I assume Anime and Manga are together because the majority of us who write in those fandoms have repeatedly pleaded for them to stay together. In most cases, while there may be minor differences between anime and manga versions, adaptations are so similar in storyline as to be interchangeable. Of course this doesn't hold true for 100% of anime and manga but series with large differences are the exception rather than the rule. The custom in anime/manga is that fans rarely specify which medium they're writing for and many write about some hybrid of the two versions, so separating manga and anime versions of series would pretty much be a gigantic headache for everyone involved.
I think the real problem is that it would increase confusion for the average user, who isn't going to expect these categories to be separate, won't understand why they are, and won't be sure where to look. It will also add complication to wrangling anime and manga fandoms, as wranglers try to decide if a fandom is sufficiently similar to appear in both categories (as it is, some fans do specify with some series, but it's relatively rare to have to make a judgement call about whether "Series (anime)" and "Series (manga)" should be synonyms or subtags of the same meta tag. If you split the categories, it will imply to users that they ought to be specifying version, because the archive obviously considers them distinct enough to split, which will increase the frequency of such decision-making. Organizational decisions can drive user behavior in undesirable ways, and that's something worth considering when planning categorization like this.
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