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I recognize the plot summaries I've entered (eps 3-8 so far) have been getting progressively longer and would appreciate any refinement in trimming excessive details. I've been writing them episode by episode and have been uncertain what will be relevant to the overall arc of the story. Also, some details could be moved from the plot summaries to the character summaries as appropriate.Reidgreg (talk) 15:26, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
It would be best to improve this, that you are specific as to both what is proper length summary, ( 3 sentences, 2 adverbs, 1 adjective max )
It would also improve it if you actually read the manga and watched the amine... they are different.
Sorry, If you have been writing these, then you have not been watching:
1. In File 02, both her parents are dead: A significant detail is that her father was the discoverer of Dimension W, possessed a unique coil and was last seen entering Dimension W. i.e. you cannot pronounce someone dead until you can gnaw on their bones.
2. The trailer that she moves into, was purchased from the main guy. The Japanese plot summaries are wrong.
WP:TVPLOT recommends 100-200 words for short plot summaries, allowing more for complex episodes. Most of these were in excess of 200 words, so I trimmed them (mostly with concise phrasing). Episodes 4-5 are still 10% over (tricky as they jump between two versions of characters and two time periods). Episode 7 was the longest due to the flashback, so I distributed most of that background information to the Character section.
For your specific suggestions: (1) I've changed that to "believing her father is dead"; (2) In the anime, Kyouma goes to a different site (not his scrap yard) to get the trailer and when he backs it into his lot he tells Mira "you bought it with your own money." In the manga, Kyouma says he remembered an acquaintance had it, and gives Mira her change (suggesting she'd earlier given him money for its purchase). I'm working from translations, if you have other information please let me know. (3) For the point mentioned below, I've capitalized Coil and Numbers and also tried to keep consistency of names as listed in the Characters section. Reidgreg (talk) 21:21, 16 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I watched the anime and read translations for the first three volumes of the manga, and nowhere did I notice a mention of fusion reactors. My take on it is that coils are electrical induction devices. Real-world scientist and inventor Nikolai Tesla experimented with coiled wires for remote transmission of power. The main obstacle was efficiency dropoff with distance, which would theoretically be alleviated if the induction site was a parallel dimension with no 3-dimensional distance from the coil — and to me that seems to be exactly what is presented in this fiction.
I don't want to unilaterally alter that synopsis which has stood unchallenged for three months. Am I wrong? Was there something, perhaps in the original Japanese, that says they're fusion reactors? Does anyone have a source that can support that these are fusion reactors? What's the general feeling amongst editors? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reidgreg (talk • contribs) 20:05, 22 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The translations I have (and haven't read/watched the original and can't say how accurate the translations might be) initially define them as a "cross dimensional electromagnetic induction device" or "inter dimensional electromagnetic induction device". The first two words distinguishing it from non-fictional, real-world electromagnetic induction. It might be pseudo-scientific, but I feel it's a good way of giving the basic concept of the device without a big physics lecture. And as it's the synopsis (plot) I feel it's alright to use an in-universe definition, to describe the fictional device as it works in a fictional setting, however flawed that might be in reality. Just to say it once to explain what they are, thereafter referring to them as Coils. Reidgreg (talk) 13:08, 11 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
