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[edit] Help with Ref Tags

I need a somewhat better reference for the notation on the announcwed English Language release, anmd also probably a better grasp of the ref tag. Any help wopuld be appreciated. Michael Hopcroft (talk) 22:10, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Seinen proof

The truth of the matter is, there are many aspects that make this series seinen. For one, the manga magazine it was published in is a seinen manga magazine, meaning that only seinen manga get published in such a magazine. Next, the comic features four young girls of high school age that are very moe and can be considered so in several different ways. Girls with moe attributes are almost always targeted towards the seinen group of males because it appeals to them and they'll be more adapt to buying the product this way. In the end, there's only a few places you can put a manga: shōnen, shōjo, seinen, or hentai. Since this manga is clearly not shōnen, shōjo, or hentai, it can only be seinen. I don't know why you can't see this, but it's true.--十八 10:06, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

I mostly agree but for the last part: There is more to manga genres than shōnen, shōjo, seinen, or hentai, for example josei, as well as those with general appeal, and even those for very small children of any disposition. --GunnarRene 10:08, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

But that would like saying because it doesn't fit in the main 2 categories and certainly doesn't fit 1 of the minor ones, that it should be placed in the last category even if it doesn't fit that either. I'm not saying I know what category to put it in, but just because the characters can be considered moe, doesn't mean it's seinen. Sakura from CCS could be considered moe as well. She even was entered in a moe contest on ANN, but that doesn't make CCS a seinen. Moe is just a type of character which can be seen as very perky and cute. There are more girl fans of Azumanga Daioh than boys, and many people state that too is seinen.

As you have stated, that they are almost always seinen, which means that they are not always. Unless you can actually prove this is one which they intended to do it that way, you can't really state it's seinen outside of a guess. If you can give some other factors outside of the characters being moe that state this is a seinen, then maybe that would be good.

Also the case is, how can you be so sure that the magazine itself is even seinen? Just because 1 person states it's seinen, without proof you can't use that as an arguement. That would be like me stating that my favourite series, Cardcaptor Sakura is hentai just because some guy said it was.

So I would like to ask if you know any proof that this magazine really is seinen and what factors outside of moe contribute to your belief that this manga and anime are seinen would be rather helpful ^_^. --AjaaniSherisu 10:40, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Since I created the article, I'll bring up the information I found when creating it. Here is the forum at AnimeSuki where it states three times that the magazine is seinen and once that this series is seinen, and even gives a secondary source to proove it. The magazine is referred to as seinen twice more in the following post. Now tell me, why would a manga that is not seinen be in a magazine that is seinen; doesn't makes sense. I think you're trying too hard for this one. On a side note, I've actually seen a pretty good description why CCS is one of the most hardcore hentai series out there, though most of it was humorous and meant to be taken that way. Perhaps the major problem is that the definition of seinen is rather ambiguous, but if you want more confirmation, go into the Category:Seinen and look at the other 180 pages that are there.--十八 10:49, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

NeoSam is very narrow his beliefs, he was this way even on ANN. He states almost everything he likes is seinen. You can see this for yourself when someone asked what the series was about and his only words were "Comedy; Seinen". This shows that he likes to state what he feels the series is rather than what it's about. I have searched the site he referenced and they do not even state what genre the magazine is. He knows that most members of that site probably don't even know very much Japanese so they wouldn't even bother trying to find out otherwise. I am asking though what from your personal experience did you find that backs up your belief that this magazine is seinen and that this series is seinen.

You asked me, "why would a manga be in a seinen magazine if it weren't a seinen?". Just for the sake of arguement that it was indeed a seinen magazine. Would you say that a crossword puzzle is news? If not, then why is it in a newspaper? Sometimes people do put in things to attract audiences outside of their general one. There still is no proof though that it's a seinen magazine, which deflates the idea that this can be a seinen anime based on magazine alone. If you can state where in the series that it deals with subjects which could appeal to boys 18-30, then that would be a good start ^_^. --AjaaniSherisu 11:18, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

It is most certainly considered a seinen manga series due to it having been serialized in a seinen magazine, thus meeting each of the requirements at Wikipedia:Attribution. Manga Time Kirara Carat is considered a seinen magazine by several published and notable resources; for example, see this expansive list of magazines, where Manga Time Kirara is listed within the group of seinen magazines. ···巌流^{? · Talk to Ganryuu} 17:22, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

AjaaniSherisu: Your second paragraph makes a good argument, but your first mostly reads as an attack on your fellow editor. Please familiarize yourself with WP:CIVIL. I struck part of your comment as pseudo-WP:RPA. --GunnarRene 18:00, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

NeoSam isn't the poster in this. NeoSam is the person in the forum which he got his idea, which I read. So I'm not sure how WP:CIVIL needs to be brought in. I will admit that it does say the magazine is seinen, but I would still like proof though that this series itself actually is seinen though. Like I said before, a puzzle is not news, and yet it is in a newspaper. So can you at least state how outside of moe (which a lot of characters that aren't in seinen series can contain) and the fact that it in a seinen manga, as to why this is a seinen series? --AjaaniSherisu 20:10, 13, April 2007 (UTC)

As I said, you are trying to hard to not believe the facts that are given to you. Sure, a crossword puzzle isn't news, but your anology doesn't add up. Manga Time Kirara is a manga magazine, which means the vast majority of the content in that magazine is manga. Crossword puzzles aren't news in a newspaper, but Hidamari Sketch is a manga in a manga magazine; so all I'll say here is that your logic is flawd with that comparison. If you are trying to find out beyond any reasonable doubt that this series is indeed not seinen, you won't find it. Circumstancial or not, Manga Time Kirara publishes seinen manga, and you can't deny that. It seems that your just splitting hairs by accepting Manga Time Kirara is a seinen manga magazine but still denying the fact that Hidamari Sketch is seinen.--十八 21:27, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

My analogy works perfectly fine. The news represents the seinen in the magazine; Hidamari Sketch represents the crossword puzzle. Just because Hidamari Sketch is in a seinen magazine, doesn't automatically mean it is seinen. Just as you can't state that a crossword puzzle is news just because it is in a newspaper. Again you still haven't given me any info. You can't say moe (which I stated a few times that characters that are considered moe are in more than just seinen), so what makes this series aimed at boys, especially 18-30?

Other people have stated that Yotsubato! was also a seinen, which makes me laugh. How is a 4 year old living her life in a random way somehow intended for 18-30 year old boys? I chalk this up to the belief that many people have that they should categorize everything that is together as being of that product so as avoid confusion. Like I stated before, many people add outside of their range to attract a wider range of customers. This would lead to a non-seinen but rather ambiguous series being placed in the magazine, despite the magazine being seinen.

Please can you state your information instead of stating I am incorrect in my assumptions? I have stated many reasons as to why this shouldn't be classed as seinen, but none from the other view on the subject which could be seen as factual. I'm not saying what category to put it in, but rather it is more ambiguous. It does not seem intended for any specific gender or age group, but rather a series that was intended for everyone. But you have yet to state how this series is in fact seinen outside of the magazine itself, rather than the content.

I would like to get back to the analogy though. While yes, Hidamari Sketch is a manga, and Manga Time Kirara does publish seinen manga, it does not however prove the manga and anime are seinen. If I make 5 stories; 1 is romantic and the other 4 are horror, would you say that my romantic story is horror because the other ones in the book are? No, because while most of my series are horror, I didn't add anything that would make the romantic story a horror story, despite it being added with my horror stories. --AjaaniSherisu 00:16, 14 April 2007

No, you're still not getting it. A newspaper is differnet from a manga magazine. A newspaper includes the news along with other things, such as the crossword puzzle analogy you keep bringing up. But the main thing in a newspaper is the news. Simiarliy, in a seinen manga magazine, the main thing would be seinen manga. Now let's hypothesis here. Let's say you're a business man working for the company the publishes Manga Time Kirara. You know it's a seinen magazine, so obviously your audience would be the seinen age group. Now tell me, why would you include a manga in that magazine if it wasn't intended to be sold to a seinen audience? I don't see why you can't just accept this fact because this is how business works.

And you bring up Yotsuba&!; that was serialized in Dengeki Daioh, one of the better known and famous seinen magazines; I repeat, only seinen manga get published in seinen manga magazines, which makes Yotsuba&! and Hidamari Sketch both seinen, yet you still don't want to believe it.

Bringing up a line from the seinen article, it states, A common way to tell if a comic is seinen is by looking at whether or not furigana is used over the original kanji text. A lack of furigana would imply that the title is intended for a mature audience. If you look at Image:Hidamari Sketch - yonkoma.jpg you will find no furugana present, implying that this manga is indeed seinen.

I'm getting tired of trying to explain this to you because I know in the end all this will be for naught and we'll still call this series seinen regardless.--十八 00:55, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Why won't you answer my questions though? I asked if I wrote 4 stories that were horror and 1 that was romantic and placed the romantic one in the group to get romantic novel fans to check out my other work, would you consider that romantic story to be horror? If not, how can you state an ambigiuous manga such as Hidamari Sketch is seinen just because the others are?

It is a very good analogy, I have even given the same analogy to a few of my friends and they too understand what I am saying. Even Ganryuu acknowledges this is a good argument. Newspapers deal with the news, if we use your belief that everything in that magazine is what the magazine is about, then that would make crossword puzzles news rather than crossword puzzles, seeing as how the newspaper contains mainly news, and only a few puzzles.

I would also love if you can show me how a 4 year old's random view of the world is intended for 18-30 year old boys. As for the furigana. Are you saying that up until 18, no Japanese person knows even 1st grade kanji without the help of furigana? You can't be serious. Which kanji in there are only known by 18 and up? I haven't found any so far.

I just wanted to add this to answer your question. The reason the business person working at Manga Time Kirara might put something that isn't seinen in, would be in order to attract a more diverse group of people, so that they can get more people other than 18-30 year old boys to buy their magazine. Wouldn't you want more than just 1 group buying your magazine if you wanted more business? --AjaaniSherisu 01:43, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Fine, I'll answer your questions. The first one, about the four horror stories and one romance story, no I wouldn't consider the romance story horror, but this is just another flawd analogy. Your comparing apples and oranges with the newspaper and manga magazines; the two are so vastly different and attract such different audiences and offer such different material that you cannot compare the two even if they are similar, like apples and oranges. I will not acknoledge any analogy thus far you have provided as a good one as there's holes in your logic when comparing two similar things.

And what's this about a 4 year old? Oh, you mean for Yotsuba&!...Look, I cannot offer you direct proof that either Yotsuba&! and/or Hidamari Sketch are seinen manga, but that does not mean they aren't. They were published in a magazine specifically directed towards the seinen age group. Selling things is all about knowing what the target audience wants. In the case of Manga Time Kirara, the audience wants seinen manga titles, and this is what they recieve. You cannot even begin to say that that magazine (or others like it) publish manga that are not seinen while I still cannot proove that they only publish seinen manga; in the end, we're both just supposing and have no proof to back either argument up.

However, the fact remains that Manga Time Kirara is a seinen manga magazine, meaning it publishes seinen manga for a seinen audience to read and enjoy. This is where your agrument falls apart. News is news, and a crossword puzzle is just that i.e. not news whatsoever. If you were to make a proper analogy, you'd say that a manga is a manga, and something contained within a manga magazine such as a sudoku puzzle is just that, i.e. not a manga whatsoever. I see that you are trying to compare a manga (which is the main material in a manga magazine) to a crossword puzzle (which is minor material in a newspaper.) Here is the proper analogy which you have failed to make:

• News is to manga as newspaper is to manga magazine;
• Crossword puzzle is to newspaper as sudoku is to a manga magazine;

Why can't you just accept it? I cannot believe how much I have tried to convince you on these facts, but it doesn't seem anything is getting through.--十八 01:50, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for finally understanding my analogy. It's not flawed. It is perfectly correct to say that you are assuming that because most of the magazine is seinen, that every manga in it is seinen. Whereas we don't use that thought when a crossword puzzle is added to a newspaper. Say they created a new genre called Ambiguous, would you state that the artist (who strictly only writes ambiguous titles) is incorrect in calling their series as Ambiguous, because you the reader feel because it is in a seinen manga, that it must be seinen?

You said yourself that you have no direct proof that it is, but that it could be. But the thing is, you could have 3 hands and 2 fingers on each for all I know, but I would never state you do unless I can absolutely be positive you do indeed have 3 hands and 2 fingers on each. As I said before, I'm not stating I know what genre it is, just that you can't call it something that doesn't fit it. I know a trapezoid peg doesn't fit in a triangle hole, even though I can't find the trapezoid hole.

My story about the 4 horror and 1 romance story is actually a proof that your belief is flawed. I wrote 4 horror stories and added 1 romance to get romance novel fans to check out my other work by showing them something that they might get attracted to. This doesn't mean that my romance story is horror. This shows that you can't call Hidamari Sketch a seinen just because of the magazine it is in, or else you would have to state that my romance story is indeed horror, because it's usually aimed at horror fans and as you said "who would put a story that isn't of that genre into that book".

To get back to the analogy, I'm not trying to say manga is the same as a crossword puzzle, but rather the approach of calling everything in a book as similar because of it. I'm trying to show another view on if we followed your logic that makes anything that is in something equal to what the book is about, despite it not even being the same material. Hidamari Sketch doesn't fit the description of seinen. If CCS was published in Shounen Ace, would CCS lose it's right to be called a shoujo, or would it just be a shoujo in a shounen magazine?

I have finally came up with a sentence that can show you what I mean about my analogy. A crossword puzzle is a puzzle no matter what magazine it is in, it never goes by another name based on what book it is in. So why should a manga that isn't a seinen be called seinen just because of the book it is in? --AjaaniSherisu 2:36, 14 April 2007

A ha, now I see where you're going with this. In that last paragraph, you specificially say Hidamari Sketch is not seinen, yet you have no proof, just like I have no proof to prove that it is indeed seinen. From my point of view, Hidamari Sketch is a seinen manga, so it should rightfully be published in a seinen magazine like Manga Time Kirara. This discussion is going no where; I will never be able to convince you that this series is seinen and you will never be able to change the fact that Hidamari Sketch is referred to as a seinen manga on Wikipedia. So why don't we just end this here and let it be?--十八 03:04, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

What proof outside of your logic that magazines = what genre they are, despite there being no content in the series that shows that they are actually shows your view to be correct? I think maybe you should just give up, you are using 1 flawed logic and aren't even backing up your assumptions outside of that 1 logic that is flawed. I can prove it's not seinen at least from what I've watched and the lack of information on how this is indeed a seinen.

Seinen is described as "Seinen (青年, Seinen? not to be confused with "adult" (成年, seinen?)) is a subset of manga that is generally targeted at an 18–30 year old male audience, but the audience can be much older with some comics aimed at businessmen well into their 40s. Sometimes it is classified as shōjo or shōnen, but it has distinct features, usually classified by a wider variety of art styles and more variation in subject matter, ranging from the avant-garde to the pornographic. The female equivalent to seinen manga is josei manga. The genre is comparable to the English terms and genre 'adult'"

How is this any description of Hidamari Sketch? Again what makes this for intended for boys 18-30? You always ignore that question for some reason. Remove the whole idea of what magazine it is in and focus on the content. Where in this series do you see anything that resembles being aimed at not only boys, but 18-30 year old boys at that?

The facts I can give for why it's not seinen is that if you look at the definition, that would indicate that it would be aimed at 18-30 year old boys. This series is a random comedy about 4 girls who are working to become artists and their lives as friends. How would this appeal to 18-30 year old boys more than it would any other group? Also given a reminder that it should fit into other seinen series as well, so no stating that moe characters make it seinen, as there are moe characters in other series that aren't seinen. This series has nothing in it that could be considered sexual or appealing more to adults than it would kids. I'm not an adult and even I can enjoy this series. Unless the episodes I haven't watch yet contain some adult content (I don't mean hentai, just content that is considered for adults). If so, then please can you tell me and I will spare myself of watching. But so far this series seems like a cute slice-of-life series that is anything but for adults specifically. --AjaaniSherisu 03:58, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Okay, now I realize you do not understand how the Japanese anime/manga market works, but I'll get to that in a second. You say that you can, and I quote, "prove it's not seinen at least from what I've watched and the lack of information on how this is indeed a seinen". The fact remains that you are using not only your opinion of what seinen is, but also what our own Wikipeida article says on it, despite the seinen article being tagged with an unreferenced template at the top of the article. Thus, you cannot rightfully use that article as the basis of your argument. Seinen itself is an ambiguous thing and can be interpreted in many different ways. Your interpretation is obviously different than my own, which is why we don't agree on things. From my point of view, a seinen title is anything where many young attractive (yes, moe too) girls (high school age usually) are shown. The context in what they do does not matter as long as they are visually appealing. This is coming from someone that primarily enjoys reading seinen manga and watching seinen anime, but I'm not going to use that to back my argument up.

But back to how the Japanese anime/manga market works. When you want to market a series to the male audience, you use females i.e. bishōjo characters; same applies to shōjo manga/anime featuring bishōnen characters. Slice of life or not, this series is targeted towards males just on that basis alone. Furthermore, I think you would agree that this series isn't shōnen, for one, because of the lack of many attributes that come with shōnen series. Now, as far as age groups go (and also citing the fact that no furigana appears on the manga panels), we can assume this series isn't targeted towards young males or children who have not learned all the 1945 basic kanji which comes from a high school graduation. Therefore, we have to go the other direction of age group, starting with teenagers. I'm pretty sure that seinen encompases teenagers in its age group, though I have no basis for this except plain experience through reading/watching seinen series. Even if teenagers aren't the target group, you can only keep moving forward; the next age group hit is the 18-30 age group you have been citing this whole time. Now, please, tell me clearly, if this series is not targeted towards boys under the age of 13, and if it's not necessarily targeted towards teenagers in general, there is only one other place you can go, and that is to 18-30, thus, seinen, at least if I'm going by the definition in the article on seinen itself. I say seinen is more like from 15-25 age group, but that's just me. I really doubt that men older than 30 would rightfully enjoy a series such as Hidamari Sketch, or at least it seems that way. Since this series isn't targeted towards older men either, on top of the fact that this series isn't targeted towards boys under the age of 13, the only logical conclusion to make is that this series is seinen.--十八 04:17, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't agree though that female characters mean that the series is meant for boys though. My favourite series as I have stated before is Cardcaptor Sakura. Sakura is a girl and so is Tomoyo, and CCS is clearly not shounen or seinen. Also Sailor Moon has bishoujo characters and it too is not shounen or seinen. The thing is, you don't need to know 1,945 basic kanji to read Hidamari Sketch, so to say it's not for anyone who doesn't is incorrect. You also skipped past the group though by stating that it doesn't encompass teenagers without any reason for why. If I'm going by what my view of seinen is from the wikipedia article and this is incorrect, it should be changed. You seem to enjoy seinen anime and manga very much, so maybe you could edit this to show the truth about seinen ^_^. Since I can only go based on what is given to me by other sites, it is hard for me to know what they intended it to be. I just know that the defintion they give isn't what Hidamari is, so if Hidamari is seinen, this information they have given must be incorrect. I will give up on commenting as I can see your view more clearly now, but I wish in the meantime if you could do some improvements to the seinen article which can clear up things, that would be helpful ^_^. --AjaaniSherisu 04:57, 14 April 2007

Fair enough, I suppose I owe us both at least that much. If nothing else, this discussion has clearly shown that the seinen article is in dire need of clarification and sources; if I find time in the next few weeks, I'll look into it more. On the note about how CCS and Sailor Moon have female characters yet are most definitely shōjo series...I'll just say that Hidamari Sketch is obviously not shōjo, yet it's still targeted towards males; that's undeniable, at least to me. We'll leave it at that then.

On a humurous side note, I checked the earliest history of seinen and found that it used to be labeled as 18-25, much like how I stated up above; I'm going to check more and see why it was altered to 18-30 sometime later; but my was I surprised to see that article is nearly 4 years old too.--十八 07:13, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

bah computer just crashed, too lazy to type anymore...

to keep things short, hidmari sketch is seinen because: 1)Unlike shounen of shoujo, aspects of characters, settings and dialogues are not exaggerated or on the edge of being unrealistic. It also does not revolve it self around a romance/heroic tale and hence ignore all other aspect about life. 2)There's more of a focus on real life issue that older audience can better appreciate (should I go through art school? am i even good enough for this? should I do art or writing? should I eat this or get thin?) 3)The field for sexual-implications and violence are much more open. 4)It's a Otome-kei moe type manga with no guys, combine with 3 it's obviously for boys.

Hence also why azumanga and ichigo mashimaro is also seinen, and something like Blue Dragon Ral Grado is shounen. You don't have to take my word for it, but 1&3 is also mentioned in JAwiki for the seinen entry. Eternal Sleeper 16:46, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh, another term I don't understand! What is Otome-kei? Kyaa the Catlord 16:56, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

I shouldn't have used that term since almost no english fan I know use it XD. Anyway, here: http://heiseidemocracy.com/2005/12/07/the-moe-image/. Eternal Sleeper 17:21, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possible title change

Now that the manga has been licensed under Sunshine Sketch, should we change the article title?--十八 03:21, 18 December 2007 (UTC)