Talk:Asuka Strikes!/GA1

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Reviewer: Gabriel Yuji (talk · contribs) 04:15, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

My full review for now:

Lead

• The opening sentence is ambiguous, mostly because of its first comma and the "which"; the way it is written doesn't make it clear if "was created by Gainax, written by Hideaki Anno and Yoji Enokido and directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki" refers only to the episode or to the complete series.
• "The episode's protagonist is Shinji Ikari..." – well, he is the protagonist of the whole series and rest of the sentence also is about the entire series. By now, I'm guessing you could separe better what is about the series and what's about the episode.
• "Anno conceived 'Asuka Strikes!' to lighten the tone of the series after the first six episodes" – so far, it's kind of awkward to read it since it's the eighth episode; so what about the seven?

Plot

• No problems

Production

• "changed to the double title 'Asuka's Arrival' (アスカ、来日) in Japanese..." – I don't get it; how is it a double title? Wasn't "アスカ、来朝" too? Or are you referring colectivelly to the Japanese and the American titles as a double title?

Yup. Each episode has a Japanese title and an English title; both appear in the eye-catches, so it's practically a double title.

• "According to the official film-books of the series" – why is "film-books" hyphenated if it's not an adjective?

Fixed. The copyeditor had written this, but I hadn't noticed it so far.

• "for the film-books, however, Gainax could have ignored the realism..." – I didn't get it at all; the realism was only ignored for the film books stake? or was it ignored in the anime?

Since this is not an opinion of someone on staff, but of Newtype Filmbooks, I preferred to write 'according to the filmbooks' with conditional. They are reliable, but still not canonical material like an interview with Anno.

Ah, now I get. Just change to "according to" so I think it'll be clearer. Gabriel Yuji (talk) 17:26, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• After the start of a sentence like "'Asuka Strikes!' also depicts existing military vehicles..." it doesn't quite fit to have "a Mil MI-55D, a helicopter that does not exist in the real world"
• "Fly Me to the Moon" should be between quote, not in italics; see
  MOS:MINORWORK

References and themes

• take a look at
  WP:NCS
  for proper italicization of ship names and classes
• there's a missing comma between Iowa-class battleships USS Illinois (BB-65) and the USS Kentucky (BB-66)
• misuse of semicolon twice in a row; you just go with a full stop after "some old ships"
• missing a full stop after GunBuster
• MOS:OVERLINK
  of Nadia, previously linked in Production
• "For writer Dennis Redmond" – wee need a better introduction of this person
• "'Asuka Strikes! 'manage[s]...'" – missing a closing quote after "Strikes!"
• Jaws should be in italics

Reception

• it's a redirect, but probably you can link to
  Looper (website)
• "Writers Kazuhisa Fujie and Martin Forster" – missing some context
• What does make Animation Planet, Anime Café, Multiversity Comics, and Next Flicks reliable sources? Not listed at
  WP:A&M/RS
  nor widely used by other projects as far as I know.

They seem okay to me, at least on the critical side. Animation Planet is a good magazine, and the Japanese reviewers at Anime Café seem pretty reliable as well.

Can you provide some evidence? Gabriel Yuji (talk) 17:26, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ping me when you've solved the problems or replied the ones you don't think are issues at all. Gabriel Yuji (talk) 04:15, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Gabriel Yuji: Tried my best. Good points, anyway.--TeenAngels1234 (talk) 08:00, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, TeenAngels1234, good changes in general. I'm just not still sure about the sources I've mentioned. Gabriel Yuji (talk) 17:26, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Gabriel Yuji: Gwern lists AP among the sources of his NGE anthology. John A. Lent lists it in his bibliography, but probably not relevant. Michael G. Dobbs, Animato! editor and publisher Stephen R. Bissette (Lent anthology, p. 145) and Forbidden Animation-writer and scholar Karl Cohen are among its reviewers. Not an evidence, but several articles here mention MC, and, as far as I know, no controversy raised; again, not a strong evidence, but TCJ, which is listed among the A&M/RS, mentions one interview from MC, and the site has among its staff Kate Kosturski, a writer for the Eisner-Awarded WomenWriteAboutComics. Edit: It is also listed in Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/References, among the reliable online column archives. I couldn't find anything on NF, although their news and information on Eva seems quite correct to me. For The Anime Café: Its list of contributors includes The Anime Critic's Pete Harcoff, THEM Anime Reviews (which is dedicated to his memory) Raphael See, and Anime News Network Kenneth Lee. Probably irrelevant, but an ANN article credits Akio Nagatomi.--TeenAngels1234 (talk) 21:23, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Since I couldn't find anything on the website I removed NF.--TeenAngels1234 (talk) 23:24, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nice information. Probably it should be useful to start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga/Online reliable sources. Anyway, it's good to go now. Gabriel Yuji (talk) 02:34, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]