Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A-Girl


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The result was keep. John254 01:59, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

A-Girl

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Unnotable manga series that fails WP:BK and WP:MOS-MANGA. Single short direct to DVD adaptation is not a "significant adaptation." Little to no significant coverage in reliable sources. -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 01:27, 15 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions.  -- --  AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 01:34, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment Since when were OVA adaptations not counted towards notability? The series, short as it is, must have had some level of popularity at very least, or an OVA would not have even been considered.  They aren't the cheapest thing to produce.  208.245.87.2 (talk) 13:35, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * It is a single episode OVA. OVAs are direct to video releases. Most full length films released direct to video are not generally notable nor even an indication of popularity. Without significant coverage in reliables sources, this appears to just be a minor manga series with an minor OVA adaptation. There aren't even sources to confirm the OVA exists beyond the mention on ANN. -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 14:28, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Direct to video releases in Japan have historically had a different status than in the West -- an OVA adaptation had, at the time of this one, as much cache as a theatrical movie, and had animation quality that compared to same (and better than television shows). —Quasirandom (talk) 14:42, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * That only applies when the OVA is notable, per criterion 3 of WP:BK. --Farix (Talk) 23:36, 15 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment might be useful here (Press release?).  I also suspect a search in Japanese would turn up a number of reviews. Hobit (talk) 14:42, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Um...I'm not seeing anything in that article about A-Girl at all. -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 14:46, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, no, it's not about A-Girl, but the live-action movie adaptation of a different series by the same author. —Quasirandom (talk) 21:00, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Odd, I think I grabbed the wrong link. SorryHobit (talk) 02:43, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Can you retrace the one you thought you had? —Quasirandom (talk) 19:42, 18 December 2008 (UTC)


 * delete I can't see a bit of notability in the article itself. While I have no idea about the subject, the article as it stands seems rather trivial.Mrathel (talk) 15:40, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –Juliancolton Happy Holidays 01:00, 20 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Weak keep Evidence of notability based on authorship and likelyhood of Japanese sources. ChildofMidnight (talk) 14:55, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep as the series is two volumes with only being serialized for six months, so it had to have used some serious space in the monthly magazine in which it ran. As others have noted, OVAs are generally not cheap to produce, and the fact that a six-month series spawned an OVA as well as an accompanying soundtrack release shows that some serious money was put into this series. While single OVAs may not normally be notable on their own, taken with the manga as a whole, I think this one meets the criteria. I will look in the magazines I have from around that time period to see about coverage in articles (1984 and 1993). ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 20:28, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak keep per above. It would help if Nihonjoe were to find just one direct reference in a magazine, as one strongly supports the notion that there's more. —Quasirandom (talk) 14:49, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Nihonjoe's comment. Extremepro (talk) 22:50, 23 December 2008 (UTC)


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