Named Original Characters

I know some artists that like to name their original characters. I was just wondering whether or not to tag the names even if they only ever appear in the artist's illustrations.

I would say yes, especially if they appear in more than one image.

I don't see why not, especially if the character gets drawn a lot, whether by the artist himself or by other artists. I've done it for queen_anubis and darumako, among others.

However, unless you're absolutely sure of the character's name, it may be wise to bring it up on the forum or this thread just to get a solid name down.

Thanks, I was mainly wondering about Shiroganeusagi's 奈々仔. Just to be sure, would this be romanized as Nanashi?

cleartailcat said:
I was mainly wondering about Shiroganeusagi's 奈々仔. Just to be sure, would this be romanized as Nanashi?

Actually, I'd say "Nanako". ENAMDICT turns up 10 given names with 仔 in terminal position; 7 of them are read as "ko" and only 1 read is read as "shi". (Of course, the other two are "ne" and "yo", which just goes to show that name readings make no damn sense.)

cleartailcat, it would help if you would link some images of the character in question.

And even if an artist hasn't given names for a character, if they are drawing the same one or ones over and over, they are worth tagging. Some artist (I forget who) had a couple of girls who drew a lot, so we tagged them as "Soandso's_<descriptor>_girl"

I think what you're thinking of is Yomogi's Red-eyed Megane.

Thanks, nanako_(shiroganeusagi) then?

Hillside_Moose said:
cleartailcat, it would help if you would link some images of the character in question.

post #598684, post #579900, post #578523.

http://www.pixiv.net/tags.php?tag=%E5%A5%88%E3%80%85%E4%BB%94 on pixiv.

Hillside_Moose said:
I think what you're thinking of is Yomogi's Red-eyed Megane.

Yes, thats exactly who I was thinking of.

Before we put the stamp of approval, I'm just wondering about the artist's name; I'm no expert in Japanese, but it looks like it should be "shirogane_usagi," not bunched into "shiroganeusagi."

I'm not sure how artist's names are supposed to be split, apart from obvious surname/given name seperations etc. , but I've seen some obvious bunches (i.e. hangetsuakibarika among others). shiroganeusagi is technically two words, but I always found it simpler to romanize シロガネウサギ as one.

My support definitely goes to shirogane_usagi (but then again, I was overruled the last time I tried something like this).

Given they're two easily discernible words, I don't see how not spacing them would make more sense. (And no, the last time you tried to hack utawarerumono up, which is nowhere near as clear-cut, because it's verb modifier + noun and not noun + noun).

I would still consider them two easily discernable words, "revered ones" just like "laughing man".

That's in English. Doesn't mean it's necessarily two words in Japanese. And given the source language's lack of spacing, you can't really point to any sort of precedent. Much like the concept of "adjective", the English concept of "word" fails when applied to a completely different language.

Oh, I agree. But I fail to see why on earth you would put spaces between "noun + noun", "adjective + noun" and even "noun + particle" but not between "verb + noun". What gives?

I honestly cannot think of anything less palatable than starting up this argument again.

After some searching, I am now almost certain it's "Nanako", so nanako_(shirogane_usagi) it is.

I've submitted an alias request regarding the artist, so implementation of nanako_(shirogane_usagi) can begin, if anyone wishes to do so.