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DivineFlame100 Since: Mar, 2014
2021-06-10 08:07:41

As a general rule of thumb, if a comic does not originate from Japan, it goes under the Comic Book namespace. The Anime, Manga and Light Novel namespaces are reserved exclusively for works created in Japan and by Japanese creators.

MichaelKatsuro Since: Apr, 2011
2021-06-10 08:12:35

Surely the fact that it reads right-to-left is on the "Manga" side?

Leporidae Since: Mar, 2016
2021-06-10 08:28:10

^^ Thank you for the clarification.

^ My mistake, I should have written "left-to-right." It reads like an English language/ American comic.

Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010
2021-06-10 08:34:56

If we bother dividing namespaces by country of origin, then it makes sense to... continue dividing them by country of origin even if they look like another country's work. Avatar: The Last Airbender isn't in anime. "Manga" is just Japanese comics.

Now, a case can be made that the division to split them at all is unnecessary and they could be merged, but since literally the only difference between Comic Books/ and Manga/ is country of origin then I cannot fathom an argument where an OEL Manga by a western writer should go in Manga/

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Leporidae Since: Mar, 2016
2021-06-10 09:25:38

^ I didn't make the argument that it was a manga, I only asked if a page for the work should be created in that namespace.

There is a precedence of non-manga works that have pages under the Manga namespace. Over a dozen titles on the OEL Manga page that were produced outside of Japan have pages in the "Manga" namespace (Amazing Agent Luna, Aoi House, Atomic King Daidogan, Bizenghast, Dogby Walks Alone, Dramacon, The Dreaming, Maximum Ride (granted, that one redirects to the Literature page for the franchise), My Celestial Family, X-Men: Misfits, Zuko's Story, etc...).

There are a limited number of namespaces for the infinite variety of media in the world, so sometimes we have to make compromises when a work straddles two or more genres/ formats/ mediums.

(On a side note: if English language works were mistakenly created in the Manga namespace, is there a forum or a cleanup thread they should be submitted to?)

TheMountainKing Since: Jul, 2016
2021-06-10 16:17:02

^ Manga and comics are the same medium, the only difference is which country they come from.

Edited by TheMountainKing
RallyBot2 (Elder Troper)
2021-06-10 18:53:27

It's been a while since the last time we argued this, hasn't it?

The namespace thread is over here if you want to read 60 pages of people repeatedly making the exact same arguments.

Siegfried1337 Since: Sep, 2018
2021-06-11 15:14:27

60 Pages? Yikes, that's a well-heated debate. I'll just put it in Comic Books and then claim that both comic books and manga are almost not so different and that the Manga and Comic Book namespace need to be merged, and then call it a day.

Eh, good enough.
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