A lot of comics tagged "historical" really shouldn't be. I'd like to fix that.

[aceredshirt13]

I like historical fiction, and think East Asian media's takes on Western history are fun, so I was searching through the "historical" tag to see if there was anything interesting to read or maybe add to my group translation list for the future. Unfortunately, in the tag's current state, it's basically unusable - it's clogged up with 8 zillion fantasyworks that don't take place in any time period that actually existed. Given that two different threads have mentioned this before me - here and here - I think it's safe to say that I am not alone in thinking that someone wanting to find manga about the Sengoku era or the French Revolution shouldn't have to sift through a metric ton of comics that have nothing to do with history, any more than someone searching the fantasy tag shouldn't have to find hundreds upon hundreds of real-world slice of life comics. I don't have a problem with fictional fantasy worlds, but I do have a problem with them being mistagged to the point where nearly every single comic on the trending page shouldn't be there, and it's kind of absurd to be scrolling through the list and see "manga adaptation of a nonfiction book by a Belarusian journalist about the horrible things Soviet women saw in World War II" right next to "I got hit by Truck-kun and was reborn in the land of Whifflethracia with a harem of hot people and the ability to teleport". Like, I love Fire Emblem and Dragon Quest, but you wouldn't play those games and say they're historical, right?

So I've decided to do something about it. Here's a list I've made of comics tagged "historical" that aren't set in a real historical time or place. The Google Doc is free and open for anyone to edit or leave comments on (including contesting any entries), and given the sheer number of mistagged manga/manhua/manhwa on this site, I couldn't list them all myself if I tried, so help is appreciated. If you want to see the definition of "historical" that I used to make this list, you can check out my initial thread on this here - feel free to contest that as well.

I'm pretty free about changing tags when they're wrong or missing (upping things from safe/suggestive to erotica/pornographic when they need it, adding "anthology" to anthologies missing it, returning unofficial English titles to their original language titles, etc.), so if nobody complains I'll just go ahead and start removing historical from these, and y'all are free to join me.