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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 3731090" data-attributes="member: 32536">As someone who watches a lot more anime than you claim to watch, I have to seriously disagree with the idea that anime has enough common traits to call it a genre. There is an incredibly wide variety of stuff out there, and while there are distinct genres in anime, there are many anime with such incredibly different qualities that you can't claim they are in the same genre.Try comparing the original Transformers (yes, it is an anime) to other mecha anime, like Infinite Ryvius (Lord of the Flies meets outer space and fantastic giant robots) or Patlabor (which takes the route of reducing humanoid robots to the completly mundane). These series are very different in many ways, and this is just a relatively small amount of variation within the very distinct "mecha" genre.If you compare a fairly down to earth romance story like His and Her Circumstances to an gory and fantastic action anime like Ninja Scroll, I think you would be hard-pressed to say they were the same genre. The same can be said for the intense pacing differences between contemplative anime like .hack//SIGN and mind-blowing fast-paced and surreal anime like FLCL.I think to make the claim that "all anime falls under the same genre," you are going to need to be far more specific about what are the qualities which all anime share. Even among the things you list as what you have seen, I struggle to see how Ninja Scroll, Lodoss War, and Princess Mononoke all fall under the same genre.Ninja Scroll is primarily an action film focused on the cliche badass hero. It is gory, extremely violent, and features the cliche romance subplot of the hero rescuing the girl who is unable to pretect herself. As a whole, it isn't very different than a Hollywood action film or Hong Kong martial arts film.Princess Mononoke is not an action film, but is instead a typical Hayao Miyazaki production, with a lot in common with morality fables and fairy tales. Romance sub-plot is an alegory for humans coming to understand nature.I am not sure which Lodoss War series you are referring to of the two, but I assume the OVA. That is essentially a classic hero's journey story, featuring an inexperienced youth struggling to grow into a man in the midst of conflict. The romance sub-plot here is a product of this growth of this hero as he trasforms from a person who the elf-girl looks down upon, into being someone who is her equal and who can protect her.So, I hope you don't mind if I fail to see the similarity between these three anime.</blockquote>

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