Forum - View topicThemes in Star Driver
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Tris8
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Someone was a little too excited when adding themes for Star Driver. Out of the 14 themes listed, 5 are redundant and others just plain incorrect.
Incorrect: unrequited love, fan service, magical boy and bishoujo Redundant: - coming of age, growing up Neither of these fit the series very well anyway, so I'd recommend they both be removed. - high school, school, school life These do fit, but it is unnecessary to have 3 of what is pretty much the same thing. I'd say keep school, but school life would work just as well. If a moderator or encyclopedia editor has time to help, it'd be great if they could fix this. Thanks in advance. |
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Vaisaga
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All those are correct, though. Well, maybe magical boy is iffy, but Takuto does have a transformation sequence befitting one. |
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Tris8
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Fanservice: there was some, but less than one instance per episode. There was not enough for it to be a theme of the show. Unrequited Love: Again, this was present in the show, but not enough for it to be a theme. The show wasn't about unrequited love at all. In fact, it was hardly present at all since spoiler[Wako didn't choose between Sugata or Takuto] and the thing with Kate didn't show up until near the end of the show. Bishoujo: Bishounen is already listed as a theme. Those two styles are different, and out of the two, bishounen definitely fits better. All the guys are drawn in the tall, lanky style of bishounen, and Takuto even refers to himself as bishounen. Magical Boy: Is magical boy even a viable theme? I've never seen it under any other titles. Well, proceeding assuming magical girl criteria (except that it is a guy), this is borderline. Takuto does have a transformation sequence, but nothing else really fits. |
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Shiroi Hane
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We clearly have a difference of opinion here which is exactly why the audit system exists.
I'm sure I've seen D.N.Angel referred to as "magical boy" in the past. It had been added as a theme but has been downvoted. It is currently listed under six titles. |
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Vaisaga
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Well I guess that depends on the intention behind the theme category. If it means only the theme of the entire show then yeah, but a theme can be present in a show without being the main focus. Also, 'bishonen' and 'bishoujo' mainly involve character designs. Star Driver was full of both hot guys and hot girls so both apply. |
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Calathan
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When entering or auditing themes, it makes it clear that they should be a "core element of the story" and someone should be willing to watch the show solely because it contains that theme. I think the idea is that someone using the Genre Search to find anime with a certain theme should be happy with the ones they find. So basically, if someone says, "I want to watch an anime about X", the anime in question should have X as a large enough theme that the person looking for anime about X will be happy with it. |
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Tris8
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Thanks for the explanation Calathan. As he said, for this site when adding themes they should be a core part of the story. The main reason for me making this thread (instead of auditing everything) was because there was a lot of wrong information on a single page, and as with a previous title I had come across, I thought someone might have/is currently spamming it. I know moderators can't removed a theme or genre once it has been audited, so this way is much faster and cleaner when there is a mass of information that is clearly incorrect. Because of Vaisaga's objections, I will audit the themes he is contesting, but the ones that are redundant and clearly don't need to be listed multiple times (growing up, coming of age, school, high school, school life) I won't so that they can be removed without a long contention about whether one theme is better than the other. |
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