Crafter tag

[slirith]

Would like a "Crafter" tag, it'd work like the "Cooking" tag but for manga that have crafters(where the MC is an alchemist, tailor, shoe maker etc)

 

[Oeconomist]

The more common English terms for such a person would be “craftsman”, “craftswoman”, or “craftsperson”. The tag “crafter” would cause puzzlement. (Note that it probably alarms your spellchecker!) A simple “craft” might work, but would create an expectation that the manga would be educational, while some tales of craftspeople are not.

 

[Lichon]

Agree! Looking for "crafting" theme tag. This can also include cooking, blacksmithing, alchemist, thinker and more.

 

[DANDAN_THE_DANDAN]

This tag is just gonna be mostly isekai and fantasy, considering that every single form of a magic system can arguably be "crafting". I disagree

 

[Oeconomist]

In keeping with what @DANDAN_THE_DANDAN says, the fantasy genres are awash in imaginary skills. Tagging every instance of a story in which an imaginary craft had significance would render the tag virtually useless. (The original post included alchemy as a craft; and, while chemistry forked from alchemy, alchemy itself was and remains largely a theory of magic.)

A “Crafting” tag might be conventionally defined to exclude skills that do not exist in the real world, and perhaps also to exclude skills for which other tags already exist (eg, “Cooking”). However, there would then be some question as to how to handle magically augmented skills which correspond to real-world skills. And I'm not sure that there are enough stories in which real-world crafts (qua crafts) play a significant rôle to justify the existence of such a tag (though I happen to follow at least one such series); perhaps someone might cobble-together a list of such stories.