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  1. RedCoyote Mon 29 Oct 2012 12:08AM UTC

    Anime & Manga vs Cartoons & Comics & Graphic Novels

    I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I have never had too much problem with anime and cartoons being shelved or grouped together in things like stores and on certain sites. However, I feel removing the Anime & Manga category would be a mistake as most anime fans I know wouldn't look in a section labeled "cartoon" or "animation".

    What if they were just flipflopped? Make it "Cartoons & Anime" and the other "Comcs & Graphic Novels & Manga". That way the keywords people use to look for anime and manga fandoms would be visible. The biggest problem would be that you would have a lot of doubles as traditionally people combine the anime and manga version of a same canon, even if they are very, very different.

    Now, the questions
    1. Yes, I use the Media Categories for browsing. I do it to see new, rare anime or video game fandoms showing up.
    2. No problems currently, but I anticpate a lot of issues with seperating anime verse and manga verse fics if/when the animation and comic types are rearranged.
    3. I would like to see more subtypes and less throwing everything into one category. It makes them too annoying to navigate when you have like a million books or shows in a category and no way to filter further other than first letter of title, which may not even be the title versions you are used to seeing.

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    1. hl (hele) Tue 30 Oct 2012 09:53PM UTC

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      Hi,

      Thank you for telling us about your experience! I have registered your
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      hele
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