I'm here since January, so I don't have very many experiences here yet. However, I can't say that I never noticed that there are issues with how anime/manga are handled. Sure, there is more stuff of Western works here and anime and manga is kind of underrepresented, but other than that, I don't see what's the big deal.
-Categorizing should follow interest groups. It makes sense to split off anime and manga from other comics and cartoons, since the fanbases are mostly different. It doesn't make much sense to split Japanese, Korean or Chinese comics, since the fanbase is mostly the same. Of course, not every manga-fan also likes manwha (and how many have even read one manhua?), but there is a certain overlap of interest.
Due to this, I sometimes wonder whether American superhero comics shouldn't be split from other (non-superhero and non-American) comics, since the former is very popular and the latter (sadly) horribly underrepresented. There isn't much interest overlap there either.
-While I prefer Japanese-style name order (Chinese names are never swapped either), I don't see it as a big deal. But I find complaining about romanizations more than a little ridiculous. This is an English-language site, after all, the members shouldn't be expected to be able to read more than roman letters. How many here can even read kana? I certainly can't and I'm sure that's the same for most people here, no matter whether they are anime-fans or not. Translations of mangas never leave names in Japanese letters either, not even the most japanophile scanlation.
This actually my main issue here. Unless I really misunderstood something here, I don't understand how anybody could complain about romanizations of names.
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ZXSpectrum Sat 23 Mar 2013 10:34AM UTC
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