[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

 

[sanglyon]

I second the need for a "Childcare" tag. Even the MCs reincarnated/isekaied in a novel's world often refers to the book genre as such. Yes, sometimes romance or other genres are mixed in, but if the MC main motivation is taking care of a kid and the main focus of the story, that should have its own tag. Instead, we have to search for combinations of "drama", "romance", "slice of life", "isekai", "reincarnation", "villainess", and sift throught the results.

a few examples:
I Raised My Younger Sister Beautifully (Long Strip,Romance,Magic,Drama,Fantasy,Adaptation,Full Color)
I Became the Mother of the Evil Male Lead (Long Strip,Romance,Magic,Fantasy,Adaptation,Full Color)
Not-Sew-Wicked Stepmom (Reincarnation,Long Strip,Romance,Comedy,Isekai,Fantasy,Villainess,Web Comic,Adaptation,Full Color)
Living as the Villain's Stepmother (Long Strip,Romance,Fantasy,Adaptation)
How Could You Repay the Kindness I Raised You With Obsession? (Reincarnation,Long Strip,Romance,Magic,Isekai,Fantasy,Cooking,Adaptation,Full Color)

I could find a dozen more in the 700+ titles in my librairy, but since they're not tagged "Childcare", that would take too much time.

 

[Madologist]

More detailed tagging hasn't been added yet to this website. You can use manga tracking websites like MangaUpdates which has a more detailed tagging by fans which can sometimes be a little inaccurate.

MU doesn't have a reliable sex specific tag for protagonists, that is NovelUpdates.
I don't myself think this is a necessary tag, but it would be useful.
Falls down to, is it worth the effort to add vs actual usability.
Also I can already foresee, how it would get misattributed to some series that "have" a FMC, but the FMC isn't necessarily the main FMC or MC (main MC is MMC) and so on. Eventually leading us back to square one, where we need further definition on MMC, FMC and Multiple MC tags and so on.

So ultimately, I guess no... huh, I argued myself against my initial stance...

 

[EnvyAna]

I'm constantly frustrated by the lack of a female protagonist tag (or a male protag tag that I can exclude) as I'm nearly exclusively interested in stories about women, whereas so many are written about men that they're the de facto default. Every argument against the inclusion of such a tag that I've seen has been a generic argument that could apply to the addition of any tag--existing series would need to be tagged which is a lot of work, another tag means more clutter, if we add this tag then why wouldn't we also add all these others which would further compound the problem, etc. And yeah, the best time to have added the female protagonist tag would have been at the beginning of the site, but they didn't do it then. So the next best time... would have been any of the subsequent times that this qol feature was requested and denied before now. But the next next best time is today! The desire to find stories written from the perspective of a woman isn't some niche, passing fad.

 

[RandomnessOfTheMathWorld]

I'm constantly frustrated by the lack of a female protagonist tag (or a male protag tag that I can exclude) as I'm nearly exclusively interested in stories about women, whereas so many are written about men that they're the de facto default. Every argument against the inclusion of such a tag that I've seen has been a generic argument that could apply to the addition of any tag--existing series would need to be tagged which is a lot of work, another tag means more clutter, if we add this tag then why wouldn't we also add all these others which would further compound the problem, etc. And yeah, the best time to have added the female protagonist tag would have been at the beginning of the site, but they didn't do it then. So the next best time... would have been any of the subsequent times that this qol feature was requested and denied before now. But the next next best time is today! The desire to find stories written from the perspective of a woman isn't some niche, passing fad.

As said above, MangUpdates is your best bet. You can search for pretty much any tag, including female protagonist/female author.

 

[anifd]

As said above, MangUpdates is your best bet. You can search for pretty much any tag, including female protagonist/female author.

the good thing about mangaupdates is that it has the most amount of tags i've seen for tracking sites, it but doesn't have reliable protagonist tagging. the most popular tag has around 12000 series under it, but male and female protagonist tags are only about 3000 so that means there are at least 6000+ more manga without any protagonist tags so you'll miss a lot of manga if you're searching with the female/male protagonist tags. there are rare exceptions, but seinen and shounen usually have male protagonists and shoujo/josei have female protagonists so searching with the demographics can be okay too though that method has a problem if people don't tag it.

 

[membles]

bumping to show support for a ntr or whatever tag so its easier to avoid cuck shit like the plague.
Accidentally starting a “”romance”” manga where there is 0 indication of the story involving that mindmeltingly disgusting awful dogshit legitimately ruins my day and has done so multiple times. As other users have said it is a core component of some of the lowest rated manga on the site. I’m not the only one who hates it. My day has just been ruined by a “romance” tagged manga, with seemingly good art, a basic description giving NO HINT at the garbage within, and oh, yay! 20 pages in, the story takes a sharp turn from “decent but generic romance manga” to “Its Cuck Dogshit”. Devs i am begging you i need this stuff out of my sight. I have been a victim of it one too many times

 

[Pokari]

Futanari shouldn't be tagged as Girls' Love.

That's not the problem, though? Like, it reasonably should be tagged as Girl's Love when both characters consider themselves girls (at least, that's the most sensitive metric that could be used). And like, it may fix your personal ick problems with what you look for, but doesn't fix the general problem of unwelcome reader surprises if it's just tagged 'romance' and presumed by everyone to be straight cis/het instead. You cannot get the information needed into the existing tags.

Although this is not the example I usually reach for, yet another reason why splitting the "Gender Bender" tag into two very specific things that only cover 90% of series was a really bad idea IMO. It was a pretty good "be aware that the tags may not cover everything going on with gender in this" catch-all label.

Already discussed to death in this thread, and IMO it doesn't warrant a tag for reasons explained in the linked post.

(Talking here because I don't want to necro that thread and I'm not expecting anything to come of it anyway)

Respectfully, there's two fundamental differences between the design goals of the BBFC's rating system and Mangadex's tags that I think are extremely important here:

• Mangadex's content warnings are there to let you know upsetting content may be there, the BBFC is concerned whether content inappropriate for children is there. These are overlapping catergories but not the same. Mangadex, for instance, doesn't have to worry about an R18 rating meaning that any important educational material would be kept away from children. People can read the description or use whatever measures to decide how they feel for themselves about the portrayal of the 'bad thing' happening, and that's true whether it's "Gore" or "Slavery".
• The BBFC has mature, responsible, civic-minded adults deciding on whether anything falls under other content labels—"does the slavery shown have something problematic in it's portrayal" is decided by comparatively dispassionate and well-educated editors who can say things like "Yeah, this 'master/slave' relationship has fairly sexual scenes with bad consent based on compulsion and coercion, made worse by how positively it's portrayed, R18 with Sexual Violence". If you leave us weebs to tag the same thing, it's likely to come up as "This comic is great the slave dog-gurl is so hot and sexy and willing, 10/10" instead. We cannot be trusted with that kind of nuance as a community, so it does not solve the problem in this context.

 

[Garett]

I suggest "promo", so I can exclude these while browsing oneshots.

 

[MilkDrinker]

"Mindfuck" - for really funky surreal stuff

 

[Manko-sensei]

That's not the problem, though? Like, it reasonably should be tagged as Girl's Love when both characters consider themselves girls (at least, that's the most sensitive metric that could be used). And like, it may fix your personal ick problems with what you look for, but doesn't fix the general problem of unwelcome reader surprises if it's just tagged 'romance' and presumed by everyone to be straight cis/het instead. You cannot get the information needed into the existing tags.

The only "general problem" you try to allude is the laziness and intolerance many people have when they want to find something without any effort, so mislabelling separated genres to favour people who don't care is not a good solution. The fact that non-Japanese webpages try to catalogue everything in Western labels is already troublesome per se, not only because it removes informative tags from the publishers/advertisers/informative sites but also changes the key words used to find series in their genres. Yuri, futanari, crossdressing and genderbending/swap are clearly differenced in Japanese and therefore there's no reason to change that, despite that there's a handful of works like Futanari no Elf that you can check yourself in Pixiv there's no sign of yuri tagging or even FAKKU (the links are there). Or are we going to tag as yuri benderswap characters who are males instead of yaoi? Why don't we tag male + futa as yaoi? The answer is there, futanari is neither male or female, as simple as that.
If the problem is the tag "romance", then even if it's straight cisgender there are different tags in Japanese that are not included in MangaDex plus the pairings.

About the "slavery" discussion I have little to say, unless the publishers themselves start pushing forward that label with a selection of works it's just a disinformative label. Or do you think a historical Edo manga with a slave as part of the main cast should be tagged alongside a generic power-fantasy isekai or a hentai title that matters little which social names you put on the characters? Is a title less deserving of that tagging for not displaying violence so graphically and at the same time treating properly the topic instead of being a recurring sexual joke?

 

[Manko-sensei]

"Mindfuck" - for really funky surreal stuff

That would confuse people who look for guro.

 

[Pokari]

The only "general problem" you try to allude is the laziness and intolerance many people have when they want to find something without any effort, so mislabelling separated genres to favour people who don't care is not a good solution. The fact that non-Japanese webpages try to catalogue everything in Western labels is already troublesome per se, not only because it removes informative tags from the publishers/advertisers/informative sites but also changes the key words used to find series in their genres. Yuri, futanari, crossdressing and genderbending/swap are clearly differenced in Japanese and therefore there's no reason to change that, despite that there's a handful of works like Futanari no Elf that you can check yourself in Pixiv there's no sign of yuri tagging or even FAKKU (the links are there). Or are we going to tag as yuri benderswap characters who are males instead of yaoi? Why don't we tag male + futa as yaoi? The answer is there, futanari is neither male or female, as simple as that.
If the problem is the tag "romance", then even if it's straight cisgender there are different tags in Japanese that are not included in MangaDex plus the pairings.

About the "slavery" discussion I have little to say, unless the publishers themselves start pushing forward that label with a selection of works it's just a disinformative label. Or do you think a historical Edo manga with a slave as part of the main cast should be tagged alongside a generic power-fantasy isekai or a hentai title that matters little which social names you put on the characters? Is a title less deserving of that tagging for not displaying violence so graphically and at the same time treating properly the topic instead of being a recurring sexual joke?

"We should only use exactly the Japanese labels for things", in addition to being such a tired and old argument (we hashed this out in the 90's, yo), is an absolutely nonsensical take on a site that translates stuff from several different languages.

 

[Manko-sensei]

"We should only use exactly the Japanese labels for things", in addition to being such a tired and old argument (we hashed this out in the 90's, yo), is an absolutely nonsensical take on a site that translates stuff from several different languages.

Hence why adding new tags and relabelling with no criteria only adds more problems and here we are in the present day.

 

[Pokari]

Hence why adding new tags and relabelling with no criteria only adds more problems and here we are in the present day.

I honestly don't know what you're talking about. Tags are way better than they used to be, in general. The 'less is more' and 'more is more' fight over tags is still real, and "less is more" sites like Mangadex have heated discussions about even small changes that mostly lead to a pretty clean tag-set, like the present one, from the dross of those arguments.

But Mangadex has an increasingly big problem with the cis-normative tag-set it's chosen, perhaps slightly less by dint of them being poorly chosen in the first place as by dint of time moving on and norms changing (likewise to some extent with limited content warnings, but I digress). The only gender tags now are swap and cross. "Romance" means straight romance unless there's other tags—except when it doesn't. The problem is somewhat ameliorated(??? or phrased differently, exacerbated???) by the site becoming more and more a kind of cesspit-y crowd that would push away most of the sector of fans that might care about any of this, honestly (seriously the self-selection here has gotten so heavy that I see almost nothing but 'ecchi for men' anywhere on the front page, even the latest updates. Meanwhile the batoto-lookalikes have all the m/m gay stuff, LGBTQ-friendly stuff, and anything aimed at women―and, interestingly, the "more is more" tagging mindset, which seems to suit them. It's a strange divergence, but the staff here is kind of brusquely dudebro-ish on some key topics so maybe the split itself at least was inevitable in the long run)

(Also I guess I should say: inb4 the inevitable person complaining about me talking about 'woke' stuff around gender: No. I'm describing cultural trends and changing expectations here, not inviting a completely topically-irrelevant argument over whether you like them. Don't start.)

 

[Manko-sensei]

I honestly don't know what you're talking about. Tags are way better than they used to be, in general. The 'less is more' and 'more is more' fight over tags is still real, and "less is more" sites like Mangadex have heated discussions about even small changes that mostly lead to a pretty clean tag-set, like the present one, from the dross of those arguments.

But Mangadex has an increasingly big problem with the cis-normative tag-set it's chosen, perhaps slightly less by dint of them being poorly chosen in the first place as by dint of time moving on and norms changing (likewise to some extent with limited content warnings, but I digress). The only gender tags now are swap and cross. "Romance" means straight romance unless there's other tags—except when it doesn't. The problem is somewhat ameliorated(??? or phrased differently, exacerbated???) by the site becoming more and more a kind of cesspit-y crowd that would push away most of the sector of fans that might care about any of this, honestly (seriously the self-selection here has gotten so heavy that I see almost nothing but 'ecchi for men' anywhere on the front page, even the latest updates. Meanwhile the batoto-lookalikes have all the m/m gay stuff, LGBTQ-friendly stuff, and anything aimed at women―and, interestingly, the "more is more" tagging mindset, which seems to suit them. It's a strange divergence, but the staff here is kind of brusquely dudebro-ish on some key topics so maybe the split itself at least was inevitable in the long run)

(Also I guess I should say: inb4 the inevitable person complaining about me talking about 'woke' stuff around gender: No. I'm describing cultural trends and changing expectations here, not inviting a completely topically-irrelevant argument over whether you like them. Don't start.)

First of all, I don't find any site to have a consistent way of tagging, not even MangaDex. All sites have gone from using genre tags and topic tags that could be traced to Japanese releases to a mix of "let's suit everyone by letting them add what's more popular" to "we're not interested to developing in this line so we're leaving things as is". From V3 to V5 MangaDex has merged, relabelled and added new tags that surely must have simplified the work for some but also has complicated the search for titles nobody had a problem with. Nevertheless, you were complaining about "gender tags" in MangaDex when they weren't in the first place and, at the same time, wanting to make "romance" now exclusive for certain identities when not even dictionaries such as Oxford or Cambridge do such a distinction, maybe you should show which guidelines are you following to introduce that criterion? Or maybe do you want to propose to add all the gender/sexual orientation spectrum to the genres, even though it will only rely on the Internet users you don't want to rely on?
If the concern is solely what shows on the front page or the fact that to find titles you want to read you need to read the series because you're not capable of desciphering the contents by the cover and the envelope... point out exactly what needs to be changed so you don't get misunderstood. About this part I assume you were referring to "demographics", these are the closer to retailers/publishers they can be (which, of course, doesn't mean people don't end up adding incorrect tags). But if you were simply referring to "popular new titles" and similar that's merely how the popularity system works for the site, you'll see "ecchi for men" because they get the most bookmarks within 30 days than other titles (ironically, the more split they are the other titles the less chances for users to come across them). In the end, all of this must come because you must be worried that non-sex/arrousal related series are not getting on the front page, right?

 

[coffee_lv]

I have two suggestions for improving the experience on the site. First is the omegaverse tag. I think it will help those interested in it to find what they are looking for faster and find new titles to read. The second one, I think it would be amazing to include the filtering option in one own library. I have 300 plan to read titles and sometimes I know the genre or themes I want to read but I have to search individually though all the titles. Thank you!

 

[NightmareOkami]

I have two suggestions for improving the experience on the site. First is the omegaverse tag. I think it will help those interested in it to find what they are looking for faster and find new titles to read. The second one, I think it would be amazing to include the filtering option in one own library. I have 300 plan to read titles and sometimes I know the genre or themes I want to read but I have to search individually though all the titles. Thank you!

You can already filter with apps like neko

 

[Niewaznekto]

There is a slew of manga, that are pretty much half of porn doujin, baiting readers to subscribe to authors fanbox. It's frustrating to find them categorised as non-porn manga when they are obviously just half of it and the other is obviously porn. They should have their own category, either in the age rating or format tags, so that we can filter them out, and if someone does want to read them having the option to read the porn and non-porn chapters organised together would be nice (so instead of reading chapter 12 manga A, switching to manga B for chapter 12.5, just being able to read the two together)

Example:
https://mangadex.org/title/a12c1a96-3f43-4d76-957b-c2cdef4e93d5/kemomeido

 

[coffee_lv]

OMEGAVERSE theme/tag​

It would be a really good addition as it is a very distinct part of BL and implies some things

 

[Spaghetti7173]