The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. (non-admin closure) DavidLeighEllis (talk) 01:30, 28 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Deep Love: The Story of Ayu[edit]

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No evidence of notability (tagged since june 2009!), consists almost entirely of plot. Dandy Sephy (talk) 19:51, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions. Dandy Sephy (talk) 20:11, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete fails notability. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 22:29, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:54, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: There is some potential for notability, as the series seems to span multiple sequels, one spin-off, and a live-action drama series. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:28, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've made the page about the series as a whole, as opposed to this specific story arc. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:29, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The Japanese page has several sources on it from what I can see. I've asked people from the anime/manga project to help with sourcing since any sources will be entirely in Japanese. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:32, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I've made this into a page for the series as a whole. I am having trouble finding sources in English, but the Japanese WP page has several on there from book and newspaper sources. I've also found where this manga had two live-action TV series and a theatrical film based upon the various arcs. This is generally enough to pass notability guidelines as a whole for books. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:43, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Japanese WP page also seems to show that there have been other videos made for the other story arcs, but I'm going to leave those off this page until I can have someone verify the page, as I'm going by Google Translate. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:44, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Another side note: We should avoid using the English translated title this was under. The problem is that this series has never been brought over to English officially, so we should stick to the Romanizations of the Japanese titles. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:46, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Multiple mangas, two anime series and a live film adaptation. The coverage is all going to be in Japanese because this was not released in English. Does this article lack details, yes, but it is fairly notable and should be spared a page to cover its entire media. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 16:27, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, as above. -- Zanimum (talk) 20:45, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as Deep Love as the first Deep Love is highly notable as the first cellphone novel:
- Here's an online academic paper that references Deep Love in its intro. It should help for the background. [1]
- Japan Today article [2] mentions Deep Love as the first cell phone novel.
- Reading Worldwide article on cellphone novels: [3]
- CNN article on cellphone novels: [4] -AngusWOOF (talk) 03:24, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.