Do we really need tags for unnamed characters of a song?

So there's a girl (kyu-kurarin) and a cute girlfriend tag for the unnamed girls presented in the songs, but I'm not sure about their utility. There are stuff like mika-chan and merry (readymade) but at least they were given a name. We do have the tendency to try and tag even the most minor characters, but this is a very small song copyright and she already is the only character of that copyright, without even a name. If we really think this is necessary then we have no excuse to not do the same to other song characters, which… Look at the amount of vocaloid songs on this site that features at least one original character.

And to be honest, I don’t even think the named character tags are more relevant. Mika-chan is fine since the song primarily features Kagamine Rin and Gumi, meaning she isn’t always seen in artworks of the song. But Merry (readymade) and Naima (usseewa) are the protagonist and the only character of their respective song, there isn’t much meaning to give them tags when the song tag already serves that purpose. We didn’t do it to all the other songs out there.

As far as I know, yes.

After all, the idea is to make things on the site easily searchable. It's a little difficult to do that if things aren't appropriately tagged. Including minor characters.

The Cute Girlfriend tag should really get a qualifier if nothing else.

Unbreakable said:

The Cute Girlfriend tag should really get a qualifier if nothing else.

Same with Mika-chan.

Jigsy said:

As far as I know, yes.

After all, the idea is to make things on the site easily searchable. It's a little difficult to do that if things aren't appropriately tagged. Including minor characters.

Is it really? The result is usually almost identical from the song tag anyway. I’m okay with the named ones, but girl (kyu-kurarin) is not really convincing. As I mentioned, we have thousands of vocaloid songs on Dan, tagging all their unnamed random "black-haired girl", "black-haired boy" would just be padding.

magcolo said:

tagging all their unnamed random "black-haired girl", "black-haired boy" would just be padding.

My understanding was you were talking about characters with known names but where there was only one image. Not random background characters. (I've just noticed the title.)

None of those examples duplicate the copyright tag, though. They give fanart of the song that specifically depicts the original character from the song, rather than parodies with other characters (e.g. post #5800634 vs. post #5448066).

We should treat them the same as other original characters. If there are recognizable characters from a song with a noticeable amount of fanart, they should be tagged. For example, the girl from the Nisoku Hokou fan PV has no tag and is hard to search for, because the copyright mostly contains 2 separate Miku costumes. A completely random character with one post like post #1195985 doesn't need a tag.