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Tag Alias: doujin_(object) -> manga_(object)

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jjj14 said:
Uh, I really don't think doujinshi and manga are visually the same. Commercially published manga are much thicker than doujinshi (compare post #713229 and post #219755, for instance). I would prefer to keep them separate.

There's 200-page doujinshi anthologies too, and then there's 8 page commercial manga, as well as magazines and whatnot. So this is hardly a useful distinction to make, not even nearly all commercial manga is sold as tankoubons.

Do you really need separate tags to distinguish the thickness of comic books?

Either way, "doujin" vs. "manga" would be the wrong distinction. (Not even just because "doujin" itself is the wrong word to use.) Doujinshi are manga by definition.

piespy said:
Either way, "doujin" vs. "manga" would be the wrong distinction. (Not even just because "doujin" itself is the wrong word to use.) Doujinshi are manga by definition.

Well, that's if you don't count all the independently-published software, music, animation projects, etc. Doujinshi covers basically any such independent publishings of entertainment media.

This being Danbooru - an art database - I don't think any of those other categories of doujinshi would apply, visually, with enough distinction to warrant their own tag. However, I also don't see how a doujin-manga would be plainly visually distinct from any other kind of manga, either, so I'll support this alias.

+1

sgcdonmai said:
Well, that's if you don't count all the independently-published software, music, animation projects, etc. Doujinshi covers basically any such independent publishings of entertainment media.

This is going off-topic, but...

Those aren't doujinshi. The "shi" (誌) in doujinshi specifically means book/document. If you want to cover all those, you'll have to call it something like "doujin works" or "doujin publications". Doujinshi are comics.

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