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Welcome to WikiProject Anime and manga, a WikiProject that aims to improve anime and manga related articles by normalizing the standards for, and expanding Wikipedia's coverage of, such articles.

2008-12-03 - List of Gantz chapters is promoted to featured list status.
2008-12-01 - List of Bleach chapters undergoes a peer review.
2008-11-29 - Fullmetal Alchemist is promoted to good article status.
2008-11-24 - List of Tokyo Mew Mew chapters is a featured list candidate.
2008-11-22 - List of One Piece video games is promoted to featured list status.

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Scope

WikiProject Anime and manga's scope includes all media, persons, organizations and fandom substantially related to such franchises. This includes international subjects necessary for comprehensive coverage of the core topics.

Anime, including OVAs and animated films;
Manga and light novels, including serials, such as Young King OURs, and collected volumes;
Media belonging to the same franchises as the above, including video games, visual novels, live action versions, audio dramas, soundtracks, and stage shows and musicals (such as Tenimyu);
Video games related to anime or manga are under a shared scope with WikiProject Video games;
Visual novels related to anime or manga are under a shared scope with the Visual novels task force;
Notable characters, episodes, issues, and merchandise of the above media;
Directors (e.g. Hayao Miyazaki) and mangaka (such as Rumiko Takahashi) and other notable production staff;
Japanese publishers and production studios (e.g., Shonen Gahosha and Gainax) and international distributors (such as ADV Films and Funimation Entertainment);
Notable Japanese or international publications and websites meant for review and commentary of anime or manga (such as Newtype or Anime News Network);
Voice actors, Japanese or international, whose principal work is in anime and whose roles are generally notable (such as Takehito Koyasu or Jessica Calvello); and
Major aspects of fandom: including conventions (e.g., Comiket or Otakon), terminology and concepts such as otaku, and other practices.

Although its scope is broad, this project maintains an essential focus on media meant primarily for consumption in Japan. Animated or printed works produced for consumption outside of Japan that nevertheless draw on or are similar to Japanese media in terms of content or form (such as Chinese animation, Korean animation, manhwa, manhua, Megatokyo, and Peach Fuzz) regrettably do not fall under our scope. Nor do media, particularly video games, in which anime or manga characters make incidental or out-of-context appearances.

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Work groups

See the talk page for information and help on work groups and how to start one.

Participants

User WP Anime

This user is a participant of WikiProject Anime and Manga.

A list of participants can be found at Category:WikiProject Anime and manga participants.

Technically speaking, anyone who edits / contributes to anime and manga related articles is a participant, and there are no requirements other than that. If one wishes they can further identify themselves with the project by listing their name as a participant. This helps spread the word about the project and can help other editors see what types of articles that user is interested in editing.

To add yourself to the project listing add the following to your user page:

[[Category:WikiProject Anime and manga participants|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]

Or, if you wish to use the userbox, add {{User WP Anime}} to your user page instead as it includes the above wikicode.

Awards

The Anime and manga BarnSakura is awarded to users who have made particularly fine contributions to anime- and manga-related articles.

To award the BarnSakura, use the following code:

==YOUR TOPIC HERE== {{subst:BarnSakura Award|YOUR TEXT HERE}}

For example:

==BarnSakura for excellent edits== {{subst:BarnSakura Award|I hereby award you the Anime and Manga BarnSakura for your excellent edits in Naruto-related articles. --~~~~}}

The Anime and manga BarnLoli is awarded to users who have made particularly good contributions to WikiProject Anime and manga, including, but not limited to, participating in the assessment department, the cleanup department, and pushing new initiatives forward within the project.

To award the BarnLoli, use the following code:

==YOUR TOPIC HERE== {{subst:BarnLoli Award|YOUR TEXT HERE}}

For example:

==BarnLoli for excellent edits== {{subst:BarnSakura Award|I hereby award you the Anime and Manga BarnLoli for your excellent work in clearing the backlogs in the cleanup department of WikiProject Anime and manga, --~~~~}}

Recognized articles

Featured articles

The following articles reached featured article (FA) status and should be used as references for work on other articles in order to bring them up to FA level.

Featured lists

Good articles

The following articles reached good article (GA) status and should be used as references for work on other articles in order to bring them up to GA level. A-Class articles are more complete than the minimum required for GA, and a comprehensive Good Article may be considered equal to A-Class.

Video game articles

The following video game articles have sections that overlap with our project's scope.

Visual novel articles

The following visual novel articles have sections that overlap with our project's scope.

Good topics

Key visual novels

Articles that require attention

See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (anime- and manga-related articles) for guidance.

Former Featured articles

These are articles that were demoted from featured article status and need improvement to become FA quality again.

Bishōjo game, see discussion
Excel Saga, see discussion

Former Featured lists

These are lists that were demoted from featured list status and need improvement to become FA quality again.

List of Fullmetal Alchemist episodes, see discussion
List of Oh My Goddess episodes, see discussion
List of RahXephon media, see discussion
List of Planetes episodes, see discussion

Former Featured article candidates

These are well written articles that need improvement to become FA quality.

Former Good articles

These have been listed as good articles and delisted later, either because of new criterions or loss of quality. Please help restore their status.

Believers: Undersourced and contains original research
Bleach (manga)
Fate/stay night, see discussion: MoS violations, excessive plot, undersourced, excessive non-free images, missing pertinent info, need for copyedit
Elfen Lied, see discussion: Heavily under-sourced with original research, lacking neutrality, excessive plot, missing basic information, need for copyedit
Jump Square, see discussion: Under-sourced, MoS violations, needs general copyedit.
La Vie en Rose (Gundam), see discussion: Completely in-universe.
Loituma Girl, see discussion: Inadequate lead, under-sourced, need of general copyedit.
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, see discussion: Under-sourced, bad sources, MoS violations, needs copyedit,
Planetes, see discussion: doesn't follow style, too much unsourced.
Yoshitaka Amano, see discussion: Insufficient referencing, prose problems, insufficient lead, MoS violations
Yamcha, see discussion: reference to unreliable sources, poorly worded intro.

Stubs

For stubs about anime and manga, use {{anime-stub}} or {{manga-stub}}. This will automatically place the article into the Category:Anime and manga stubs category.

There are also a number of stub subcategories that can be used when appropriate.

{{anime-char-stub}} for stub articles relating to fictional characters found in anime or manga
{{anime-videogame-stub}} for stub articles relating to anime games
{{anime-series-stub}} for stub articles relating to anime series
{{hentai-stub}} for stub articles relating to hentai or pornographic anime or manga
{{Japan-voice-actor-stub}} for stub articles relating to Japanese voice actors (seiyū)
{{Manga-artist-stub}} for stub articles relating to mangaka
{{Poke-stub}} for stub articles relating to the Pokémon franchise

Cleanup

Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Cleanup task force

A list of articles tagged for needing cleanup is maintained by the Cleanup Task Force. If you find an article in need of improvement (aside from simply needing expanding), and you are not able to address the issues immediately, please add it to the list there.

Requested articles

Articles that have been requested to be created can be found at Anime and Manga and Seiyū.

Articles that have been requested to be expanded can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Expand.

Articles that have been requested to be merged can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Merge and Category:Anime and manga articles to be merged.

Articles that have requests for images can be found at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of anime and manga

Articles for Deletion

Anime and manga articles, categories, and templates for deletion, as well as any proposed deletions, are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Anime and manga. Please go and express your opinion regarding any articles listed there. We also maintain a deletion archive of past discussions.

Article assessment

Main articles: Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Assessment and Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Peer review

WikiProject Anime and manga has a fully fledged assessment department. This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Anime and manga articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The peer review process exposes articles to closer scrutiny from a broader group of editors, and is intended for high-quality articles that have already undergone extensive work, often as a way of preparing a featured article candidate.

Helpful guides

Guidelines and other resources

Reference links

Anime News Network - Anime news site with an extensive anime encyclopedia.
ANN Reviews - Nearly 1,000 anime and manga reviews from Anime News Network.
AnimeOnDVD.com - Anime news site with thousands of anime and manga reviews - due to recent merger with Mania.com, editors must be particularly careful the reviews are from AnimeOnDVD and NOT from the "Maniacs" section which are user-submitted
AnimeResearch.com - Includes academic articles on anime and its culture.
ICv2 - Current and archived industry news, including sales rankings for manga/graphic novels.
Intersections - Free, online academic journal focusing on East Asian media.
Kanji Converter - Converts kanji to kana and Roman characters.
Voice Artist DataBase - Japanese voice actor database. (Japanese)

A note about using Anime News Network as a reference: ANN is divided into sections of varying quality. For news, reviews, and release information, ANN is reliable source and close to being a newspaper of record for anime and manga. However, because the encyclopedia portion is user-edited, that information is not reliable by Wikipedia standards. That said, it is the experience of this WikiProject that the ANN's encyclopedia can be used with care for certain kinds of information:

Generally reliable but try to confirm these with a second source: production staff, producers/publishers, air/publication dates
Not very reliable and so use only with confirmation from other sources: biographical data, episode title translations
Do not use: genres (except as given by a reviewer)

Note also that credit lists, especially for mangaka, are rarely complete.