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Submission Guidelines
This page covers the edge cases that come up when a release doesn't fit neatly into "one title, one date." If you're submitting something straightforward, you don't need any of this — just use Submit a Release.
If in doubt, submit anyway and flag it in the issue — a moderator will sort it out rather than reject it outright.
One entry = one meaningfully distinct release. Each entry gets its own issue and its own id, and is treated independently of any other entry for the same franchise/title. There's no mechanism to "link" entries together — if two releases deserve separate rows on the calendar, they're two separate submissions.
Submit it as a new entry only if it brings something substantially new: a remaster, a director's cut, an anniversary edition with new content/extras, a translated release reaching a new audience for the first time, etc.
Don't submit it if it's just a straight port to another platform/storefront with no meaningful changes — that's not a new release, it's the same release becoming available somewhere else.
If you do submit one, tag the title to make it clear it's not the
original, using the same bracket style as season markers, e.g.
Title [REMASTERED] or Title [DIRECTOR'S CUT], so the two entries stay
visually distinguishable on the calendar. Resident Evil 4 (2023) is a good
reference case: not strictly sci-fi, but a clear example of a "derivative"
release substantial enough — and culturally impactful enough — to earn its
own entry rather than being folded into the original.
Each new season, sequel, or numbered installment is its own entry —
never a correction to the previous one. This is already how the calendar
handles it in practice (see Cyberpunk: Edgerunners [SEASON 2], submitted
independently of the original season). Use the season/sequel marker in the
title so it's clear at a glance which installment it is.
A few types overlap easily — here's how to classify them:
- Manga — Japanese, Korean (manhwa), or Chinese (manhua) serialized comics, ongoing or completed.
- Comic — everything else in comics: Western comics, graphic novels, webcomics. If it's a comic adaptation of a sci-fi movie/series/game, it goes here.
- Book — covers both fiction (novels, short stories, anthologies) and non-fiction, as long as the content is sci-fi/cyberpunk themed (e.g. an essay about mecha culture or the story of cyberpunk as a genre). Don't use this for illustrated light novels or comics — those go under Comic or Manga depending on origin.
Anime = animation produced in Japan (regardless of studio nationality co-productions, streaming platform, or art style — style alone isn't the deciding factor).
Animated series or films produced outside Japan — Western animation,
Korean/Chinese animated productions not styled as anime, etc. — go under
TV Series (or Movie if it's a film) instead, even if they're
visually inspired by or heavily influenced by anime aesthetics.
Bass X Machina is a good reference case: a Western-produced animated
series with a clear anime-adjacent art style, submitted and classified as
TV Series, not Anime.
Submit one entry per title, not one per volume or chapter. Use the official start of serialization (first chapter's publish date) as the release date — not an announcement date, not a specific volume's release.
If the serialization start date changes before it happens, that's a correction to the existing entry, not a new submission — see Report a Correction.
Once a manga has its entry on the calendar, don't submit follow-up entries for individual volume releases. This is a current policy choice made to avoid flooding the calendar, not a permanent rule — it may change if there's enough interest in tracking volume-level releases separately.
Use the date of the first official broadcast/streaming premiere of that season — not the announcement date, not a trailer drop, not a "coming soon" window.
If the premiere date shifts before it airs (a common occurrence), that's a correction to the existing entry, not a new one.
For music releases (LPs, EPs, full-length albums), use the official release date on major streaming platforms or physical media.
Always format the title entry as Artist - Album Title (e.g. Carpenter Brut - Leather Temple, Perturbator - Dangerous Days) so artist attribution remains consistent.
The release date field is optional. If a work has been announced but no
release date has been confirmed yet, submit it anyway and leave the date
blank — the entry will sit as pending until a moderator adds a confirmed
date and approves it.
Don't guess a placeholder date "to fill in the field" — an incorrect date is worse than no date, since it can slip through review unnoticed. Leave it blank instead.
Once an official date is announced, you don't need to resubmit: leave a comment on your original issue with the date and a source, or report it as a correction if the issue has already been closed.
- Date moved, link went dead, tags need adjusting, wrong type selected → Report a Correction. A moderator will reopen the original release issue, fix the data, and re-sync it — the entry keeps its existing spot on the calendar instead of duplicating.
- A genuinely new release tied to the same franchise (new season, remaster meeting the bar above, sequel) → a fresh Submit a Release.
Open whichever submission feels closest and say so in the issue — moderators would rather sort out an edge case than have it go unsubmitted.