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Largest Japanese Anime Database “Anime Taizen” Opens to the Public Today

56 points by KamiCrit 4y ago

superchroma 4y ago
"We have over 404 pages but not the one you're looking for"
hello___world 4y ago
https://animedb.jp/ https://animedb.jp/
RajT88 4y ago
15k sounds like a lot, but I bet it's just the tip of the iceberg.
snvzz 4y ago
anidb[0] is definitely larger, while not for profit. 0. https://anidb.net https://anidb.net
- Groxx 4y ago
  Yeah, a quick skim of the anime list comes up above 75,000 entries (2,500+ pages of 30 results). anidb is a (truly wonderful) monster.
  - deleted 4y ago
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  - buzer 4y ago
    From main page under "AniDB Statistics": > 13898 Anime The new site does seem to have more entries, but I haven't checked what the differences are exactly (e.g. are some things counted in one but not in other). For example the table shows 36 movies from 1910s, in AniDB there is only 26 (search with start time between 1.1.1910 and 1.1.1920, the only entries are movies).
    - Groxx 4y ago
      Huh. Maybe they have a row for each translated name too? 5x more due to that wouldn't be crazy.
      - buzer 4y ago
        Likely. Do you have "hide synonyms" on or off? With it on I saw 2301 pages of results (last item being #69055), with it off the number I found 12479 entries. Not sure what that ~1400 difference compared to stats is though.
        Dagger2 4y ago
        That's the porn. There's a separate option to show/hide 18+ shows.
  - snvzz 4y ago
    There's something not obvious because it requires login... it has entries for several files for each episode. The files are fansubs/rips/etc. Each file has hashes and information about container and the streams in it (codec, resolution, bitrate for video, also the language for audio and subs). Also whether the ep is censored if applicable, whether it's a dvdrip/bdrip/streamrip... a ton of information.
- zakki 4y ago
  Their statistics in homepage doesn’t claim they are bigger than Anime Taizen. They said they only have 13898 animes (title?). And then they mentioned that it is not only for Japan anime but China and Korea as well.
omoikane 4y ago
The information available for each series seemed rather sparse for the few series I checked. anidb.net and cal.syoboi.jp seemed more complete with cross references.
dvh 4y ago
> "Anime Taizen" Opens to The Public Today, Basic information on about 15,000 registered anime works is covered. In comparison, according to [1] MyAnimeList has 17′868 entries. Wikipedia states that "As of 2008, the site claimed to have 4.4 million anime and 775,000 manga entries" - this has to be an error. [1] https://www.quora.com/How-many-animes-are-in-the-world https://www.quora.com/How-many-animes-are-in-the-world [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyAnimeList https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyAnimeList
- GauntletWizard 4y ago
  I think that "Entries" is not talking about "Works", but rather "Relations", i.e. each episode director, soundtrack artist, animator, etc would be a "relation" to a work.
- deleted 4y ago
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- dentemple 4y ago
  It should be noted that MyAnimeList--as many sites do--splits an anime up into its separate seasons, specials, and sometimes individual cours. Which means, for example, Attack on Titan/Shingeki no Kyojin doesn't count as only one entry. It counts as at least 6 entries based on seasons/cours alone, and more if you count OVAs, specials, and recap movies. MAL Search Result for Attack on Titan/Shingeki no Kyojin: https://myanimelist.net/anime.php?cat=anime&q=attack%20on%20titan&type=0&score=0&status=0&p=0&r=0&sm=0&sd=0&sy=0&em=0&ed=0&ey=0&c%5B%5D=a&c%5B%5D=b&c%5B%5D=c&c%5B%5D=f https://myanimelist.net/anime.php?cat=anime&q=attack%20on%20...
  - nhinck2 4y ago
    > cours I know weebs go nuts for for "just according to keikaku" *keikaku means plan but this one is just baffling to me. Why use a loan word that itself is a loan word that just comes back to season?
    - freeone3000 4y ago
joeframbach 4y ago
Doesn't list Shitcom. Literally unusable.
autoexec 4y ago
> "Since 2015, The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA) has been promoting the "Anime NEXT_100" project to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Japanese animation. As a major initiative of the project, this database was first released on a trial basis on October 22, 2021, and after confirming functionality and operation, and making improvements and updates, it has now been released to the public." For all their "improvements and updates" Anime Taizen doesn't seem to be holding up very well against the traffic. I was curious about the 100 year claim. It's likely anime existed much longer but Namakura Gatana is often considered the oldest surviving Japanese animation and it's on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jybHrUxO78g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jybHrUxO78g)
- lioeters 4y ago
  I would trace the history of animation in Japan further back. I believe its roots are in a form of street performance art called "kamishibai". > Kamishibai (紙芝居, "paper play") is a form of Japanese street theater and storytelling that was popular during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the post-war period in Japan until the advent of television. > Kamishibai were performed by a kamishibaiya ("kamishibai narrator") who travelled to street corners with sets of illustrated boards that they placed in a miniature stage-like device and narrated the story by changing each image. The oldest surviving clip of Japanese animation from 1917 (which was delightful by the way, thanks for posting the link) - I think we can recognize that there's already a visual language established, the way the characters are drawn. It's crude, but there's surprising sophistication, which seems to imply a historical context of trial and error over generations. > Kamishibai has its earliest origins in Japanese Buddhist temples, where Buddhist monks from the 8th century onward used emakimono ("picture scrolls") as pictorial aids for recounting their history of the monasteries, an early combination of picture and text to convey a story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamishibai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamishibai
bdunavant 4y ago
That's over 9000 anime.

56 points by KamiCrit 4y ago

superchroma 4y ago

"We have over 404 pages but not the one you're looking for"

hello___world 4y ago

https://animedb.jp/ https://animedb.jp/

RajT88 4y ago

15k sounds like a lot, but I bet it's just the tip of the iceberg.

snvzz 4y ago

anidb[0] is definitely larger, while not for profit. 0. https://anidb.net https://anidb.net

Groxx 4y ago
Yeah, a quick skim of the anime list comes up above 75,000 entries (2,500+ pages of 30 results). anidb is a (truly wonderful) monster.
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
- buzer 4y ago
  From main page under "AniDB Statistics": > 13898 Anime The new site does seem to have more entries, but I haven't checked what the differences are exactly (e.g. are some things counted in one but not in other). For example the table shows 36 movies from 1910s, in AniDB there is only 26 (search with start time between 1.1.1910 and 1.1.1920, the only entries are movies).
  - Groxx 4y ago
    Huh. Maybe they have a row for each translated name too? 5x more due to that wouldn't be crazy.
    - buzer 4y ago
      Likely. Do you have "hide synonyms" on or off? With it on I saw 2301 pages of results (last item being #69055), with it off the number I found 12479 entries. Not sure what that ~1400 difference compared to stats is though.
      - Dagger2 4y ago
        That's the porn. There's a separate option to show/hide 18+ shows.
- snvzz 4y ago
  There's something not obvious because it requires login... it has entries for several files for each episode. The files are fansubs/rips/etc. Each file has hashes and information about container and the streams in it (codec, resolution, bitrate for video, also the language for audio and subs). Also whether the ep is censored if applicable, whether it's a dvdrip/bdrip/streamrip... a ton of information.
zakki 4y ago
Their statistics in homepage doesn’t claim they are bigger than Anime Taizen. They said they only have 13898 animes (title?). And then they mentioned that it is not only for Japan anime but China and Korea as well.

omoikane 4y ago

The information available for each series seemed rather sparse for the few series I checked. anidb.net and cal.syoboi.jp seemed more complete with cross references.

dvh 4y ago

> "Anime Taizen" Opens to The Public Today, Basic information on about 15,000 registered anime works is covered. In comparison, according to [1] MyAnimeList has 17′868 entries. Wikipedia states that "As of 2008, the site claimed to have 4.4 million anime and 775,000 manga entries" - this has to be an error. [1] https://www.quora.com/How-many-animes-are-in-the-world https://www.quora.com/How-many-animes-are-in-the-world [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyAnimeList https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyAnimeList

GauntletWizard 4y ago
I think that "Entries" is not talking about "Works", but rather "Relations", i.e. each episode director, soundtrack artist, animator, etc would be a "relation" to a work.
deleted 4y ago
[deleted]
dentemple 4y ago
It should be noted that MyAnimeList--as many sites do--splits an anime up into its separate seasons, specials, and sometimes individual cours. Which means, for example, Attack on Titan/Shingeki no Kyojin doesn't count as only one entry. It counts as at least 6 entries based on seasons/cours alone, and more if you count OVAs, specials, and recap movies. MAL Search Result for Attack on Titan/Shingeki no Kyojin: https://myanimelist.net/anime.php?cat=anime&q=attack%20on%20titan&type=0&score=0&status=0&p=0&r=0&sm=0&sd=0&sy=0&em=0&ed=0&ey=0&c%5B%5D=a&c%5B%5D=b&c%5B%5D=c&c%5B%5D=f https://myanimelist.net/anime.php?cat=anime&q=attack%20on%20...
- nhinck2 4y ago
  > cours I know weebs go nuts for for "just according to keikaku" *keikaku means plan but this one is just baffling to me. Why use a loan word that itself is a loan word that just comes back to season?
  - freeone3000 4y ago

joeframbach 4y ago

Doesn't list Shitcom. Literally unusable.

autoexec 4y ago

> "Since 2015, The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA) has been promoting the "Anime NEXT_100" project to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Japanese animation. As a major initiative of the project, this database was first released on a trial basis on October 22, 2021, and after confirming functionality and operation, and making improvements and updates, it has now been released to the public." For all their "improvements and updates" Anime Taizen doesn't seem to be holding up very well against the traffic. I was curious about the 100 year claim. It's likely anime existed much longer but Namakura Gatana is often considered the oldest surviving Japanese animation and it's on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jybHrUxO78g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jybHrUxO78g)

lioeters 4y ago
I would trace the history of animation in Japan further back. I believe its roots are in a form of street performance art called "kamishibai". > Kamishibai (紙芝居, "paper play") is a form of Japanese street theater and storytelling that was popular during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the post-war period in Japan until the advent of television. > Kamishibai were performed by a kamishibaiya ("kamishibai narrator") who travelled to street corners with sets of illustrated boards that they placed in a miniature stage-like device and narrated the story by changing each image. The oldest surviving clip of Japanese animation from 1917 (which was delightful by the way, thanks for posting the link) - I think we can recognize that there's already a visual language established, the way the characters are drawn. It's crude, but there's surprising sophistication, which seems to imply a historical context of trial and error over generations. > Kamishibai has its earliest origins in Japanese Buddhist temples, where Buddhist monks from the 8th century onward used emakimono ("picture scrolls") as pictorial aids for recounting their history of the monasteries, an early combination of picture and text to convey a story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamishibai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamishibai

bdunavant 4y ago

That's over 9000 anime.