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| Tempest ANN Publisher & CEO  Posts: 8187 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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In another topic Dormcat mentioned his criteria for deciding what manga are a priority to aprove (this is an issue because we have so many titles waiting to be aproved).
The priority list can be similarly applied to anime, although it is less of an issue because there aren't nearly as many anime as there are manga. However I feel that 4. Manga which have found their way to North America. should really be #1. All licensed (non-adult) titles should be the priority. I figured I'd sticky this so people can see how we prioritise what to add. Its worth noting that the submission process and, more importantly, the aproval process will be radically different in the new encyclopedia. -t |
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| fighterholic Posts: 9193 |
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| This may have been asked before, but when is the new encyclopedia due to come out? On top of that, what is the ratio between pending manga titles versus pending anime titles? | ||||||
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| dormcat Encyclopedia Editor  Posts: 9253 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
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A reason I didn't put it higher because of the taste of choice of American licensors are quite different from that of Oriental ones. Often I found newly-licensed manga in NA are authored by some lesser known and less experienced manga-ka, yet some very famous manga-ka, like Yukinobu Hoshino, Hidenori Hara and Fujihiko Hosono, have few or even no title licensed, and their names are rarely mentioned, or even known, among American fans. This ain't right. I know that ANN was established to serve mainly for English-speaking North Americans, but people around the world have gathered to contribute their knowledge and passion to a Japanese culture and, compared to the rather young manga licensing industry in US, many European and Asian can read them in many other different languages. I've said it two years ago that I'd rather not see ANN to become a "licensing information database" (of which, Anime on DVD does a pretty good job), and I've repeated it twice. Perhaps jgreen's view would be more similar to yours?
Another issue is the difficulty of obtaining correct and reliable information. Sometimes a press release from an US licensor contains only the translated English (not romaji) title of the said manga, as well as the name of the author(s) (in some worst cases, even the name of manga-ka wasn't provided). However, it's not uncommon that - the title has been changed significantly during translation - manga was obcured enough to be identified only by artwork (sometimes there's no artwork to use as a reference at all) - manga-ka was lesser known or even a rookie - no info of the original publisher (Shogakukan, Shueisha, Kodansha, Hakusensha, Akita Shoten, Kadokawa Shoten, etc.) When all three disadvantages combined, with only a translated English title and a romaji name of unknown origin, I found it almost impossible to look it up in its Japanese form. In some unlucky case I have to crawl all over the Internet and try all kinds of keyword combinations for two hours just for one title, and in other cases I found them already listed in the Encyclopedia under Japanese (romaji) title. The same situation applies to hentai anime titles as well. Just for your information: I do have a "#0" criterium: manga (and anime) mentioned in the news. If a title was mentioned in the news and yet it hasn't been included, I'd drop what I'm doing and add them immediately. Furthermore, if any US-licensed manga fits first three criteria as well I'd add them immediately. Finally, I'm not the only encyclopedist left approving new titles, am I? 
Right now it's about 7:2. Time 100 and you get the real numbers. Plus ~450 error reports. A big problem for manga is, unlike anime that all new ones have their own website(s) and even old ones have at least some form of information can be found, information for manga titles are much more obscure. Only the most popular manga and their author can have independent website, and any title with a bit vintage (pre-millennium) has little information available outside the publisher site (e.g. S-Book for Hitotsubashi Group) or Amazon.jp. You might have noticed that many manga has no picture to be displayed; that's because most manga doesn't have a displayable picture other than a cover page cluttered with text, and in some unlucky cases (usually very old titles) even a cover is not available. |
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atlantima Posts: 6 Location: Texas |
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Define "the news". In theory, that could mean anything from the Wall Street Journal to the student paper at a high school. |
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| dormcat Encyclopedia Editor Posts: 9253 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
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News on the front page of this website. |
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