Danbooru

Bow Ditama

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We have three tags that I can find for this guy (bow_ditama, ditama and ditamabow). In the west he's usally called "Bow Ditama" and that appears to be how he writes his own name romanised (see http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/4847035526.09.LZZZZZZZ.jpg ) but I wanted to check how you wanted it done here before I tried retagginh or requesting aliases. The kanji is ぢたま某 however he usually writes the 某 in a circle for some reason (as noted on http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%A2%E3%81%9F%E3%81%BE%E6%9F%90 )
If this is his real name then precedence suggests using "jitama_bou" (c/v itou_noiji etc.)

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You've also forgot the TV series too. But anyways I'm not really sure. My Tokyopop manga and places around the internet just simply used Bow Ditama and the jitama_bou you referred to but other than that I'm just not sure.

Most people know him as Bow Ditama. Aliases would help if you searched for "bow_ditama" or "ditama_bow", but what if you're browsing pictures and find one tagged as "jitama_bou"? Most people won't have any idea who that is, even if they do know the artist.

That's where the artist database comes in handy - precedence is (in my experience here at least) to use an artist's real name with a standardized romanization over their preferred spelling or nickname (witness watanabe_akio over poyoyon_rock, gotou_keiji over keiji_gotoh etc)

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