"Runa" ~ "Luna"

Many pictures by Aizawa Kotarou feature a character called Runa or Luna, sometimes tagged luna (like in post #68684) and sometimes untagged (like in post #346916). The artist himself consistently uses the romaji spelling Runa, such as in post #198826.

The character is rather easy to recognize, but sometimes I am in doubt, especially with post #71963. The artist could have just experimented with another similar design, after all.

Anyway, there is no point trying to properly tag this character as long as various Lunas (or Runas) have not been sorted out.

• Aizawa's Luna/Runa: a doujin character created or borrowed by the artist? Cf. "Fleurir", 2004 Winter -- the sixth cover at http://akamurasaki.com/doujin/old.html
• Luna of "Elysion"? Two images, post #1764 and post #2503
• Luna of "Soul Calibur III"? One image, post #107500
• Luna of "Tales of Symphonia"? One image, post #362922
• See also the wiki page for the luna tag.

Just retag the Aizawa Kotarou Luna images as something like runa_(aizawa_ kotarou) and add it to my list on the wiki page. For Lunas with only one or two images, I see no problem with leaving them under the ambiguous Luna tag as the copyright tags will distinguish them.

Except for how that completely violates our standing policy?

If "Runa" is currently unused by other characters, go ahead and use it for Aizawa's character. Then disambiguate the other Luna's as per standard procedure.

Fencedude said:

If "Runa" is currently unused by other characters, go ahead and use it for Aizawa's character.

One thing I am after here is whether somebody happens to know Aizawa's Runa ~ Luna to be a "borrowed" character from another copyright. With a good amount of luck, someone could even have read "Fleurir". I am just guessing this Runa is an original creation.

Thanks for your feedback, both of you. I am going to wait and see if this raises more discussion.

EDIT: runa is currently in use as an artist tag.

runa is currently in use as an artist tag.

This.

Copyright > Character > Artist

Fencedude said: Copyright > Character > Artist

Usually, yeah. Although I'm not sure this time since the artist has a decent number of images, and is someone with actual commercial works done (being the Blacksmith illustrator). So I'd kinda rather keep the base tag with the artist in this case. Although, the guy has to have a real name... would be nice if we could figure that out.

Katajanmarja said:
EDIT: runa is currently in use as an artist tag.

The artist Runa is actually officially romanized "Luna", though that might be ignored since his name is written in kanji.

jxh2154 said:
Although, the guy has to have a real name... would be nice if we could figure that out.

Japanese Wikipedia doesn't seem to have mention of any usable full name... His site is named "R/L　reclaimed land" or "R/L" for short, so luna_(r/l) or runa_(r/l) could be used. "waxing-moon" is another one being the URL on his site (and "waxing_moon" URL on Pixiv).

I guess my next step will be searching for info and people who might know more about these rather obscure Lunas and Runas.

I would not like to create new one-post tags without at least trying to find out about possible family names, misunderstandings, and the like.

One thing I am after here is whether somebody happens to know Aizawa's Runa ~ Luna to be a "borrowed" character from another copyright.

There's an old page that introduces her as an original character:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040804223358/http://bird.zero.ad.jp/kotaroh/characters.htm

(the missing "orch_suzu.jpg" image is the same as post #10328 )

My apologies in advance for mixing up appeal and tagging discussions.

I disliked the idea of creating a "runa_(aizawa_kotarou)" tag, so I wanted to find something like a copyright for this original character. It turned out she had starred in this doujin entitled "Fleurir". There was a single image available for reference material at http://akamurasaki.com/doujin/old.html .

The next step, I checked the uploading guide and the ToS twice, and there was nothing for or against lowres images there. So I uploaded the cover of "Fleurir" (post #576065) and thought it would be practical for reference material in this discussion.

Current situation: The pic is rated -1, still pending and due to be deleted soonish. Aside from possible size issues, I do not see it to be worse than, say, post #139014.

I'll live even if the "Fleurir" cover will not be approved, but I have two requests.

First, please take a look at the pic now that it is still behind one click, and tell me what you think about creating "Character: runa_(fleurir)".

Second, please consider adding some mention like "posting low resolution images is not prohibited but generally discouraged, regardless of overall quality" in howto:upload. The lowres thing seems to be a part of Danbooru lore, so why not make it official?