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'''Creators''' | '''Creators''' are either persons, companies or some other form of collaboration. Each of these are further divided into roles which are the most prominent with persons. A company should almost always have only the Producer role. A collaboration should almost always only have either Musician/Band or Mangaka/Circle role, a Producer role is applicable if the band gets credited for music (音楽) in the anime (writing the entire soundtrack) and if the circle gets credited for directly being involved with an anime and not just original work credit. | ||
==Creator Roles on AniDB== | |||
===Type: Person=== | |||
====Role: Mangaka/Circle==== | |||
A person who draws manga. The word can be broken down into two parts: manga (漫画) and ka (家). The manga corresponds to the medium of art the artist uses: comics, or Japanese comics, depending on how the term is used inside or outside Japan. The -ka (家) suffix implies a degree of expertise and traditional authorship. For example, this term would not be applied to a writer creating a story which is then handed over to a manga artist for drawing. The Japanese term for such a writer of comics is gensakusha (原作者). | |||
Don't add this role to writers, who don't actually draw manga, meaning novelists (light novels or visual novels included), book writers or screenwriters are not mangaka; mark their role as Producer instead. | |||
====Role: Musician/Band==== | |||
A musician is a person who either sings, arranges, composes or writes lyrics for songs, often they can do all 4, but there are also individuals who have specialised in 1 or 2 roles. Sometimes the director of the anime or a similar role might write lyrics or even sing on a song for the anime they are working on, but generally the musician role shouldn't be applied to them, unless they often do that on songs unrelated to anime they work on. A band is a group of musicians who create and/or perform their songs together. | |||
====Role: Producer==== | |||
Generally a person who is in one way or another involved with creating or publishing an anime. Producer also covers writers (novels, light novels, visual novels) and should be applied to musicians who get credited for writing the music (音楽) for the anime (a person can have more than one role, if they are applicable, but this is most often the case with prominent musicians who compose entire soundtracks for the anime). | |||
====Role: Seiyuu==== | |||
A voice actor who reads out the character lines. | |||
====Common guidelines on person entries==== | |||
{{eyecatch|Note|The content of this section is current policy as at 22.01.2019. The exact wording is subject to change.}} | |||
* '''Gender''': This field refers to the person's ''gender identity'', not their biological gender. If their gender identity has not been explicitly mentioned somewhere, assuming it from the other available information is fine (since such assumptions are true for the vast majority of cases), but whenever the identity is made explicit it should be honoured on that creator's page. For gender identities not matching any of the given options, use "unknown" for now and add a clarification in the creator's description. | |||
===Type: Company=== | |||
Similar logic applies to Type: Company, as it does to Type: Person. | |||
===Type: Collaboration=== | |||
Similar logic applies to Type: Collaboration, as it does to Type: Person. | |||
==Creator info sources== | ==Creator info sources== | ||