There should be a tag called "Educational" which includes manga that have a purposeful amount of legitimate information on a particular topic

[HOMEBOUND11]

Suggestions of manga that apply:
How Heavy are the Dumbells you Lift (fitness)
Chichi no Jikan (breast feeding)
Boku ga Watashi ni Naru Tame ni (Indonesian Sex-change industry)

There are probably more out there, and I know it would be a niche tag, but it would an interesting thing to have. I personally have found amazing info from these various educational manga, and an ability to find more easily would be greatly appreciated.

 

[solstice258]

Imo, it's too vague of an idea to make a tag and I'm not sure if the number of educational manga is enough to create a new tag.

But at least there is a thread on the forums where people are sharing/compiling them:
https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/list-of-mangas-with-educative-content.1230598/

 

[GipoScribantino]

If this were to pass, the majority of the tagged works would be isekai as authors, for unknown reasons, are hellbent in providing the smallest minutiae regarding any particular activity the MC performs even when nobody cares but the author, thus being technically "educative" despite not being the actual goal.

Also, would the tag be for comic with detailed explanations in general, or would it be for correct explanations?
There are many works (comics or otherwise) which would fall into the first category but not in the second and if they were to be tagged as "educational" you'd basically endorse falsity as true informations.

 

[UnnamedPlayer]

The problem is that deciding if a manga is educationnal or not is sometimes arbitrary. How much information do a manga need to contain to be classified with this tag ? Some mangas are clearly enough, some other not, and there is a lot who are in between and for whom it's very difficult to decide if they are educationnal or not. And the decision is quite arbitrary, everyone have different threshold for that. For example : is Shine (Runway de Waratte) educationnal or not ? There is some information about fashion in it, but not everyone will say that it's enough to make this manga educationnal : it will be enought for some, not for others. Same for ascendance of a bookworm, for another example.

At best, you can try to make a difference between educationnal mangas where educative content is the primary goal (like the "Manga de Wakaru ..." series), and non-educationnal where educative content is inexistant or secondary to the plot (Dr Stone, Otomeyogatari), and base the tag on it, but the tag will be very rarely used...

Also, would the tag be for comic with detailed explanations in general, or would it be for correct explanations?
There are many works (comics or otherwise) which would fall into the first category but not in the second and if they were to be tagged as "educational" you'd basically endorse falsity as true informations.

A good example : the Investor Z series contains a subtle blend of good and wrong/outdated explanations. For me, it's educationnal, but i have put a warning on the dedicated thread to warn about that. I also have concerns about Koi to utatane, Elf-san wa Yaserarenai and Danberu Nan Kiro Moteru?...

 

[RogueKitsune]

The only way this would work would be for this tag to strictly apply to titles that are just for education like those learn C++ and SQL manga. Otherwise it would apply to lots of titles (i.e. food/cooking, Isekai, etc. manga)

 

[fchiisaia21]

Imo, it's too vague of an idea to make a tag and I'm not sure if the number of educational manga is enough to create a new tag.

But at least there is a thread on the forums where people are sharing/compiling them:
https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/list-of-mangas-with-educative-content.1230598/

Educational manga is actually pretty common in Japan, but when it get licensed outside Japan, it rarely promoted as "Japanese manga", but rather as a general educational comic. That's why we rarely see them in any English manga database.

Manga de Dokuha series is probably the most prominent title in the genre that regularly promoted as both educational and Japanese comic.

The problem is that deciding if a manga is educationnal or not is sometimes arbitrary. How much information do a manga need to contain to be classified with this tag ? Some mangas are clearly enough, some other not, and there is a lot who are in between and for whom it's very difficult to decide if they are educationnal or not.

We can use the categorization based on publisher, the same way we categorize shounen-shoujo-josei-seinen.

I recall that in Japanese-language manga database, all educational-tagged manga always based on publisher definition. Like Bentame Jump https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-n...-educational-manga-magazine-with-top-creators

 

[OisE]

We can use the categorization based on publisher

The issue is that people don't really do that.

 

[fchiisaia21]

The issue is that people don't really do that.

Well, just enforce them. Just like MDX enforce manga entry here to have demographic tags.

 

[BzzBzz]

Shouldn't every hentai be tagged "educational" then? Because it shows how to... and in many cases it's very detailed 😝