[Edit] Nanairo Kaleidoscope (#393235)

[Secret Squirrel]

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[Secret Squirrel]

@Dream S

Since you have been working a lot with older albums, I decided to take a close look at this album. I've noticed that you have kind of developed your own formats for doujins, and have been replacing the more established format that we (semi-unofficially) have followed in general for albums on VGMdb. I've made some changes to this album in several areas to bring it back in line with standards:


1. "Special Thanks"
Where are these Special Thanks credits coming from? I don't see them in the booklet or on the official site. Are you just inventing a new credit for all of the circles that have representative artists so that they will link? The credits are meant to be a reproduction of how the artist are credited in the book or on official sites. I don't think we should use Special Thanks as the role because the album team is not explicitly thanking them. I am open to thinking about some kind of role for circle affiliation for guest artists, but it isn't clear to me that those circles even had any role. It may be more like "Mie, who you may be familiar with from their work with GET IN THE RING", and that is covered (and unlinked) in the suffix for Mie.

2. Artist order in the draft.
When we have track credits, like for the vocalist here, our policy has been to link them in the order they appear in the track credits, not in the order they appear in the staff list. So, in this case, Sakuya Kurosaki is on track 1, and should appear first.

Sakuya Kurosaki (Eternal Melody), Cocoa (Eurobeat Union), Yukacco (Alkanet), Akiha Manasora (Manasorania), Aki (A-One), Mie (GET IN THE RING), Kobakyon (Lapis Moss)

3. Credit artists as they appear in book/official site.
yukacco should be Yukacco

4. Readability of the notes (some of these don't apply to this album, but I have noticed them in others.)
Colon ":" should always be followed by a space in the notes (Vocal: Aki)
Commas "," should always be followed by a space in the notes. (also in tracklists, a "、" should become a ", " in the English and Romaji tracklist).
Sentences should follow standard English capitalization rules, which means that only the first letter and proper nouns are in upper case.
I would like to see 2 carriage returns between the "Staff" and "Track" credits sections, like I added here.
Don't start credits on the same line as the track number. It just makes it less readable. (The exception to this rule is for game/anime credits like "01 - TV Anime "Beastars" OP Theme"

5. Album flavor text.
I don't think there is much value in adding text like this "Singing Voices Of Shining Seven Colors While They Round And Round And Change Their Colors And Shapes". Note that we generally allow flavor text from the listing to be reproduced in the notes (see any bandcamp album), but the translation is just too awkward here. I think we could have these in the future, but they need to be translated by someone who is fluent enough to write eloquent poetry in both languages. Otherwise, it really is just a jumble of random words. This isn't a criticism of your skills; I don't have the skill to translate these either, so best to just leave them off.


Note: so that this doesn't seem too negative, you are doing a good job overall. Submitting here isn't easy, and we appreciate the help you give us in adding some of these overlooked doujin circles.