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This page contains a list of useful internet resources for writing about anime and manga related topics. It is maintained by the WikiProject Anime and manga. To help editors avoid FUTON bias, similar pages exist for books, magazines, and documentaries.

A custom search engine, which focuses on the sites listed here and filters out various unusable websites, courtesy of Gwern, is available here.

There is no guarantee that sources listed here can be used for a particular purpose, and this page is not a substitute for understanding Misplaced Pages:Identifying reliable sources.

Instructions

Instructions for contributors

If you have an additional source you think is reliable, please bring it up on the project talk page so that consensus can be reached regarding its reliability and suitability for use here. If it is determined to be reliable, it will be added to this page. Undiscussed additions will be immediately reverted. Websites which host or link to scanlations, fansubs, or other illegal content will immediately be rejected as copyright violations, so please don't even ask.

Retailers as sources

Retailers are considered reliable sources for release dates and the existence of anime, manga and related products that have already been released. However, other secondary or primary sources—particularly publishers and academic sources—should be used if available. Retailers posting dates for an unannounced title, however, raise a red flag as to the legitimacy of the statement.

Internet polls

Polling on the Internet is inherently easy to manipulate the results. As such, unless the results are quoted by another independent reliable source, the results should not be used—especially to show notability; even when commented by an independent reliable source, it may still be giving undue weight to an inherently unreliable medium and a particular website.

List of sources

General

Genre Specific

• Aestheticism.com - classic yaoi fansite, cited extensively in the yaoi-related literature and is therefore RS. (project discussion)
• Erica Friedman - Reviews yuri titles and interviews - but not to be used for anything controversial, or BLP related. Guest of ANNCast (added 23 February 2009; RS/N discussion)
• Sequential Tart - comics webzine by women in the comics industry that often reviews shoujo manga titles. (RS/N discussion & additional clue)

Academic

• Intersections - Free, online academic journal focusing on East Asian media.
• Paul Gravett: Comics, Graphic Novels, Manga - Paul Gravett's website.
• matt-thorn.com Matt Thorn's website, with different articles in English and Japanese.
• Mechademia - Published by John Hopkins University Press
• Mindspring.com/~theduffields Patricia Duffield's website, with an archive of some of her previously published reviews and articles. (Project discussion)

Awards

• Shogakukan Manga Award (added 2 May 2009; project discussion)
• Japan Media Arts Festival - Backed Agency for Cultural Affairs. A Grand prize is a strong evidence of notability, others prizes and recommendations are weak ones. (added 2 May 2009; project discussion)

Individuals

Often, individuals whose work automatically qualifies as reliable (because they are published industry experts, qualify as reliable self-published sources, or for other reasons) will write pieces for more than one website, and the RS status of some of the websites they've written for will be up in the air. In these cases, as long as there's no reason to doubt the author is who they say they are, their established RS status will override the website's indeterminate RS status for that piece.

• Deb Aoki, the reviewer for Manga.About.com. Twice guest of ANNCast 1 2
• Ed Chavez, a well-published manga critic, translator, and publisher. (Project discussion; added October 13, 2009)
• Hitoshi Doi, has been interviewed by CBC Television and his website, the Seiyuu (voice actor) database, has been cited by Mary Grigsby
• Patricia Duffield, has been published in Animerica, Animerica Extra (over 100 articles), and Shonen Jump and seven reviews for Jason Thompson's Manga: The Complete Guide; has also edited and rewritten a number of manga volumes. (Project discussion)
• Clarissa Graffeo, a contributor to Otaku USA since the first issue
• Paul Gravett (website)
• Katherine Luther, the reviewer for Anime.About.com
• Gerald Rathkolb, a contributor to Otaku USA since the first issue
• Carlos Ross, former editor and reviewer for THEM Anime, was featured on an episode of Attack of the Show!
• Tom Spurgeon, a reviewer for Publishers Weekly and former editor of The Comics Journal
• Daryl Surat, a contributor to Otaku USA since the first issue
• Jason Thompson, author of Manga: The Complete Guide
• Matt Thorn (website)
• Mike Toole, columnist for Anime News Network and contributor to Animerica, Otaku USA, and Sci Fi Magazine; also reviewed anime on his own site, AnimeJump (Archived at the Wayback Machine)
• David Welsh a contributor to The Comics Reporter, Comic World News (project discussion 1, project discussion 2; added July 6, 2010)

Japanese

• Aga-Search - Database of mystery and detective information (added May 4, 2009; project discussion)
• Anime Newtype Channel - Lists episode broadcasts dates, summaries, directors, and writers of currently airing series. Be advised that information is updated monthly and is not permanent. Therefore references should be archived using WebCite or similar archival website.
• Comptiq Website for the magazine publisher. Forcuses on Japanese video games.
• e-animedia Website for the publisher of multiple magazines relating to anime and mange for several decades. discussion
• Kodansha Japanese publisher, including magazines. Use citeweb for their site as their pages may be lost.
• Oricon Japanese news site focusing on Japanese pop culture, including anime and manga.
  • Rankings List for album rankings.

• List of when magazines began to be published (1950-1989)
• Tohan - sales rankings for books in Japan. Listings are often, but not always, easily searchable at Anime News Network.
• TV Drama database - largest Japanese database for TV dramas which includes a lot of anime. The source has been published and is considered an academic resource. (RS/N discussion)
• Video Research - Tv audience ratings for Kanto region. Put the Japanese title into the search box on the top right. ANN publish their weekly data but top viewed by year is available as is an all time top 10 going back to '77.

• Voice Artist DataBase - Japanese voice actor database.

French

• Animeland - Web counter part of an Anime/Manga monthly (10 issues per year) paper publication. The #1 French anime paper magazine. (added 2 May 2009; project discussion)
• Bd Gest' - Mostly Franco-Belgian and American comics reviews but also some Manga reviews. (added 2 May 2009; project discussion)
• du9 - Reviews and interviews - some articles in English (added 17 December 2013; project discussion)
• Manga News - Anime/Manga website. Staff reviews can be hot linked by adding 'critique/' after 'serie/' in the URL. (added 2 May 2009; project discussion)
• Manga Sanctuary - Anime/Manga website. (added 2 May 2009; project discussion)
• Planete BD - Anime/manga website. (added 29 December 2013; project discussion)

German

• Anime no Tomodachi - Registered Anime/manga NGO. (Discussion}
• Animepro - Anime/Manga review site. (added 2 May 2009; project discussion)
• Phantastik News - SFF review magazine that covers books/films/manga/anime. (added 2 May 2009; project discussion)
• Splash Comics - Anime and Manga review site. (added 22 December 2013; project discussion)

Publishers

• Gomanga.com - The official website for Seven Seas Entertainment an English language Manga publishing company. The website can be used to cite licensed and properties manga as well as upcoming release dates and news. As always the forum based content is unusable. Keep in mind that this is considered a Primary Source.
• Kodansha - See info under the "Japanese" section above.
• Yenpress - Yenpress is an English language manga publisher. The website can be used for its news information and manga release dates. Keep in mind that this is considered a Primary Source.

Situational

• Anime News Network - Anime news site with extensive release information and nearly 1,000 anime and manga reviews

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 a reliable source and close to being a newspaper of record for anime and manga. The "fan interest" pieces, however, may be pulled directly from unreliable sources and generally should not be used - http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news is the "reliable" feed. In addition, because the encyclopedia portion is user-edited, that information is not reliable by Misplaced Pages standards. (Project discussions: 1 2 3 4, RS/N discussions: 1 2)

• Anime Vice - Reviews and commentaries by Gia Manry are considered reliable as she has reviews published by other reliable sources, namely Anime News Network. Other staff members (Matt Kessler, Matt Lopez, Tom Pinchuk, and Chris Schmitt) have not been vetted. Care should be taken when using Anime Vice as much of the website's content is user submitted/generated and would not be considered a reliable source. (added August 28, 2011; discussion)
• Mania.com - Formerly AnimeOnDVD.com, contains anime news with thousands of anime and manga reviews. Editors must be particularly careful the reviews are from AnimeOnDVD/Mania staffers and NOT from the user-submitted "Maniacs" section. When searching for reviews, those that have a URL format of http://www.mania.com/*title*_*somenumbers*.html and that follow the original AoD review format are written by staff reviewers and are considered reliable and usable for articles. "Maniac" reviews written by users which are not RS can be detected by the lack of structured format and a URL in the form of http://www.mania.com/*username*/review/*title*_*somenumbers*.html
• Nausicaa.net - The "frozen", old site is RS, but the wiki version may not be since it currently allows anyone to register and contribute (at the very least, sourcing to the wiki should probably be done as a last resort for the present time). (added May 4, 2009; project discussion, also this FLRC discussion)

Unreliable

• Animetric (www.animetric.com) - self-published website by a person who is not a vetted industry expert (project discussion)
• Baka-Updates Manga (MangaUpdates; www.mangaupdates.com) - information is primarily user submitted and website also promotes illegal distribution of copyrighted materials.
• CCSF new (ccsf.homeunix.org) - personal page which may allow user-submitted content; owner has stated it's not official (project discussion)
• Firefox News (Firefox.org) - no editorial control, open account creation with no vetting of "reporters" or "reviewers", allows user-submitted content, very similar to an open blog service. (project discussion)
• Internet Movie Database (IMDB; www.imdb.com) - The information is user submitted and rarely corrected for mistakes.
• TV.MSN.com (tv.msn.com) - No editorial control, incorrect information (1)
• MyAnimeList.net (MAL; www.myanimelist.net) - information is primarily user submitted and website also promotes illegal distribution of copyrighted materials. (project discussion)
• Otaku Fridge (www.otakufridge.com; formerly Hentai Neko (www.hentaineko.com)) - self-published website with user-submitted reviews. (project discussion)
• TV.com (also Gamespot and GameFAQs) - Database information is user-submitted and reviewed by an "editor" (usually a person who has contributed the most) or a staff member. News articles written by staff (paid CBS Interactive / CNET) can be considered reliable, though most do NOT cover anime/manga. Staff may link episodes and video clips to official broadband content such as Hulu; those videos may be considered.
• Misplaced Pages, Japanese Misplaced Pages and sites that mirror it, are not considered reliable sources for the content taken from the articles themselves, even when such articles are sourced by reliable sources. Use the sources instead. (WP:CIRCULAR, WP:COPYWITHIN)

Other resources

• Some library/children's book journals that sometimes notice, review, or discuss various manga titles: Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Hornbook

See also

• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Japan/Reference library
• User:Goodraise/Referencing web pages
• User:Goodraise/Reviews as sources

References

1. To help narrow down the number of unreliable sources from forum posts use -inurl:forums and -inurl:boards together or -show_msgs. While this will not entirely eliminate those results, it can cut them down heavily for sites like Anime News Network.
   If you find any sites which don't belong, feel free to contact Gwern; similarly if you find particularly bad/noisy/spammy search queries.
2. "Active Anime Top 25 – Formerly Known as Animefringe Top 25". Anime News Network. January 7, 2008.
3. Dreuth, Josh (October 15, 2008). "Bandai Visual to Bring Tales of the Abyss to Blu-ray". Blu-ray.com. Retrieved September 12, 2010.
4. Aoki, Deb (December 7–9, 2007). "New York Anime Festival 2007 – Udon Entertainment". About.com. Retrieved September 12, 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
5. "Gonzo Exec Rips Fan Subs: Anime's 'Biggest Threat'". ICV2. November 26, 2007. Retrieved September 12, 2010.
6. http://www.aintitcool.com/node/23973
7. http://www.aintitcool.com/node/34761
8. http://www.aintitcool.com/node/39431

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