Some of this was well before my time, so I'm just going to respond to things I know about.
--From what I undertand there are issues with how tags are wrangled when it comes to non-Western names or names that don't use the roman alphabet. My understanding is that there is a bias towards Western naming conventions (personal name, family name) and roman letters. I think this also relates to fandom names. I believe this is being worked on. Clearly this also affects more than just anime/manga.
The guideline now for Non-English canon character names is the name order followed in canon. We still use Romanization systems because as far as we know as wranglers, the Search sorter has foibles with extended character sets. There's also a running debate about pairing order in the Relationships tags: the guidelines say that A/B and B/A should be synned, though some fans consider them two different Relationships.
--There was this whole thing about the development of different skins for AO3. One of the skins that was promised was an anime skin. As far as I know it's never been made or there was one made but it was inaccessible/terrible. I've read different accounts of this, so if anyone could clarify that would be great.
The skin in question is Panda Madness: the accessibility is within web use guidelines (as to quality, that's your judgment). From what I've heard, the skin was intended as one of the proofs-of-concept of the flexibility of the skin system, but that whole deploy (November 2011) became a learning experience in communication.
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