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I cannot agree with using the character names licensees choose. I think we shouldn't really follow the licensees, but the authors. For the series/movie/etc name I'd just place a redirection, but using their weird names for characters is a bit too much; I understand it as if we were supporting the value-destroying westernization some licensees apply to anime or manga, by doing evil stuff like renaming characters, destroying jokes, converting typical japanese phrase structures (ogenki desu ka?) to stuff which may be used in a similar way in english (how are you?) but don't mean the same as something more accurate like "are you in good spirits?" would. Maybe we should go with just listing them as alternative names, but that's my opinion. In whatever case, the original kanjis and transliterations must be there and must not be hidden. I'd also add a section commenting the differences between the real thing and the licensee's version, if the level of harm makes it worthy. Rvalles 06:38, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)
(It should be noted that the majority of the Featured Articles in Media pages do not have seperate character pages!)
I'm impartial between "List of characters in Series" and "Characters in Series", but "List of Series characters" and "Series characters" strike me as a little ungrammatical. (Names aren't adjectives.) - ℘yrop (talk) 16:02, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)
I would like for someone in Singapore to find and scan book covers of Chuang Yi's English manga titles, such as the Singaporean English Love Hina. WhisperToMe 02:05, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I've (re)added the todolist to this page. Anyone else add anything they consider pertinent. - ℘yrop (talk) 01:46, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC)
Should we bother to include episode lists on articles on anime? It doesn't really seem to add anything, in my opinion. E.g., yeah, episode 16 of Chobits may be titled "Chii Does Nothing", but that really tells us nothing useful. It's like listing the chapters of a book, something we don't do for any of the articles on books for wikipedia unless they're very, very large and very important (e.g. the bible). - ℘yrop (talk) 22:17, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC)
It's been a while since several images seem to be missing on many of the DBZ characters' pages. Examples are Vegeta, Future Trunks and Chibi Trunks. For some reason they just disappeared, so maybe something should be done about this. Perhaps they were never uploaded in the first place (I wouldn't know), but in that case, the boxes shouldn't read "Missing image". That message shouldn't be shown if there isn't any image available. Any ideas?-- Kaonashi 04:55, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Sorry for the late reply. Yes, I understand it now. Perhaps the template should be modified to make it deal with situations like this. Unfortunately, I don't know a whole lot about table/box creation, so I'm not sure if I can help there. =[ -- Kaonashi 17:37, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I am looking at some of the other projects and comparing it to this one. Things i've noticed. This project has no stub or templates.
the closest thing i've seen is template:manga. I think a temmplate like in Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer and video games will help standardize articals.
also, if we can get an anime and manga stub, we'll be able to group articals that need to be developed. ZeWrestler 14 Jan 2004
Naturally, as soon as i comment about this, i find an anime stub. template:anime-stub ZeWrestler 14 Jan 2004
Anime producer Toshio Suzuki currently comes up with a Japanese racecar driver, is there any suggestions for a standard way of dealing with other possible name conflicts we may encounter in the future? -- Neilworms 23:53, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I think we ought to hash out some article guidelines that are more manga/anime-specific, in an effort to standardize this sector of Wikipedia. An infobox template would also be handy, as well as other project-y things like cleanup tags. - mako 07:16, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Anyone who knows anything about the manga Zettai Kareshi, could you please fix up its page? It'll probably end up deleted if it's not fixed relatively soon, and i'd rather it stick around if it's notable. - ℘yrop (talk) 21:07, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)
There's been some interest in anime infoboxes. As an experiment, i've added the movie infobox to Akira (film). It seems it would be a good idea to split off our own anime infobox (some things on the movie infobox aren't important in the context of anime, some important things are missing); we can use the movie infobox as a departure point, though. - ℘yrop (talk) 20:16, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
Looks good =). I think runtime for episodes is somewhat unnecessary, though we could combine that with No of episodes to save a line. Things like Seiyuu we may want to think about just linking from the box if there's a list of them. OVAs and movies... it depends on how articles are set up. I'm worrying about of something like Tenchi Muyo!, which is a major organizational headache with its multiple OVAs, TV series, and movies. In another example, Ghost in the Shell, the manga and movie go together while the TV series have their own pages. For Eva, End of Eva has its own page (and infobox) while Death and Rebirth doesn't even have an article.
If we want a general-purpose infobox, we could pull some tricks like the conditionals used in Template:Peru region table to allow selective display of information. This approach could allow for a modular infobox, with anime/manga/ova/movie components.
Also, do we want to eschew compactness and go for things like Mecha Designer and Character Designer? It might be notable for certain series. - mak o 20:18, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
Or maybe we could do subtemplates for each component and then have a main infobox as a container for those subtemplates? You could theoretically add as many subtemplates as you want, right?
Fadeblue 21:35, 20 May 2005 (UTC) Never mind. I can't seem to get it to work.
Fadeblue
22:17, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
It should match whatever is used in the main article on OVAs/OAVs, which happens to be OVA. Are we agreed on using the term "animanga"? Fadeblue 20:46, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
For superheroes/heroines in anime and manga, I say we should just use Template:Superherobox. I have just added that particular infobox to the article on Sailor Moon, with the heading colour of #ff80ff, indicating a Japanese publisher. Denelson83 22:14, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
I noticed Mako moved the infobox to the Template namespace, but didn't mention it here. So, what else needs to be changed? I know the OVA module at least needs changing, since there's no network and broadcast dates. I suppose the big question is how exactly do we plan to use these for series such as those with multiple OVAs (for example, Tenchi)? Do we need to include a "Title" parameter and then include each OVA separately in the infobox? Or do we want the infobox just to mention that there are X OVAs which each had Y episodes? And what about those with multiple movies, or with multiple seasons (where some of the information may vary between seasons)? Fadeblue 21:12, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
It has come to my attention the way the article about the Saint Seiya series has been the target of users (yes, more than one) adding several images to it. Thing is, most of them not only have no copyright status, but they just don't fit the article. They're not encyclopedic, and they were added with no formatting care at all. A good share of them consist of high quality shots of the new Cloth Myth series action figures. While there's nothing really bad about that, they don't really fit the article and have no real use there. I think they don't do a good job on representing what the article is really about. At least one other user has removed those images, but they are back again. I did as well, but not this time. They were all added back by another user, as well as with new ones.
Well, I know I don't post here very much, but I thought it'd be a good idea to call the attention of more of you people involved on this project. It'd be nice to have other users pratrolling that article in order to avoid things like this from happening. If anyone has different opinions regarding this, we can discuss about them here. Like I said, I didn't remove the images this time, but I think they should be. They should also be voted for deletion, by the way. Ah, some new info was added to that article in the last days, as well. I plan to work on that later, and adapt it.
Thank you for your attention.-- Kaonashi 05:14, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
That's right, it's ready, but any final comments are welcome before the "official" rollout. See Template:Infobox_animanga. - mak o 22:02, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
Looks like we're still revising: Template talk:Infobox animanga. - mak o 03:50, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
Hey, I just created the Category:Anime and manga terminology category for, well, anime and manga terms. This is meant to reduce some of the voluminous amount of articles in the root Category:Manga and Category:Anime categories. I'm working to move over any anime terms right now; if someone could do the same for the manga cat, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.-- Mitsukai 13:18, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi folks,
I just wanted to let you know about a list of deletions related to comics and animation. You can find it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Comics and animation. Lots of anime and manga-related material on there.
Anyway, if you find the list useful, please help to maintain it by adding new items and archiving old ones. Also you might want to check that anime and manga items are copied to Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Japan. Thanks!
Cheers,
-- Visviva 15:40, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
Please feel free to pass this on to other WikiProjects that might have some input in this. Thanks.
Though the Uke and Seme pages touch upon martial arts (where the terms originally came from), they're mostly about the sexual connotations. In fact, they outweigh the original ones (on Uke, thee paragraphs for MA term, more than twice that for the sex term; on Seme, one vice five times that). Needless to say, this really looks bad.
I'm proposing that we either merge the sexual terms onto one page, such as Uke and Seme, or that we take the martial arts terms and put them onto two pages, such as Uke (martial arts term), Seme (martial arts term). Personally, I'm of the opinion that we should move and merge the sexual terms, as the MA terms were there first and have a longer meaning. Conversely, though, from what I can see, most Westerners only know the sexual connotations.
Maybe it's not a big issue, but the terms are so dissonant (at least, when explained in English) that they jar, somewhat.-- Mitsukai 18:34, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
It is sometimes useful to include screenshots from anime series. If you upload such an image use the image copyright tag template {{film-screenshot}}. I have updated fair use copyright tag film-screenshot description to also include anime screenshots. -- dionyziz 19:58, 15 September 2005 (UTC).
Hi, I'm a member of the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing using these criteria, and we are looking for A-Class and good B-Class articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Can you recommend any suitable articles on anime or manga? Please post your suggestions here. Thanks a lot! Walkerma 06:23, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
I have so far identified Anime as A-class, and Manga, Robotech, Sailor Moon, Vegeta, Cowboy Bebop as B-class. Are these assessments OK? I'm not an expert in this area. Are there any other good articles we should know about? Thanks, Walkerma 15:25, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
The cleanup taskforce has had a go at cleaning up the article about Rave Master. This article was originally tagged for cleanup during April 2005. See Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/Ten Powers to see what has been done. Can anyone with some background knowledge on the topic take a look and finish the cleanup process please? Stewart Adcock 14:03, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
Since no one voted on my proposal on the official proposal page for a week, maybe the members of this project will, or could adopt it as the official award for the project. See Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals#Proposal - Manga and Anime Barnstar. -- Ynhockey 22:46, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
Ne ways, working on Oh My Goddess! with a number of users. It was a single article when i arived now its about 60+ (who is counting). Feel free to give a hand. -- Cool Cat Talk| @ 19:56, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
I want to make a Wikipedia article on the similarities between the two anime Evangelion and RahXephon. The article will be done more or less in the same style as this website: [1].
The article would be composed primarily of images from both series that show similarities in some way. A screenshot from Evangelion would be on the right, a screenshot from RahXephon would be on the left, and there would be text beneath each picture and above both pictures describing the similarities between them (not just in appearance, but also in underlying meaning, the words spoken during that scene, what was going on in that scene, and anything else about the screenshots that points out how the two anime similar are to one another).
I believe that such a page would definately be relevant to fans of Evangelion and/or RahXephon, and to those who debate on whether or not the two series are similar. However, would this page be considered acceptable by Wikipedia?
...Ah...Well...I wouldn't really consider it 'research', just a compendium of images that showcase similarities. It would be relevant to fans, but that doesn't make it a fansite. I'm a fan of anime, and the anime wiki article is relevant to me, but that doesn't make it a fansite... EvaXephon 03:05, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
...I see...when you guys put it that way, it doesn't seem right. That's too bad. Would anyone care to reccomend a good hosting service that I could use for my project? Preferably one that allows lots of images. ...And...yeah...I actually was going to place it under "Similarities between Evangelion and RahXephon"... EvaXephon 04:38, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Neon Genesis Evangelion and RahXephon already exist. Dominick (TALK) 16:18, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Recently I've made a slew of additions to the Initial D article series, including a recategorization of the articles, inclusion of the infobox, removal of personal pronouns, and creating a seperate article for characters and teams. If anyone cares to look it over and provide any additional info or feedback (I seem to be the only one), please dont hesitate to take a look. Related pages are located at Category:Initial D -- Oni Ookami Alfador Talk| @ 22:47, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
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