Animeentries
Animeentries are the corepages as they contain most informations available at AniDB.
They can be devided into 5 sections:
Furthermore at the bottom of the page you will find links for adding episodes, massadding episodes, editing the anime entry, Exporting ED2K Links, adding synonyms/short titles, adding companies, adding relations and adding genres.
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List of the maingenres this anime features outdated will get replaced by categories at some point.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
- TV
- 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 outdated will get replaced by Producer at some point.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
- sequel
- 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
- Title
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.
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.
- Anime title
| 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.
For further information about votes see: Groupvotes per Anime
Episodeentries
Located at almost the bottom of the page and very hard to miss.
Can be split into 8 subsections:
(from left to right)
- expand icon(
)
expands the episodeentry and shows the fileentries - episodenumber
besides showing the #, when you click on the number additional information will get displayed.
Besides that it also allows you to vote on single episodes.
- Animetitle
- Episodenumber
- Episode Title (English)
This field features the official English title. If the anime isn't licensed yet it might contain an unofficial translation of the original title. - Episode Title (Romaji)
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 title was meant to be in english. - Episode Title (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. - Length
- Airdate
The date this episode aired/got released first. - Rating
The average of all episodevotes for this anime. - Misc
For this 2 states are possible: recap and special. Recap meaning this ep is an episode which features the story of the past episodes in compressed form. Special means this is some DVD-Special, a trailer, ... - Description
This field may be used for a short summary of the episode, episode titles in other languages or for other important information for this episode.
This field is nowhere else visible, but when you click on the epnumber!
- Title
Besides the episodetitle it shows the state you have set for your files. - Length
- Date
The date this episode aired/got released first. - Users
The number of users who have this episode in their mylist. - Files
Number of files for this episode. This excludes the generic files as those aren't "real" files. - Action
Clicking the add file icon (
) allows you to add new files for this episode.
Please read the Guideline for adding files for further information.
- expand icon(
Fileentries
| Note: | Those files you see under the episodeentries are NOT located on the anidb server. Nor will we help you to download them! We only collect fileinformation (codec, bitrate, ...) and allow users to make a list of files they have. |
Only visible when expand or expand all icon (
) was clicked.
This part features information about files which got added to AniDB and is once more seperateable into various subsections:
- checkbox
those are only visible, when you clicked expand all entries
and are used to massadd files to your mylist - fid
When you click on this all available filedetails display will get displayed in a seperate window - filesize
- stat
various states are possible, but not all might get displayed. This depends on your mylist and various filedetails.
- File version
- Audio language
country flags without any further sign in them indicate audiolanguages. those are also combineable to show dualaudio
example: http://www.anidb.net/pics/anidb_audio_english.gif - english audio - Subtitle language
country flags with a lil sign in the bottom right corner indicate subtitle languages.
example: http://www.anidb.net/pics/anidb_sub_english.gif - english subtitles - CRC-Status
- Filecomment
if a filecomment was added to the file a lil white sheet icon (http://www.anidb.net/pics/anidb_comment.gif) will get displayed. hover over it with your mouse to read it. - Mylist-Status
- Filetype
This will only get displayed when you added a generic file to your mylist and you have set a Filetype for it. - Filestates
This will only get displayed when you added a file to your mylist. - Watched Status
- by
For this either a group tag will get displayed,which is clickable and will send you to the groupentry of that group or a no group tag. The later means it's unknown who did this file. - qual Qualityrating
- res
Resolution - source
- Users
- ed2k
- action
If you don't have that file in your mylist yet you can add it via clicking the add to own mylist icon (http://www.anidb.net/pics/anidb_file_addmylist.gif)
If you have the file already in your mylist there will be 2 different icons instead. One for changing the watched status and one for removing it from your mylist (http://www.anidb.net/pics/anidb_file_removemylist.gif)
- checkbox
