manga: Get manga genres

API: myanimelist.net:myanimelist-api
Endpoint: /genres/manga
Response format: application/json
Auth: oauth2
Method: GET
Last Status: 200
Latency: 269ms

Description

Returns all manga genres including both explicit genres (Action, Adventure, etc.) and demographic categories (Shounen, Seinen, Josei, Shoujo). Use this to understand genre taxonomy when filtering or categorizing manga content.

From spec: Returns a list of all available manga genres with their IDs

Usage Tips

- No authentication required - Returns cached data from MyAnimeList - Genre IDs can be used with other endpoints for filtering

Examples (1)

Get all manga genres probe-gate

Retrieves the complete list of manga genres available on MyAnimeList including demographics and content tags.

curl 'https://api.jikan.moe/v4/genres/manga'
import requests

resp = requests.get("https://api.jikan.moe/v4/genres/manga")
data = resp.json()
import zingu_apis

api = zingu_apis.api("myanimelist")
result = api.fetch("genres/manga")

for item in result:
    print(item)
const resp = await fetch("https://api.jikan.moe/v4/genres/manga");
const data = await resp.json();

Probe History

Latency

Status Codes

TimeStatusLatencySize
2026-04-16 02:00:43.327396 200 269ms
2026-04-15 00:28:05.318166 200 197ms
2026-04-14 02:51:03.782435 200 210ms
2026-04-12 16:15:39.021394 200 268ms
2026-04-10 02:25:15.388138 200 252ms
2026-04-09 02:23:08.331882 200 262ms