Req: Field for original (Japanese) episode titles [DONE]

Onakra · Post by **Onakra** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 7:19 pm

Now the change has been made to include the title of an anime (in Japanese) in the info for an anime,
I would like to request the addition of a field to store the original (ja) title for episodes as well.

I don't know if there'll be a lot of AniDB users who will actively use this, but it's always nice to have the original title for future reference.
Besides, the translated English ones sometimes don't make too much sense (well at least to me). Thanks for considering.

Post by **PetriW** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 7:25 pm

I second this request eventhough it'll be a pain to add into AOM.

bbaab · Post by **bbaab** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 9:12 pm

BTW, most episodes I add have a little "Original title: ..."-remark. I consider this to be enough - even if I'd wish there were an easier way to access that text.

Of course, I have nothing against an "original title" field. My "mylist" is set up to display the kanji titles already.

rowaasr13 · Post by **rowaasr13** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 3:38 am

+1.
/me too.

etc, etc, etc...

Onakra · Post by **Onakra** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 8:35 am

Any word on the status of this request? todo/rejected?

Post by **exp** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 8:39 pm

hm,

might be interesting.
i will look into that someday.

BYe!
EXP

azntimm · Post by **azntimm** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 1:50 am

First, I'll throw in another vote for this feature, I'd like it a lot. Second, when (if) this is implemented could there be an option to have AniDB generate filenames entirely in Japanese? Example:
SeriesName(Jap)_-_EpisodeNumber(第1話,第一話,etc.)_-_EpisodeTitle(Jap)_-_[Group](CRC)(dub.sub)[AniDB].filext

Or to use a real example, this filename:
カウボーイビバップ_-_第06話_-_悪魔を憐れむ歌_-_[zx](08539ef2)(dub.sub_jap.eng.eng)[AniDB].ogm
Instead of:
Cowboy_Bebop_-_06_-_Sympathy_for_the_Devil_-_[zx](08539ef2)(dub.sub_jap.eng.eng)[AniDB].ogm
Or even:
カウボーイビバップ_-_第六話_-_悪魔を憐れむ歌_-_[zx](08539ef2)(ダブ.サブ_日.英.英)[AniDB].ogm　:P

I suppose there could be user preferences about whether you wanted episode numbers in kanji or Arabic numerals, whether you wanted 第6話 or just 6, etc. Obviously this would all be turned off by default for people without computers set up to accept Japanese file names, but available for 'purists'.

wahaha · Post by **wahaha** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 10:39 am

It had been mentioned that some (or most?) ed2k-clients couldn't handle such links... well, let's test it:

[url=ed2k://|file|テストファイル.txt|100|12345678123456781234567812345678|/]ed2k://|file|テストファイル.txt|100|12345678123456781234567812345678|/[/url]
(using unicode as that's probably the only option for automatically generated links anyway.)

Running eMule (42e) with japanese locale makes it add the above link with some odd signs ("繝・せ繝医ヵ繧｡繧､繝ｫ.txt"). If that's not caused by an error in my ed2k-link, that problem should be resolved in eMule (and probably other clients) first.

gholovo · Post by **gholovo** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 11:39 am

It's true that emule, at least, doesn't handle such links, but that doesn't negate the value of the feature. One possible solution would be to have romaji and kana fields separately for the title, as is the case with anime.

Disregarding using files thus named, it would be nice to store the Japanese title purely for informational purposes. We know that all fansub groups don't translate titles the same way, so it would at least be providing further information.

Edit: This was a response to wahaha, but it can be taken generally. Especially if wahaha was responding specifically to comments regarding naming files thus and not to the idea itself, which it has just occured to me might be the case.

wahaha · Post by **wahaha** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 11:59 am

gholovo wrote:Edit: This was a response to wahaha, but it can be taken generally. Especially if wahaha was responding specifically to comments regarding naming files thus and not to the idea itself, which it has just occured to me might be the case.

Indeed, I was only commenting on the followup-request about ed2k-links. As you wrote, having both romaji and kana might be a good workaround here.

So, about additionally listing episode-names in japanese:
+ It should be fairly easy to add this feature
+ The info is easy to find, so it 'only' takes a few dedicated people & a lot of spare time
+ "leetness"-factor, just that
- The use is very limited (or rather, the group of people who want to use it)
- Those who add new episodes will most likely not include that info, so this feature would provoke a constant flood of creqs

Post by **PetriW** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 12:47 pm

- Those who add new episodes will most likely not include that info, so this feature would provoke a constant flood of creqs

Huh, why would it require CReqs to add original titles? It's a separate field after all kinda like titles for animes, aka you can add the title and only have to CReq when you want it to be updated.

bbaab · Post by **bbaab** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 8:05 pm

wahaha wrote: - Those who add new episodes will most likely not include that info, so this feature would provoke a constant flood of creqs

As it is now, I constantly (well, whenever I feel like it, actually ...) flood the mods with creqs which basically just include the following comment for each episode:

Original title: 「ブラーブラーブラー」