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I wanted to get your opinion on how the Japanese text is handled on One Piece, it was a bold edit i made, but i'm curious if it makes the article better. I moved all the Japanese text to the bottom of the article under "Japanese". Not all of it was moved to the bottom; Only the Japanese text that made it harder to read the article. Still would like your opinion and see if this is a style we can pursue on other articles. Blue Pumpkin Pie Chat Contribs 15:45, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
{{
Nihongo foot}}
scheme, which would also work here in case you wanted the hovering over the reference to show the full nihongo information.
AngusWOOF (
bark •
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21:56, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
About three years ago, there were some concerns raised about why the {{ WikiProject Anime and manga}} template doesn't use the {{ WPBannerMeta}} scheme. When I proposed a suggestion on the talk page, it was shot down. Goszei ( talk · contribs) brought the matter up on my talk page and pointed out that it caused some problems with the bot on Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Popular pages as well as some display issues. The bot couldn't figure out the importances. I think we should revisit the category schemes and figure out what is the best possible way to fix up the display issues and maintain category consistency. Thoughts? Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 09:14, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
{{
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. Other than Military history (which is one of the oldest WikiProjects and has a large number of unique features), I don't know why any of these have retained their non-standard construction for such a long time - the last conversions to WPBannerMeta were {{
WikiProject Ships}}
and {{
WikiProject Systems}}
in August/September 2012. Notifying
MSGJ (
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contribs) and
Jj98 (
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Just a note that Animate now redirects to a disambiguation page per Talk:Animate (disambiguation)#Requested move 23 June 2020 and all links to that must be changed to Animate (retailer). lullabying ( talk) 08:01, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
Are long-running blogs/websites like THEM anime that has been active since 2003 reliable enough to be cited in the reception section? Where do we draw the line, particularly when we are dealing with blogs/sites that have been running for many years and have multiple authors? I don't think a single-author blogs are reliable, but when they cross into small portals/sites... -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:55, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
Per discussion at
Talk:Yaoi#Italicizing, the template used for romanized Japanese words should be {{
lang|ja-latn|yaoi}}
instead of italicizing. Should we start using the template for shojo, shonen, josei, etc.?
lullabying (
talk)
00:16, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
{{
transl|ja|yaoi}}
which has the same output but is less clunky to type. If you're going with {{
lang}}, even though the script subtag is case insensitive,
by convention it is capitalized as "-Latn". If we're applying it widely, care should be taken for the individual words that it's appropriate (e.g. shouldn't be used for "anime").
Opencooper (
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14:59, 13 July 2020 (UTC)Several anime titles have English names that have subtitles (one example being Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense.). In many cases the article is at the full English title (an example being the aforementioned Bofuri), while in others (such as Haganai and Oresuki) the article title is at the short title without the subtitle, with the subtitle only being mentioned in the lede. MOS:ANIME does not say anything about subtitles in article titles, only suggesting that the article be located at the most-commonly used English name. MOS:SUBTITLE suggests that subtitles are usually to be avoided in article titles and instead going with the most commonly-used titles, although suggesting that they may be permitted in more modern works where the subtitle is an essential part of the name. Given that there seems to be inconsistencies with how the WikiProject handles these situations, should there be a guideline of some kind on how to treat English anime titles if there's a subtitle? Should this be on a case-by-case basis, should the subtitle be dropped (especially for long titles), or should the status quo remain? Narutolovehinata5 t c csd new 00:46, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
I created Category:Anime based on manhwa. Anyone feels like creating the Category:Anime based on manhwa for the Chinese counterpart? We may also need categories for anime and non-anime animation series based on those as well as on the novels. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:06, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
I support this idea. 👍🏻 Ainz Ooal Gown ( talk) 09:39, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
I have created a discussion on a source's reliability at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga/Online reliable sources § cal.syoboi.jp, and would appreciate some input. — Goszei ( talk) 07:37, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
I would like to do a proposal on how the format "[year] in anime" articles should be standardized, using the "[year] in rock music" and "[year] in film" articles as a point of reference. We should things like include notable events (such as the premieres and finales of anime TV series or films), key awards of the year, and notable deaths. If there are any other ideas, please post here. Thanks, Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 09:36, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
When an anime season received its own page, is it fine to move its studio templates and categories to its season page? I believe it should be, especially for the series like Date A Live—the different season is animated by a different studio (S1 AIC; S2 IMS; S3 J.C.Staff; S4 likely to be Geek Toys). But that leads to another problem. For some series which have already received twenty, thirty or even more seasons by the same studio such as One Piece, Naruto, Case Closed, it is impractical as their wikilink in the anime studio template is to their series' main page and that is the only one—to reach their seasons respectively, it needs to add a chunk number of wikilinks in their templates. Unnamelessness ( talk) 06:52, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
Recently, I found @ SpectresWrath is moving anime season articles insufficiently (or incorrectly) to pages that are inconsistent for others. He told me that the new page names are the official titles, and I believe while it is applied WP:TVSEASON in some particular series, it is not good practice. For example, Date A Live series was named as "Date A Live (season X)", which works perfectly fine for template:Infobox television season, but he moved season 2&3 articles to Date A Live II and Date A Live III respectively without season 1. Then I felt season 1 is inconsistency (now still remain as "Date A Live (season 1)") for season 2 and season 3, so I moved the page to Date A Live I. However, that is not the end. He moved season 1 page to Date A Live (2013 TV series). Sure it applies MOS:TV, but fails WP:TITLECON. We need consistency in the anime season pages.
To do so, I first summaries there are four situations in terms of anime season articles:
It would be easy to name if a series is approached by only one situation, but what if there are multiple? I summaries there roughly are several scenarios as followings:
Situations: a) and b)
Example: Strike the Blood
Season | Situation | Official Name | Current Name | Naming as per MOS:TV | Naming as per WP:TITLECON | Alternative solution |
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1 | a | Strike the Blood | Strike the Blood (season 1) | Strike the Blood ( |
Strike the Blood (season/series 1) | Strike the Blood I |
2 | b | Strike the Blood II | Strike the Blood II | Strike the Blood II | Strike the Blood (season/series 2) | Strike the Blood II |
3 | b | Strike the Blood III | Strike the Blood III | Strike the Blood III | Strike the Blood (season/series 3) | Strike the Blood III |
4 | b | Strike the Blood IV | Strike the Blood IV | Strike the Blood IV | Strike the Blood (season/series 4) | Strike the Blood IV |
For this scenario, I believe the alternative solution is the best as it applies both WP:TVSEASON and WP:TITLECON.
Situations: a) and c)
Example: The Seven Deadly Sins
Season | Situation | Official Name | Current Name | Naming as per MOS:TV | Naming as per WP:TITLECON |
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1 | a | The Seven Deadly Sins | The Seven Deadly Sins (2014 TV series) | The Seven Deadly Sins ( |
The Seven Deadly Sins (season/series 1) |
Special | c | The Seven Deadly Sins: Signs of Holy War | The Seven Deadly Sins: Signs of Holy War | The Seven Deadly Sins: Signs of Holy War | The Seven Deadly Sins (season/series special) |
2 | c | The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments | The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments | The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments | The Seven Deadly Sins (season/series 2) |
3 | c | The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath of the Gods | The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath of the Gods | The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath of the Gods | The Seven Deadly Sins (season/series 3) |
4 | c | The Seven Deadly Sins: Anger's Judgement | The Seven Deadly Sins: Anger's Judgement | The Seven Deadly Sins: Anger's Judgement | The Seven Deadly Sins (season/series 4) |
For this scenario, I believe MOS:TV perfectly applies here.
Situations: a), b) and c)
Example: Sword Art Online
Season | Situation | Official Name | Current Name | Naming as per MOS:TV | Naming as per WP:TITLECON |
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1 | a | Sword Art Online | Sword Art Online (2012 TV series) | Sword Art Online ( |
Sword Art Online (season/series 1) |
2 | b | Sword Art Online II | Sword Art Online II | Sword Art Online II | Sword Art Online (season/series 2) |
3 | c | Sword Art Online: Alicization | Sword Art Online: Alicization | Sword Art Online: Alicization | Sword Art Online (season/series 3) |
I'll be honest, this scenario is the toughest. I have to point out that if the articles are named as per MOS:TV, i.e. Series title (20XX TV series), I found it somewhat impactical with the Template:Infobox television season.
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With the original code, it could be like this: {{Infobox television season | bgcolour = #add8e6 | image = | caption = first season anime key visual | country = Japan | network = [[Tokyo MX]] | first_aired = {{start date|8|7}} | last_aired = {{end date|2012|12|23}} | num_episodes = 25 + 1 special | next_season = ''[[Sword Art Online II]]'' | episode_list = [[List of Sword Art Online episodes]] }} |
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To fix that, the code should be like: {{Infobox television season | season_name = ''Sword Art Online'' | season_number = 1 | bgcolour = #add8e6 | image = | caption = first season anime key visual | country = Japan | network = [[Tokyo MX]] | first_aired = {{start date|8|7}} | last_aired = {{end date|2012|12|23}} | num_episodes = 25 + 1 special | prev_season = N/A | next_season = ''[[Sword Art Online II]]'' | episode_list = [[List of Sword Art Online episodes]] | episode_list = [[List of Date A Live episodes]] }} However, the |
Given that the aforementioned reason, I would lean toward the WP:TITLECON one, unless someone could proper fix it.
Situations: a) and d)
Example: The Seven Deadly Sins
Season | Situation | Official Name | Current Name | Naming as per MOS:TV | Naming as per WP:TITLECON | Alternative solution | Notes |
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1 | a | A Certain Scientific Railgun | A Certain Scientific Railgun (2009 TV series) | A Certain Scientific Railgun ( |
A Certain Scientific Railgun (season/series 1) | A Certain Scientific Railgun F | "F" as "First" (possible WP:OR) |
2 | d | A Certain Scientific Railgun S | A Certain Scientific Railgun S | A Certain Scientific Railgun S | A Certain Scientific Railgun (season/series 2) | A Certain Scientific Railgun S | "S" as "Second" |
3 | d | A Certain Scientific Railgun T | A Certain Scientific Railgun T | A Certain Scientific Railgun T | A Certain Scientific Railgun (season/series 3) | A Certain Scientific Railgun T | "T" as "Third" |
For this scenario, I believe the WP:TITLECON one is the best, as the alternative solution is actually WP:OR. In terms of the MOS:TV one, I would suffer the same issue as scenario 3's, so I do not recommend.
Other than the above, a simple flat-out solution is ignoring MOS:TV and WP:TVSEASON, while naming all articles in the "Series title (Season/Series X)" style for WP:TITLECON, but I don't think it is a good proposal. Unnamelessness ( talk) 06:21, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
"If a television article already exists with the name of the show for which you are trying to create an article, use (YEAR TV series) in the title, if the years are different"Unnamelessness ( talk) 02:43, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
if a television article already exists with the name of the show for which you are trying to create an article. That is, the year is there to disambiguate between two identically-named TV shows. Since there is only one released named simply A Certain Scientific Railgun (or the other examples) specifically, with no subtitles or numbers, there should be no conflict and they can readily reside at just "A Certain Scientific Railgun (TV series)". If that is the naming convention used, the year should be dropped from the title, as like Goszei says, it's potentially misleading. — Kawnhr ( talk) 03:57, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
Where multiple titles are available, and where titles are equally usable in terms of recognizability, naturalness, preciseness, and conciseness [AKA the five WP:CRITERIA] then the title to be used should be consistent with titles used for similar or related topics in Wikipedia.
Goszei You still don't get it, do you? Sure, "A Certain Scientific Railgun F" is bad, but the "I" there stands for the meaning of "(season 1)". The similar case: The Amazing Race 1 (original title The Amazing Race, but add an extra "1" for the consistency with the other seasons). Of course, you can say (season 1) is the most sensible disambiguation, then it should be (season 2), (season 3)... for the rest seasons as the fact that the roman numerals/ numerical digits which follow titles undoubtedly stand for the meaning of "(season X)" (the Attack on Titan method and widely adapted by the TV sesaon articles). This is indeed the first scenario I've brought in and only applies to series of which their naming convention is [title name + season number]. A Certain Scientific Railgun, Sailor Moon and the like which have a unique naming system does not apply to here.
Having read that archive, I've got a feeling of the reason why anime TV season article titles are so inconsistency and hard to get consensus is that a) complexity (which is also why I've tried to bring in four different scenarios to solve in categorized discussion method) and b) a lack of certain policy which specifically rules the naming convention of anime and manga topic. I believe the project should create one. A third opinion would be really appreciated. Unnamelessness ( talk) 09:34, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
Please come participate at Talk:The Star of Cottonland#Correct title for this article - 7 August 2020 Thanks! ··· 日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 20:57, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
I think I might be having a potential edit war regarding the translation of the Japanese title for series. I have started a discussion in the article's talk page and could use a few more opinions on the matter. Sarujo ( talk) 21:03, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
There's an RfC regarding Kimba the White Lion that users might be interested in. © Tbhotch ™ ( en-3). 23:09, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
I created the article for Akira Fudo. While I think the reception is enough to pass notability I haven't found too much about creation. I happened to find this Go Nagai interview when googling and it seems he talks a lot about the manga, which might lead to more stuff about Akira. Sadly, it's all in Japanese even with captions on. Is there an editor with Japanese knowledge and might check the video? Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 15:40, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
I've been on a Go Nagai mood lately so after creating Akira Fudo, I found enough sources about the making and reception Mazinger Z lead Koji Kabuto. The in-universe information provided on his article is based on what it originally was before it was merged. I tried trimming parts but I'm not that familiar with the Mazinger Z series so I think an editor more familiar with the series is better suited to clean up the article. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 01:07, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
Around June 28, myself and other users discussed converting the {{
WikiProject Anime and manga}}
template to the {{
WPBannerMeta}}
scheme (
here); the completed conversion of the banner was implemented yesterday with
this revision.
If you come across any bugs related to this conversion, please report them at the template's talk page: Template talk:WikiProject Anime and manga § Bug fixing. — Goszei ( talk) 20:06, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
I want to join as an editor for this group The Masley Crooop ( talk) 13:50, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
Related to this project, since a lot of anime is science fiction. Please come participate in the discussion regarding mundane science fiction and whether there is enough to support a separate article: Talk:Mundane science fiction#Unbalanced. ··· 日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 19:39, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:List of Shugo Chara! soundtracks#Merger proposal. starship .paint ( talk) 13:18, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
Most of the descriptions below each characters' names have been removed, and the page has been protected indefinitely for "repeated insertions of unsourced content", despite similar content being on every character list I could find. I think this is needed of more opinions than just me and the other party member. 72.219.72.215 ( talk) 13:19, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
I've cleaned up the article a little and added some refs, but the characters section is huge. ANyone want to take a stab at reducing it? ··· 日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 00:44, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
Certain anime/manga titles (a small minority) are rendered in Latin characters in the original (though they often include equivalent kana in their logo). Some examples include:
My question is: How should these special cases be handled in the lead sections of our English articles? For a standard case like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (see ja:ジョジョの奇妙な冒険), we do this:
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure ( Japanese: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険, Hepburn: JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki.
Considering that, I think that a lead sentence like the following is misleading, since technically the original title is Angel Beats!, and the Japanese pronunciation of that is エンジェルビーツ! / Enjeru Bītsu!:
Angel Beats! ( Japanese: エンジェルビーツ!, Hepburn: Enjeru Bītsu!) is a 13-episode Japanese anime television series produced by P.A.Works and Aniplex and directed by Seiji Kishi.
Possible alternatives that make note of this distinction would be:
Thoughts on this? — Goszei ( talk) 21:55, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
Notes
The titles of Japanese books, CDs, and other media products may incorporate typographical effects, punctuation, or capitalization conventions generally not used in reliable native English language sources. In all cases, this original title stylization should be included in the lead of the article.
Avoid using all capital letters (except acronyms/initials), all lowercase letters (a technical restriction), or alternating upper and lower casing in article titles.
I've been trying to clean up the FL List of Devil May Cry episodes to expand on the lead's content, home media release, infobox. I've noticed the official site details each episode's director and writer for the 12 episodes but I'm not that skilled when it comes to add content to the tables as any attempt resulted in me breaking the balance. Could anybody give it a look? Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 21:04, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
Looks like the episode list List of Boruto: Naruto Next Generations episodes is becoming quite large. A user suggested the idea of splitting it in the talk page but I don't know how Aniplex or Viz Media are dividing it since the first DVD apparently had 15 episodes rather than the old ones of 4. It might be a good time to divide series based on its length. Tintor2 ( talk) 22:44, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (1993 anime series)#Requested move 30 August 2020, which is about an article that is within the scope of this WikiProject. — Goszei ( talk) 18:14, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
When creating Manji (Blade of the Immortal) I found that mangauk happened to have interview the author of the series but explained his idea of how he came up with protagonist. Sadly, the site is not allowed for something that happened years ago and can't be used. As a result, most of the creation section is mostly the live-action movie instead. I asked for a petition to here but I don't know if it's lacking something. There is also a blog that has two interviews but none seem to specify the original source well. One was an interview Samura had with Kishimoto and another was Samura alone talking in an adult magazine about his taste in women. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 20:39, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
While trying to clean up List of Fate/stay night characters I wondered if it was needed to merge it with List of Fate/Zero characters since they are directly connected as prequel and sequel but I don't know if it's obligatory kinda like the Gundam series created by Tomino. Tintor2 ( talk) 18:31, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
See Talk:List of Fate/stay night characters#Merge. I've been trying to clean up the main list especially now that every heroine as well Kiritsugu got their own articles. Please join to discuss. Tintor2 ( talk) 16:50, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
The episode lists List of One Piece episodes (seasons 1–8), and List of One Piece episodes (seasons 15–current) each exceed Wikipedia's post-expand include size. List of One Piece episodes (seasons 9–14) is under the limit.
The easiest thing to do is to split the 2 large lists in half or combine them all and split them into groups of 4 seasons each. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 17:12, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
I just reverted major changes made by Goszei ( talk · contribs) in regards to Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Cleanup task force. I disagree with the changes as I find Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Assessment/Cleanup listing/Header very useful among other things. Goszei can we please reach a project consensus here and have you explain why you made the changes you did? - Knowledgekid87 ( talk) 00:01, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
{{WikiProject cleanup listing|Anime and manga}}
.Comment: Hello. I closed the move discussion, and moved Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Cleanup task force → Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Cleanup. Even though I think I performed the "post move cleanup" completely, there are chances that I missed something. Kindly let me know if you come across something, and I will be glad to sort it out. Regards, —usernamekiran (talk) 20:51, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
There is a noticeboard discussion on the reliability of an interview on mangauk.com, the official website of Manga Entertainment. The interview ("Blade of the Immortal Interview with Hiroaki Samura") is proposed for use in articles related to Blade of the Immortal. If you are interested, please participate at WP:RSN § Mangauk. — Newslinger talk 16:09, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
I've seen an edit conflict in the Fire Force article between listing the Japan News Network stations in parentheses in the anime infobox, "JNN ( MBS, TBS)" or to simply list the stations "MBS, TBS". So I wonder about how should we proceed with this issue. Should we list the network and its stations in the anime infoboxes, e.g., "JNN (MBS, TBS)"; " NNS ( Nippon TV)"; " FNS ( Fuji TV)"; " TXN ( TV Tokyo)", or should we just list the stations, e.g., "MBS, TBS", "Nippon TV", "Fuji TV", "TV Tokyo"?
Also, I'd like to know if there are consensus about the networks abbreviations in the infoboxes. Should we list Nippon Television as Nippon TV or as NTV; Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation as Yomiuri TV, as YTV or as ytv; Tokyo Broadcasting System Television and Mainichi Broadcasting System Television as MBS TV and TBS TV or simply as MBS and TBS? @ GalaxyFighter55: @ Aerkdude: what are your opinions on this? - Xexerss ( talk) 10:32, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
I am proposing some updates to the {{ Graphic novel list/header}} at this talk page template to improve some functionality and would appreciate it if anyone who has an interest in this template could add some input, since this template is listed under this project, thanks. Terasail [Talk] 23:51, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
Should List of Bleach characters, List of Soul Reapers in Bleach, and List of Hollows in Bleach all actually exist separately? The "reception" in the two offshoots is honestly quite silly, either irrelevant to the topic at hand or overly reliant on a couple major characters. I don't think I see a single other series trying to justify that many lists. TTN ( talk) 14:40, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
@ TTN: Yep. They should be merged but I wonder if about the weight of the main article. There are quite a lot of characters in series especially the Soul Reapers guys. Tintor2 ( talk) 23:14, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi there. I have been wondering about the rearranging a bit a the analysis of both Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha. I happened to find a French article where the author of the series discusses the themes from the manga including the psychology of its two leads and what do they want. However, there isn't much to do so I wonder if they should be given their own section like TeenAngels1234 did with Shinji Ikari and the other Evangelion cast. However, I'm not sure if they should be separated from other sections.
@
1989: since he made Naruto FA so I won't make bold edits. Is there a guideline that might help with this?
Tintor2 (
talk)
23:11, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
A fellow user User:NotEnglishSpeaker nominated the article Sayaka Miki almost a month ago and I've been doing its review. However, the user has become inactive as I was reviewing it and the activity in general stopped. Is there any other user who might wanna help the user or should I fail the review? Been aiming to get more attention since this project doesn't tend to get that many recognized when compared to others I've been. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 20:19, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
I am wondering if anyone would be willing to peer review Chi (Chobits). It was promoted to good article in 2015 and I would like it to get a 5 year check up. - Knowledgekid87 ( talk) 20:51, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
@ Knowledgekid87: I don't have too much knowledge of the series but the article does mention differences in both manga and anime. Maybe the reception section is lacking coverage about Chi's role in one of these two media. The easiest way to find the sources is looking for reviews from the main Chobits articles since she is one of the leads. If you want to improve its prose (I'm nobody to comment though), you can also request for a copyedit for the article in the guild of the copyeditors. Tintor2 ( talk) 01:33, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
Currently,
our project's criteria for including individuals in
Category:Top-importance anime and manga articles is as follows: Individuals with an essential historical influence on the medium, e.g.
Osamu Tezuka,
Leiji Matsumoto
. The page also states: The criteria used for rating article priority are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it).
These guidelines are influenced by the over-arching
WP 1.0 scheme guidelines at
Template:Importance scheme: Subject is extremely important, even crucial, to its specific field. Reserved for subjects that have achieved international notability within their field.
WP:1.0/Release Version Criteria#WikiProject priority assessments puts it in a slightly different way: Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopedia.
Considering these standards, I think that the individuals we include in the category should be reduced down to essentials: in my opinion, articles like Yoshiko Nishitani, Hideko Mizuno, and Ken Ishikawa should be re-assessed with lower importances, but entries like Hayao Miyazaki, Osamu Tezuka, Satoshi Kon, and Hideaki Anno should stay.
Thoughts? I think we should try build consensus around particular individuals that should be included. — Goszei ( talk) 08:09, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
While I was editing the article of Onidere, I found out a problem regarding the magazine dates. Weekly Shōnen Sunday, and many other magazines, have two dates, the cover date and the actual release date, and the cover dates of WSS issues are exactly two weeks after the actual release date, as I could check founding official sources of the issues, listing both the cover date and the actual release date. Well, Onidere's cover date in the 2008 18th issue (when the series began) is April 16, 2008, [1] so I listed that date as the official date when the series began, since I couldn't find a source listing the actual release date, but The World God Only Knows has the official release date, which was on April 9, 2008, [2] but the series began in the 2008 19th issue of WSS, after Onidere, so it wouldn't make sense to have Onidere's article stating that it was released after TWGOW, when clearly it began before. By the way, I could check that, at least from the 2010 1st issue onwards, Media Arts lists the magazines with the actual release date, and in some cases with both cover date and actual release dates. [3] [4] So, just for the Weekly Shōnen Sunday's case, I propose to leave a note after the sources of the series which only list the cover date, something like "the actual release date is two weeks before the cover date" or something similar, to make all of this more coherent, otherwise, we should just list the cover dates for each series, but I don't think this is a good idea, since we have many series with the actual release dates verified listed. What do you think?
P.S.: Now that I think about it Web Sunday's first backstage can serve as a reference to know when a series began,
[5] if nobody opposes to it, I will use it as a source for the Onidere's article. -
Xexerss (
talk)
04:18, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
References
I'd like to hear other editor's thoughts on what qualifies a series to be added to Category:Anime and manga controversies. Is being banned in a single country enough to be included? Cause China has quite the list for example, most seen at Category:Works banned in China. What about stuff like what happened in Australia where stores decide to stop carrying/selling a series? What about when a series gets cancelled due to the actions of some people behind it like Act-Age? The controversy in that case is not due to the work itself.
A related question I thought of when writing the above and discovering Category:Censored works, which is for "series that suffered from censorship in any form, at any time." There are so many English/foreign versions of manga and anime that are censored by their foreign publishers. Is that not self-censorship? If it is, then such works qualify for Category:Censored works. Thoughts? Xfansd ( talk) 19:28, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Yaoi#Requested move 8 November 2020. Flyer22 Frozen ( talk) 02:52, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
I've been expanding Kimihiro Watanuki, hoping to nominate to GA in the future after a copyedit. However, does anybody think it's a bit unbalanced or something? I kinda wonder if the reception should be trimmed based on the weight it has. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 21:36, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
@ DragonZero: @ Xfansd: User talk:Haleth
Doing some pings since these three have experience with these types of articles. Tintor2 ( talk) 21:51, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
I've been finding a lot of reception involving the second protagonist of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, "Syaoran". However, I'm confused about making an article since I have no idea what would be the title. The character is first introduced directly as the "Other Syaoran", then "Syaoran Li", and lastly his tr—ue name is revealed to be "Tsubasa". Any suggestion? Tintor2 ( talk) 17:23, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
@ Haleth: Created Tsubasa (Syaoran) but I'm not confident about the title. I mean the character only uses his name Tsubasa once in the entire series. In every cameo or sequel, he goes back to Syaoran. Tintor2 ( talk) 19:57, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
@ Haleth: I see. I remember Clamp commenting in the guidebook that "clone" was the most used term to talk about Syaoran and Sakura although they instead used the term "Unmushi" or "copy". Then again, I don't know what term did DelRey use the most for the English publication of the manga (a review called them "image") in a similar fashion with how Toriyama uses either "android" or "artificial humans" for some Dragon Ball characters. Tintor2 ( talk)
@ Haleth: Left the request at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests based on your suggestion and also based on the terms the reviewers for the manga and OVAs tend to do. Tintor2 ( talk) 20:03, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
Just out of curiosity, how does CLAMP distinguish Syaoran prior to the Tsubasa name reveal? Blue Pumpkin Pie Chat Contribs 20:33, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
Blue Pumpkin Pie They just call him "Syaoran" or the "The Other Syaoran". The whole series is filled with parallel versions of most characters who share the same names like Clamp's Ashura, Subaru or Kamui, etc. Tintor2 ( talk) 20:44, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
They created Syaoran and Sakura but with the Japanese concept of "utsushimi" rather than the Western approach clone. However, the reviewers seem to call Syaoran and Sakura clones. Not sure about the actual licensed manga volumes. Tintor2 ( talk) 21:28, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
Feel free to comment. Tintor2 ( talk) 15:16, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi all,
Just wondering if there's ever been an official RFC or !vote on this project to explicitly exclude non-Japanese, yet ostensibly anime-style works etc. from this project? I can't find any explicit discussion in the archives, although I could fine a couple times where this was brought up with mixed support. I personally believe the scope should be changed to include all anime-styled works for the following reasons:
If anyone has any thoughts/input on this matter as it'll be interesting to see if there is enough support to progress to official RFC (or if I'm the only one advocating this!) Satellizer el Bridget (Talk) 14:12, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
"Its a cultural issue that we shouldn't decide" - except that we are WikiProject Anime and Manga, so deciding how these issues are covered is literally our job.
After finding a lot of real world information of Jotaro Kujo, I managed to give him his article. Sadly, the volumes I have from Star Dust Crusaders are not the same published in North America so I don't know how to reference the article. Also, I have little knowledge about other appearances like video games or liveaction, so I think this article needs further work. In case anybody decides to help, I'll appreciate it. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 01:09, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
I created the article X (1996 film) but I failed to find its work its debut in the Japanese box office or even its actual poster. I tried Anime News Newtork but they instead used the cover of the home media release. By any chance does anybody know of a possible source. By the way, most English reviews seem to fully title the movie "X: The Movie" and I wonder if it's okay to move it since the guidelines tend to avoid disambiguation titles. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 20:05, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
I would like to start a discussion on these lists. My opinion is that producers who aren't mentioned in secondary coverage should not be included -- this accounts for the exceptions where producers appear to have a particularly strong role within a project (like for some TV series, and for most (?) films).
Pinging for input User:Sarcataclysmal, who I often see filling in this parameter. — Goszei ( talk) 03:33, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
Only listing producers mentioned in secondary sources is a flawed method of going about this, in my opinion. Really, I think we should either include all of the producers (given the プロデューサー credit), or include none of them at all. This is due to the fact that secondary sources generalize those involved in the production of series as all being "producers", whether they be "chief producers" (チーフプロデューサー), whatever "produce" is (プロデュース, which is normally given to companies like GENCO, albeit this isnt always true), or "production generalization" (制作プロデューサー). A good example of this is Land of the Lustrous, where, in a citation, ANN states that Kiyotaka Waki and Katsuhiro Takei are "producers" for the series; they were part of the production staff (as "produce" and "production generalization", according to the series' credits), this is true. But ANN is simply calling them "producers" due to the fact that they're part of the production staff which... is not particularly accurate, since those are separate credits. Even then, those with "produce" and "production generalization" sometimes aren't called "producers" or mentioned in any secondary sources. Who is the producer then? Going on a case-by-case basis according to what information is available through the inconsistent secondary sources doesn't seem like a very viable option, in my opinion, and I don't believe the production team, or the industry itself, is looking to categorize all of these individuals under the single monomer that is "producer", given that the the original Japanese language credits include a myriad of different credits. I don't have a whole lot of faith in secondary sources when it comes to the "producer" predicament for these reasons. I strictly believe that all of the producers (プロデューサー) be credited in the infoboxes, or that the entire infobox parameter be removed to avoid issues. Making exceptions due to secondary source coverage is simply not something I can get behind, especially if it's going to be choppy information that omits those not deemed notable enough due to lack of secondary source coverage.
You're probably right on the differences between TV and film productions, but there are also things like A Silent Voice (5 producers), Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms (6 producers), Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry (7 producers), and Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa (9 producers).
Regarding ANN news coverage not reporting on producers, that's not due to ANN simply not reporting on the producers, it's just that it's very rare for an official website or news source to detail who is producing a project outside of, say, "produce" credits like the aforementioned GENCO ( example). The only example I can think of where an anime's website detailed the producer is Spiritpact ( this). Even film websites don't report on producers, like Maquia's or Kizumonogatari's. Sarcataclysmal ( talk) 05:08, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
Why not just do what I did for Powerpuff Girls? You can always make a collapsible list so the trivial details only show up with a simple click of a button. - Knowledgekid87 ( talk) 17:02, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
I'm considering revamping magical girl after going through reference books. I just looked through Category:Magical girl television series and I'm seeing a lot of series that don't have it officially sourced as a genre? Magical girl is largely coined by Japanese media and some of the shows that were listed under the category don't even reference it as a genre, like H2O: Mermaid Adventures. lullabying ( talk) 05:47, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the feedback. I started removing some unsourced series from Category:Magical girl television series and will be working on Category:Magical girl anime and manga next. I've also rewritten Magical girl, so any feedback is helpful. lullabying ( talk) 09:11, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
Hey all! I have started working on the Gun Blaze West article, and am in need of more reviews from reliable outlets to help improve the reception section. I'm already using the following: https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/05/06/gun-blaze-west-volume-1-review https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/gun-blaze-west/gn-3 Thanks in advance! Link20XX ( talk) 23:01, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
Thanks! I will use them to improve the reception section! Link20XX ( talk) 23:50, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
Dear sirs: I would like to participate in the project. Please talk on my talk page if yes. Waylon1 ( talk) 04:20, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
As I was working in Subaru Sumeragi I happened to find this Newtype magazine about the character's liveaction role. By any chance, is there somebody who could check and see if I can add more about actor's casting? I managed to find the other Japanese actors, but the liveaction film seems too obscure in comparison. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 17:07, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
I don't think this series is notable, but please take a look and fix the problems noted as tagged. Bearian ( talk) 20:19, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
I've seen that @ Alexandra IDV: changed the Gigant volume list links from the Japanese (Shogakukan) and English (Seven Seas Entertainment) publishers to news website links (Natalie and Anime News Network). Most part of the manga articles use the original publisher links for dates, ISBN and such info for the volume list and I think they are enough to cover this basic information. So, should we only use secondary sources for volume lists or are the original publisher links enough? - Xexerss ( talk) 13:06, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Talk:Clannad (visual novel) § Requested move 19 December 2020. Question at hand: is (visual novel)
a valid form of parenthetical disambiguation for our articles? —
Goszei (
talk)
19:51, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
I've been working on the recently created article Fuma Monou. I have seen some old reviews of the manga where Sequelart uses the form "Fuuma" instead. However, behind the voice actors uses "Fuma" when dealing with the character. Is there a certain guideline about it? I thought Wikipedia was against using macrons but I don't know about the character's first name. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 11:09, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
Thanks. Seems like the newest sources for his role in Tsubasa or X's compilation DVDs seem to prefer more the simpler, Fuma like.
"Fuma's transformation is vastly more believable here than it was in the film".
"Fuma", or "Fuma wrapping his arm". Still, added the optional Fuuma to the lead similar to what I did with Kamui. Tintor2 ( talk) 21:03, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
Just alerting the project that The Heart of Thomas is currently a featured article candidate. Any comments that could improve the article would be appreciated. Morgan695 ( talk) 02:43, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
This page has been tagged for issues for almost 11 years. Let's fix it, merge it, or nominate it for deletion. Bearian ( talk) 23:07, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
I was wondering if we should keep Kaiji's Gambles section featured in its article. They are relevant for the plot but I'm not sure if we should apply the same criteria as with the Plot section and overlook that it doesn't cite any source. Aside from the plot section, that as far as I know it doesn't require sources, this section is the only one in the article that doesn't include sources. What do you think? - Xexerss ( talk) 20:17, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
Hey all! I have done some work on AnimEigo and Media Blasters, as well as considering starting work on NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan, and was wondering if it's alright if I just rip out the title lists in them. I don't think they add much to the article and finding a citation for each is difficult (and in some cases next to impossible). I just want to know everyone's opinion on it before I do it. Thanks for your time! Link20XX ( talk) 00:33, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
I was talking with Crosswrm about adding episode/unit directors and screenplay writers into the tables for the Monogatari series episode list, but I thought that adding that might cloud up the tables with too much information; Crosswrm and I both agree that keeping the "Opening credits" parameter is viable considering the sales of the CS songs, and I think that removing the "Endcards" parameter would be fine because they're not particularly notable and their usage dwindles as time goes on (Hana, Tsuki, some Owari I episodes, Koyomi, Kizu, Owari II, and Zoku Owari don't have any).
So, thoughts on this? Sarcataclysmal ( talk) 18:21, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed a series of additions by this anonymous user that are at best poorly worded, may be something unsourced but correct, or that at worst is someone adding things across multiple articles as a sort of "sneaky vandalism". I'm not familiar enough with the topics myself, but I thought maybe some folks could review all their contributions lately to see what needs cleanup / removal. Best, umrguy 42 03:30, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
About a week back, while organizing various light novel pages, I noticed a page called Wicked City (novel). As it seemed to focus on the light-novel series more so than the original article, I merged the information found on Hideyuki Kikuchi's page onto the article. Furthermore, in addition to the Japanese article, I added in dates and ISBN numbers for all the novels of the Wicked City city. For those who could understand Japanese, is it possible to find anything that could signify the plot summary or synopsis for any of the books for the series as well as the series' reception? Because so far, the article still veers way too much into the primary source range. The book series seems pretty important on its own (apart from the better known OVA film and the Hong Kong film) because the first three novels received English translations between 2009 and 2010. Yoshiman6464 ♫🥚 00:07, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Regarding Jenya, she is also listed under the categories Category:Japanese female singers, Category:Japanese television personalities, Category:Japanese video game actresses, and Category:Japanese voice actresses. She is actually a Russian expatriate who later gained Japanese citizenship, so she is nationally Japanese. But should she be listed under these categories? lullabying ( talk) 06:35, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
This category contains articles on people according to their civic nationality (legal affiliation with a state), so I would assume Japanese is correct here based on your post.-- Alexandra IDV 10:08, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
The article title Aishite Knight doesn't match the name in the article which is consistently Ai Shite Knight. Just a random find, so posting here in case someone with more interest than me wants to fix it or figure out what's up.
Cheers, Fredlesaltique ( talk) 01:27, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
Got some sad news for those who are familiar with Flyer22 Frozen ( talk · contribs) and her work: she passed away earlier this week. She was a well-loved contributor and editor who made quite a few contributions to some anime articles, and will be truly missed by us all. Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 23:32, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
Should Loading (TV channel) be a part of this WikiProject? The channel has partnerships with both Funimation and Crunchyroll, and has aired many anime series. Link20XX ( talk) 18:23, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I've been checking some articles on media that have an animated series, and notice that for series that are currently under hiatus, like Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun, their run dates are still marked as "original run date to present". On others, like Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, they're separated into their own seasons with their own air dates (which have ended). What's the standard here? Make different sections in the infobox if the seasons are named differently? (please mention me on reply) — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 21:39, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
Is this good enough to warrant an entry in such a list? I am well aware that ANN is considered a reliable source for news. However, this article is not news and is instead an interpretation of a single scene. To extrapolate that and include it in this list is clear original research. Bringing it here since the editor who owns this article is belligerent and I can't be bothered dealing with them. — Xezbeth ( talk) 15:22, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
There's a debate going on at the Misato Katsuragi article. The discussion is at Talk:Misato Katsuragi#Misato on Rebuild.. Input from project members would be appreciated. Thanks, Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 06:59, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
Hello everyone I am new and I joined Wikipedia 2 days ago. I just joined project anime and manga. Can I edit any anime I want or just the ones mentioned on the page because I want to edit Cardfight!! Vanguard. Queen of Vanguard ( talk) 07:33, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
Thanks 👍 Queen of Vanguard ( talk) 07:57, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
How do I join? Starkiryu64 ( talk) 01:08, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
But how do you put in your profile? Starkiryu64 ( talk) 01:25, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Thank you very much. Starkiryu64 ( talk) 01:41, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Sandbox Organiser A place to help you organise your work |
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I've been working on a tool for the past few months that you may find useful. Wikipedia:Sandbox organiser is a set of tools to help you better organise your draft articles and other pages in your userspace. It also includes areas to keep your to do lists, bookmarks, list of tools. You can customise your sandbox organiser to add new features and sections. Once created you can access it simply by clicking the sandbox link at the top of the page. You can create and then customise your own sandbox organiser just by clicking the button on the page. All ideas for improvements and other versions would be really appreciated.
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John Cummings ( talk) 10:55, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
I've run into a bit of a problem with the article title and lead for Urahara. Right now, the lead reads "Urahara is a webcomic written by Patrick Macias and illustrated by Mugi Tanaka." However, this is not the case--the anime adaptation of the webcomic is titled Urahara, but the webcomic itself is titled PARK Harajuku: Crisis Team! How should I handle this? Maybe make the first sentence of the lead something like "Urahara is an anime series based on the webcomic PARK Harajuku: Crisis Team!, which is written by Patrick Macias and illustrated by Mugi Tanaka"? Any advice would be appreciated. Sandtalon ( talk) 03:42, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
I'm going to attempt to clean up Musical: The Prince of Tennis and Musical: Touken Ranbu, but there seems to be an excess of information that I don't know if it's appropriate for Wikipedia specifically. One issue is the cast listing, where in a series with so many actors getting top billing in a series of musicals, it makes it look excessive. I tried narrowing down only to the main characters for Hyper Projection Engeki: Haikyu!! but I'm not sure if I should do it for the other articles, especially Touken Ranbu. What information should I keep or cut out? lullabying ( talk) 20:44, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
I've been trying to expand the article Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School but I think the plot section needs some check. Also, while I managed to find a source in regards to how Madman Entertainment licensed the series for Australia, the infobox says Muse Communication licensed the series for other countries from Asia. Sadly, I can't find anything about Muse's license since the official website uses a language I can't understand (Taiwanese?). If somebody could lend me a hand, I would appreciate it. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 22:51, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
Recently there has been expansion in most Evangelion articles. However, there seems to be a discussion at Talk:Kaworu Nagisa#Expansion involving a disagreement about unsourced material or sources needing more details. More comments would be helpful. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 15:50, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
Some manga pages list licenses from other countries, such as Taiwan, China, Germany, France, Poland, etc. Since there are so many languages that manga could be published in, is it necessary to include information about licenses in other countries outside of English-language publications? lullabying ( talk) 08:37, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
They should be split as anime and manga are not the same — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.222.180.90 ( talk) 19:04, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
A proposed merger of the LGBT themes in anime and manga and History of LGBT anime pages is located at Talk:LGBT themes in anime and manga#Merger proposal and may be of interest to the members of this WikiProject. Historyday01 ( talk) 18:12, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eleven Arts, which has been relisted again. Someone mentioned anime, so I thought you might be able to help. I think the main question is whether the sources are truly independent, which is something that might be easier for someone who is familiar with the subject area. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 18:37, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
For Horimiya, I'm going to include information about the live-action adaptation but I'm unsure whether to use the infobox for film or television series, as the project was announced as both mediums (film first while it is later aired on television). I ran into a similar problem while drafting King of Prism: Shiny Seven Stars. lullabying ( talk) 01:14, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
Its called the History of LGBT anime. I know its not comprehensive and obviously does not include every anime with LGBTQ characters, but I tried to pick the ones where there was overlap, like when a director, like Kunihiko Ikuhara worked on various productions or something like that. So, I just thought I'd like you all know about it. -- Historyday01 ( talk) 15:00, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
For those interested there is also a discussion about content involving Ranma 1/2. - Knowledgekid87 ( talk) 23:42, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
I have started a new discussion at Talk:Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma#How licensors are represented. I would like as many opinions as possible. Link20XX ( talk) 04:31, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
After undergoing a substantial peer review, The Heart of Thomas is again a featured article candidate. While I personally have no problem with (and in fact welcome) editors who wish to make "drive-by comments" on FACs, one of the reasons cited for the nomination's original failure was that it received a large volume of passing comments and few substantive reviews. So with that in mind, I would invite interested editors to review the FAC, and look forward to receiving your feedback. Morgan695 ( talk) 19:27, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga/Online reliable sources. There are several new sources posted there for consideration by the project (namely: Mangapedia, Anime Herald, Comicbook, and the Journal of Anime & Manga Studies). — Goszei ( talk) 20:13, 4 March 2021 (UTC) — Goszei ( talk) 20:13, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
Some studios have their name disambiguated as "studio name" (company), like Pierrot (company) and Shaft (company), while others have their name disambiguated as "studio name" (studio), like NAZ (studio), MAPPA (studio), and Bones (studio). What is the standard? Link20XX ( talk) 02:52, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
Hey, everyone, I apologize to have plugged this almost 3 times now but the discussion at Talk:List of Shugo Chara! soundtracks#Merger proposal has been open for almost a year with very little feedback. Your input is appreciated. lullabying ( talk) 22:47, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
Received request to merge the LGBT themes in anime and manga article into the History of LGBT anime article in February 2021. Reason: Merge these ...following the guidance outlined on WP:MERGEINIT. However, after some discussion on Anime and manga WikiProject and looking at this page, I see overlap between the two pages... User:Historyday01. Discuss it >>>HERE<<<. – GenQuest "scribble" 04:44, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
I've seen that someone add family as a genre to the One Piece and One Piece (TV series) articles, which is a tag used on Viz Media website. [1] I think that Viz Media uses that tag for customers, for commercial purposes rather than using it to mean to be an actual genre. I don't think that Viz tags should be automatically be considered genres and I'd say that it should be removed. - Xexerss ( talk) 23:16, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
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In the past weeks I created a character article for Danganronpa character Hajime Hinata. However, due to some issues involving a sockpuppet rushing it one in early January, the video game project sent it to deletion. I tried rewriting everything and include as much possible real world information as possible in the draft located here but it appears most editors still want it deleted. If more users could voice their comments I would appreciate it. Tintor2 ( talk) 17:10, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
A user created List of magical girls which seems to be lacking sources and has been listing characters that technically aren't magical girls. Any editing help is welcome! lullabying ( talk) 01:07, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
I have started a new discussion on Talk:LGBT in anime#Thoughts on the article and how to improve it. I would like your input if you can provide it. Thanks in advance! Link20XX ( talk) 22:33, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
I have started a new discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga/Online reliable sources#Monsters and Critics. Please input your thoughts. Have a great day! Link20XX ( talk) 16:37, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Reading the supernatural fiction article, it seems that supernatural is a subgenre of fantasy fiction. So I think that articles that include both genres, for example JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and its parts, should only include supernatural as a genre instead of both fantasy and supernatural. What do you think? - Xexerss ( talk) 02:41, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
There's an anonymous IP editor who keeps making a separate section for the cast of the live-action drama adaptation when the live-action cast is already listed next to the drama CD cast on the characters section. Your input at Talk:Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!#Edit war is highly appreciated. lullabying ( talk) 03:20, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
Hey everyone! I have started a discussion on Talk:Yasuke (anime) about renaming the article. I would greatly appreciate it if you could give your thoughts. Link20XX ( talk) 15:30, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
I know well enough this eroge VN is and was quite famous (and notorious). Still - the sources I found are all considered of low validity, and so the article faces deletion. I guess editors here that are keen on the VN world, especially eroge VN world are well aware of its fame and infamy. The other option is that I was transferred to this dimension from another, but this seems a tad farfetched. אילן שמעוני ( talk) 17:46, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
I noticed that someone tried to add an Indonesian network to the infobox on Superior Defender Gundam Force with a "network_other" variable but it didn't work, I tried to work with it based on the existing data including trying "network_in" and adding " IN = Indosiar" below "network_other" but still couldn't get it to work. Mattwo7 ( talk) 22:41, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
There is a request to merge Original video animation to Direct-to-video. Editors are invited to make improvements/give input. — Goszei ( talk) 23:58, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
There is a request to merge Isekai to Accidental travel. Editors are invited to make improvements/give input. — Goszei ( talk) 06:11, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
I think it was a mistake to merge Shiro and Sven (Voltron). I think they should be split again I have started a discussion at Talk:Sven (Voltron) Dwanyewest ( talk) 05:52, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello. We've been having a discussion for a while but have hit an inpasse. I believe a big portion of the article was unbalanced and/or misrepresented, missing lots of information etc, breaking NPOV. As of now I still wish to remove some things I consider to be kruft, like overdescription of early drafts, disproven fan speculation and a misatributed joke. I also wish to include some other things to balance it out but the editor disagrees. Relevant diff. The talk page is massive, but you can ignore what's before the 3O section. FelipeFritschF ( talk) 04:18, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
@ FelipeFritschF: It appears you keep removing such information despite the discussions. From what I get you are removing original ideas about giving the ideas that didn't make it to the series like more homoerotic scenes that weren't approved by the producers whch seems quite notable or his portrayal in Rebuild. Why is such information uncyclopedic if it is written by the staff. Is it that trivial? The other GA character articles have similar information. Tintor2 ( talk) 12:58, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
The site had a free weekend, so I clipped nearly 1000 articles in regards to anime and manga and video games most of which aren't otherwise archived online. I found a lot of gold in there too, such as the excellent series of articles by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin called Drawn and Quartered that profiled anime. And I found a lot of anime films like Twilight of the Cockroaches, Robot Carnival, Lensman or Macross 2 got screened and reviewed by mainstream film reviewers (who often weren't very kind). Plus a bunch of "hey there's this thing called Japanimation and it's taking over" style articles from the early to mid 1990's.
Below is just a sampling. Hit search to find more.
Harizotoh9 ( talk) 16:11, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
I created the article Agumon but I'm not sure exactly how the character should be handled. See talk page Talk:Agumon#Page where a user wonders about how the character should be handled. I wonder if it might be like a Pokemon article or something. Tintor2 ( talk) 14:05, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
While expanding the article, for some reason I have barely found four reviews about the first season of Megalobox even though that series has already been localized in Western regions as it aired in Japan in 2018 and as well as Adult Swim. Fandompost, IGN and even DVDTalk have nothing about it. If anybody finds reviews about the series' first season and adds them to the talk page I'd appreciate and I'll try improving it more. However, I'm not sure if the second season should be given its own article. Tintor2 ( talk) 01:47, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
As more characters were added to the anime To Your Eternity, the actors started commenting on their own twitter account about their experiences. Initially, I placed all actors' comments in a subsection of development. However, new characters keep being added to the story so I wonder if I should use the GA Devil Survivor 2: The Animation as an example and add commentaries to each character. What do you guys think? Happy editing. Tintor2 ( talk) 23:01, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
There has been a recent string of PRODs by User:Waxworker, mostly in the eroge/hentai animanga topic area. I am just dropping a message here for added visibility: Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/News/Article alerts. — Goszei ( talk) 23:01, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
I've found various Kentaro Miura interviews in various languages. Here are some of them:
I also found scans from other interviews featured in two art books, but with these links alone there is enough material to expand the Berserk (manga) production section and add some subsections as well. Most of these are already linked in the article, but there is much more content in them that could be added. I would highly appreciate if someone can help with this. - Xexerss ( talk) 21:30, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
Osamu Kobayashi (illustrator) 116,369 3,878 Stub--13:55, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 70 | ← | Archive 72 | Archive 73 | Archive 74 | Archive 75 | Archive 76 | Archive 77 |
I wanted to get your opinion on how the Japanese text is handled on One Piece, it was a bold edit i made, but i'm curious if it makes the article better. I moved all the Japanese text to the bottom of the article under "Japanese". Not all of it was moved to the bottom; Only the Japanese text that made it harder to read the article. Still would like your opinion and see if this is a style we can pursue on other articles. Blue Pumpkin Pie Chat Contribs 15:45, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
{{
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scheme, which would also work here in case you wanted the hovering over the reference to show the full nihongo information.
AngusWOOF (
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21:56, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
About three years ago, there were some concerns raised about why the {{ WikiProject Anime and manga}} template doesn't use the {{ WPBannerMeta}} scheme. When I proposed a suggestion on the talk page, it was shot down. Goszei ( talk · contribs) brought the matter up on my talk page and pointed out that it caused some problems with the bot on Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Popular pages as well as some display issues. The bot couldn't figure out the importances. I think we should revisit the category schemes and figure out what is the best possible way to fix up the display issues and maintain category consistency. Thoughts? Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 09:14, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
{{
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. Other than Military history (which is one of the oldest WikiProjects and has a large number of unique features), I don't know why any of these have retained their non-standard construction for such a long time - the last conversions to WPBannerMeta were {{
WikiProject Ships}}
and {{
WikiProject Systems}}
in August/September 2012. Notifying
MSGJ (
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Jj98 (
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Just a note that Animate now redirects to a disambiguation page per Talk:Animate (disambiguation)#Requested move 23 June 2020 and all links to that must be changed to Animate (retailer). lullabying ( talk) 08:01, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
Are long-running blogs/websites like THEM anime that has been active since 2003 reliable enough to be cited in the reception section? Where do we draw the line, particularly when we are dealing with blogs/sites that have been running for many years and have multiple authors? I don't think a single-author blogs are reliable, but when they cross into small portals/sites... -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:55, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
Per discussion at
Talk:Yaoi#Italicizing, the template used for romanized Japanese words should be {{
lang|ja-latn|yaoi}}
instead of italicizing. Should we start using the template for shojo, shonen, josei, etc.?
lullabying (
talk)
00:16, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
{{
transl|ja|yaoi}}
which has the same output but is less clunky to type. If you're going with {{
lang}}, even though the script subtag is case insensitive,
by convention it is capitalized as "-Latn". If we're applying it widely, care should be taken for the individual words that it's appropriate (e.g. shouldn't be used for "anime").
Opencooper (
talk)
14:59, 13 July 2020 (UTC)Several anime titles have English names that have subtitles (one example being Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense.). In many cases the article is at the full English title (an example being the aforementioned Bofuri), while in others (such as Haganai and Oresuki) the article title is at the short title without the subtitle, with the subtitle only being mentioned in the lede. MOS:ANIME does not say anything about subtitles in article titles, only suggesting that the article be located at the most-commonly used English name. MOS:SUBTITLE suggests that subtitles are usually to be avoided in article titles and instead going with the most commonly-used titles, although suggesting that they may be permitted in more modern works where the subtitle is an essential part of the name. Given that there seems to be inconsistencies with how the WikiProject handles these situations, should there be a guideline of some kind on how to treat English anime titles if there's a subtitle? Should this be on a case-by-case basis, should the subtitle be dropped (especially for long titles), or should the status quo remain? Narutolovehinata5 t c csd new 00:46, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
I created Category:Anime based on manhwa. Anyone feels like creating the Category:Anime based on manhwa for the Chinese counterpart? We may also need categories for anime and non-anime animation series based on those as well as on the novels. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:06, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
I support this idea. 👍🏻 Ainz Ooal Gown ( talk) 09:39, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
I have created a discussion on a source's reliability at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga/Online reliable sources § cal.syoboi.jp, and would appreciate some input. — Goszei ( talk) 07:37, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
I would like to do a proposal on how the format "[year] in anime" articles should be standardized, using the "[year] in rock music" and "[year] in film" articles as a point of reference. We should things like include notable events (such as the premieres and finales of anime TV series or films), key awards of the year, and notable deaths. If there are any other ideas, please post here. Thanks, Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 09:36, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
When an anime season received its own page, is it fine to move its studio templates and categories to its season page? I believe it should be, especially for the series like Date A Live—the different season is animated by a different studio (S1 AIC; S2 IMS; S3 J.C.Staff; S4 likely to be Geek Toys). But that leads to another problem. For some series which have already received twenty, thirty or even more seasons by the same studio such as One Piece, Naruto, Case Closed, it is impractical as their wikilink in the anime studio template is to their series' main page and that is the only one—to reach their seasons respectively, it needs to add a chunk number of wikilinks in their templates. Unnamelessness ( talk) 06:52, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
Recently, I found @ SpectresWrath is moving anime season articles insufficiently (or incorrectly) to pages that are inconsistent for others. He told me that the new page names are the official titles, and I believe while it is applied WP:TVSEASON in some particular series, it is not good practice. For example, Date A Live series was named as "Date A Live (season X)", which works perfectly fine for template:Infobox television season, but he moved season 2&3 articles to Date A Live II and Date A Live III respectively without season 1. Then I felt season 1 is inconsistency (now still remain as "Date A Live (season 1)") for season 2 and season 3, so I moved the page to Date A Live I. However, that is not the end. He moved season 1 page to Date A Live (2013 TV series). Sure it applies MOS:TV, but fails WP:TITLECON. We need consistency in the anime season pages.
To do so, I first summaries there are four situations in terms of anime season articles:
It would be easy to name if a series is approached by only one situation, but what if there are multiple? I summaries there roughly are several scenarios as followings:
Situations: a) and b)
Example: Strike the Blood
Season | Situation | Official Name | Current Name | Naming as per MOS:TV | Naming as per WP:TITLECON | Alternative solution |
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1 | a | Strike the Blood | Strike the Blood (season 1) | Strike the Blood ( |
Strike the Blood (season/series 1) | Strike the Blood I |
2 | b | Strike the Blood II | Strike the Blood II | Strike the Blood II | Strike the Blood (season/series 2) | Strike the Blood II |
3 | b | Strike the Blood III | Strike the Blood III | Strike the Blood III | Strike the Blood (season/series 3) | Strike the Blood III |
4 | b | Strike the Blood IV | Strike the Blood IV | Strike the Blood IV | Strike the Blood (season/series 4) | Strike the Blood IV |
For this scenario, I believe the alternative solution is the best as it applies both WP:TVSEASON and WP:TITLECON.
Situations: a) and c)
Example: The Seven Deadly Sins
Season | Situation | Official Name | Current Name | Naming as per MOS:TV | Naming as per WP:TITLECON |
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1 | a | The Seven Deadly Sins | The Seven Deadly Sins (2014 TV series) | The Seven Deadly Sins ( |
The Seven Deadly Sins (season/series 1) |
Special | c | The Seven Deadly Sins: Signs of Holy War | The Seven Deadly Sins: Signs of Holy War | The Seven Deadly Sins: Signs of Holy War | The Seven Deadly Sins (season/series special) |
2 | c | The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments | The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments | The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments | The Seven Deadly Sins (season/series 2) |
3 | c | The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath of the Gods | The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath of the Gods | The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath of the Gods | The Seven Deadly Sins (season/series 3) |
4 | c | The Seven Deadly Sins: Anger's Judgement | The Seven Deadly Sins: Anger's Judgement | The Seven Deadly Sins: Anger's Judgement | The Seven Deadly Sins (season/series 4) |
For this scenario, I believe MOS:TV perfectly applies here.
Situations: a), b) and c)
Example: Sword Art Online
Season | Situation | Official Name | Current Name | Naming as per MOS:TV | Naming as per WP:TITLECON |
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1 | a | Sword Art Online | Sword Art Online (2012 TV series) | Sword Art Online ( |
Sword Art Online (season/series 1) |
2 | b | Sword Art Online II | Sword Art Online II | Sword Art Online II | Sword Art Online (season/series 2) |
3 | c | Sword Art Online: Alicization | Sword Art Online: Alicization | Sword Art Online: Alicization | Sword Art Online (season/series 3) |
I'll be honest, this scenario is the toughest. I have to point out that if the articles are named as per MOS:TV, i.e. Series title (20XX TV series), I found it somewhat impactical with the Template:Infobox television season.
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With the original code, it could be like this: {{Infobox television season | bgcolour = #add8e6 | image = | caption = first season anime key visual | country = Japan | network = [[Tokyo MX]] | first_aired = {{start date|8|7}} | last_aired = {{end date|2012|12|23}} | num_episodes = 25 + 1 special | next_season = ''[[Sword Art Online II]]'' | episode_list = [[List of Sword Art Online episodes]] }} |
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To fix that, the code should be like: {{Infobox television season | season_name = ''Sword Art Online'' | season_number = 1 | bgcolour = #add8e6 | image = | caption = first season anime key visual | country = Japan | network = [[Tokyo MX]] | first_aired = {{start date|8|7}} | last_aired = {{end date|2012|12|23}} | num_episodes = 25 + 1 special | prev_season = N/A | next_season = ''[[Sword Art Online II]]'' | episode_list = [[List of Sword Art Online episodes]] | episode_list = [[List of Date A Live episodes]] }} However, the |
Given that the aforementioned reason, I would lean toward the WP:TITLECON one, unless someone could proper fix it.
Situations: a) and d)
Example: The Seven Deadly Sins
Season | Situation | Official Name | Current Name | Naming as per MOS:TV | Naming as per WP:TITLECON | Alternative solution | Notes |
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1 | a | A Certain Scientific Railgun | A Certain Scientific Railgun (2009 TV series) | A Certain Scientific Railgun ( |
A Certain Scientific Railgun (season/series 1) | A Certain Scientific Railgun F | "F" as "First" (possible WP:OR) |
2 | d | A Certain Scientific Railgun S | A Certain Scientific Railgun S | A Certain Scientific Railgun S | A Certain Scientific Railgun (season/series 2) | A Certain Scientific Railgun S | "S" as "Second" |
3 | d | A Certain Scientific Railgun T | A Certain Scientific Railgun T | A Certain Scientific Railgun T | A Certain Scientific Railgun (season/series 3) | A Certain Scientific Railgun T | "T" as "Third" |
For this scenario, I believe the WP:TITLECON one is the best, as the alternative solution is actually WP:OR. In terms of the MOS:TV one, I would suffer the same issue as scenario 3's, so I do not recommend.
Other than the above, a simple flat-out solution is ignoring MOS:TV and WP:TVSEASON, while naming all articles in the "Series title (Season/Series X)" style for WP:TITLECON, but I don't think it is a good proposal. Unnamelessness ( talk) 06:21, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
"If a television article already exists with the name of the show for which you are trying to create an article, use (YEAR TV series) in the title, if the years are different"Unnamelessness ( talk) 02:43, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
if a television article already exists with the name of the show for which you are trying to create an article. That is, the year is there to disambiguate between two identically-named TV shows. Since there is only one released named simply A Certain Scientific Railgun (or the other examples) specifically, with no subtitles or numbers, there should be no conflict and they can readily reside at just "A Certain Scientific Railgun (TV series)". If that is the naming convention used, the year should be dropped from the title, as like Goszei says, it's potentially misleading. — Kawnhr ( talk) 03:57, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
Where multiple titles are available, and where titles are equally usable in terms of recognizability, naturalness, preciseness, and conciseness [AKA the five WP:CRITERIA] then the title to be used should be consistent with titles used for similar or related topics in Wikipedia.
Goszei You still don't get it, do you? Sure, "A Certain Scientific Railgun F" is bad, but the "I" there stands for the meaning of "(season 1)". The similar case: The Amazing Race 1 (original title The Amazing Race, but add an extra "1" for the consistency with the other seasons). Of course, you can say (season 1) is the most sensible disambiguation, then it should be (season 2), (season 3)... for the rest seasons as the fact that the roman numerals/ numerical digits which follow titles undoubtedly stand for the meaning of "(season X)" (the Attack on Titan method and widely adapted by the TV sesaon articles). This is indeed the first scenario I've brought in and only applies to series of which their naming convention is [title name + season number]. A Certain Scientific Railgun, Sailor Moon and the like which have a unique naming system does not apply to here.
Having read that archive, I've got a feeling of the reason why anime TV season article titles are so inconsistency and hard to get consensus is that a) complexity (which is also why I've tried to bring in four different scenarios to solve in categorized discussion method) and b) a lack of certain policy which specifically rules the naming convention of anime and manga topic. I believe the project should create one. A third opinion would be really appreciated. Unnamelessness ( talk) 09:34, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
Please come participate at Talk:The Star of Cottonland#Correct title for this article - 7 August 2020 Thanks! ··· 日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 20:57, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
I think I might be having a potential edit war regarding the translation of the Japanese title for series. I have started a discussion in the article's talk page and could use a few more opinions on the matter. Sarujo ( talk) 21:03, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
There's an RfC regarding Kimba the White Lion that users might be interested in. © Tbhotch ™ ( en-3). 23:09, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
I created the article for Akira Fudo. While I think the reception is enough to pass notability I haven't found too much about creation. I happened to find this Go Nagai interview when googling and it seems he talks a lot about the manga, which might lead to more stuff about Akira. Sadly, it's all in Japanese even with captions on. Is there an editor with Japanese knowledge and might check the video? Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 15:40, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
I've been on a Go Nagai mood lately so after creating Akira Fudo, I found enough sources about the making and reception Mazinger Z lead Koji Kabuto. The in-universe information provided on his article is based on what it originally was before it was merged. I tried trimming parts but I'm not that familiar with the Mazinger Z series so I think an editor more familiar with the series is better suited to clean up the article. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 01:07, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
Around June 28, myself and other users discussed converting the {{
WikiProject Anime and manga}}
template to the {{
WPBannerMeta}}
scheme (
here); the completed conversion of the banner was implemented yesterday with
this revision.
If you come across any bugs related to this conversion, please report them at the template's talk page: Template talk:WikiProject Anime and manga § Bug fixing. — Goszei ( talk) 20:06, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
I want to join as an editor for this group The Masley Crooop ( talk) 13:50, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
Related to this project, since a lot of anime is science fiction. Please come participate in the discussion regarding mundane science fiction and whether there is enough to support a separate article: Talk:Mundane science fiction#Unbalanced. ··· 日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 19:39, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:List of Shugo Chara! soundtracks#Merger proposal. starship .paint ( talk) 13:18, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
Most of the descriptions below each characters' names have been removed, and the page has been protected indefinitely for "repeated insertions of unsourced content", despite similar content being on every character list I could find. I think this is needed of more opinions than just me and the other party member. 72.219.72.215 ( talk) 13:19, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
I've cleaned up the article a little and added some refs, but the characters section is huge. ANyone want to take a stab at reducing it? ··· 日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 00:44, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
Certain anime/manga titles (a small minority) are rendered in Latin characters in the original (though they often include equivalent kana in their logo). Some examples include:
My question is: How should these special cases be handled in the lead sections of our English articles? For a standard case like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (see ja:ジョジョの奇妙な冒険), we do this:
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure ( Japanese: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険, Hepburn: JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki.
Considering that, I think that a lead sentence like the following is misleading, since technically the original title is Angel Beats!, and the Japanese pronunciation of that is エンジェルビーツ! / Enjeru Bītsu!:
Angel Beats! ( Japanese: エンジェルビーツ!, Hepburn: Enjeru Bītsu!) is a 13-episode Japanese anime television series produced by P.A.Works and Aniplex and directed by Seiji Kishi.
Possible alternatives that make note of this distinction would be:
Thoughts on this? — Goszei ( talk) 21:55, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
Notes
The titles of Japanese books, CDs, and other media products may incorporate typographical effects, punctuation, or capitalization conventions generally not used in reliable native English language sources. In all cases, this original title stylization should be included in the lead of the article.
Avoid using all capital letters (except acronyms/initials), all lowercase letters (a technical restriction), or alternating upper and lower casing in article titles.
I've been trying to clean up the FL List of Devil May Cry episodes to expand on the lead's content, home media release, infobox. I've noticed the official site details each episode's director and writer for the 12 episodes but I'm not that skilled when it comes to add content to the tables as any attempt resulted in me breaking the balance. Could anybody give it a look? Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 21:04, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
Looks like the episode list List of Boruto: Naruto Next Generations episodes is becoming quite large. A user suggested the idea of splitting it in the talk page but I don't know how Aniplex or Viz Media are dividing it since the first DVD apparently had 15 episodes rather than the old ones of 4. It might be a good time to divide series based on its length. Tintor2 ( talk) 22:44, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (1993 anime series)#Requested move 30 August 2020, which is about an article that is within the scope of this WikiProject. — Goszei ( talk) 18:14, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
When creating Manji (Blade of the Immortal) I found that mangauk happened to have interview the author of the series but explained his idea of how he came up with protagonist. Sadly, the site is not allowed for something that happened years ago and can't be used. As a result, most of the creation section is mostly the live-action movie instead. I asked for a petition to here but I don't know if it's lacking something. There is also a blog that has two interviews but none seem to specify the original source well. One was an interview Samura had with Kishimoto and another was Samura alone talking in an adult magazine about his taste in women. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 20:39, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
While trying to clean up List of Fate/stay night characters I wondered if it was needed to merge it with List of Fate/Zero characters since they are directly connected as prequel and sequel but I don't know if it's obligatory kinda like the Gundam series created by Tomino. Tintor2 ( talk) 18:31, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
See Talk:List of Fate/stay night characters#Merge. I've been trying to clean up the main list especially now that every heroine as well Kiritsugu got their own articles. Please join to discuss. Tintor2 ( talk) 16:50, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
The episode lists List of One Piece episodes (seasons 1–8), and List of One Piece episodes (seasons 15–current) each exceed Wikipedia's post-expand include size. List of One Piece episodes (seasons 9–14) is under the limit.
The easiest thing to do is to split the 2 large lists in half or combine them all and split them into groups of 4 seasons each. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 17:12, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
I just reverted major changes made by Goszei ( talk · contribs) in regards to Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Cleanup task force. I disagree with the changes as I find Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Assessment/Cleanup listing/Header very useful among other things. Goszei can we please reach a project consensus here and have you explain why you made the changes you did? - Knowledgekid87 ( talk) 00:01, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
{{WikiProject cleanup listing|Anime and manga}}
.Comment: Hello. I closed the move discussion, and moved Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Cleanup task force → Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Cleanup. Even though I think I performed the "post move cleanup" completely, there are chances that I missed something. Kindly let me know if you come across something, and I will be glad to sort it out. Regards, —usernamekiran (talk) 20:51, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
There is a noticeboard discussion on the reliability of an interview on mangauk.com, the official website of Manga Entertainment. The interview ("Blade of the Immortal Interview with Hiroaki Samura") is proposed for use in articles related to Blade of the Immortal. If you are interested, please participate at WP:RSN § Mangauk. — Newslinger talk 16:09, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
I've seen an edit conflict in the Fire Force article between listing the Japan News Network stations in parentheses in the anime infobox, "JNN ( MBS, TBS)" or to simply list the stations "MBS, TBS". So I wonder about how should we proceed with this issue. Should we list the network and its stations in the anime infoboxes, e.g., "JNN (MBS, TBS)"; " NNS ( Nippon TV)"; " FNS ( Fuji TV)"; " TXN ( TV Tokyo)", or should we just list the stations, e.g., "MBS, TBS", "Nippon TV", "Fuji TV", "TV Tokyo"?
Also, I'd like to know if there are consensus about the networks abbreviations in the infoboxes. Should we list Nippon Television as Nippon TV or as NTV; Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation as Yomiuri TV, as YTV or as ytv; Tokyo Broadcasting System Television and Mainichi Broadcasting System Television as MBS TV and TBS TV or simply as MBS and TBS? @ GalaxyFighter55: @ Aerkdude: what are your opinions on this? - Xexerss ( talk) 10:32, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
I am proposing some updates to the {{ Graphic novel list/header}} at this talk page template to improve some functionality and would appreciate it if anyone who has an interest in this template could add some input, since this template is listed under this project, thanks. Terasail [Talk] 23:51, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
Should List of Bleach characters, List of Soul Reapers in Bleach, and List of Hollows in Bleach all actually exist separately? The "reception" in the two offshoots is honestly quite silly, either irrelevant to the topic at hand or overly reliant on a couple major characters. I don't think I see a single other series trying to justify that many lists. TTN ( talk) 14:40, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
@ TTN: Yep. They should be merged but I wonder if about the weight of the main article. There are quite a lot of characters in series especially the Soul Reapers guys. Tintor2 ( talk) 23:14, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi there. I have been wondering about the rearranging a bit a the analysis of both Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha. I happened to find a French article where the author of the series discusses the themes from the manga including the psychology of its two leads and what do they want. However, there isn't much to do so I wonder if they should be given their own section like TeenAngels1234 did with Shinji Ikari and the other Evangelion cast. However, I'm not sure if they should be separated from other sections.
@
1989: since he made Naruto FA so I won't make bold edits. Is there a guideline that might help with this?
Tintor2 (
talk)
23:11, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
A fellow user User:NotEnglishSpeaker nominated the article Sayaka Miki almost a month ago and I've been doing its review. However, the user has become inactive as I was reviewing it and the activity in general stopped. Is there any other user who might wanna help the user or should I fail the review? Been aiming to get more attention since this project doesn't tend to get that many recognized when compared to others I've been. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 20:19, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
I am wondering if anyone would be willing to peer review Chi (Chobits). It was promoted to good article in 2015 and I would like it to get a 5 year check up. - Knowledgekid87 ( talk) 20:51, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
@ Knowledgekid87: I don't have too much knowledge of the series but the article does mention differences in both manga and anime. Maybe the reception section is lacking coverage about Chi's role in one of these two media. The easiest way to find the sources is looking for reviews from the main Chobits articles since she is one of the leads. If you want to improve its prose (I'm nobody to comment though), you can also request for a copyedit for the article in the guild of the copyeditors. Tintor2 ( talk) 01:33, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
Currently,
our project's criteria for including individuals in
Category:Top-importance anime and manga articles is as follows: Individuals with an essential historical influence on the medium, e.g.
Osamu Tezuka,
Leiji Matsumoto
. The page also states: The criteria used for rating article priority are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it).
These guidelines are influenced by the over-arching
WP 1.0 scheme guidelines at
Template:Importance scheme: Subject is extremely important, even crucial, to its specific field. Reserved for subjects that have achieved international notability within their field.
WP:1.0/Release Version Criteria#WikiProject priority assessments puts it in a slightly different way: Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopedia.
Considering these standards, I think that the individuals we include in the category should be reduced down to essentials: in my opinion, articles like Yoshiko Nishitani, Hideko Mizuno, and Ken Ishikawa should be re-assessed with lower importances, but entries like Hayao Miyazaki, Osamu Tezuka, Satoshi Kon, and Hideaki Anno should stay.
Thoughts? I think we should try build consensus around particular individuals that should be included. — Goszei ( talk) 08:09, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
While I was editing the article of Onidere, I found out a problem regarding the magazine dates. Weekly Shōnen Sunday, and many other magazines, have two dates, the cover date and the actual release date, and the cover dates of WSS issues are exactly two weeks after the actual release date, as I could check founding official sources of the issues, listing both the cover date and the actual release date. Well, Onidere's cover date in the 2008 18th issue (when the series began) is April 16, 2008, [1] so I listed that date as the official date when the series began, since I couldn't find a source listing the actual release date, but The World God Only Knows has the official release date, which was on April 9, 2008, [2] but the series began in the 2008 19th issue of WSS, after Onidere, so it wouldn't make sense to have Onidere's article stating that it was released after TWGOW, when clearly it began before. By the way, I could check that, at least from the 2010 1st issue onwards, Media Arts lists the magazines with the actual release date, and in some cases with both cover date and actual release dates. [3] [4] So, just for the Weekly Shōnen Sunday's case, I propose to leave a note after the sources of the series which only list the cover date, something like "the actual release date is two weeks before the cover date" or something similar, to make all of this more coherent, otherwise, we should just list the cover dates for each series, but I don't think this is a good idea, since we have many series with the actual release dates verified listed. What do you think?
P.S.: Now that I think about it Web Sunday's first backstage can serve as a reference to know when a series began,
[5] if nobody opposes to it, I will use it as a source for the Onidere's article. -
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I'd like to hear other editor's thoughts on what qualifies a series to be added to Category:Anime and manga controversies. Is being banned in a single country enough to be included? Cause China has quite the list for example, most seen at Category:Works banned in China. What about stuff like what happened in Australia where stores decide to stop carrying/selling a series? What about when a series gets cancelled due to the actions of some people behind it like Act-Age? The controversy in that case is not due to the work itself.
A related question I thought of when writing the above and discovering Category:Censored works, which is for "series that suffered from censorship in any form, at any time." There are so many English/foreign versions of manga and anime that are censored by their foreign publishers. Is that not self-censorship? If it is, then such works qualify for Category:Censored works. Thoughts? Xfansd ( talk) 19:28, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Yaoi#Requested move 8 November 2020. Flyer22 Frozen ( talk) 02:52, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
I've been expanding Kimihiro Watanuki, hoping to nominate to GA in the future after a copyedit. However, does anybody think it's a bit unbalanced or something? I kinda wonder if the reception should be trimmed based on the weight it has. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 21:36, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
@ DragonZero: @ Xfansd: User talk:Haleth
Doing some pings since these three have experience with these types of articles. Tintor2 ( talk) 21:51, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
I've been finding a lot of reception involving the second protagonist of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, "Syaoran". However, I'm confused about making an article since I have no idea what would be the title. The character is first introduced directly as the "Other Syaoran", then "Syaoran Li", and lastly his tr—ue name is revealed to be "Tsubasa". Any suggestion? Tintor2 ( talk) 17:23, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
@ Haleth: Created Tsubasa (Syaoran) but I'm not confident about the title. I mean the character only uses his name Tsubasa once in the entire series. In every cameo or sequel, he goes back to Syaoran. Tintor2 ( talk) 19:57, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
@ Haleth: I see. I remember Clamp commenting in the guidebook that "clone" was the most used term to talk about Syaoran and Sakura although they instead used the term "Unmushi" or "copy". Then again, I don't know what term did DelRey use the most for the English publication of the manga (a review called them "image") in a similar fashion with how Toriyama uses either "android" or "artificial humans" for some Dragon Ball characters. Tintor2 ( talk)
@ Haleth: Left the request at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests based on your suggestion and also based on the terms the reviewers for the manga and OVAs tend to do. Tintor2 ( talk) 20:03, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
Just out of curiosity, how does CLAMP distinguish Syaoran prior to the Tsubasa name reveal? Blue Pumpkin Pie Chat Contribs 20:33, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
Blue Pumpkin Pie They just call him "Syaoran" or the "The Other Syaoran". The whole series is filled with parallel versions of most characters who share the same names like Clamp's Ashura, Subaru or Kamui, etc. Tintor2 ( talk) 20:44, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
They created Syaoran and Sakura but with the Japanese concept of "utsushimi" rather than the Western approach clone. However, the reviewers seem to call Syaoran and Sakura clones. Not sure about the actual licensed manga volumes. Tintor2 ( talk) 21:28, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
Feel free to comment. Tintor2 ( talk) 15:16, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi all,
Just wondering if there's ever been an official RFC or !vote on this project to explicitly exclude non-Japanese, yet ostensibly anime-style works etc. from this project? I can't find any explicit discussion in the archives, although I could fine a couple times where this was brought up with mixed support. I personally believe the scope should be changed to include all anime-styled works for the following reasons:
If anyone has any thoughts/input on this matter as it'll be interesting to see if there is enough support to progress to official RFC (or if I'm the only one advocating this!) Satellizer el Bridget (Talk) 14:12, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
"Its a cultural issue that we shouldn't decide" - except that we are WikiProject Anime and Manga, so deciding how these issues are covered is literally our job.
After finding a lot of real world information of Jotaro Kujo, I managed to give him his article. Sadly, the volumes I have from Star Dust Crusaders are not the same published in North America so I don't know how to reference the article. Also, I have little knowledge about other appearances like video games or liveaction, so I think this article needs further work. In case anybody decides to help, I'll appreciate it. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 01:09, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
I created the article X (1996 film) but I failed to find its work its debut in the Japanese box office or even its actual poster. I tried Anime News Newtork but they instead used the cover of the home media release. By any chance does anybody know of a possible source. By the way, most English reviews seem to fully title the movie "X: The Movie" and I wonder if it's okay to move it since the guidelines tend to avoid disambiguation titles. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 20:05, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
I would like to start a discussion on these lists. My opinion is that producers who aren't mentioned in secondary coverage should not be included -- this accounts for the exceptions where producers appear to have a particularly strong role within a project (like for some TV series, and for most (?) films).
Pinging for input User:Sarcataclysmal, who I often see filling in this parameter. — Goszei ( talk) 03:33, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
Only listing producers mentioned in secondary sources is a flawed method of going about this, in my opinion. Really, I think we should either include all of the producers (given the プロデューサー credit), or include none of them at all. This is due to the fact that secondary sources generalize those involved in the production of series as all being "producers", whether they be "chief producers" (チーフプロデューサー), whatever "produce" is (プロデュース, which is normally given to companies like GENCO, albeit this isnt always true), or "production generalization" (制作プロデューサー). A good example of this is Land of the Lustrous, where, in a citation, ANN states that Kiyotaka Waki and Katsuhiro Takei are "producers" for the series; they were part of the production staff (as "produce" and "production generalization", according to the series' credits), this is true. But ANN is simply calling them "producers" due to the fact that they're part of the production staff which... is not particularly accurate, since those are separate credits. Even then, those with "produce" and "production generalization" sometimes aren't called "producers" or mentioned in any secondary sources. Who is the producer then? Going on a case-by-case basis according to what information is available through the inconsistent secondary sources doesn't seem like a very viable option, in my opinion, and I don't believe the production team, or the industry itself, is looking to categorize all of these individuals under the single monomer that is "producer", given that the the original Japanese language credits include a myriad of different credits. I don't have a whole lot of faith in secondary sources when it comes to the "producer" predicament for these reasons. I strictly believe that all of the producers (プロデューサー) be credited in the infoboxes, or that the entire infobox parameter be removed to avoid issues. Making exceptions due to secondary source coverage is simply not something I can get behind, especially if it's going to be choppy information that omits those not deemed notable enough due to lack of secondary source coverage.
You're probably right on the differences between TV and film productions, but there are also things like A Silent Voice (5 producers), Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms (6 producers), Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry (7 producers), and Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa (9 producers).
Regarding ANN news coverage not reporting on producers, that's not due to ANN simply not reporting on the producers, it's just that it's very rare for an official website or news source to detail who is producing a project outside of, say, "produce" credits like the aforementioned GENCO ( example). The only example I can think of where an anime's website detailed the producer is Spiritpact ( this). Even film websites don't report on producers, like Maquia's or Kizumonogatari's. Sarcataclysmal ( talk) 05:08, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
Why not just do what I did for Powerpuff Girls? You can always make a collapsible list so the trivial details only show up with a simple click of a button. - Knowledgekid87 ( talk) 17:02, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
I'm considering revamping magical girl after going through reference books. I just looked through Category:Magical girl television series and I'm seeing a lot of series that don't have it officially sourced as a genre? Magical girl is largely coined by Japanese media and some of the shows that were listed under the category don't even reference it as a genre, like H2O: Mermaid Adventures. lullabying ( talk) 05:47, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the feedback. I started removing some unsourced series from Category:Magical girl television series and will be working on Category:Magical girl anime and manga next. I've also rewritten Magical girl, so any feedback is helpful. lullabying ( talk) 09:11, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
Hey all! I have started working on the Gun Blaze West article, and am in need of more reviews from reliable outlets to help improve the reception section. I'm already using the following: https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/05/06/gun-blaze-west-volume-1-review https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/gun-blaze-west/gn-3 Thanks in advance! Link20XX ( talk) 23:01, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
Thanks! I will use them to improve the reception section! Link20XX ( talk) 23:50, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
Dear sirs: I would like to participate in the project. Please talk on my talk page if yes. Waylon1 ( talk) 04:20, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
As I was working in Subaru Sumeragi I happened to find this Newtype magazine about the character's liveaction role. By any chance, is there somebody who could check and see if I can add more about actor's casting? I managed to find the other Japanese actors, but the liveaction film seems too obscure in comparison. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 17:07, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
I don't think this series is notable, but please take a look and fix the problems noted as tagged. Bearian ( talk) 20:19, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
I've seen that @ Alexandra IDV: changed the Gigant volume list links from the Japanese (Shogakukan) and English (Seven Seas Entertainment) publishers to news website links (Natalie and Anime News Network). Most part of the manga articles use the original publisher links for dates, ISBN and such info for the volume list and I think they are enough to cover this basic information. So, should we only use secondary sources for volume lists or are the original publisher links enough? - Xexerss ( talk) 13:06, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Talk:Clannad (visual novel) § Requested move 19 December 2020. Question at hand: is (visual novel)
a valid form of parenthetical disambiguation for our articles? —
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I've been working on the recently created article Fuma Monou. I have seen some old reviews of the manga where Sequelart uses the form "Fuuma" instead. However, behind the voice actors uses "Fuma" when dealing with the character. Is there a certain guideline about it? I thought Wikipedia was against using macrons but I don't know about the character's first name. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 11:09, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
Thanks. Seems like the newest sources for his role in Tsubasa or X's compilation DVDs seem to prefer more the simpler, Fuma like.
"Fuma's transformation is vastly more believable here than it was in the film".
"Fuma", or "Fuma wrapping his arm". Still, added the optional Fuuma to the lead similar to what I did with Kamui. Tintor2 ( talk) 21:03, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
Just alerting the project that The Heart of Thomas is currently a featured article candidate. Any comments that could improve the article would be appreciated. Morgan695 ( talk) 02:43, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
This page has been tagged for issues for almost 11 years. Let's fix it, merge it, or nominate it for deletion. Bearian ( talk) 23:07, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
I was wondering if we should keep Kaiji's Gambles section featured in its article. They are relevant for the plot but I'm not sure if we should apply the same criteria as with the Plot section and overlook that it doesn't cite any source. Aside from the plot section, that as far as I know it doesn't require sources, this section is the only one in the article that doesn't include sources. What do you think? - Xexerss ( talk) 20:17, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
Hey all! I have done some work on AnimEigo and Media Blasters, as well as considering starting work on NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan, and was wondering if it's alright if I just rip out the title lists in them. I don't think they add much to the article and finding a citation for each is difficult (and in some cases next to impossible). I just want to know everyone's opinion on it before I do it. Thanks for your time! Link20XX ( talk) 00:33, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
I was talking with Crosswrm about adding episode/unit directors and screenplay writers into the tables for the Monogatari series episode list, but I thought that adding that might cloud up the tables with too much information; Crosswrm and I both agree that keeping the "Opening credits" parameter is viable considering the sales of the CS songs, and I think that removing the "Endcards" parameter would be fine because they're not particularly notable and their usage dwindles as time goes on (Hana, Tsuki, some Owari I episodes, Koyomi, Kizu, Owari II, and Zoku Owari don't have any).
So, thoughts on this? Sarcataclysmal ( talk) 18:21, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed a series of additions by this anonymous user that are at best poorly worded, may be something unsourced but correct, or that at worst is someone adding things across multiple articles as a sort of "sneaky vandalism". I'm not familiar enough with the topics myself, but I thought maybe some folks could review all their contributions lately to see what needs cleanup / removal. Best, umrguy 42 03:30, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
About a week back, while organizing various light novel pages, I noticed a page called Wicked City (novel). As it seemed to focus on the light-novel series more so than the original article, I merged the information found on Hideyuki Kikuchi's page onto the article. Furthermore, in addition to the Japanese article, I added in dates and ISBN numbers for all the novels of the Wicked City city. For those who could understand Japanese, is it possible to find anything that could signify the plot summary or synopsis for any of the books for the series as well as the series' reception? Because so far, the article still veers way too much into the primary source range. The book series seems pretty important on its own (apart from the better known OVA film and the Hong Kong film) because the first three novels received English translations between 2009 and 2010. Yoshiman6464 ♫🥚 00:07, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Regarding Jenya, she is also listed under the categories Category:Japanese female singers, Category:Japanese television personalities, Category:Japanese video game actresses, and Category:Japanese voice actresses. She is actually a Russian expatriate who later gained Japanese citizenship, so she is nationally Japanese. But should she be listed under these categories? lullabying ( talk) 06:35, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
This category contains articles on people according to their civic nationality (legal affiliation with a state), so I would assume Japanese is correct here based on your post.-- Alexandra IDV 10:08, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
The article title Aishite Knight doesn't match the name in the article which is consistently Ai Shite Knight. Just a random find, so posting here in case someone with more interest than me wants to fix it or figure out what's up.
Cheers, Fredlesaltique ( talk) 01:27, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
Got some sad news for those who are familiar with Flyer22 Frozen ( talk · contribs) and her work: she passed away earlier this week. She was a well-loved contributor and editor who made quite a few contributions to some anime articles, and will be truly missed by us all. Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 23:32, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
Should Loading (TV channel) be a part of this WikiProject? The channel has partnerships with both Funimation and Crunchyroll, and has aired many anime series. Link20XX ( talk) 18:23, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I've been checking some articles on media that have an animated series, and notice that for series that are currently under hiatus, like Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun, their run dates are still marked as "original run date to present". On others, like Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, they're separated into their own seasons with their own air dates (which have ended). What's the standard here? Make different sections in the infobox if the seasons are named differently? (please mention me on reply) — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 21:39, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
Is this good enough to warrant an entry in such a list? I am well aware that ANN is considered a reliable source for news. However, this article is not news and is instead an interpretation of a single scene. To extrapolate that and include it in this list is clear original research. Bringing it here since the editor who owns this article is belligerent and I can't be bothered dealing with them. — Xezbeth ( talk) 15:22, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
There's a debate going on at the Misato Katsuragi article. The discussion is at Talk:Misato Katsuragi#Misato on Rebuild.. Input from project members would be appreciated. Thanks, Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 06:59, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
Hello everyone I am new and I joined Wikipedia 2 days ago. I just joined project anime and manga. Can I edit any anime I want or just the ones mentioned on the page because I want to edit Cardfight!! Vanguard. Queen of Vanguard ( talk) 07:33, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
Thanks 👍 Queen of Vanguard ( talk) 07:57, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
How do I join? Starkiryu64 ( talk) 01:08, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
But how do you put in your profile? Starkiryu64 ( talk) 01:25, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Thank you very much. Starkiryu64 ( talk) 01:41, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Sandbox Organiser A place to help you organise your work |
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I've been working on a tool for the past few months that you may find useful. Wikipedia:Sandbox organiser is a set of tools to help you better organise your draft articles and other pages in your userspace. It also includes areas to keep your to do lists, bookmarks, list of tools. You can customise your sandbox organiser to add new features and sections. Once created you can access it simply by clicking the sandbox link at the top of the page. You can create and then customise your own sandbox organiser just by clicking the button on the page. All ideas for improvements and other versions would be really appreciated.
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I've run into a bit of a problem with the article title and lead for Urahara. Right now, the lead reads "Urahara is a webcomic written by Patrick Macias and illustrated by Mugi Tanaka." However, this is not the case--the anime adaptation of the webcomic is titled Urahara, but the webcomic itself is titled PARK Harajuku: Crisis Team! How should I handle this? Maybe make the first sentence of the lead something like "Urahara is an anime series based on the webcomic PARK Harajuku: Crisis Team!, which is written by Patrick Macias and illustrated by Mugi Tanaka"? Any advice would be appreciated. Sandtalon ( talk) 03:42, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
I'm going to attempt to clean up Musical: The Prince of Tennis and Musical: Touken Ranbu, but there seems to be an excess of information that I don't know if it's appropriate for Wikipedia specifically. One issue is the cast listing, where in a series with so many actors getting top billing in a series of musicals, it makes it look excessive. I tried narrowing down only to the main characters for Hyper Projection Engeki: Haikyu!! but I'm not sure if I should do it for the other articles, especially Touken Ranbu. What information should I keep or cut out? lullabying ( talk) 20:44, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
I've been trying to expand the article Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School but I think the plot section needs some check. Also, while I managed to find a source in regards to how Madman Entertainment licensed the series for Australia, the infobox says Muse Communication licensed the series for other countries from Asia. Sadly, I can't find anything about Muse's license since the official website uses a language I can't understand (Taiwanese?). If somebody could lend me a hand, I would appreciate it. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 22:51, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
Recently there has been expansion in most Evangelion articles. However, there seems to be a discussion at Talk:Kaworu Nagisa#Expansion involving a disagreement about unsourced material or sources needing more details. More comments would be helpful. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 15:50, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
Some manga pages list licenses from other countries, such as Taiwan, China, Germany, France, Poland, etc. Since there are so many languages that manga could be published in, is it necessary to include information about licenses in other countries outside of English-language publications? lullabying ( talk) 08:37, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
They should be split as anime and manga are not the same — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.222.180.90 ( talk) 19:04, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
A proposed merger of the LGBT themes in anime and manga and History of LGBT anime pages is located at Talk:LGBT themes in anime and manga#Merger proposal and may be of interest to the members of this WikiProject. Historyday01 ( talk) 18:12, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eleven Arts, which has been relisted again. Someone mentioned anime, so I thought you might be able to help. I think the main question is whether the sources are truly independent, which is something that might be easier for someone who is familiar with the subject area. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 18:37, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
For Horimiya, I'm going to include information about the live-action adaptation but I'm unsure whether to use the infobox for film or television series, as the project was announced as both mediums (film first while it is later aired on television). I ran into a similar problem while drafting King of Prism: Shiny Seven Stars. lullabying ( talk) 01:14, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
Its called the History of LGBT anime. I know its not comprehensive and obviously does not include every anime with LGBTQ characters, but I tried to pick the ones where there was overlap, like when a director, like Kunihiko Ikuhara worked on various productions or something like that. So, I just thought I'd like you all know about it. -- Historyday01 ( talk) 15:00, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
For those interested there is also a discussion about content involving Ranma 1/2. - Knowledgekid87 ( talk) 23:42, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
I have started a new discussion at Talk:Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma#How licensors are represented. I would like as many opinions as possible. Link20XX ( talk) 04:31, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
After undergoing a substantial peer review, The Heart of Thomas is again a featured article candidate. While I personally have no problem with (and in fact welcome) editors who wish to make "drive-by comments" on FACs, one of the reasons cited for the nomination's original failure was that it received a large volume of passing comments and few substantive reviews. So with that in mind, I would invite interested editors to review the FAC, and look forward to receiving your feedback. Morgan695 ( talk) 19:27, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga/Online reliable sources. There are several new sources posted there for consideration by the project (namely: Mangapedia, Anime Herald, Comicbook, and the Journal of Anime & Manga Studies). — Goszei ( talk) 20:13, 4 March 2021 (UTC) — Goszei ( talk) 20:13, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
Some studios have their name disambiguated as "studio name" (company), like Pierrot (company) and Shaft (company), while others have their name disambiguated as "studio name" (studio), like NAZ (studio), MAPPA (studio), and Bones (studio). What is the standard? Link20XX ( talk) 02:52, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
Hey, everyone, I apologize to have plugged this almost 3 times now but the discussion at Talk:List of Shugo Chara! soundtracks#Merger proposal has been open for almost a year with very little feedback. Your input is appreciated. lullabying ( talk) 22:47, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
Received request to merge the LGBT themes in anime and manga article into the History of LGBT anime article in February 2021. Reason: Merge these ...following the guidance outlined on WP:MERGEINIT. However, after some discussion on Anime and manga WikiProject and looking at this page, I see overlap between the two pages... User:Historyday01. Discuss it >>>HERE<<<. – GenQuest "scribble" 04:44, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
I've seen that someone add family as a genre to the One Piece and One Piece (TV series) articles, which is a tag used on Viz Media website. [1] I think that Viz Media uses that tag for customers, for commercial purposes rather than using it to mean to be an actual genre. I don't think that Viz tags should be automatically be considered genres and I'd say that it should be removed. - Xexerss ( talk) 23:16, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
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In the past weeks I created a character article for Danganronpa character Hajime Hinata. However, due to some issues involving a sockpuppet rushing it one in early January, the video game project sent it to deletion. I tried rewriting everything and include as much possible real world information as possible in the draft located here but it appears most editors still want it deleted. If more users could voice their comments I would appreciate it. Tintor2 ( talk) 17:10, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
A user created List of magical girls which seems to be lacking sources and has been listing characters that technically aren't magical girls. Any editing help is welcome! lullabying ( talk) 01:07, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
I have started a new discussion on Talk:LGBT in anime#Thoughts on the article and how to improve it. I would like your input if you can provide it. Thanks in advance! Link20XX ( talk) 22:33, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
I have started a new discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga/Online reliable sources#Monsters and Critics. Please input your thoughts. Have a great day! Link20XX ( talk) 16:37, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Reading the supernatural fiction article, it seems that supernatural is a subgenre of fantasy fiction. So I think that articles that include both genres, for example JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and its parts, should only include supernatural as a genre instead of both fantasy and supernatural. What do you think? - Xexerss ( talk) 02:41, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
There's an anonymous IP editor who keeps making a separate section for the cast of the live-action drama adaptation when the live-action cast is already listed next to the drama CD cast on the characters section. Your input at Talk:Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!#Edit war is highly appreciated. lullabying ( talk) 03:20, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
Hey everyone! I have started a discussion on Talk:Yasuke (anime) about renaming the article. I would greatly appreciate it if you could give your thoughts. Link20XX ( talk) 15:30, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
I know well enough this eroge VN is and was quite famous (and notorious). Still - the sources I found are all considered of low validity, and so the article faces deletion. I guess editors here that are keen on the VN world, especially eroge VN world are well aware of its fame and infamy. The other option is that I was transferred to this dimension from another, but this seems a tad farfetched. אילן שמעוני ( talk) 17:46, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
I noticed that someone tried to add an Indonesian network to the infobox on Superior Defender Gundam Force with a "network_other" variable but it didn't work, I tried to work with it based on the existing data including trying "network_in" and adding " IN = Indosiar" below "network_other" but still couldn't get it to work. Mattwo7 ( talk) 22:41, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
There is a request to merge Original video animation to Direct-to-video. Editors are invited to make improvements/give input. — Goszei ( talk) 23:58, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
There is a request to merge Isekai to Accidental travel. Editors are invited to make improvements/give input. — Goszei ( talk) 06:11, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
I think it was a mistake to merge Shiro and Sven (Voltron). I think they should be split again I have started a discussion at Talk:Sven (Voltron) Dwanyewest ( talk) 05:52, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello. We've been having a discussion for a while but have hit an inpasse. I believe a big portion of the article was unbalanced and/or misrepresented, missing lots of information etc, breaking NPOV. As of now I still wish to remove some things I consider to be kruft, like overdescription of early drafts, disproven fan speculation and a misatributed joke. I also wish to include some other things to balance it out but the editor disagrees. Relevant diff. The talk page is massive, but you can ignore what's before the 3O section. FelipeFritschF ( talk) 04:18, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
@ FelipeFritschF: It appears you keep removing such information despite the discussions. From what I get you are removing original ideas about giving the ideas that didn't make it to the series like more homoerotic scenes that weren't approved by the producers whch seems quite notable or his portrayal in Rebuild. Why is such information uncyclopedic if it is written by the staff. Is it that trivial? The other GA character articles have similar information. Tintor2 ( talk) 12:58, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
The site had a free weekend, so I clipped nearly 1000 articles in regards to anime and manga and video games most of which aren't otherwise archived online. I found a lot of gold in there too, such as the excellent series of articles by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin called Drawn and Quartered that profiled anime. And I found a lot of anime films like Twilight of the Cockroaches, Robot Carnival, Lensman or Macross 2 got screened and reviewed by mainstream film reviewers (who often weren't very kind). Plus a bunch of "hey there's this thing called Japanimation and it's taking over" style articles from the early to mid 1990's.
Below is just a sampling. Hit search to find more.
Harizotoh9 ( talk) 16:11, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
I created the article Agumon but I'm not sure exactly how the character should be handled. See talk page Talk:Agumon#Page where a user wonders about how the character should be handled. I wonder if it might be like a Pokemon article or something. Tintor2 ( talk) 14:05, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
While expanding the article, for some reason I have barely found four reviews about the first season of Megalobox even though that series has already been localized in Western regions as it aired in Japan in 2018 and as well as Adult Swim. Fandompost, IGN and even DVDTalk have nothing about it. If anybody finds reviews about the series' first season and adds them to the talk page I'd appreciate and I'll try improving it more. However, I'm not sure if the second season should be given its own article. Tintor2 ( talk) 01:47, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
As more characters were added to the anime To Your Eternity, the actors started commenting on their own twitter account about their experiences. Initially, I placed all actors' comments in a subsection of development. However, new characters keep being added to the story so I wonder if I should use the GA Devil Survivor 2: The Animation as an example and add commentaries to each character. What do you guys think? Happy editing. Tintor2 ( talk) 23:01, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
There has been a recent string of PRODs by User:Waxworker, mostly in the eroge/hentai animanga topic area. I am just dropping a message here for added visibility: Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/News/Article alerts. — Goszei ( talk) 23:01, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
I've found various Kentaro Miura interviews in various languages. Here are some of them:
I also found scans from other interviews featured in two art books, but with these links alone there is enough material to expand the Berserk (manga) production section and add some subsections as well. Most of these are already linked in the article, but there is much more content in them that could be added. I would highly appreciate if someone can help with this. - Xexerss ( talk) 21:30, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
Osamu Kobayashi (illustrator) 116,369 3,878 Stub--13:55, 30 May 2021 (UTC)