Publication Date

[Xunder]

Have under Pub. Status a Pub. Date to show when the series was published.

 

[ununseti]

I second this. It's nice to know when a manga started coming out because it can give you a better idea of the context. e.g. the Sansha Sanyou anime got a lot of flak for being a fairly more-of-the-same slice of life schoolgirl series, but the manga actually first came out back in 2003, back when the concept was still fresh and new.

Also, sometimes an artist publishes a bunch of doujinshi one-shots in the same continuity, and the reading order is unclear (e.g. "Our Combined Might Is 2 Million"). So, having a sort by date published would be nice (since date uploaded / date scanlated may not necessarily match up with date published).

A related nice thing to have would be the source of publication/serialization (e.g. Gangan Online, twi4, C93, Reitaisai 15, etc.) You'd normally come across this when looking for the publication date anyway.

 

[tathra]

being able to search manga by year (or range of years) and by magazine would be useful too.

demographics could be tied to magazine too, so they couldnt be disputed based on opinions, like people marking series published in a seinen mag as shounen cuz it seems more like shounen and vice versa (i've also seen a few instances of stuff being marked wrong, like a shounen marked as josei, tying demo to the mag would solve both mistakes and vandalism).