Did someone forget to tag huge chunk of Oyama Mahiro's images as genderswap?
Read the wiki before you even ask. For a character to have a genderswap tag, they need to be presented in the original work as a character of different gender than what in the post it was tagged with. At such, Mahiro who is officially introduced as 'female' doesn't need a genderswap tag, but any art of 'him' who depicted a male version will need to be tagged as genderswap.
Read the wiki before you even ask. For a character to have a genderswap tag, they need to be presented in the original work as a character of different gender than what in the post it was tagged with. At such, Mahiro who is officially introduced as 'female' doesn't need a genderswap tag, but any art of 'him' who depicted a male version will need to be tagged as genderswap.
I would have thought that them being originally male would be considered their original state, not the state that they had been, actually literally, genderswapped into.
Mahiro was originally a male. Talked about being originally male from the very first chapter, and I do think that would carry weight.
Since genderswap is swapping of the original person's gender, not the other way around.
If they started as a female and then got turned into a male, the male version would be a genderswap no?
So I must admit, I find this very confusing.
Edit. On top of that, the majority seems to agree with me here, about good 2/3rd of those that have uploaded and tagged this character disagree with it as well (considering that is about the number of pages that have the genderswap tag for her)
The keyword here is "depiction". In the manga itself, Mahiro's original appearance, before being gender-swapped, was merely discussed and implied, but never depicted. I believe in order for this character to be properly tagged as genderswap, there has to be that depiction (of him originally being a male) to compare to, and so far the manga itself (and the author) has yet to depict that.
Maybe in the future when his male appearance is finally revealed, and there's enough fanart uploaded here of him in his original, male version, we can have another discussion as to whether to tag all the posts of his female appearance with genderswap or not.
I would have thought that them being originally male would be considered their original state, not the state that they had been, actually literally, genderswapped into.
Mahiro was originally a male. Talked about being originally male from the very first chapter, and I do think that would carry weight.
Since genderswap is swapping of the original person's gender, not the other way around.
If they started as a female and then got turned into a male, the male version would be a genderswap no?
So I must admit, I find this very confusing.
Edit. On top of that, the majority seems to agree with me here, about good 2/3rd of those that have uploaded and tagged this character disagree with it as well (considering that is about the number of pages that have the genderswap tag for her)
Genderswap is an "artistic license" tag, meaning it's intended for fanartist depictions of characters as a different gender than they normally are. If a character is only ever depicted as a girl, despite stated to originally be a boy, then it doesn't make sense to tag the girl as a genderswap when that's essentially the only canon appearance they have. It's why characters like Cagliostro don't get the tag despite being known to have originally been male.
Except that we don't actually consistently tag ranma-chan as a genderswap. In fact, that's been argued about in the forums for years, and many of the posts tagged genderswap are the result of one person mass adding the tag, and others just adding it from the related tags list. Most people don't actually bother.
Fair enough then. I will abide to your more informed approach (I mean that genuinely)
It is artistic license tag and not intended to imply the characters trait since that is more genre related I guess (until original form is revealed in high enough amount, tbf we do have official images of him as a guy when he was young, but I guess we need a bit more contemporary image of him just before his gender was swapped?).
Still seems a bit arbitrary to me, but I get where ye are coming from. Every organisational system needs to have set rules and sometimes the odd exceptions will have to suffer to keep the system clean and neat.
Either way, good luck to whomever is gonna be removing the genderswap tag for Mahiro then. That is good... what? 1000 images? Could be worse I guess. I vaguely remember something like a half a decade back there had to be some mass removal of a touhou tag (or was it a pool)? Which was apparently utter pain.
I do hope there is some method to remove tags for a large group of works atl.
Still, this is definitely gonna be (and is) confusing good number of people and taggers considering the ratio of the tag being used for her.