Implicating age_regression -> young
The wiki article for age_regression clarifies that it's a specialisation on young.
Updated by DschingisKhan
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Implicating age_regression -> young
The wiki article for age_regression clarifies that it's a specialisation on young.
Updated by DschingisKhan
age regression strikes me as a much less ambiguous tag overall (therefore better), but what is it's opposite? age progression sounds more like something you'd use for images of a character at various ages...
age_regression has visual cues that the character shrank down to a kid (oversized clothes, comic frames, etc.), unlike young which is a simple drawing of an adult character as a kid.
Alignn said:
age regression strikes me as a much less ambiguous tag overall (therefore better), but what is it's opposite?
young : age_regression :: adult : age_advancement?
DschingisKhan said:
young : age_regression :: adult : age_advancement?
Note that we also have a teenage tag which could be used in combination with young or instead of adult.
We do not have a general "older than usual" tag, but we have a "younger than usual" tag in the form of young.
Alignn said:
Shouldn't it be younger, come to think of it? Since it's not meant to be used simply when a character is young.
I'm not sure why it isn't meant to be used simply when a character is a child. That whole series of tags is suddenly very confusing. Every one of them lists the others in their wiki as equivalents: young, teenage, adult, old. All of them have a very straightforward use in designating a character being depicted at an exact age range they're not normally depicted as, and young is the one for characters depicted as children. Making it both that and "younger" means that any picture of say, an elderly person as an adult should be tagged with both adult and young.
There's also no equivalent for progressed aging, like S1eth mentioned, but applying old the same way as young would make, for example, every picture of oshino_shinobu as a teenager from Nisemonogatari both teenage and old, despite old supposedly being for characters depicted as elderly.
If there's supposed to be tags for simply being younger or older than normal they should definitely be separate ones.
S1eth said:
Note that we also have a teenage tag which...
...was purposely omitted from this discussion because it's bidirectional. It's a weird case of orthogonality, to be sure.
We do not have a general "older than usual" tag...
An interesting point. I do wonder if we shouldn't be using younger (and by extension, older) as Alignn suggests.
Or maybe this whole set needs restructured to be less ambiguous. young, teenage, adult, and old are one axis, indicating apparent modified age bracket. older and younger forms the axis of directionality. age_regression and age_advancement indicate the presence of evidence. These last two are fundamentally boolean in nature and may be better treated as one tag.