

Something I have always wondered, **why is most anime centered on fighting**?
DragonBall Z, RWBY, Bleach just to name a few. I've seen some that aren't, but
it seems to be few and far between. Is this something that just relates to the
Japanese lifestyle?


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Why is most anime centered on fighting?


Anime can be broken into three broad catagories - shounen, shoujo, and seinen.
These translate into roughly young guys, young girls, and adults (as in not
young people). Most of the "popular" shows are shounen, which contain a lot of
action/fighting, simply because that demographic likes that kind of thing
more.

As can be expected, there are also shoujo shows, which are mostly romance,
drama, and romantic comedies. Seinen shows contain themes of psychology,
mystery, and other stuff adults are interested in.

In the end, you can compare the anime genres to western movie genres, you have
big block buster action flicks, aimed towards guys, you have chick flicks for
the girls, and you have these thriller/mystery/philosophical stuff for the
"sophisticated"


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It's not that all anime is focused on fighting, but that your average American
is ignorant enough to believe that living in japan makes you a Kung-Fu master
out to save the world with your proud and honourable style.  
Truth is, we are the brutes who are all about fighting, so those are the anime
that are popular here. Whereas in Japan and other places, the more complex and
less flashy anime are more popular.

Not that we don't all love some ass kicking, big explosion, breasts flying
everywhere superhero action.


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From otaku's point of view.

If you know _Dragon Ball_ , I think you can understand this answer easily.
First few parts of _Dragon Ball_ is adventure manga instead of battle
(fighting) manga.

It was running in Weekly Shonen Jump. Jump has a voting system (by postcard)
and the ranking is very very important. If a manga can't get a good result,
that manga should be discontinued soon.

In the first part, _Dragon Ball_ is not popular. Then the author tried to
change the style. For example, adding more gag, introducing more enemies.
Finally, he found that battle manga can get more vote and continued over ten
years.

Other than _Dragon Ball_ , many manga has these change. For example:

  * [YuYu Hakusho](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YuYu_Hakusho): detective manga to battle manga.
  * [Magical Taluluto](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Taluluto): _Doraemon_ -style manga to battle manga.
  * [Jungle King Tar-chan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_King_Tar-chan): gag manga to battle manga.

The story has the loop:

  1. A new enemy is coming.
  2. Protagonist loses.
  3. Protagonist trains.
  4. Finally, wins.
  5. Go back to 1.

But recently the user of shonen has different interest. They stop reading at
step 2. Then, recent shonen manga has a different story.


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Note: _RWBY_ is not an anime.

It's all based on the demographic you watch. You appear to watch most of the
shonen anime, but that's understandable as most of this kind of anime is
popular because people like this kind of things. If you don't think action
suits you, I'll list a few from their demographics and you can go check them
out.

  * Kodomo: for young children ( _Doraemon_ , _Pokemon_ , _Inazuma Eleven_ )
  * Shojo: for girls aged 8-18 ( _Sailor Moon_ , _Ouran Highschool Host Club_ )
  * Shounen: for boys aged 8-18 ( _Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood_ , _Attack on Titan_ , _One Piece_ )
  * Seinen: for older men over 18 ( _Tokyo Ghoul_ , _One Punch Man_ , _Parasyte_ )
  * Josei: for older women over 18. I don't have any picks apart from _Boku no Pico_ and I seriously don't want you to watch that, so... nah...
  * Emotional/Romance anime series that will make you cry: _Clannad_ , _Clannad: After Story_ , _Erased_ , _Your Lie in April_


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