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 devided into 5 subsections:

Basic Info
Awards
Mylist Status
Group Info
Episodeentries with Files

Basic Info

Every animeentry features various informations:

Title
This field should feature the original title romanized (meaning the title readable in latin chapters). 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.
Genre
List of the maingenres this anime features outdated will get replaced by categories at some point.
Categories
Complete list of all invovled genre, places, timeperiod and so on. still in developement and missing for most entries
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 releasedate/-year
Companies
lists the involved companies. outdated will get replaced by Producer at some point.
URL
a link to the official Page
ANN
link to the AnimeNewsNetwork entry for this anime
Animenfo
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 Animes
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

Mylist Status

This part is located directly below Basic Info (if the anime has gotten any award it will be below those) and only visible when you are logged in.

Shows how many eps you have in your mylist, the watched status and the state you have set.

It's structured into 3 sections:

Anime title
Besides the anime title it shows the state you have set for your files.
Episodes
how many episodes you have in your mylist of the total eps. (total eps is zero, if the complete number is unknown)
the +"x" shows how many special episodes you have added to your mylist of this anime
Seen
seen eps of total eps in your mylist.
the +"x" is for how many special eps you have seen for this anime.

Note:

This stat might be outdated or show wrong values. If that happens don't panic. Just wait till the next DB update happens.

Group Info

On each anime-page, right below the mylist-status and above the episode-listing, you`ll notice the Group Info with compiled information on how many episodes that group has done, what their last episode was, whether it's complete or not and when the last episode got added to AniDB.
Furthermore if you have the anime in your mylist there will be a number in front of each group telling you how many files you have of that group in your mylist.
In addition to that info, when you want to vote or comment on a group for a specific anime, look at the last three columns: Rating, Comments and Action.

The average rating for a group is hidden until at least 10 votes are cast. Also, the list only shows 5 of the groups, so you may have to click "show all" to get the complete list.
For further information about votes see: Groupvotes per Anime

Episodeentries

Located at almost the bottom of the page and very hard to miss.

Fileentries

Only visible when expand or expand all icon () was clicked.