[Manga] Add a content warning for Slavery

[DoubleSnake]

We have content ratings for suggestive, erotica, and pornographic and we have content warnings for gore and sexual violence. I believe it necessary to have a content warning for slavery as well due to the obvious extreme nature of the act. There are obviously age ratings for many things such as shonen and adult themed manga, on television there are warnings for smoking, self-harm, ect. And while there are many mange with on the nose titles such as "My Slave is Way Too Cheerful" there are many isekai titles where a viewer is basically playing russian roulette on whether or not slavery is involved. I personally have read many where there was no mention of slavery in the mangadex, myanimelist, or mangaupdates description. "Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari" has absolutly no mention of slavery in the mangadex or mangaupdates description (Though it does on myanimelist) but I do not blame anyone that made the descriptions for this lack of oversight. It just shouldn't have to come to checking other websites before reading a manga just to avoid something that could easily be tagged. I am not saying this needs to be a tag like villaness or slice of life, but I do think it necessary to have this option in place to easily avoid disturbing those that either at best, find it distasteful or at worst, those that have real world experience suffering that can be triggered.

 

[DesertStorm]

Virtue signalling, much? I can't just imagine a normal human being reacting like that to a fictional material unless they're a Waspy housewife who's bored out of their mind.

 

[Verkato]

It has one, just look for Isekai

 

[DoubleSnake]

Ok then lets try this. There's handicapped parking at the store, I don't use it. Most people I know don't use it. But there are people out there that do need it. And for that I think it necessary.

Now I would prefer a dialog that isn't snide remarks and sarcasm, I am open to other people ideas and if someone can tell me why they don't think it needed (without using insults) I may change my opinion on the matter.

 

[Remocracy]

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[Perm]

Ok then lets try this. There's handicapped parking at the store, I don't use it. Most people I know don't use it. But there are people out there that do need it. And for that I think it necessary.

Now I would prefer a dialog that isn't snide remarks and sarcasm, I am open to other people ideas and if someone can tell me why they don't think it needed (without using insults) I may change my opinion on the matter.

according to that logic you would need to add a warning for everything. slavery just isn't that big of a deal

 

[DesertStorm]

Ok then lets try this. There's handicapped parking at the store, I don't use it. Most people I know don't use it. But there are people out there that do need it. And for that I think it necessary.

Now I would prefer a dialog that isn't snide remarks and sarcasm, I am open to other people ideas and if someone can tell me why they don't think it needed (without using insults) I may change my opinion on the matter.

Hold on! Are you comparing this minute issue to handicapped parking?! I know someone who's handicapped! I'm honestly offended for them.

 

[OrangeOtter]

Why only slavery? We're gonna need something similar for suicide, child abuse, murder, rape etc cause they're extremely distasteful and offensive. This is dumb.

 

[DoubleSnake]

slavery just isn't that big of a deal

I... rather disagree. Rape is a big deal so we categorize it as sexual violence. If there was an umbrella term to use instead of slavery I would be for that, but I don't really know of any that would cover that.

Hold on! Are you comparing this minute issue to handicapped parking?! I know someone who's handicapped! I'm honestly offended for them.

I am not making a comparison I am making an allusion. I am simply stating that just because some of us don't think it useful doesn't mean that it serves no purpose.

 

[DoubleSnake]

Why only slavery? We're gonna need something similar for suicide, child abuse, murder, rape etc cause they're extremely distasteful and offensive. This is dumb.

Rape is covered by sexual violence, But we may indeed need warnings for those as well.

 

[Perm]

Rape is covered by sexual violence, But we may indeed need warnings for those as well.

so why are you focusing so much on slavery if there are many worse things without a content warning. seems to me you just wanna virtue signal on a relevant twitter topic

 

[DoubleSnake]

so why are you focusing so much on slavery if there are many worse things without a content warning. seems to me you just wanna virtue signal on a relevant twitter topic

Literally the first time I've even heard the term "virtue signal" was in this thread. I picked this topic as it was a very common trope in manga and one that is offputting. And yes there are other much worse offending topics that should have content warnings as well, but that is for another time as this thread was intended to tackle slavery and whether or not people can filter it out. Or if people wanted to look for it specifically, if that's your thing.

 

[Remocracy]

Why only slavery? We're gonna need something similar for suicide, child abuse, murder, rape etc cause they're extremely distasteful and offensive. This is dumb.

Rape already has a warning, that's the "sexual violence" tag. Murder also has the gore tag.

 

[Asasa]

I'd go for a tag instead of a content warning. I'm sure there's a demographic that would like to read isekai without having to wade through the usual trash, for example - and obviously there will be degenerates looking for it, too.

Tags are already whatever so I say why the fuck not.

 

[Hibikin]

I'm not sure, since most of manga reader doesn't see slavery as a problem, especially in the common troupe of isekai manga.

 

[JanuszMaciej]

If we don't want tag for every term, so maybe like sex related terms are under "sexual violence" let's create tag for every old norm that now is unacceptable?

 

[OrangeOtter]

Tags are generally fine as they are. Let's not turn the site into like Dynasty or MU by adding those specific spoilerish tags. I fucking hope not.

 

[Plykiya]

Our opinion at the moment is that Slavery would be fine as a Theme/Content tag, but not a Content Warning. It's prevalent enough in the mountain of isekai and sometimes appears not in isekai

 

[Ender_ramirez]

It has one, just look for Isekai

Xd

 

[dsid2814]

nah