Having a story with relatively heavy drama, an aversion to most Slice of Life scenarios, and a clear-cut purpose that needs to be attained in the story (going to Antarctica to find out what happened to Shirase's mother), for example, renders the anime to be more of an adventure story combined with Coming of Age Story story than a traditional Schoolgirl Series anime. While it undeniably has an atmosphere of a "cute-girls-doing-cute-things" (CGDCT) story consisted of a cast comprised of mostly high school girls, it is mostly everything a CGDCT story is not. A Place Further than the Universe has this as a common consensus regarding the anime's genre categorization.This is a sport: Definitely not in Digimon.The humans use the mons in battle: In Digimon Frontier and Pokémon RéBURST, humans become mons.Much happens in urban settlements: Certainly not in Digimon Frontier.Alternatively, there's a human world and a mon world: Not in Pokémon, and neither is true in Pokémon Trading Card Game.In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, humans are a myth. ![]() Humans and mons live alongside each other: Digimon only has this at the end of the second season. ![]() Okay, Maybe in some of the games, but none of the animes has that. Your job is to collect mons: Not in Digimon.Mons are analogous to animals: They are manmade in Digimon, and we have seen real animals in that series.The Trope Codifier and Trope Namer shows, Pokémon and Digimon, are so fundamentally different that every trope in the genre has been subverted in one incarnation of either series. There's an entire genre where every notable show and game has done this: Mons.However, there's a lot of overlap those who play heavily into mixing genres end up being very difficult to classify. For a character see Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot. 90% of the time, you will find Mind Screw within them, with the other 10% just weird. Also compare Postmodernism (playing around with a genre) and X Meets Y (creating new genre out of two old ones). Now you are running a roulette between a Star-Crossed Lovers story, a Coming of Age arc, and Mystery Fiction.Ĭompare Genre Mashup, when a work combined existing genres. Now let's say you focus on three characters within that story one character is in a forbidden relationship with someone from the other side of the war, one is growing more mature from their experience with the war, and another is investigating clues that lead back to the manipulative third faction. If the premise of your story is that five hundred years in the future, a fight between two large factions occurs while there is a third faction manipulating them behind the scenes, then congratulations, you've just made a genre busting Sci-Fi Conspiracy Thriller War Story. The difference between Genre Roulette and Genre Busting is the difference between content and premise respectively. Categories like the broad Speculative Fiction and the hybrid Science Fantasy exist so that works can be filed somewhere, but these often fail to capture the feel of a genre buster. Of course, even genre busters are not entirely original but they are original enough-and powerful enough-that they appear to transcend genre. This means that Genre Busters are often Trope Makers for a whole range of tropes. If they're good enough though, they go on to found new genres. Most of the time, these kinds of pieces get thrown out, so no one remembers them. ![]() That's where this trope comes in.Įvery so often, something comes along that just does not fit into our usual map of genres. ![]() A sci-fi show can be new and different and innovative, but it can at the same time very clearly be science fiction, with a whole range of tropes assumed in that category. Even if a work defies our specific expectations about tropes, it usually conforms to more general expectations about the genre. We can quickly tell the difference between a sitcom and a sonnet, and we know what to expect in each one. Most creative work fits nicely into a series of classifications.
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