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please add: Ryuko (2019), Gamma Draconis (2021), and Hen Kai Pan (2021)

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Jan 11, 2024 2:36 PM
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Anybody on MAL familiar with Eldo Yoshimizu? If you don't know or not familiar with his work, you can read ANN's interview with him back in Jun 2022, and yes he's a mangaka (and surprisingly he's not on MAL nor Anilist databases, I searched and can't find him). Oddly enough beside him not being on the database on MAL, none of his work are on MAL despite they're classified as manga (and no, they're not OEL manga). If you want evidence they're authentic manga, go look at Titan Comic's website: Ryuko, Gamma Draconis, Hen Kai Pan

They're all classified as manga, and if you need more evidence, this is from Ryuko:



See it clearly said manga, and if you looked at it's Amazon entry and click on "Read Sample" and scroll, you can see evidence and disclosure that the original language is Japanese was and translated to English.

On Gamma Draconis's Amazon page, and again on "Read Sample" link and scroll, you'll see evidence it's a manga and according to the credit page, it seem to indicate the work is originally translated from Japanese.

I can say the same for Hen Kai Pan.

How the hell is Eldo Yoshimizu, and all three of the works I listed aren't on MAL database despite the evidence shown that they're all manga and yet MAL's manga database doesn't have information on his work.

Is there a reason why Eldo Yoshimizu's works aren't classified as manga despite the evidence???
Jan 12, 2024 12:38 AM
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I also want them to be here but they're refused because they weren't originally published in Japan, I think, so they count it as OEL or something. There's a similar situation with some works by, for example, Shintaro Kago, who released them under contract with a western publisher.
Jan 12, 2024 3:42 AM
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I also want them to be here but they're refused because they weren't originally published in Japan, I think, so they count it as OEL or something. There's a similar situation with some works by, for example, Shintaro Kago, who released them under contract with a western publisher.
@St0rmblade The author's literally Japanese though?
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Jan 12, 2024 4:21 AM
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@St0rmblade The author's literally Japanese though?
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@St0rmblade The author's literally Japanese though?

Well you should tell it to the mods. There're also some Japanese authors working in America for example, and they're also not included.
Jan 12, 2024 1:25 PM
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St0rmblade said:
Spoonmaster12 said:
@St0rmblade The author's literally Japanese though?

Well you should tell it to the mods. There're also some Japanese authors working in America for example, and they're also not included.

Seeing what the mods did with the Scott pilgrim anime, I know they can't be reasoned with.
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Jan 14, 2024 8:09 AM
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I also want them to be here but they're refused because they weren't originally published in Japan, I think, so they count it as OEL or something. There's a similar situation with some works by, for example, Shintaro Kago, who released them under contract with a western publisher.
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No @St0rmblade, it's not an OEL manga, I checked. According to the sample I read from Amazon's, it stated that it's original language is not English, so yes the original language is Japanese and yet it's not on MAL's (nor Anilist's) database despite it being a manga, and the original language is not English.

It's funny both MAL and Anilist have Chinese Manhua, and Korean Manhwa/webtoons and yet both MAL and Anilist refused to have something like Ryuko, and Gamma Draconis or any of Eldo Yoshimizu's work on their database despite it being classified as a manga, and the reading format orientation is like a manga.

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There're also some Japanese authors working in America for example, and they're also not included.


And Stan Lee worked on Heroman, and yet both MAL and Anilist has no problem adding that to the database while ignoring the work of Eldo Yoshimizu despite it being classified as a manga, and read like a manga.

Jan 14, 2024 8:17 AM
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Is it possible to reconsider the earlier rejections of Eldo Yoshimizu's work like Ryuko in light of the above?

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Jan 14, 2024 8:39 AM
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Is it possible to reconsider the earlier rejections of Eldo Yoshimizu's work like Ryuko in light of the above?

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@St0rmblade It sounds like you didn't bother to read those yet. Do you have a Hoopla account/profile? Because you can read Ryuko on Hoopla. Same for Hen Kai Pan.

When you get chance to read them, then you'll see why this should be on both MAL and Anilist's database.
Jan 14, 2024 11:30 AM
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@St0rmblade It sounds like you didn't bother to read those yet. Do you have a Hoopla account/profile? Because you can read Ryuko on Hoopla. Same for Hen Kai Pan.

When you get chance to read them, then you'll see why this should be on both MAL and Anilist's database.
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@St0rmblade It sounds like you didn't bother to read those yet. Do you have a Hoopla account/profile? Because you can read Ryuko on Hoopla. Same for Hen Kai Pan.

Thanks. I've been wanting to read them but kinda keep delaying it cuz I have no convenient way of recording it in my list outside of keeping up some separate text file, so I focus on some other stuff for the time being.
Jan 31, 2024 10:59 AM

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OK, slightly off-topic but kind of tangent to the whole will MAL (& Anilist) add this to the database. Just today, I saw this from ANN: Kodansha USA Publishes Yoshinori Matsuoka's Re:Anima as English-First Manga

So in other word, this manga will come out in English first before it's Japanese-language debut. So will MAL and Anilist count it as manga on their database or because of it's English-first debut and Japanese later release, will it not count and not be added to the database.

Also, I want to add something to this topic. Anybody grew up in the early 90's reading the Nintendo Power's Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past comic (or manga if you want it to call that) by Shotaro Ishinomori? Even it came out in English first, and the reading orientation as left to right and not right to left and it's now been classified as OEL manga and not a authentic manga. It still made it to MAL's database despite it being a OEL manga and it came out first in USA and Japan later and the reading orientation is left to right and it's colorized.

So how did Shotaro Ishinomori's Zelda OEL manga get on MAL database and yet Eldo Yoshimizu's Ryuko, Gamma Draconis, and Hai Kai Pan don't make it on the database.

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