Talk:Tankōbon

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Contents 1 Recommend merge 2 "compilation" link 3 Recommended split 4 Compilation? 5 Japanese term?

[edit] Recommend merge

In order to keep everything in one place and make one slightly larger article rather than several really small articles, I recommend that the Bunkobon article be merged into this article. --nihon 21:36, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Most bunko are not tankobon. See my comment at Talk:Bunkobon. Haeleth 23:25, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

I replies over at Talk:Bunkobon, as well. :-) --nihon 23:59, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "compilation" link

Compilation shouldn't be linked, as the target page has nothing to do with a literary compilation. You might want to point the link to an appropriate, more specific topic. -- Mikeblas 09:26, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Recommended split

For Kanzenban, a split would allow a more in-depth article, and a respective link to the Japanese webpage http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/完全版コミックス I have no idea on how this process works. Please feel free to add any comment. Springbreak04 13:41, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Compilation?

We read:

Tankōbon (単行本?) is the Japanese term for a "compilation volume" of a particular series (such as a manga or a novel series, magazine articles, essays, craft patterns, etc.), as opposed to a magazine or a complete works series which often contain multiple titles.

Why "compilation"? As far as I know, the term means a "standalone" (pardon the buzzword) book, as opposed to one issue or volume of something else. -- Hoary 03:53, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

This certainly needs clearing up with regard to manga. The article appears to contradict itself by saying Tankōbon are not part of a series, then later infers that they are. Which is it? Or is the term used differently when referring to manga? As collections of single series chapters together in a single volume, there is no rule about whether or not they are part of a series; one volume could contain the whole series or simply a part.

Example: Gunsmith Cats. Published chapter by chapter in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon magazine, later collected in 9 Tankōbon volumes, none of which stands by itself. Now in the process of being published in Wideban, which again do not stand alone, either in terms of the whole series or in terms of individual plot arcs/segments. YourMessageHere 20:44, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Japanese term?

The article starts by saying that this is a Japanese term (as I had thought), but then writes it up in an odd way.

I looked at the Japanese article (for what WP is worth). This says ちなみに、海外では日本の漫画の単行本のことを｢Tankōbon｣と呼んでいる。It doesn't say which language this is in, but I'd guess that it's English.

Is the article discussing 日本語, or 米製和語 (?), or a bit of both? I know zilch about manga but of course support the right of its anglophone aficionados to adapt Japanese words in any way they wish; however, the article shouldn't say that X is a Japanese word for Y if it isn't normally used by L1 Japanese speakers for Y. -- Hoary 06:53, 18 June 2007 (UTC)