Talk:Arisa (manga)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: DragonZero (talk · contribs) 10:05, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

Issues must be resolved. Suggestions are suggestions.

Issues

• "on a case-by-case basis" This remains unclear, even after I checked the source. As far as I know, Del Rey's localization was just eventually replaced by Kodansha. Some clarification about this in the lead and in the article is necessary.
• "Additionally, she created "Tsubasa", a bonus chapter focusing on..." After this point, the sentence becomes pretty awkward.
• "wrote the Midori's backstory" Pretty sure something is wrong here.
• WP:CAPs ref titles
• Mania is down
• Kodansha links are down
• RandomHouse is now PenguinRandomHouse
• "she then reached out to her twin, hoping that she would be able to uncover the truth." Second she clarity
• "as he could not get revenge on his own mother and believed that Arisa hated hers" Confusing on why Arisa's hatred makes is a plus to his reasons to make the mother a target.

• Clarity check. Is this the character's motivation? It's what I got from the sentence. "I hate my mom, she's dead but you hate yours so I'll kill her instead"

• absence of a "love interest", why is love interest bracketed?
• "Tsubasa resolves to stop the King and find out the person's identity to save Arisa, as he or she may be the reason for her suicide attempt." Awkward
• "chin-length and shoulder-length hair" Clarity. I'm pretty sure this is the common multiple models, and not a single model with both those length of hairstyles.

• Aside from this, whose observations is used for the sentence backed up by reference 1? This may be considered O.R, since an observation stated as fact is used in the second sentence, "Midori and Takeru, Tsubasa's friend, were visually unchanged from the early art.".

Suggestions

• "Set in present-day Japan, it focuses on teenager Tsubasa Uehara, as she investigates the mystery surrounding her twin sister's failed suicide attempt that left her comatose." Clarity can be further improved, though the reader can deduce the second her refers to the sister.
• The Original run in the infobox usually uses dates. I don't have a problem with the magazine issues though.
• Synthesis the manga weekly rankings. It can be summed up saying volumes 2, 5, and 6 appeared on NYT's list instead of sharing their week long appearance (Probably the week of their release) and their rankings which aren't noteworthy.
• Bracket image source so it says 7netshopping.jp
• Picture is already 230, don't need size restriction.

There were a few other weird sounding sentences that I didn't note cause I'm not sure if it's just me or not. DragonZero (Talk · Contribs) 10:05, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi again! Thank you for taking the time to review. I think I've addressed the issues raised. I would like to hear more about those strange sentences you found, so I can fix them! :) I'm also not sure what you mean by synthesizing weekly rankings. Could you link to an example, please? Rapunzel-bellflower (talk) 22:26, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

For issue #10, love interest is in quotes because it is a direct quote. I couldn't think of way to paraphrase it. Any suggestions? For issue #11.2, I will doublecheck that for you. Rapunzel-bellflower (talk) 17:34, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

I crossed off the love interest thing for now, but love interest is a common literary term so it can probably do without them. Another word that might need to be looked at is "strong contrast". DragonZero (Talk · Contribs) 01:49, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Ok. I tried my hand at paraphrasing, just in case. The clarity check for his motivation is correct. And made me laugh because it rhymes. I think I've addressed all the issues raised now. Rapunzel-bellflower (talk) 23:40, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Issues resolved, passing.