whitekeys Posted September 5, 2016 Report Share Posted September 5, 2016 What genre is Pokemon? I mean, other than anime. That can't be a genre, can it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted September 5, 2016 Report Share Posted September 5, 2016 Monster Hunting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba smith Posted September 7, 2016 Report Share Posted September 7, 2016 I think anime IS considered a genre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 7, 2016 Report Share Posted September 7, 2016 No, it's more an art style. Pokèmon belongs to the YA genre, aimed at tweens and younger teens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted September 7, 2016 Report Share Posted September 7, 2016 but YA isn't a genre so much as a writing style Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balabanto Posted September 8, 2016 Report Share Posted September 8, 2016 Pokemon is it's own genre, as is Balls of Fury. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba smith Posted September 8, 2016 Report Share Posted September 8, 2016 Pokemon is it's own genre, as is Balls of Fury. agreed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantriped Posted September 8, 2016 Report Share Posted September 8, 2016 I think you could call Pokémon a member of either or both the "Tournament" or "Adventure" genres. As a cartoon it also has some elements of the "Slice-of-Life" genre. As a video game series it falls squarely into "JRPG" style of games, which are characterized by having multiple, variable party members, random encounters, leveling progressions, and turn-based combat systems (it is unusual in that generally only one party member fights at a time). As a HERO system game, a pokemon campaign would most likely fall into Teen Champions, Urban Fantasy, or Monster Hunter International (though I know very little about MHI, so I can't be sure about the latter). In HERO system, most pokemon trainers would function as a kind of technology-based summoner; with a stable of friendly (or even slavishly devoted) specific summons. Limits on how many pokemon they carry into battle, and the fact that trainers rarely (if ever) participate in battle themselves are entirely arbitrary, and matters of the educate of the setting. Moreover the world's lore provides examples of human martial artists sparing with their pokemon, and infer that during wartime human soldiers fought alongside their pokemon, or used pokemon as living weapons against other humans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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