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Any game where reflexes are the key to the gameplay, violence is optional.

==Dating Sim - Visual Novel==

Overall they're both read-the-dialog-and-click-next type of games. It's not needed to distinguish between a visual novel and a dating sim as this category covers them both, but there still is the need to distinguish between a visual novel and an adventure game and that can be a bit confusing for normal people. A useful fact: about 98% of the anime adaptions from a visual novel or a dating sim are also erotic games.

==Erotic Game==

Any anime adaption of a game that contains ('''or had a version than contains''') adult content (generally sex scenes), regardless of how some fanboys blabber on how "the story in ''that'' visual novel was too good to be labeled as porn!", should definitely get this category added under them. This should make it pretty clear as to what is an erotic game and what is not. Roughly 80% of all anime adaptions from a game are from erotic games.

==RPG==

Any anime that is based on a role-playing game aka RPG. A role-playing video game is a video game which includes elements of non-electronic role-playing games. The player assumes control of one or several fictional characters (a party) who have joined forces in order to perform quests and overcome a great number of challenges and enemies, usually monsters inspired by fantasy, and, to a lesser extent, science fiction and classic mythology. During the course of the game the characters, or avatars, which are generally defined by quantized characteristics, evolve and improve in that their various attributes increase, as well as by gaining more powerful artefacts.  

=Manga=

{{eyecatch|However!|Be very sure the manga actually was the basis for the anime!}}

It's common practice to make manga adaptations of many popular anime, there's a manga based on {{a|22|Evangelion}}, and ''two'' (one shounen and one shoujo) based on each of {{a|184|Escaflowne}} and {{a|141|Mahou Tsukai Tai}}. Also it's quite common to release manga and anime versions of a story ''in parallel'', for instance {{a|180|Nadesico}} and {{a|287|Shoujo Kakumei Utena}}.

Not based on anything, the story is a new work, usually made up by the people involved in creating the anime. Generally if an original work (原作) credit is given, it will be to the studio, or director, or other members of the production team.

=Novel=

Note that novel means book with words in paper, so no comics and no 'visual novels', which should go under manga and (probably h) game respectively. Examples include the many ''World Masterpiece Theatre'' series animated by {{Producer2l|276|Nippon Animation|日本アニメーション}}, the various anime based on the novels of {{Producer2l|276|Tanaka Yoshiki|田中芳樹}} and lots of others.

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