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Anime and Manga Project updates - The Archive

• May 25 - Anime and manga articles are now sporting a new look! After over a month of discussion, consensus agreed to redesign all of the infoboxes to be more along the lines of the television infoboxes in terms of color and styling. Discussion is still on-going on possibly adding color coding to indicate formats, so why not stop by and offer your thoughts?
• April 07 - An publisher_en field has also now been added to and a licensor_en to {{Infobox animanga/OVA}}. Additionally {{Infobox animanga/Novel}} now has a chapter_list option and {{Infobox animanga/Drama}} has an episode_list option!
• March 26 - as the Anime and Manga project continues its efforts to improve our infoboxes, we've added yet another new option to {{Infobox animanga/Manga}}: publisher_en. Similar to the licensor field in the anime infobox, this field is specifically for listing all English language publishers of a manga series (with other languages continuing to go in the publisher_other field.
• March 6 - the {{Infobox animanga/Manga}} infobox template has some new options! You can use either chapter_list or volume_list to set the link for the series' List of X chapters (if there is one). It also inserts the text "(as of last_run)" after the number of volumes or chapters. The {{Infobox animanga/OVA}} infobox template has also been updated to include the ability to link to an episode, using the same episode_list or list_episodes options.
• March 2 - Some big changes here! The demographic field is being removed from {{Infobox animanga/Header}}, where it is often used inappropriately to set a demographic on an anime series. The demographic field has instead been added to both the {{Infobox animanga/Manga}} and {{Infobox animanga/Novel}} infoboxes instead. For the manga, the regular demographic options will be used, while for the novel boxes, we ask editors to limit this field to Male or Female. {{Infobox animanga/Movie}} has a new option, live_action, which can be set to yes to denote that the movie is a live action one rather than anime. When setting this option, the article will be put in Category:Japanese films instead of Category:Anime films and the box title will change from "Animated movie" to "Live-action movie". {{Infobox animanga/Movie}}
• February 18 - a new category is now available, Category:Lantis, for categorizing anime soundtracks produced by the Lantis music label.

• February 15 - {{Japanese episode list}} has also been given an update to add in four new fields. The first are two new highly requested, and self-explanatory, fields: DirectedBy and WrittenBy. RTitle which can either be used in place of Title to have a quoteless title, or used to put references behind the quotes of the regular title field. The final new field is Alt4. Similar to the other Alt fields, it allows for custom content, but the Alt4 field is positioned between the OriginalAirDate and ProdCode fields.
• February 15 - in the {{Infobox animanga/Anime}} template, you can now use episode_list as an alternate name for the list_episode field! Another new category has also been added, Category:Funimation Entertainment for sorting releases licensed by Funimation.
• February 14 - the {{Infobox animanga/Manga}} now has a new field single_release. Use this field in place of first and last when a manga volume or anthology consists of only a single volume and was not serialized.
• February 8 - {{Infobox animanga/Game}} has a new field called release_other. While released is for recording the original Japanese release of a game, this new field allows you to list additional releases dates in a collapsible field, similar to what is done with the manga box.
• February 3 - We have some new categories for sorting anime and manga articles by their US licensors: Category:Geneon, Category:ADV Films, Category:ADV Manga.
• February 1 - A new template has been introduced to the project, {{Graphic novel list}}. This awesome template works similar to the {{Japanese episode list}} template, except it aids in the consistent formatting of manga volume and chapter lists.