Tag change: Ringu --->The Ring/Ring

Reason, almost the same as forum #29544.
Don't really see the point in putting a U in the end even if that's how it's pronounce in japanese. I also don't see the point of using Engrish beside something to laugh about since both English and Japanese speaker/reader alike would not know/wonder what it means. Depending on the person that is.

Looks like they're aliased in the opposite direction. I guess it was done to differentiate from the American remake (which... was different I suppose?) and from the jewelry?

I don't have a problem with using the English word, because we've always done so for words in titles that are clearly English loanwords. Hence Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu and the like, not "Tesuto". Or Strike Witches, not Sutoraiku Uicchiizu.

My only question is if we go with The Ring or Ring.

We're already using ring to denote the jewellery item.

Lalaca said: We're already using ring to denote the jewellery item.

Well, yes, we would need to qualify one. So I suppose going with the_ring would be better, no qualifiers needed.

Can't say I've seen either films, but wikipedia just lists the Japanese version as Ring and the American remake as The Ring. Not sure how similar they are, but at minimum the character names are completely different.

Anyways just listing a concern.

Using the_ring sounds perfectly fine to me.

But given that (sorry if this sounds dumb, as I'm not sure how to put this) this is a website that makes heavy use of the English language, we should go with the American name for that copyright.

Plus, I've never heard a person in my life refer to "The Ring" by any other name (that term is pretty ubiquitous, actually). And I don't think that tag name would conflict with any other tags (and if it did, we could just change it to the_ring (something)).

I'd be in favor of this tag.

I'm against this. The original Japanese film is different from the American remake in significant enough ways that putting them together doesn't feel right at all.

Using the ringu tag seems nonsensical at first, due to its loanword-title status, but under the circumstances, I think it best to keep things as-is for the sake of differentiating the two separate properties.

There's precedent for this in the likes of dragonball_evolution not being aliased to dragonball.

But the tag count for ringu/the_ring are so small. Would it really be worth differentiating? And I've never even heard (or knew) that a Japanese adaption of the film even existed.

Though ultimately, I'm still just go for the_ring since I think it would be more appropriate for the purposes of tagging. Unless there's an otherwise compelling reason to really differentiate the two.

Oh well, that's all I have to say about this. Couldn't care either way, but that's just what I think.

Edit: Also, I didn't mean to make it sound like I thought the Japanese version was the adaption of the American version. Sorry for not clarifying on that.

Bapabooiee said:
And I've never even heard (or knew) that a Japanese adaption of the film even existed.

The Japanese film was the original, the American the adaptation.

sgcdonmai said: There's precedent for this in the likes of dragonball_evolution not being aliased to dragonball.

But the difference is that the American remake of りんぐ ever getting images her seems... really unlikely. And that's if we could even identify it as such.

Seriously, what are the chances of art being uploaded that specifically refers to the American remake (and in such a way that it's worth getting its own tag)? I vote for the_ring. That's how I've been reading it all along, anyway.

Soljashy said:
Seriously, what are the chances of art being uploaded that specifically refers to the American remake (and in such a way that it's worth getting its own tag)?

Actually, there do appear a character tag at least: samara_morgan (not saying the remake itself is worth its own tag, though)

It might be worth noting that both of those are already tagged yamamura_sadako as well.

Soljashy said:
It might be worth noting that both of those are already tagged yamamura_sadako as well.

Well, the one by miche seems to be referred to as Sadako by the artist himself, so the Samara tag is probably incorrect. Don't know much about Ring at all, though (only watched the American remake once a long time ago and never saw the original movie).

The American remake changed the telephone ring central to the movie into a stupid circle/ring. The original "ringu" doesn't have this obnoxious literalism.

Well, anyway, aliased to the_ring.