Talk:Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Kingsif (talk · contribs) 23:19, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I'm Kingsif, and I'll be doing this review. This is an automated message that helps keep the bot updating the nominated article's talkpage working and allows me to say hi. Feel free to reach out and, if you think the review has gone well, I have some open GA nominations that you could (but are under no obligation to) look at. Kingsif (talk) 23:19, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

• Lead is a little long for the article
• Infobox is good; good fair use manga cover
• was an enjoyable departure for him from the horror manga he typically authors seems a little too flowery for the lead; but it could be mentioned it's different to his horror in the lead, and that he enjoyed the different manga is good for the body
• Could give Kodansha an introduction (i.e. "The manga publisher Kodansha compiled the ten..." or something like that)
• Lead otherwise very well written and covers major points Kingsif (talk) 23:34, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
• Copyvio check clear
• Good use of fair use comic page in Style
• Commons image of author
• Appropriate number and spread of media Kingsif (talk) 23:35, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
• Sources look good
• Everything appears to be referenced
• Plot section unusual but seems to fit the format
• The Style section doesn't need to open with the manga title - it can, but this might be redundant when it could also use a pronoun
• The sentence According to Price, that only the everyday narrative of Junji Ito's Cat Diary delineated it from Ito's earlier works suggested that a degree of authorial humor was present in Ito's works, perhaps even that "Ito’s work was itself a kind of grand joke." is very hard to read
• Style section otherwise also very well written. There's a lot of detail about the critical views on the various realistic/horrific art, which seem to be the main elements
• At he liked writing manga such as Junji Ito's Cat Diary, because it, the use of the manga's name is unnecessary and unconventional, it should be changed to "...he liked writing the manga, because it..."
• Some of the text about publication seems to be a direct copy of the lead - either the lead part should be shortened or the body part expanded on (rephrasing both works)
• Reception section is good - a little verbose in the Lieberman part that could be rephrased, but fine
• Is there anything about Japan's reception?
• Question about the talk page links: are they all done, because in December it was noted that not all links had been used and so the article was not sufficiently broad in its coverage.
•  On hold @Rapunzel-bellflower: Comments above, but a nice article that shouldn't take much work. Kingsif (talk) 23:49, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi @Kingsif:, and thank you for reviewing! To answer your question, I finished adding the all the sources listed on the talkpage after the review had been done. I wasn't able to find anything about its original reception, but I suspect it was favourable. I did remove the Polygon source, as I had originally thought it was referring to Cat Diary, and now, on a second read, I think it was actually referring to a set of short stories in another Junji Ito collection that was similar to Cat Diary in tone and content. Very confusing. RE: the textual overlap of the lead and publication. I'm a bit stumped as to how to make them different, as manga publication (as you probably know) tends to go (but not always goes) serialization > bound volume > translation. I'll definitely give it a think, and see what else I can come up with, in regards to phrasing. Other than that, I believe I have made all the changes you requested. Thank you for taking the time to review! I so appreciate it! Best, Rapunzel-bellflower (talk) 02:25, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

• @Rapunzel-bellflower: I rewrote the sentence in the lead a bit, the rest looks good. Kingsif (talk) 17:48, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

@Kingsif: how wonderful! Thank you for the review!! :) Rapunzel-bellflower (talk) 00:39, 18 March 2020 (UTC)