Animeentries

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Expanded Overview of an Anime

Animeentries are the corepages as they contain most informations available at AniDB.
They can be divided into 7 sections:

• Basic Info
• Awards
• Votes
• MyList-Status
• Group Info
• Episodeentries
• Fileentries

Furthermore at the bottom of the page you will find links for adding episodes, mass-adding episodes, editing the anime entry, Exporting ED2K Links, adding synonyms/short titles, adding companies, adding relations and adding genres.

Basic Info

Every anime entry features various informations:

• Title
  This field should feature the original title romanized (converted into Latin Characters). Normally that means the field will feature the official Japanese romaji title. In some rare cases the title will be the English one. This might be the case, when the romaji title is unknown or when the title was meant to be in English.
• Jap. Kanji
  This field features the official Japanese kanji title. In case of a Korean or Chinese anime, names in hangul/hanja or hanzi respectively are used.
• English
  This field features the official English title. Is the anime not licensed yet it might contain an unofficial translation of the original title.
• Synonyms
  Official titles in other languages or unofficial translations.
• Short
  Abbreviations of any title for faster finding of the anime.
• Categories
  Complete list of all involved genre, places, time period and so on.
• Types
  The way the anime got released first.

• TV
  shown on TV
• OVA
  released on DVD/VHS
• Movie
  
• Other
  unknown/unspecified
• Web
  released via WWW

• Episodes
  Total number of episodes.
• Year
  Original release date/-year.
• Producers
  Lists the involved companies and other staff.
• URL
  A link to the official page.
• ANN
  A link to the AnimeNewsNetwork entry for this anime.
• Animenfo
  A link to the AnimeNfo entry for this anime.
• Relations
  Lists the various relations between this anime and some other. You will also find a button named [graph] which will display all relations in a graph, when you click on it. For adding relations see: How to add/remove: Relations

• sequel
  Direct continuation of the story.
• prequel
  Story that happens before the original.
• same setting
  Same universe/world/reality/timeline, completely different characters.
• alternative setting
  Same characters, different universe/world/reality/timeline.
• alternative version
  Same setting, same characters, story is told differently.
• character
  Shares one or more characters, story is unrelated.
• side story
  Takes place sometime during the parent storyline.
• parent story
• summary
  Summarizes full story, may contain additional stuff.
• full story
  Full version of the summarized story.
• other
  unspecified relation

• Rating
  The average of all Votes for this anime.
• Tmp. Rating
  The average of all temporary Votes for this anime.
• Reviews
• Similar Anime
  A link to the Anime Recommendation database located at Anime Planet
• Notification
  Enabling these notifications will cause AniDB to send you a pm every time a new file is added to that anime.
• Wishlist
• Description
  Short summary of the anime.