Part of the trouble is that it is genuinely _useful_ to be able to seek out specifically manga fandoms vs American graphic novels fandoms vs others, but there's not necessarily a non-problematic way to make that possible.
I know there's a ton of overlap between anime and manga fandoms, but I wonder if maybe it wouldn't make more sense to have the splits be "Animation" and "Sequential Art", and then for each of these have sub-categories by country or tradition of origin. So under the sequential art category, the front-page links would not be to main fandoms, but to the categories of "Manga", "Manhwa", "USian Comic Books", etc. Genuinely international or cross-tradition works (collaborations, not 'gets translated and released in other countries') could be listed under all applicable countries. Similarly, series that are both manga and anime could appear in both categories.
I'm not sure how the database is set up, but there's already a lot of flexibility built into the system (multi-fandom stories appear under all fandoms), so I'd think this could be made to work. It's just that fandoms wouldn't belong to disjoint categories, but rather they'd have (possibly invisible) tags saying which categories they belonged to.
I'm not too well-versed in all the different traditions of animation and sequential art, so there could be some special cases that makes the whole thing unfeasible or maybe just Problematic (eg, might result in an "Other" ghetto.) Is there anything major that would go wrong with it?
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Part of the trouble is that it is genuinely _useful_ to be able to seek out specifically manga fandoms vs American graphic novels fandoms vs others, but there's not necessarily a non-problematic way to make that possible.
I know there's a ton of overlap between anime and manga fandoms, but I wonder if maybe it wouldn't make more sense to have the splits be "Animation" and "Sequential Art", and then for each of these have sub-categories by country or tradition of origin. So under the sequential art category, the front-page links would not be to main fandoms, but to the categories of "Manga", "Manhwa", "USian Comic Books", etc. Genuinely international or cross-tradition works (collaborations, not 'gets translated and released in other countries') could be listed under all applicable countries. Similarly, series that are both manga and anime could appear in both categories.
I'm not sure how the database is set up, but there's already a lot of flexibility built into the system (multi-fandom stories appear under all fandoms), so I'd think this could be made to work. It's just that fandoms wouldn't belong to disjoint categories, but rather they'd have (possibly invisible) tags saying which categories they belonged to.
I'm not too well-versed in all the different traditions of animation and sequential art, so there could be some special cases that makes the whole thing unfeasible or maybe just Problematic (eg, might result in an "Other" ghetto.) Is there anything major that would go wrong with it?