Category talk:Japanese fiction

Deletion debate

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Category:Japanese fiction

Overly specific.​—msh210℠ (talk) 06:34, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Keep. This category contains 46 terms that share the specific context of Japanese fiction, and is expected to contain more. Aside from few proper nouns such as "Pokémon" and "Digimon" that are subject to WT:BRAND, there are multiple stock characters (yandere, tsundere, catgirl), genres (shounen, shoujo, eroge) and media (light novel, anime, manga) that are strongly limited to Japan. I believe it would be wise to keep them together.

In addition, let's please delete the redundand and even more specific category named Category:Anime and manga. Japanese media includes anime, manga, light novels, series, video games and more. These terms, especially the character archetypes and some fan works, are very commonly interchangeable between various types of Japanese fiction: There are "ecchi" (erotic content), "kemonomimi" (women with animal's ears), "chibi" (deformed characters to be smaller and cuter) virtually everywhere. For what is worth, according to Wikipedia, tsundere apparently originated in games. --Daniel. 08:44, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Since we lack any regulation or even guidelines on topical categories, I can't think of a good reason to delete this. In the long term, perhaps policy could solve this sort of problem. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:11, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

As if Japanese fiction begins and ends with Western-influenced anime! Equinox ◑ 09:46, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

The origins and derivations are not an issue since it is not an etymological category, but the common associations with Japan. It is very common to use the word anime to refer only to Japanese animated works, despite it basically being a mere short form of "animation" etimologically. --Daniel. 14:56, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Keep this and all other "overly specific" category nominations. DAVilla 21:30, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Kept. --Daniel. 16:43, 7 February 2011 (UTC)