[MEGATHREAD] Tags Suggestions

[kouyo]

This thread is for suggesting and discussing new tags to be implemented on MangaDex.
Read the guidelines below then post your suggestion as a reply here.

All tags are subject to review by the mod team and are not guaranteed to be added.

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Guidelines:​

1. The tag should represent a broad theme or concept that can apply to many different series. Avoid tags that are too niche or abstract. Providing examples is encouraged to clarify where it would be used.
2. Provide a clear explanation of the tag's purpose and what type of content it's meant to categorize. At the very least your suggestion should answer the question: What type of content is it meant to categorize?
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. Tags should primarily focus on describing the content itself, such as its themes, genres, or storytelling structure. Tags that focus on external conditions or processes will be rejected. Other types of tags may be accepted, provided they help users identify the reading structure or navigational format of the content.
5. All suggested tags must align with our site rules. Tags for content that violates these rules will not be accepted.

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Important:​

Currently a rework is being done to handle "porn tags". This new system will allow us to categorize these tags to flag them appropriately and segregate them from the main list of tags. Suggestions for these tags will not be considered at this time.

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Below is a list of tag suggestions that meet the above requirements and are subject to review by the mod team. This list is a work in progress and will be updated either when we add or reject a suggested tag.

Tags in consideration:​

• 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
• Omegaverse

 

[Gorri]

There are tags based on the protagonist's gender on MangaUpdates.
Specifically 3985 titles are tagged with "female protagonist", and 3666 are tagged with "male protagonist".
However, the "full colored" tag has 12719 titles. Ignoring not all titles are full colored or have a clear male or female protagonist, 5068 titles lack a protagonist gender tag, hopefully showing how little it matters to the majority (and the sheer tag bloat on MU)

I know I'm in the minority in general because I never saw the problem with "tag bloat" so long it is not abused and correctly tagged by whatever the tag is being prevalent in the story and not an one time thing in one chapter out of 200, but admitedly tags tend to be misused and slapped on anything so I get why the site dediced agaisnt adding too many, guess I will stick to bloat tag sites to find not so shoujo femc stories. Thanks for the clarifications.

 

[alidan]

I don't know when the exact date happened, but in light of the recent dmca, would it be possible to add meta tags such as dmca (in this case chapters are gone due to dmca) or purged (in the passed there were groups that just hard removed a bunch of their chapters making large holes in what's available)

the use case would be being able to parse my library for manga I now need to find other sources for, either because they got the dmca hammer (I doubt this will be the last time this happens) or in the case of purges, telling me that they did in fact have the chapters but they just are not here anymore.

 

[Biboutaine]

That’s actually a great idea.
Being able to tag entries as “DMCA’d” or “purged” would make it way easier to manage personal libraries, especially when whole chunks just vanish without warning. It’s really frustrating to open a title and realize halfway through a re-read that 30 chapters are just poof gone, and you have no idea why.


I imagine it might take some dev work, but even a basic metadata flag on affected series would be a huge QoL improvement. Would love to see this implemented, especially if DMCA takedowns become more frequent.

 

[YummyWordSalad]

Additionally, it could also work as a marker for any other people, who might want to try and translate a series upon seeing gaps or no chapters being done (since to my understanding stuff that's not officially translated also got affected), but not know that it already had a translation done once.
If a tag/marker like that is put on a title, it could mean 'don't touch with a 10 foot pole - it will get nuked.'

 

[alidan]

That’s actually a great idea.
Being able to tag entries as “DMCA’d” or “purged” would make it way easier to manage personal libraries, especially when whole chunks just vanish without warning. It’s really frustrating to open a title and realize halfway through a re-read that 30 chapters are just poof gone, and you have no idea why.


I imagine it might take some dev work, but even a basic metadata flag on affected series would be a huge QoL improvement. Would love to see this implemented, especially if DMCA takedowns become more frequent.

Its not even just that, there are alot of titles that just seem to stop updating for whatever reason, knowing that its the translator deciding they will never upload here (happened a lot a few years back, quite a lot came back but some never did) they took their stuff with them, or now with the dmca and likely, unless mangadex goes to a country where they don't care about copyright law at all, will never come back, it at least lets me know why something hasn't updated and to check other sources.

it would be annoying to implement for everything so far, sure, but if it gets implemented and going forward, it would be a fantastic user tool

 

[Biboutaine]

Its not even just that, there are alot of titles that just seem to stop updating for whatever reason, knowing that its the translator deciding they will never upload here (happened a lot a few years back, quite a lot came back but some never did) they took their stuff with them, or now with the dmca and likely, unless mangadex goes to a country where they don't care about copyright law at all, will never come back, it at least lets me know why something hasn't updated and to check other sources.

it would be annoying to implement for everything so far, sure, but if it gets implemented and going forward, it would be a fantastic user tool

Exactly! The "why did this stop updating?" mystery is the worst part. Knowing whether it's translator drama, DMCA, or just abandoned would save so much time wondering if something's coming back.

You're right about retroactive implementation being a pain, but even just tagging new cases going forward would be massively helpful. At least then we'd know to look elsewhere instead of waiting indefinitely for updates that aren't coming.

 

[coffee_lv]

Hi! I wanted to thank you for all the work that people put into MangaDex and I wanted to come with a small suggestion.

I noticed that in the trigger tags, there is sexual violence and gore and I thought that self-harm, violence (not sexual) and substance abuse could be some additional ones (especially self-harm). I sometimes add new titles to the site and I just want to make sure that no one is triggered, yet suicide attempts that are occasionally present in a work are not properly addressed by either one of the existing tags.

Additionally, the omegaverse tag would also be cool because it is a certain type of BL that implies some things, but of course, it's up to you and the management. These are just small ideas, hopefully I didn't take much of your time!

 

[hazzack]

Hi! I wanted to thank you for all the work that people put into MangaDex and I wanted to come with a small suggestion.

I noticed that in the trigger tags, there is sexual violence and gore and I thought that self-harm, violence (not sexual) and substance abuse could be some additional ones (especially self-harm). I sometimes add new titles to the site and I just want to make sure that no one is triggered, yet suicide attempts that are occasionally present in a work are not properly addressed by either one of the existing tags.

Additionally, the omegaverse tag would also be cool because it is a certain type of BL that implies some things, but of course, it's up to you and the management. These are just small ideas, hopefully I didn't take much of your time!

this thread already has 4 omegaverse suggestions, which 3 came from you

 

[kouyo]

Additionally, the omegaverse tag would also be cool because it is a certain type of BL that implies some things, but of course, it's up to you and the management. These are just small ideas, hopefully I didn't take much of your time!

Hi. I can confirm that we do have the intention to add an Omegaverse tag.

However, we can't add any tags to the site yet, as we need to discuss them first, and the developers are busy working on higher priority things. There was an internal poll about a handful of tags in the list here, but that's about it.

 

[Loudmouth]

Can we get an "Invasion" tag for the "Set in modern day but portals open up with monsters coming out and random people get RPG style super powers" trope?

You know, what Solo Leveling and half of Korean "fantasy" comics are now?
I love the fantasy setting, and I don't want to filter out Koreans, they've done a lot of good stuff... But holy crap a lot of Korean fantasy comics are Invasion stuff.

 

[Lunkli]

Currently, one-page oneshots (such as those from Twitter) are given the same "oneshot" tag as full length, published oneshots. These two styles of manga are completely different, and really ought to be categorized separately. It can be frustrating to be looking for a oneshot to read, as these one-pagers often outnumber more complete stories.

It would probably also be a good idea for this tag to describe other especially short oneshots, as they often share similar structures. In this case, calling the tag something like "short" might be preferable to a more specific tag like "one page." (I also think "vignette" would work, but that runs the risk of being confusing to people that don't know the meaning of the word.) This would also make the name of the tag easier to distinguish at a glance from "oneshot."

This tag would probably also not be correlated with the "oneshot tag." Something that is a "short" isn't necessarily also a "oneshot," so something like Holiday Yasumi's twitter shorts would have the "short" tag but not the "oneshot" tag, for example. (Though, of course, something like the recently added Arimono de Nantoka Suru TS Musume would have both.)

mod note: merged into existing thread

 

[jecroisenlasuperioritedubel]

mod note: merged into existing thread

 

[Manko-sensei]

One-page manga is both used for one-shots and series in other sites, it kills two birds with one stone in fact. Short is used when it's up to four pages, another recurrent format for manga. If both of them are added, I could search much faster (at least a third of my library consists of those kind of works).

mod note: merged into existing thread

 

[Hicleric]

The megathread has this discussion in depth several times. 100% agree there's probably a suitable tag out there, but there is a question about what the cutoff should be.

mod note: merged into existing thread

 

[kouyo]

Can we get an "Invasion" tag for the "Set in modern day but portals open up with monsters coming out and random people get RPG style super powers" trope?

I'd say "Invasion" is not clear enough for your definition, this also probably overlaps with the "Isekai" tag and possibly the "Game Elements" tag in the list. However, don't put too much weight into the latter, since it's not an official tag.

 

[Lunkli]

The megathread has this discussion in depth several times. 100% agree there's probably a suitable tag out there, but there is a question about what the cutoff should be.

I think that keeping it vague would be better than having a strict cutoff of something like "four pages or fewer" or something. The point of having the tag wouldn't just be about page length, it's to distinguish (mostly) complete stories from what are basically one-off gags.

Like, if I made a manga that was twenty pages where the whole joke was that a guy was counting to ten but kept forgetting and starting over, would that have to be a oneshot because it was above whatever the page cutoff was? And what about a whole story told in only three pages? Does that have to be a short because it's under the cutoff?

So, yeah. My opinion in that regard is that specific cutoffs probably aren't what we should be focusing on with a tag like this. It's more about the content and style of storytelling / humor than the length or any other more concrete like that.

 

[kouyo]

I think that keeping it vague would be better than having a strict cutoff of something like "four pages or fewer" or something. The point of having the tag wouldn't just be about page length, it's to distinguish (mostly) complete stories from what are basically one-off gags.

This is already listed as "Short Comics" and would likely be categorized as a Format tag if we decide to include it.

 

[Lunkli]

This is already listed as "Short Comics" and would likely be categorized as a Format tag if we decide to include it.

I'm not sure what you mean by "this is already listed..." Do you mean that there's already a suggestion for this feature, or are you saying that there's already something in MangaDex? Either way, a format tag is exactly what I would expect should this be added.

 

[kouyo]

I'm not sure what you mean by "this is already listed..." Do you mean that there's already a suggestion for this feature, or are you saying that there's already something in MangaDex? Either way, a format tag is exactly what I would expect should this be added.

Sorry, I meant to say that your tag suggestion is already being considered under the name "Short Comics" (many others have suggested the same or something similar). It's listed in the first post of this thread.

 

[Lunkli]

Sorry, I meant to say that your tag suggestion is already being considered under the name "Short Comics" (many others have suggested the same or something similar). It's listed in the first post of this thread.

If it's been suggested so often, wouldn't it make sense for it to have its own thread for the sake of discussing the specifics of how the tag would work? Just leaving it up in the air here as "something that's been suggested before" seems like a surefire way for it to never see the light of day. It's basically been pocket vetoed right now, which I'm sure isn't really the mod team's intent, right?

Unless I'm misunderstanding and the list on the top post is listing tags that the mod team's currently in the process of discussing independently elsewhere? If that were the case, it might be better to reword the post to make that more clear, because right now it feels like little more than examples of stuff that've been suggested before.