Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga

List of manga licensed in English

While going through articles to clean up I stumbled upon this one. The problem is that this overly broad list looks like WP:NOTDIR to me. Lists such as Best selling Manga which is notable for being in the NYT, or list of manga published in x at least defines the scope. Any ideas for this one? - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 00:58, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

I think an aptly named category could accomplish the same thing; like a Category:Comics titles by region and then each region like Category:North American comics titles could be added to the categories in Category:Comics titles by company. It would be pretty straightforward except for a few edge cases like how Tokyopop is still active in Germany, so it would have two region categories. If we do decide to do that we should probably consult WIkiProject Comics. Opencooper (talk) 08:33, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

List of manga published in English already redirects to that list. The Nihongo for all the titles needs to be removed. This is about manga as titled in English, not how they have been titled in Japanese, especially with the awkward Engrish subtitled constructions that some folks consider official. Remove mentions of light novels. Not sure what to do about one-shots that have been published in English in Shonen Jump or Shojo Beat. A column can be added at the end for references. Cross references are okay for major alternate titles, otherwise they can be grouped under the main English title with a parenthesis. Citations can be made to Manga: The Complete Guide or publications that mention the English version. I've worked on List of zombie films before if you need some ideas on formatting. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 17:25, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Studio Ghibli portal is live

Feel free to expand it, add it to your watch list, and so on. Portal:Studio Ghibli ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 20:11, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Great work on the portal and all but what are we going to do about Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Studio Ghibli then? - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 05:13, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Portals are mainly for providing a "main page" for readers for a specific topic while taskforces are more for coordination between editors. They can both coexist. Though the task force should probably link to the portal and the portal currently has an error in the selected biography. Opencooper (talk) 07:36, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

The bio count was off. Fixed. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 20:29, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Osamu Dezaki

A new user has been trying to add a translation of the japanese page to the article. While I can't fault the attempt to do so, their knowledge of wiki editing is minimal and that has resulted in a wall of text with no wiki code at all, and that means all the refs are missing. Originally I was going to try and add all the formatting and such back but it quickly proved impossible due to the volume of text. I've tried leaving talk page messages and the page has been reverted but this is yet to grab their attention.SephyTheThird (talk) 22:37, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

Never mind. The editor has chosen to be offended at my attempts to help them rather than learn.SephyTheThird (talk) 23:39, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

Lupin III - Lady Liberty

I've finally moved my sandbox for the first Lupin III tv special to Goodbye Lady Liberty. I'm getting tired of trying to debate the best title for it so wanted to make an excuse for it :p Basically there are 3 accepted English titles for this special, one for the Uk/Europe, one for the US and one being a fan name.

Normally I would ignore the fan name, but Bye Bye Liberty Crisis has long been considered a valid title, and is even used by Helen McCarthy in one of her books (despite the UK release being available years before hand) -the Discotek dvd even states it as the "generally accepted title". Manga Ent released the special as Goodbye Lady liberty in the mid 90s, so I've used it as the first official english title available, but I'm sure that print media of the time and after swap around their usage. However I don't have all of those materials to hand. The special was released in the US last year as Bye Bye Lady liberty so naturally I expect a bias towards that title in internet searches.

The question is, which is the "common name", can we use the fan name due to it's common usage? If not which release takes priority? The older, less common release which is named in print sources after it's release or the newer, more common release that explains they are all valid titles? SephyTheThird (talk) 00:36, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Per WP:COMMONNAME, use the name that is most prevalent in English-language sources. That might be a tough call due to the multiple usages, but I don't think anyone would fault you if you went with what you felt the sources best conveyed. I think the current title is a safe choice considering sources probably had more time to look at it than the new title and more sources are probably used for the UK title than the fan one if we ignore McCarthy. (Though you would know this best, depending on what you can find) Regardless, you should create redirects for so users will still be able to find the article from all the titles and you probably want to include the alternatives in the lead. Lastly, it's probably a good idea to link to this when it is archived from the article's talk page so people can at least see your rationale in the future before hastily moving it to the "correct" name. Opencooper (talk) 07:20, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Thing is McCarthy has used the Manga Ent title in other works (like Anime Encyclopedia) but it goes some way to show the popularity of the fan title if that came to mind first. I have some other books to check first. Redirects have been set up before but I wanted some feedback before changing them all (they originally linked to the list article). Thankfully the other specials are more straight forward.SephyTheThird (talk) 10:02, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

GAN backlogs

So it seems we've got a bunch of GANs that are on backlog at the moment (see the to-do list and the article alerts for the actual articles that need to be checked). Anyone willing to review the said articles, or refer them to people who do GANs? Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 15:50, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

According to the news, the only GAN is Spike Spiegel. I would review it, but I'm afraid of being biased since I have been working with the nominator for some time.Tintor2 (talk) 17:08, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Oh wait Himegoto is also a GAN.Tintor2 (talk) 19:21, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

I'll be reviewing Himegoto.Tintor2 (talk) 20:07, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

@Tintor2: Thanks for reviewing Himegoto. Well LiSA (Japanese musician, born 1987) is up for GAN as well, as well as a few other articles which for some reason weren't added to the to-do list. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 00:17, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Okay, how about this @Narutolovehinata5:? I'll review LiSA and somebody else will review Spike?Tintor2 (talk) 16:32, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

@Tintor2: Fine with me. Pinging Bobamnertiopsis as he seems to be experienced when it comes to GANs. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 22:45, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Supernatural and fantasy

Please come participate in the discussion. Thanks. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 02:05, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Agreed. It would be very helpful to have consensus based on reliable sources. Edward321 (talk) 05:35, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Please keep the discussion over there. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 07:41, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Wicked City novels

Does anyone here have copies of the novels published in English? If so, could you take pictures of the copyright pages for The Other Side and The Scarlet Clan and point me to them? I'm trying to figure out which Japanese volumes they correspond to as none of the Japanese volumes have titles that would translate into those English titles. Thanks! ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 07:43, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

*Wicked City: The Other Side from Macmillan.

*Blackguard at Amazon with look inside says it was printed as "Youju Toshi" (妖獣都市) from 1985. No specific listing on the book, though this would be the first one because the title translates logically to Blackguard.

*Scartlet Clan at Amazon without look inside.

Love it when they do this by the way. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 17:19, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Possible new person

@Sigehelmus: is interested in helping with our project, welcome this editor here. =) - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 23:04, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Welcome Sigehelmus. Hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia.Tintor2 (talk) 00:26, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Everyone is welcome to come and make constructive edits tom improve the anime and manga coverage here. Welcome! ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 00:28, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

I see he's interested in Elfen Lied. Interestingly the show appears to be much more popular in the west than in Japan since the anime was a huge flop there sales-wise (didn't even average two thousand copies per DVD volume if I recall correctly). Anyway, ようこそ! Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 00:34, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

I really like the anime, and it had great premise they blew it though in the end with not answering enough questions. I wont give anymore away than that as Sigehelmus has said that they haven't seen the ending. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 01:29, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you everyone, I'll do my best. Is there anything that happens when you sign up for a WikiProject? I'm going to read the MoS and all that, do you just use the main Portal page to keep track of things or are Projects and Portals not related?--Sıgehelmus (Talk) |д=) 02:09, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome to work on anything that interests you. The portals are a great place to start, as are any pages tagged with the project banner. You can see pages needing work by going to the main project page and looking at the various items listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Open tasks, as fixing any of the problem articles there would be awesome. We appreciate you joining us, and look forward to working with you. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 07:16, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Category:Yu-Gi-Oh! work group articles and further categorisation

The template {{WikiProject Anime and manga}} has a Yu-Gi-Oh switch, which classifies articles into categories like Category:Unassessed Yu-Gi-Oh! articles, Category:Unknown-importance Yu-Gi-Oh! articles and similar categories. Magicperson6969 has tagged these and similar categories for speedy deletion, but I have declined the speedy deletions as the categories are not empty. If these importance / quality assessment subcategories for the Yu-Gi-Oh workgroup are no longer needed, please edit {{WikiProject Anime and manga}} so they become empty. If not, please make sure articles in Category:Yu-Gi-Oh! work group articles are looked at and get proper assessment categories. If you need help with this, please let me know. —Kusma (t·c) 11:09, 23 November 2015 (UTC)