If you create a tag that distinguishes medium and there's sufficient difference between the two versions (which is admittedly something of a judgement call, because it's hard to create firm guidelines for something like that), they should be sub-tagged to the same meta-tag. There are a number of anime and manga fandoms like that already, including Sailor Moon and Fullmetal Alchemist. If the wrangler for your fandom makes them synonyms, you can submit a support request asking that they be separated (something I have successfully done myself for certain fandoms). But the majority standard in wider English-language anime and manga fandom has typically been to generally consider anime and manga versions of the story to be equivalent, even if there are some variations in storyline, going back a very long time and encompassing organization in everything from huge, multi-fandom archives like shoujoai.com to single-series, multi-user archives to tiny personal websites. This is really AO3 trying to work within community norms for the wider fandom.
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undomielregina Wed 18 Sep 2013 09:11PM UTC
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