Animeentries

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

Expanded Overview of an Anime

Basic Info

Every animeentry 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.
Genre
List of the maingenres this anime features outdated will get replaced by categories at some point.
Categories
Complete list of all involved genre, places, timeperiod and so on. still in development and missing for most entries
Types
The way the anime got released first.

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 Outdated: will get replaced by Producer at some point.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
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
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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.