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openOne Piece: Nami Anime
I'm suggesting to add Heroic Seductress to One Piece: Nami. Just letting anyone know since she's the type to seduce other men into getting her way.
openAll films in a franchise are misnamed Anime
All 26 films in the Detective Conan franchise have "Film Number X" inserted into their titles for some reason, even though this is not in any of their offical titles- for example, Detective Conan Film 01: The Time-Bombed Skyscraper instead of the offical title Detective Conan The Time Bombed Skyscraper. I didn't see an existing cleanup thread about Conan to bring this up and there's no discussions on the discussions page, so I figured I'd bring it here. Any problems with me bringing these to the Locked Pages thread to transfer the page histories to the correct titles, then moving the wicks?
openWhat would work better? Anime
Bambietta Basterbine from Bleach is listed as an Extreme Doormat post-zombification despite not being stoic — which is a requirement for being an Extreme Doormat — in the slightest.
The context, for those unfamiliar with Bleach, is that Bambietta Basterbine is initially portrayed as a brash, hot-tempered, sadistic Mad Bomber. After Bambietta is badly wounded in a fight with Sajin Komamura, her comrade Giselle Gewelle murders and zombifies her. Following this Bambietta is slavishly loyal towards Giselle, letting her do whatever she wants to her and apologizing even for things that aren't her fault while Giselle is extremely abusive towards her.
My question is, would Yes-Man work better for Bambietta?
openwhat chapter is this in? Anime
I'm crosswicking Threads of Fate since it launched today and I already ran into two issues while crosswicking.
The entry being added to Black Clover:
- Vanessa's Thread Magic allows her to produce the "Red Thread of Fate", which usually takes the form of a cat spun from red yarn. This cat can rewrite someone's fate simply by touching them, changing it instead to something more favorable.
The two issues:
Red String of Fate also lists Black Clover as its own example and there's a lot more influence from that myth rather than the Greek one.
From Red String of Fate:
- Vanessa Enoteca from Black Clover manifests a spell called the Red Thread of Fate, forming a red cat familiar named Rouge made of her magical threads. Instead of it being romantic love as is usual for the trope, the magic is based on familial love. Her spell only protects the Black Bulls, whom she deeply loves and acknowledges as her true family over her abusive mother the Witch Queen. Rouge's presence near the Black Bull changes fate in their favor, making them avoid attacks so long as it's nearby.
One mention of Vanessa's powers from Black Clover:
- The Heart Kingdom's Magic Stages scale has Arcane Stages, who are mages whose magic are referred to as inexplicable powers. They include Asta, who was born without magic, letting him use Anti-Magic, Secre's Sealing Magic permanently changed after using Forbidden Magic, Yami's Dark Magic that can affect the underworld, Vanessa's magic to change fate to favor her friends, and Grey's transformation magic to transmute magic into different attributes.
I'm just not sure if I should describe it as an overlap or not.
I didn't think too hard about it until now. Maybe it's the coffee because I checked stuff at least twice before launching at different hours.
Also sorry for the "Anime" listing, there's no manga medium category to click on.
Edited by INeveropenRevert Edit? Anime
An editor called Eag3r-Mc B3av3r just put through a major edit on the Bleach: Soul Society Dwellers page that contains a bunch of Zero-Context Examples and a few double-troped bullet points. I've sent a DM explaining that that goes against TV Tropes' editing rules, but only time will tell if they go back in and fix things. In the meantime should we wait, or just revert back to the earlier version?
Edited by Arawn999openReworking the Manga/GiantRobo work page Anime
As mentioned in a previous post, the work page for Giant Robo is bloated with organized trope entries for 5 different installments such that each could be their own page. Is there a formal process through which I would have to go through before separating trope sections for each entry? Do I need mod approval first?
openRewriting/splitting up a work page Anime
I would like to rewrite the Giant Robo page, as it's currently cluttered with categorized tropes for 5 installments (the original Manga, Tokusatsu show, the OVA, the 2nd manga, the 2007 anime movie) that each have enough tropes to constitute their own work pages. With this in mind, I think it would be best to split the page into separate entries (ie an anime page for the OVA, a series page for the Toku show, etc.). Is there a formal process through which I can launch a rework of an entire work page? Alternatively, do I need mod approval before launching the rework?
openMinimum requirement for voice actor pages Anime
Is there a minimum requirement for how many roles a voice actor page should have to be considered worth writing? (i.e minimum of 5 roles)
One of the pages I'm writing only has 7 afaik
Edited by Henshin4LifeopenWhich name to go by? Anime
I'm writing some Japanese voice actress pages, and one of them is for Moeka Kishimoto. In 2021, she changed her stage name to "Moe Kahara". Because she has roles in which she went by one or the other name, which one for the page should I go by - her actual name or her current stage name?
openDepending on the Writer as a category on a character page Anime
So I took a glance at Dragon Ball - Saiyans and somebody listed Raditz under......Depending on the Writer-class Saiyan. Whut?
Aside from the fact that Raditz was only ever written by one guy, is something like that even legit to be put up?
I highly doubt it.
Edited by ForenperseropenThe first Folder in the One Piece Super Rookies Era, funny page won't open Anime
I don't know why so I thought I'd let everyone know.
open Can't find the character Souther in the character list for Fist of the North Star. Anime
I'm sorry if this doesn't go here but I put his name and the anime in the search engine and it comes up with nothing. I also checked each character sheet subpage before that and couldn't find it. What gives? Isn't Souther a super important villain in the Fist Of The North Star franchise or am I mistaken? I looked through every subpage but either they changed his name (don't know any other names he goes by) or they straight up forgot to add him (a major oversight considering he's at least somewhat important). A little help?
Edited by NKgameropenTurning a character folder into unmarked spoilers for BNA Anime
BNA being BNA: Brand New Animal
I wanted to turn Alan Sylvasta's folder on that page into unmarked spoilers because almost every trope entry in it contains a large amount of blacked-out spoiler text.
I did, though a fellow editor gave me the heads-up that kind of decision requires discussion first so I reverted it the page, though I now gotta ask:
Given Sylvasta's role in the story as an antagonist, should the folder have spoilers marked or unmarked? Also: am I in trouble for jumping the gun on this one?
openSorting anime films Anime
Minor example sorting disagreement in TLP: Should anime films (e.g. Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor: The Movie) go in Film — Animated folders like western animated films (Shrek, Toy Story), or in Anime and Manga? For the last while I've been thinking the latter should be mainly for serialized works.
Edited by StarSwordopenRegarding the Kellen Goff page Anime
I was once edit banned for participating in an Edit War on Kellen Goff's page. The previous thread that spoke of this issue
became locked due to the conversation going nowhere and taking too long. However, the moderator GastonRabbit gave me permission via PM to make another thread in hopes of resolving the issue at hand.
His page doesn't any tropes that could reasonably fit at the bottom such as Typecasting, Star-Making Role, or Playing Against Type. I think that there's room to fix this, but it shouldn't be done with Zero Context Examples. Another mod said that the explanation shouldn't be too overblown, either.
Note: The reason why the anime medium was selected for this question is because most of his work is for Anime, or at least Japanese media.
Edited by 227someguyopenPokemon PK 2 Christmas Night Anime
can you help me rename it to Pokémon PK 2 "Christmas Night"?
openVersus Manga Anime
I made a page for Versus but not sure how to make character page because there’s other pages that relate to another series with the word Versus?
Edited by wingedcatgirl

LarryT
has been cutting random entries related to Happy Sugar Life with no explanation from some pages, such as here
, here
and here
. One instance also had them removing another work with no explanation here
.
If I had to make a wild guess, the user is upset by the content presented in the series and thus wants it removed. Only, I'm absolutely certain that if this was a Content Policy violation, it would have been dealt with years back (the fact that the Magnificent Bastard thread verified the work is proof)