[MEGATHREAD] Tags Suggestions

[kouyo]

This thread is for suggesting and discussing new tags to be implemented in MangaDex. To suggest a new tag, please follow the guidelines below.

Guidelines:​

1. Your tag should represent a broad theme or concept that applies to a wide range of content. Providing examples is encouraged to clarify where it would be used.
2. Tags should be clear, easy to understand. Try to avoid suggesting tags that are too abstract or based on niche references that might confuse others.
3. Avoid suggesting tags that could closely overlap with existing ones. If unsure, check our Tags Definition for guidance, ask if you're still unsure.
4. Provide a clear explanation of the tag's purpose and what type of content it is meant to categorize.
5. Tags should primarily focus on describing content itself, such as its themes, genres, or storytelling structure. Tags that focus on external conditions or processes are not in line with this rule. Other types of tags may be accepted, provided they help users identify the reading structure or navigational format of the content.
6. Tags promoting content that violates site rules won't be accepted.

Important:​

Anything falling under the banner of "porn tags" is currently pending a tag rework. We're in need of a system for categorizing these tags that will allow us to flag them appropriately and segregate them from the main list of tags.

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Below is a list of suggested tags that meets the previous requirements. This is not a list of tags that we will add. Only if the tag meets the requirements, it will be added to the list. Porn tags are excluded from this list.

Suggested tags:​

• Age Gap
• Childcare
• Idols
• Economics
• Educative
• Short Comics
• Kingdom
• Enterprise
• Cute Girls Doing Cute Things (CGDCT)
• Maid
• Banishment/Abandoned Protagonist
• Farming/Agriculture
• Child Abuse
• Power Fantasy
• Game Elements
• Romantic Subtext
• Iyashikei
• Journey
• Dungeon Crawl
• Politics
• Robots
• Kemonomimi

 

[Teasday]

im also talking about, just one page, it's just one picture. Not even a comic as well
it's literally just one page.

Yeah so probably best to create a Twitter comics title entry and upload them under there, but like I said, we don't have specific rules or guidelines regarding this situation. This is technically perfectly fine, and just adding a tag for these seems like a bandaid solution at best.

 

[dsid2814]

Yeah so probably best to create a Twitter comics title entry and upload them under there, but like I said, we don't have specific rules or guidelines regarding this situation. This is technically perfectly fine, and just adding a tag for these seems like a bandaid solution at best.

i mean this is mangadex, not one-page no panels dex.
These really aren't comics at all. I mean its fine if you ya'll wanna put them on here, but I'd prefer something more stricter.

I think a twitter tag or something.
must be difficult though. Im not an admin or mod with a big team. So i'd personally just do it, but i understand if you gotta have meeting n shit

 

[Teasday]

i mean this is mangadex, not one-page no panels dex.
These really aren't comics at all.

One panel comics are still very much comics. Some of the oldest examples of comics even in the West that we have, in fact, not to mention how prevalent they still are especially with political comics but others as well.

 

[dsid2814]

One panel comics are still very much comics. Some of the oldest examples of comics even in the West that we have, in fact, not to mention how prevalent they still are especially with political comics but others as well.

at what point does a picture become a comic and vice versa?
if I draw an illustration and slap word balloons on it. does it make it a comic?

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Monster boys do not really exist as a genre in the same way Monster Girls do.
Vampire and Werewolf fetishes do exist, but it's less a general monster men fetish than specific ones.

 

[Syanindita]

Maybe the hard part for admin is creating a new name for the tag.. Need a lot of brainstorming

 

[Lichon]

Tag - game elements​

https://mangadex.org/title/32d76d19-8a05-4db0-9fc2-e0b0648fe9d0/solo-leveling only has single tag closely remote, namely "Supernatual", but that is very broad. But it would be good fit for this suggested tag.

I suggested the name "game elements" to cover a wider group in hopes of being accepted, but ideally certain more specific tags are better.
I did not use "RPG elements" as that implies a more specific subset.

Examples:

• specific leveling, but showing experience not required. "Level N"
• information window (usually only visible to the user/player). Like "status/profile" or "object" (think appraisal) window
• automatic/invisible system or AI
• class/job (sometimes trait/talent but those can also mean "skill/ability" thus a part of "class"), but needs something like. Being a magic swordsman [adventurer] is NOT a fit, while being a mage/magician with linked quest is

 

[Lichon]

Tag sub-isekai - not from or to Earth​

With so many isekai stories, I think there is room for sub-tagging/specific ones.
I find the stories where the main character is NOT from (planet) Earth, and thus no references to Earth (culture, history, food, etc.), more interesting.
Likewise when the main character is coming TO (planet) Earth, the same reference stuff tend to show up and should NOT be included.

I am aware isekai stories do tend to be FROM earth and to somewhere not-Earth and thus could end up using/picking this suggested sub-tag.
As for the actual tag name, am I bit lost and welcome ideas. How about "not earth", or if parent tag should be included "isekai/not earth" / "(isekai)not earth" / "not earth (isekai)".

Examples:
https://mangadex.org/title/48221bce...e-galactic-navy-officer-becomes-an-adventurer
https://mangadex.org/title/58bc83a0...atta-moto-yuusha-kouho-no-mattari-isekai-life
https://mangadex.org/title/38a89cab...64027a0/isekai-majutsushi-wa-mahou-o-tonaenai

 

[VTEC_]

they should just add some minimal requirement to how much pages classifies for an upload. i do concur that the increasingly growing landfill of 1-2 page manga uploads is becoming more of an annoying trend rather than if anything...

 

[Teasday]

at what point does a picture become a comic and vice versa?
if I draw an illustration and slap word balloons on it. does it make it a comic?

That's a great question! Unfortunately because of just that ambiguity, there doesn't seem to be a precise agreed-upon definition, so I'm not actually sure - drawing illustrations and slapping word balloons on them is, after all, pretty much how all comics are made. Thankfully debating it here is rarely necessary thanks to the requirement being pretty much just having to translate some text on the images, not to mention we'd pretty quick run into questions about what's the difference between comics and cartoons (which for the purpose of MangaDex would still count as stuff you're allowed to upload, by the way).

 

[RogueKitsune]

Long strip titles would qualify as one page chapters as they are often released as one giant image/page (MD just splits them for the sake of people with potatoes or bad internet)

 

[blargblargblarg]

Tag - Cute Girls Doing Cute Things (CGDCT)​

How does this not already exist?

 

[Garett]

Pre-Serialization and Promo tags?​

Both of them fall into same category: Oneshot.

But there are many of them. It's would be nice these can be excluded from search result.

 

[Hitspark]

[Tag Suggestion] Power Fantasy Theme/Content Tag​

I don't mean in the general sense that most manga/manhua encompass, I mean when the hero is nigh unstoppable and walks over every villain and obstacle he comes across because he happened to breath an extra breath that day. I mean where the MC is fully aware of the power difference and still seeks greater power. That's the kind of hero I mean.

I'm talking about that "Waking up is my power up" hero.

That "Rise & Shine your butt is mine" hero.

That "Enjoying lunchtime in the middle of a battle" hero.

That "I became a mountain in a single moment" hero.

That "Fighting for my friends only because they're at work" hero.

That "I can't get depressed because I've never been brought down" hero.

That "I when I turn around everybody hit the ground" hero.

That "Straight men ask me for sex just so they can say they did something great" hero.

...Y'kno what I mean?

Not a big reason, sometimes a homie just wants to build a list to read when he doesn't wanna think. Sometimes you just wanna see every baddie in the series get stomped from beginning to end. Small request (hopefully).

 

[BzzBzz]

Isn't Shounen+Action for this?

I mean every "That ..." is generic shounen+action scenario. Why do you need more tags?

Edit: There's also Superhero tag.

 

[KatoShuu]

Long strip titles would qualify as one page chapters as they are often released as one giant image/page

at least they use paneling

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Isn't Shounen+Action for this?

I mean every "That ..." is generic shounen+action scenario. Why do you need more tags?

Edit: There's also Superhero tag.

That's pretty wrong.
Shounen, Action, Superhero still can be tags of stories about characters who are definetly on the bottom and not false underdogs.
A proper Power Fantasy tag really has it's merits, though I would argue it would need a strict definition to qualify as such.

 

[Hitspark]

Isn't Shounen+Action for this?

I mean every "That ..." is generic shounen+action scenario. Why do you need more tags?

Edit: There's also Superhero tag.

I mean, in those tags are included every kind of hero archetype under the sun. If I'm explicitly looking for a hero whose whole thing is being aware of the awesome power he has, even more so trying to pursue more of it then stuff like Moto Shogun Undead Knight or The Player Who Can't Level Up, Or Lone Spellcaster where the main character being busted IS the core of the plot and the in-universe plot is more like background dressing, will get buried underneath everything else.

 

[HDMI1]

Requesting a Crafting theme tag​

The tag would cover series where the MC(s) are more focused on creating things instead of combat/romcom/etc.

Series as examples:
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Yakunara Mug Cup mo
Dungeon Reset
Ascendance of a Bookworm
Isekai Yakkyoku

 

[RogerZero]

Tag Requests: Hetero, Futanari, Etc.​

Tags continued: 404: Men not Found, Comfy Content, Age Gap, NTR (surprised its not already here). Most of these are to filter out content, since Futanari is firmly entrenched in the "Girls' Love" tag space, and Hetero content is prevalent as well. NTR should be obvious, some are into it, the rest of us hate it.

Edit: John below makes my point clear, most of these I want to filter out except comfy content.