Category talk:Anime

Anime series without articles discussion
Since this big red list makes the category-page difficult to use, we could put it to Category:Anime/missing or similar, what do you think? Fantasy 容 12:41, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * I think it is fine, while it is available somewhere. Doesn't Wikimedia allow to put it below the real (blue links) section? --Miles 12:59, Jan 14, 2005 (UTC)


 * I guess, this will be the next feature-request for the developers ;-) Fantasy 容 13:02, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * (would be nice to have somthing like __categories_here__ or similar)

It makes the category-page difficult to use, as you have to scroll past all the red links before you get to the sub-categories and category entries. Also, it has the same problem that lists do, but in reverse: every time you create a new anime article, you have to see if it's in the list of articles that don't exist, and then remove the link if it's there. If you're going to go to that trouble, why not keep a non-category list page?

See Categories, lists, and series boxes for reasons to have a list article. -- Khym Chanur 07:27, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)

Okay, I moved the missing-article list to the "To Do" page, which is embedded in the talk page. -- Khym Chanur

Category Reduction
We need to have someone go through the category and move the anime series into the anime series cat. Obviously, though, we're going to need a common standard of what "series" defines. I propose that anime with two or more series/seasons fall under this category, as smaller, one-season/series works could then be used to populate this main cat, with multiple season/series works populating the subcat (and for those large enough ones with their own cats).--Mitsukai 03:21, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I think a better solution is to be even more specific. Have a category for "standalone" anime as well as the anime series category which would be for multiple series. Otherwise this category will still be huge even with standalone anime in it and then there are still movies and OVAs. So, in my opinion, the subcategories should be:


 * Anime series
 * Whatever we call the standalone anime, I suggest: TV Anime
 * Original Video Animation
 * Anime movies


 * I'm more than happy to go through and change all the categories, as I have been adding series to the anime series category anyway since you answered my question about the anime series category here . - Squilibob 07:50, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, but that was a whole two weeks ago, and the memory of some people (read: mine) just really doesn't survive the holiday season well. ^_^;;;--Mitsukai 13:24, 5 January 2006 (UTC)


 * If we want categories for all kinds of anime, we could put the category links in the relevant Template:Infobox animanga templates. That would categorize at least some of them. Not remove them from this category though. —Philip N.✉ 13:45, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * That's a great idea, but as you said, it doesn't solve the size of this category. I still stand by my suggestion of 4 sub categories, Single Anime, Anime series, OVA Anime and Anime movies. Maybe we'll have to resort to categorising by year. like 1993 Anime, 2006 Anime, etc. I thought of categorising by Studio but that would be ineffective to navigate and maintain so don't do that. I can't think of any other entire solution, unless we categorise by genre, which causes a lot of duplication - Squilibob 10:03, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree with your solution, though I think single anime can remain in the root category, personally.--み使い Mitsukai 13:45, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm thinking the best way to approach this would be using a trimmed down version of the genres listed at AnimeSuki as the bases for the new subcategories. The following should just about cover all the important classes:


 * Action, adventure, comedy, drama, fantasy, harem, horror, historical, magical girl, martial arts, mecha, mystery, romance, school, science-fiction, sports, shōjo-ai and shōnen-ai

An anime article can be listed in more then one category if needed, such as comedy and romance. I had thought of also including shōjo and shōnen, but I don't think that would be much of an improvement over the general anime category.

I don't think using categories, such as Single Anime, Anime series, OVA Anime and Anime movies would help either—particularly Anime series will have the same problems with being too large a category as Anime. --TheFarix (Talk) 02:34, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Categorization of this talk page
Does anyone know how this talk page is ending up categorized in Category:Anime. It shouldn't be there. I can't find the text when editing, so I assume it is in a template somewhere, yet I can't find it in a template. --Samuel Wantman 22:35, 27 March 2006 (UTC)


 * It seems to have something to do with the todo template. --TheFarix (Talk) 00:03, 28 March 2006 (UTC)


 * I've tried replacing it with another todo template. Still does it! I'm planning to merge this to do list with a couple of others so it won't be like this for much longer. --Squilibob 12:17, 28 March 2006 (UTC)


 * I worked out why it was doing it and fixed it. --Squilibob 12:22, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

To do list
I have merged the to do list on this category page with the Wikiproject to do list. If anyone is wondering where it has gone. --Squilibob 02:36, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

"Korean anime"
The page intro states "The term anime in English is generally taken to refer to Japanese animation; it is also sometimes used to refer to animation from elsewhere which has been drawn in that style.". Just make this clear, are we or are we not including in the Anime cat and it's subcats titles that are "anime-style" but have little or no Japanese involvement; i.e. are titles such as Spheres (anime) to be included and, if so, where is the line drawn, e.g. should things like Avatar: The Last Airbender also then be included? Shiroi Hane 23:23, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Category change/merge "H anime" & "Hentai", moving Yaoi and finally general Category clean up
Is there any reason at all for Hentai to be abreviated so? I think it's confusing for outsiders. Because our article on Hentai is spelled out. And on the merge, we've got Category:H_anime and Category:Hentai this is redundant. And finally Category:Yaoi is under Category:Anime and not Category:Anime_by_genre, reason? If nobody objects I'll change the Category:Yaoi myself later this week. But I'll wait to move on the Category:H_anime/Category:Hentai thing, as that's going to be more involved. And finally I think the Category's on a whole could do with a good cleaning. I've got some more examples but it's late and first day of school in the morning! :( Elmer92413 05:39, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

What about Japanese animation that is not anime?
You might be asking, "does such a thing exist?" I think I'd be correct to guess that most people would not call Kawamoto's recent feature film The Book of the Dead an anime, or Winter Days. Their style is completely different. And yet they are both Japanese (although Winter Days less so) and animated. The same problem arises with Japanese animated films that were made before the anime style developed - for example, Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors, the first animated feature film to be made in Japan. Should a new category be created? Something like "Japanese animation in a non-anime style", perhaps. This wouldn't be a problem if this category was called "Japanese animation" in the first place instead of "Anime", like the categories Russian animation and Korean animation. That would make it very clear what SHOULD be included in the category and what shouldn't, as opposed to the ambiguous rules currently in place. Esn 01:49, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

List by year?
List anime by year like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suspense_movies