What topics can I ask about here?

Anime & Manga Stack Exchange is a Q&A site for enthusiastic anime and manga fans. This includes questions about:

  • Plot, character, or setting explanations
  • Historical or societal context of an anime or manga
  • Franchise/series reading or viewing order
  • Anime and manga production
  • Tropes, terminology, and other general anime and manga related information.
  • Questions about a piece of merchandise that you or someone you know personally owns.

Help! There's currently no tag for the series I want to ask about and I don't have enough reputation to make one... What can I do?

If you find that the tag for the particular series you want to ask about does not exist, simply tag your question with the "retag" tag and another user with the appropriate privilege will retag your question accordingly.

Are you looking to ask a question about to identifying a particular anime or manga related media?

Please note that ALL anime and manga identification questions are off-topic and will be closed regardless of how much context is provided.

Hold up! Are you looking the source for an anime and/or manga related image?

Please try to do a reverse image search before asking. It might be just what you need to answer your question.

What about other questions regarding anime and manga?

Not all questions have a home on Anime and Manga. Please note the following types of questions are off-topic here:

Please look around to see if your question has been asked before. It's also OK to ask and answer your own question.

Please note that while these types of questions are considered off-topic on our main site, you are free to ask in our main chatroom (once you have accumulated at least 20 rep), where we will try to help you as best we can.

Anything else?

If your question is not specifically on-topic for Anime & Manga Stack Exchange, it may be on-topic for another Stack Exchange site. If no site currently exists that will accept your question, you may commit to or propose a new site at Area 51, the place where new Stack Exchange communities are democratically created.

For more help, see "What types of questions should I avoid asking?"