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About AniDB

AniDB is non-profit database of anime information that is freely open to the public. As well as providing general anime information, if you sign up you can organise your anime collection, keep track of what you've seen and how much you liked it, and all kinds of nifty extras.

To get your own MyList started, you can either add files you have on your harddrive, easiest by hashing them with an AniDB Client, or use a generic for anything you've seen in a cinema or own on DVD. Read full details for more.

Even without a MyList, you can vote for various things in AniDB: anime, episodes, groups - and comment and vote on groups releases of anime and reviews in the database.

Frequently Asked Questions

• What is anime?
• How do I add anime to my list?
• Help! I'm having problems signing up, what's wrong?
• Help! I'm having problems logging in! What should I do?
• Help! The website/API/RSS/etc is down! Why?
• Help! The website is not behaving right! Is it broken?
• The database is missing this anime/file, why don't you add it?
• There's a mistake in AniDB, can you fix it?
• What anime should I watch next?
• What anime is this picture from?
• How do I download anime from the database?
• Who's Chii, and where do I find her?
• Who's that girl?
• Can I delete my account?

See the complete list for more.

Index

Using AniDB

• Sign up
• Keeping track of your anime
• Votes
• Search
• Anime entries
• MyPlace
• Anime Hint
• Notifications
  • Jabber
  • RSSRDF
• Donations
• Signature Server
• Achievements

Adding Data

• Anime
• Episodes
• Anime and Episode Titles
• Files
• Groups
  • Animegroup Release Notes
  • Which Raw Groups to Credit
• Tags
• Comments
• Songs
• Staff Credits
• Creators
• Characters
• How to Add Files for Dummies!
• Awards

Guidelines

• Filecomments
• Review Guideline
• Review Comments
• Dates
• Capitalisation
• Romanisation
• Romanisation for Chinese
• Changing Data
• Creq Guideline
• General "How-to"

IRC

• #anidb
• #anidb-log and other channels
• Chii[AR] and other channel bots
• UTF-8 for mIRC/irssi

How to use the AniDB ...

• Wiki?
• IRC?
• Forum?
• Bugtracker?

Clients

• AniDB Clients
• AniDB O'Matic
• WebAOM
• UDP Clients
• Avdump3 is the most current Avdump version. All versions:
  • Avdump GUI, for command line sceptics
  • Avdump3
  • Avdump2
• API - How to interface with AniDB
• UDP API Definition
• UDP API DEV
• HTTP API Definition

Technical

• CSS Themes
  • AniDB Banners
• AniDB MyList Export Templates
• Browser-Internal AniDB Search
• Rich Text Editor
• How to take a screenshot
• ZIDRAV
• QuickPar
• Ed2k-hash
• Routine Maintenance
• Shadow Files
• Scripts
• Development

Complete list of pages on the wiki

For further help with a problem or just for chatting visit us on IRC:

irc://irc.synirc.net/anidb