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Regulus 777 · #94 Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 7:27 pm

I watch all sorts of stuff but romance-comedy and slice of life is my bread and butter for anime. I watch a lot of those and many of my favorites are from those categories. As for categories I generally can say with confidence i'm not fond of are Harems, shounan-ai, and sports.

I kind of have my own special set of rules mainly when it comes to genres. Particularly mixing genres. The genre of the show determines what kind of a nature the show is allowed to have in order for me to enjoy it.

I don't mind a show with ecchi and can actually enjoy them but not when ecchi detracts from it. I don't like it when a show throws in fanservice just for the sake of it. You could have a fantasy action series with interesting cast and plot but then they throw something like that into the fight scenes, it feels forced unless done in a way that isn't purposely bringing attention to it and then detracts from it and kills the mood.

I also don't like when a show mixes genres at intervals. I recently finished a series called Kamisama Dolls. It's story was fairly serious in nature involving fighting with giant robot dolls things amongst a few factions however quite often there will be episode where they go to the beach for a fun trip or a vacation or shopping. Happy slice'o life stuff and it just feels to me like its interrupting the main story and is unnecessary and actually kind of annoying. It doesn't need to be there nor does it add anything to the show and gives the series bad pacing.

Those were a few examples of what I mean.