Tag Aliases: mahou_shoujo_madoka_magica

Aliasing /msmm -> mahou_shoujo_madoka_magica.

Reason: shortcut

Aliasing puella_magi_madoka_magica -> mahou_shoujo_madoka_magica.

Reason: alt. name

Isn't Puella Magi Madoka Magica the official title? Shouldn't we be aliasing the other way?

The kanji is "Mahou Shoujo", while "Puella Magica" is written in romaji.

This is one of those things I could go either way on, but the simplest and most consistent approach is mahou_shoujo_ so I went with that.

Yes, we should be. "mahou_shoujo_madoka_magica" is blatantly incorrect. There is no reason why it shouldn't be "puella_magi_madoka_magica". Aliasing incorrectly is pretty funny, I'll say.

I don't get the "the simplest and most consistent approach" reasoning, considering how the official title isn't that. Plain and simple.

Link said:
Yes, we should be. "mahou_shoujo_madoka_magica" is blatantly incorrect. There is no reason why it shouldn't be "puella_magi_madoka_magica". Aliasing incorrectly is pretty funny, I'll say.

I don't get the "the simplest and most consistent approach" reasoning, considering how the official title isn't that. Plain and simple.

Please explain how "魔法少女まどか★マギカ" is not "Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica"

Or I'll just consider you an idiot

After some consideration, I would actually go for making puella_magi_madoka_magica the canonical tag, but for entirely different reasons: it stands out more. We already have plenty of mahou_shoujo_* tags, what with all the Nanoha series, which means checking tags on crossover pics gets very hard.

Oh yeah, I certainly have no objection to using "Puella Magi", but saying "Mahou Shoujo" is objectively wrong is, well, stupid.

Of course it is, but I just ignored idiots making noise.

If it is a factor, Puella Magi isn't correct Latin; it's combining the feminine nominative (puella) with the masculine genitive (magi, formed from magus.)

I don't recall and can't find whether there was a written policy on not respecting official titles/romanizations if they are too wacky, but presumably there was unspoken agreement in such cases as dennou coil not being aliased to "coil a circle of children."

Dennou was ignored because by all appearances "coil a circle of children" is a subtitle. http://www.tokuma.co.jp/coil/

Actually mahou_shoujo_madoka_magica *is* wrong.
It should be either mahou_shoujo_madoka_magiKa or puella_magi_madoka_magiCa. Personally I'm for the latter one, mostly because of reasons presented by 葉月.

c/k is a largely aesthetic choice. Don't give a damn personally.

7HS said:
If it is a factor, Puella Magi isn't correct Latin; it's combining the feminine nominative (puella) with the masculine genitive (magi, formed from magus.)

While "magical girl" would be "puella maga", I'm not sure it's necessarily grammatically incorrect, see e.g. http://anisearch.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=316499#316499.
I don't think it makes any difference to us, just saying.

richie said:
Actually mahou_shoujo_madoka_magica *is* wrong.
It should be either mahou_shoujo_madoka_magiKa or puella_magi_madoka_magiCa. Personally I'm for the latter one, mostly because of reasons presented by 葉月.

It is katakana and clearly meant to be foreign, so there's no need to go with "k" since it's not the official romanization.

If 魔法少女 in the title were meant as ateji for "Puella Magi", then "Mahou Shoujo" actually would be wrong. I don't think I've seen any indication that it's the case, though. The Japanese Wikipedia entry has it being read まほうしょうじょ as normal.

Not to mention that they use "Mahou Shoujo" to refer to themselves in the show. The only occurrences of "Puella Magi" have been added in fansubs.

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sgcdonmai said:
mahou shoujo madoka majika

It's マギカ in the title, not マジカ.

...Whoops. So it is.

Pretend I said nothing?

7HS said:
If it is a factor, Puella Magi isn't correct Latin; it's combining the feminine nominative (puella) with the masculine genitive (magi, formed from magus.)

One theory is that the title is intentionally incorrect, since "maga" is a common word for "witch" in modern romance languages, which would be a significant connection for plot-related reasons according to most speculations and proposed explanations.

Either way, I wouldn't fix a tiny mistake in a language most of our userbase doesn't know, if we don't know it's a mistake for sure.