Kinda annoying that the Radiant Manga isn’t on here.

TomDay said:
it's not a manga. maybe if you stopped see it as so you'd under why it's not here.

looking like mango =/= mango. manwha is added because it is asian. therefore it's not foreign.

N30-R3TR0 said:

Not really that relevent, but just so you know, asian countries are indeed foreign to each other...they don't even speak the same language bro.

Source: I am Asian

aybekay said:
i think it has to have been released in japan because those are the rules to add manga on here but i am not too sure on that exactly what the guidelines are.

TomDay said:

foreign meaning outside of asia, not japan.

Oni_Zokuchou said:


Manga isn’t Asian (as a whole) tho, it’s Japanese?

Hence Manhwa is foreign manga

So there’s no reason why Radiant can’t also be classified like manhwa are.

The only thing that classifies manga is the fact that it’s made in Japan exclusively

yet you’re extending that to the whole of Asia which is already outside of the definition, so why stop there?

We’re just pointlessly arguing semantics here

which the whole reason I said we should get another category for stuff like Radiant; so people like you don’t waste time with these same pointless recycled points that are full of holes.

Go ask the Japanese if they think Radiant is a manga, and I’m pretty sure we both know the answer we’d get. But nevermind that.

Dysisa said:
The problem is that Radiant is just one series, rules shouldn't be changed for one series alone. You have to think of the bigger picture, how many more of these foreign series can you name that you think actually interests the userbase of MAL? Both manwha and manhua typically follow a lot of the same storytelling techniques that manga traditionally uses, so they naturally have a lot of overlap in whether there's an interest from the users here. I don't really think the same can be said for most foreign comics.

Oni_Zokuchou said:
I just think it’s a shame for they few series that do. I think instead of changing the overall rules completely, just have an exception clause for series like radiant. As long as it ticks all the boxes except for area of origin, it should be added as an exception. Said boxes would obviously be stuff like published by a manga publisher (like Viz), read right-to-left, official Japanese localisation, etc. And with a rule like this, you wouldn’t have to sort through foreign series that aren’t eliblge with much difficulty. Plus it’s not that difficult to do background checks on series these days.