Rename it Anime Delinquents and call it a day. Yeah, the term Delinquent is almost exclusively used to refer to this trope (its just not a very popular term otherwise), but it could just be misused too easily.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.Anime Delinquents is fine by me, but are delinquents in general tropable?
It's written that way because back in the day, the wiki was strictly segregated into types: 'tv tropes', 'webcomic tropes', anime tropes', etc. It's not been updated since then.
Seriously, nobody 'believes that delinquents only exist in anime and manga.' How do you even say that unironically?
edited 30th Jun '11 3:32:13 PM by ninjacrat
Read it, Ninjacrat. It's all about delinquents in anime and manga. All of the characteristics are anime/manga related — rolling their "r"s, bleached hair, wearing a sarashi, females wear disorder seifuku ... . The only time it even mentions Western delinquents is to make the blanket statement "They're never sympathetic characters."
We should expand it. If we want to break off Anime Delinquents because they use a lot of different symbolism on it, that's cool too.
Fight smart, not fair.Call it The Yankii then, at least as a redirect. It's the appropriate term, after all.
I oppose for naming the Japanese sub-trope The Yankii: there are other delinquents terms for this, like furyou (the other male kind of Delinquent) and sukeban (for female Delinquents). Better simply name it Anime Delinquents or Japanese Delinquents.
"Your kindness gives me the presentiment I can be reborn. Now, I want to believe at least in you." - Kaori YaeBumping this as part of the cleanup effort
for the Stock Japanese Characters index. This trope clearly belongs there, but got put on the 'Uncertain' section of the sandbox page because the name was overly generic, a convenient reminder that this could use a more specific name.
I would personally prefer Japanese Delinquents as the main title because, as far as I can tell, this is an aspect of Japanese culture that shows up in anime/manga because they are made in Japan, as opposed to something like Anime Hair that is specifically widespread in only a subset of Japanese media. Wikipedia mentions several baseball players whose nicknames refence banchos, for instance. That said, I'd still be okay with Anime Delinquents, since I doubt it'll result in any misuse and is still a huge improvement over the current name.
Both Bancho
and Sukeban
are widespread enough to get Wikipedia entries, so they're probably worth adding as redirects as well.
edited 4th Aug '11 11:02:47 AM by RandomDude
Support a rename.
Japanese Delinquents instead of Anime Delinquents, please. We have too many "Anime X" tropes that refer to general Japanese Media tropes as it is.
Visit my contributor page to assist with the "I Like The Cheeses" project!Keeping Delinquents as the main name isn't on the table. It's actively misleading in light of how the page is written.
For that reason, I'm going to make a Page Action crowner, rather than a single prop. The options are going to be:
- Split off the Japanese version into its own page named Japanese Delinquents
- Split off the Japanese version into its own page Named Anime Delinquents
- Split off the Japanese version into its own page named something else
edited 4th Aug '11 12:12:43 PM by Madrugada
Voted down the "named something else" option for now, but if a good alternate suggestion comes along later I will change my vote.
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I know we had a topic about this before, but a forum search turns up nothing, and clearly it didn't effect any changes. The article has a generic name that describes a universal concept, but is written to apply solely to anime and manga. There's a consistent enough pattern of dress and behavior among the anime characters that I think this does stand up as an anime-focused subtrope, but it needs (a) a better name, and (b) a general-purpose supertrope that would own the Delinquents or Juvenile Delinquents page.
edited 30th Jun '11 12:25:39 PM by Shale