Monday, August 18, 2025

Genre tags are applied too loosely on websites like Crunchyroll.

I'm singling out CR here because HIDIVE's much smaller library makes how the critique could apply there less annoying. 

It's bad enough these Anime websites are mostly using normal Genre instead of distinctly Anime genres.

It's most egregious with Drama.  Drama is something that's arguably in everything, Drama as a Genre to me is really primally the absence of anything else, or at least the absence of Fantastical or Action/Adventure elements.  

After that the same almost applies just as much to Romance or Slice of Life, I'm more open to Fantastical shows being counted as Slice of Life but it has to be something like Slime 300 as opposed to Reincarnated as a Slime. 

I guess the problem is on CR as well as Database Websites these Tags serve two different purposes.

There is when you are on the Page for the Show or Movie itself where I guess maybe some people do want to know if this Isekai has more Drama compared to other Isekai.

But I mainly use these Tags to search for shows.  And so I want clicking on Drama to be something that narrows things down, I'm looking for shows like Rumboing Hearts or Toradora or School Days, not DanDaDan or half of CR's Isekai.

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