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I have questions about the rather or not the "A Certain Scientific Railgun" series actually qualifies as a spin-off of the "A Certain Magical Index" series. The anime even refers to itself as a "side story" not a spin-off, a side story being a story that is happening away from the main but can still holds importance, a spin-off is a story that spins off into another direction of the main and doesn't make much of a difference to it. Also it doesn't fit in any of the classifications of a spin-off according to its page. The closest one it fits into is the shared continuity category but with all of the defining characteristics being reversed.
1: All of the characters from the original show up in it and hold an importance to the plot.
2: The plot of both series runoff each other, Railgun has some things that look like a Deus Ex Machina that are further explained in the Index, while it also conversely gives a more clear and better understanding of the details of science side for the Index. Both are practically essential to properly understand the full extent of the overall plot of the franchise.
3: The Railgun manga was originally created for purpose of better understanding the plot, characters and timeline of the Index series while telling it through the eyes of its minor and secondary characters.
Conclusion: Wouldn't all this mean that A Certain Scientific Railgun is not a "Spin-Off" but an entire "Lower Deck Series?"
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YMMV.Kill La Kill seems to have a conflict going on about two examples. They keep being deleted with edit reasons that suggest that the deleting tropers think that they need some kind of "notability".
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Looking to launch a works page. The page itself already exists under a Japanese title, Mondaiji Tachi Ga Isekai Kara Kuru Sou Desu Yo, but I was thinking of copy & pasting everything over to a page listed under its English title (as provided by Crunchyroll) Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they? with the Japanese name as a redirect. Is there anything I need to check on before I actually do it or can I just go ahead and get it done. I ran into this at least one other time and I think I was told then to just do it, but I don't want to step on any toes unnecessarily if I can help it.
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Just a short, non-serious question.
Do you think the background character of this scene
is Chewing the Scenery? I never heard of any scream this desperate in any media in a while.
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Is the definition of Ms. Fanservice really as simple as just showing skin?
I'm asking this, because in a character page, someone described a character as a Ms. Fanservice simply because she wears and fights in short skirt. This is her character design, for the reference.
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If someone like this is considered a Ms. Fanservice, wouldn't most of schoolgirl characters in anime nowadays fit as a Ms. Fanservice as well, because if so, I'm calling Trope Decay.
Also, does this character design and her outfit
◊ particularly tightfitting, because someone described in the character page as a Ms Fanserivice because her outfit is tightfittig clothes that accentuates her figure.
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One last post: Animal Land was moved Doubutsu No Kuni (I namespaced it to Doubutsu No Kuni for now) - however, Google seems fairly ambiguous on which is the English name.
Should it be moved back?
eta: I already had a PM conversation with the troper who did the move and reminded them that we don't just move pages around.
Edited by SeptimusHeapopenNo Title Anime
RabbitJackStew is reverting edits against established consensus and insulting people in edit reasons on Bleach: Ichigo's Companions and Bleach: Espada. Among the edits reverted is clear misuse like claiming one of the most powerful characters in the series is a Badass Normal because... I don't really know, honestly. There is no possible way in which he could be considered a normal.
Edited by ArhaopenNo Title Anime
Rakepunzel might need a reminder of courtesy over his edit reason here
.
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On the topic of Dragon Ball, people keep on going through the pages changing certain names to their Japanese counterparts - notably, "Korin" keeps getting changed to "Karin." I was under the impression this was a bad thing since this is an english language wiki.
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Recently on YMMV.Dragon Ball there has been a mass deletion of negative tropes, allegedly on the grounds of "wanting to avoid a flame war" or "cutting complaining."
The thing is, the examples that were cut were legitimate opinions that are shared by plenty of fans and are no more flamey or complainy than anything I've seen on any other YMMV pages. I think on YMMV a little complaining should be okay, as long as it's not taken too far. I mean, honestly, with tropes like Base Breaker, there really is no non-complainy way to explain them, unless someone can explain to me a nice way of saying "lots of people think this character is a bitch."
For reference, the tropes in question are Ron the Death Eater and Base Breaker.
Edited by Knight9910openNo Title Anime
There is a huge edit war going on on a particular page. I'm not part of it and have no interest in getting into the middle of it, but there are several people involved and it's been going on for several days. Should I report it so someone can try to intervene or let them sort it out themselves?
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A troper named Veritas Vierge deleted the claimer/rule on the character sheet for Dragonball which states that Zero Context Examples aren't allowed, and threw a hissy fit in the Edit Reasons box when I commented out the Zero Context Examples. I want to add it back, but I don't want an edit war.
Edited by MsCC93openNo Title Anime
saiyan5ninetail has been edit warring off and on about a Bleach Childhood Friends example for months on both the character pages and the trope pages. After his latest attempt to go against the established consensus, he has changed back the reversion and locked out the Childhood Friends page. I've spoken to him about this in the past along with several other people, but if he's locking out pages and ignoring previous arguments there's nothing I can really do about him anymore.
Edited by ArhaopenNo Title Anime
Tick Jefferson 221 just moved Characters.Bleach Vandenreich to Characters.Bleach The Wandenreich. Normally, I would not care, but given that the last time it caused a huge fight, I'd just want to note this here.

Edit War in Kill la Kill over whether Nui Harime is a Complete Monster. The entry was added before the cleanup thread could give its input, and her arc isn't even close to done yet, which usually leads to us suspending judgement for the time being. However, people keep re-adding her - I've commented out the example with a warning message and an entry on the discussion page, but I'm not sure how long that will hold for.