Animeentries

Animeentries are the corepages as they contain most informations available at AniDB.
They can be divided into 5 sections:

File:Animeentry-overview.jpg

Expanded Overview of an Anime

• Basic Info
• Awards
• Mylist Status
• Group Info
• Episodeentries

• Fileentries

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 (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  List of the maingenres this anime features outdated will get replaced by categories at some point.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.

• 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 outdated will get replaced by Producer at some point.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 episodes 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 episodes produced.
• Seen
  Of all the episodes produced, the number you have watched.

If the episode total is listed as zero, it means the complete number is currently unknown. The +"x" number lists any special episodes you have watched/added to your mylist

Note:

This statistic 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

Episode Entries

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

view of an unexpanded episode entry

Can be split into 8 subsections:
(from left to right)

• expand icon()
  expands the episode entry and shows the file entries
• episode number
  when clicked, additional information about the episode is displayed:

When clicking on the episode number further info will get displayed.

• Anime Title
• Episode Number
• 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 (converted to 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 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!
• Vote for this ep
  Use this field to vote the individual episode, rather than the whole series.

• Title
  The title of the episode, and the state of any files for this episode you have in your mylist.
• Len
  The duration of the episode
• Date
  The date this episode was first aired/released.
• Users
  The number of users who have this episode in their mylist.
• Files
  Number of files for this episode. This excludes 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.

Fileentries

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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 () is clicked.

Expanded view of an episodeentry

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)