Manga Recommendation Database -- please give feedback ASAP

[sothis]

I posted a news item last week mentioning I might make a manga recommendation database. The thread got 175 views and only 6 responses. My time is valuable and fleeting, so if I'm going to spend it working on that tool, I need quite a bit more support than this.
I need to know what information should go in the MangaRec (as I don't read manga) -- meaning a consensus from a lot of people -- and also the names of who is willing to help gather this information and write the synopsises. I won't take synopsis info from other sites, just like the AniRec, and I'd need a good amount of the information gathered BEFORE I start work on the tool.
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[Ripzter]

I don't read a lot of manga, but I would definitely have use for this. Since I'm not all that familiar with manga I wouldn't like to waste my time randomly reading some crap. This is where recommendations would step in. I'm also crappy at writing synopsis and such, but I would definitely help out with gathering other kind of info if/when needed!

About the information, I'd like to see at least some of the following:
- Publisher
- Mangaka
- Number of Volumes
- Release dates for each volume
- Volume names
- Page count for each volume
- A few sample images
- Synopsis (duh! :P)
- maybe some other random interesting info about the manga in question

[sothis]

thank you ripzter :)

the only thing that might be tricky is sample images... i know screenshots are "legal" for anime (at least in theory?) because they are small and such.. i'm not sure if there would be a big copyright stink about scans of pages?

the best i can think of for that m ight be the official cover image, though that would be boring and kind of against the whole "ap has unique info" idea

would you be able to come with a sample for one manga, and show me what the info would look like?

[Ripzter]

Well, I would be happy enough to have the official cover image of each volume. Even that shows at least a little of the style of drawing used for the manga.

Here's a simple (read: crappy) example of info for a manga:

Title: Ichigo 100%
Mangaka: Mizuki Kawashita
Publisher: Shueisha (Viz Media in the US)
Number of Volumes: 19
Volume information:
- Volume 1: Strawberry headline (2002)
- Volume 2: The dream girl reappears (2002)
- Volume 3: Unmei no kuranku in!? (2002)
- Volume 4: Kisushite hoshii (2002)
- Volume 5: Omoide no Onna (2002)
....
Synopsis:
Junpei Manaka, sneaking away to the roof of his school one afternoon, witnesses a beautiful girl falling in front of him. Before the girl flees, he catches a glimpse of her strawberry-patterned panties, and it's love at first sight. He also believes that this scene would be perfect in a movie, as it is his dream to be a film director.

Misc information:
There's also been a TV animation and an OVA made out of Ichigo 100%. See here for more info: http://www.anime-planet.com/anirec/942.html , http://www.anime-planet.com/anirec/922.html .


Ok. This is just a simple example of the information. That info is crap btw, synopsis only partly copied from wiki, dates missing etc etc. As I said earlier I think it would be enough to just have people see the cover image for each volume. Maybe this would be accessible by clicking on the volume name?

I wish some other people also would give some feedback to this thread! As I'm not any expert in this area and probably left out some vital information!?!

[shortlex]

well if you are gonna create a manga site. please make it seperate from the anime site. I find it a hassle when looking through and both anime and manga are listed together, making search for titles really confusing