Suggestions for new tags (I will start with age gap but you can add others)

[draxdeveloper]

I am creating this suggestion topic, so people can make a list of possible useful tags and maybe explain your reasoning (there are a lot of tag topics, this would be one to generate a list).
My first suggestion is age gap, my personal reason is that I don't like romcoms with an age gap when it's a minor and an adult (I don't care if it's two adults thought, like Super no Ura de Yani Sū Futari. But I don't know if it is possible to make two different tags to separate both of them) If anyone else suggests other tags, I will create a list and keep updating this topic

• Age Gap
• Age Gap that have adult and minor (have no idea how to call it or if it's possible, but yeah)
• Netorare
• Childcare
• Succubus
• Assasins
• Idols
• Economics
• False underdog
• Journey
• No Plot Armour
• Female Protagonist
• Motorsports / Automotive
• Xianxia
• Werewolf
• Educative
• One-page (mangas with one or two pages per chapter)
• Hetero
• Vore
• journey / "world seeing"
• tower / dungeon
• western/eastern esthetics
• possession
• kingdom
• enterprise
• "Civ-Tech"
• yandere
• Slavery

 

[XilumDreemurr]

Also please list them in alphabetical order

 

[TestAddress]

Age Gap should also remove those eye sludge called old.man to a toddler.

 

[Diakos]

Agriculture.
OP protagonist/Cheat skill.
Edgelord MC.
Revenge slop.
"Misery porn" where everyone hates MC for no reason and everyone competes to do the evilist thing for the stupidest reason.

 

[AnonymousContributor]

Nop, have no idea how to call it so I will call one-page

CG set

 

[AnonymousContributor]

think we can put "CG set" in as a tag?

Taken from EHWiki's definition of artist CG (in the Gallery Descriptions)
Artwork sets without panels, often made digitally. Typically in color and with more detailed backgrounds. Must depict a sequence of events (or be either a variant set or artbook) AND must be sold / distributed as a whole.
Obviously I removed the word "pornographic" from the beginning since I want a label to encompass CG sets in general.
This basically includes literally anything Zurikishi has made, the 1:39 comic, those 1 page twitter comics without panels, just all that panelless stuff where the only change between pages is just a character model being moved or text bubbles.

 

[5hijima]

absolutely NEED a futa tag
i hate going onto gl and seeing futa [like, that isnt what i wanted? i wanted ______]

also this is a bit random but general loli tag or editing of the loli tag, so it dosnt have to be suggestive or higher rated for loli, beacuse sometimes i want wholesome loli things, and i cant find them 😔
[here is an example of the mc constantly being referred to as a loli and it having loli in the description, yet not tagged as such due to it not being suggestive+]

 

[Lowfyie]

absolutely NEED a futa tag
i hate going onto gl and seeing futa [like, that isnt what i wanted? i wanted ______]

I have actually never seen a futa here on mangadex?
Maybe because I dont get recommended mangas in the pornography tag and futa probably is in there since theyd have to show girldick...

 

[5hijima]

I have actually never seen a futa here on mangadex?
Maybe because I dont get recommended mangas in the pornography tag and futa probably is in there since theyd have to show girldick...

yeah probably

 

[thewonderousl]

I realized this is the same thread I posted on last time so I removed the response.

 

[thewonderousl]

I have actually never seen a futa here on mangadex?
Maybe because I dont get recommended mangas in the pornography tag and futa probably is in there since theyd have to show girldick...

I have made a thread in which I shared a list of non-h futanari manga I and others have found, feel free to check it out. At this point in time the list is a bit outdated due to no longer being able to update it with new titles but there is an updated list on discord.

 

[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.

 

[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.)