A work meant to bring on an emotional response, such as instilling sadness or tension.

A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.

A work intended and primarily written for males. These works usually involve fighting and/or violence.

Usually entails amazing and unexplained powers or events which defy the laws of physics.

Usually an unexplained event occurs, and the main protagonist attempts to find out what caused it.

Contains events resulting in great loss and misfortune.

Usually deals with the philosophy of a state of mind, in most cases detailing abnormal psychology.

A dramatic work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone and that usually contains a happy resolution of the thematic conflict.

Having a major setting of the story deal with some type of school.

As the name suggests, anything sports related. Baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, golf, and racing.

The same concept is expressed by the term yomikiri (読み切り), which implies that the comic is presented in its entirety without any continuation. One-shot manga tells its entire story in 15-60 pages, usually written for contests, and sometimes later developed into a full-length manga series (much like a television pilot). Many popular manga series that began as one-shot stories includes Fist of the North Star, Dragon Ball, Naruto, One Piece, Berserk, Kinnikuman and Death Note among others.