toque (talk) 21:28, 16 September 2023 (UTC)