AniDB:Dates
You may ask yourself "Why should I add air dates?" First, obviously, for information purpose and to create complete anime entries. Furthermore, casting a permanent vote on an anime is disallowed until the end date for that anime has been set. If you're sure that an anime has already finished airing (or was released through other means), but it doesn't have an end date set yet, you can try looking up the exact info on the sites below. (See also: How to update or correct existing entries)
So where can I find airing dates?
* = Japanese kanji title required for searching
All-purpose
- Anime Checklist
- * Anime-Dic TV animes, movies and (mostly non-H) OVAs till 1999/2000. Javascript-laden
- * Allcinema Online Media releases and air dates
- * D2_station lots of complete credits for anime for recent -~2000 stuff
- * Maniac Acute Topics air dates + times for new and old shows.
Note: | You HAVE to select the correct year or the search will fail! |
Note: | You HAVE to select the correct year + アニメ (Anime) to find stuff! |
TV
- List of Anime Television Series
- Chronological list of Television Anime Lists anime, 1960-
- * http://home-aki.cool.ne.jp/anime-list01.htm Info down to the episodes' titles and individual air dates.
- * http://www.geocities.co.jp/AnimeComic-White/4277/anihis/main.htm TV animes air dates till ~2003
- * http://koti.phnet.fi/otaku/historia/allanime1960-1980.html TV animes from 1960 - 1980
- * http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown/3064/
- * http://cal.syoboi.jp/find.php TV Schedule
- * http://www.moonphase.cc/Html/anime.html TV Schedule
OVA
- * http://www001.upp.so-net.ne.jp/tachime/Date/datedd1997.html DVD release dates from 1997-2004; mostly useful as a starting point since DVD wasn't necessarily the first release medium
- * http://homepage3.nifty.com/tanelorn/ Media (LD/VHS/DVD) release dates for some series
- * Hentai: http://www.saimax.net/cgi-bin/searche_jpx.cgi Both, in English and in Japanese, search with romaji, it does have older hentais as well, but since it only shows the date the DVD was released, the dates for older animes are mostly wrong, basically for hentais created <1999 the dates are false.
- * Hentai: http://www.kabe.to/~kensan/etc/hoav-list.htm Hentai OVA releases from 1984-2000
Movies
- * JMDB
Producers' catalogues
- * AIC
- * J.C.Staff
- * KSS Note: dates are for editions, so not to be trusted for older things
- * Pierrot
- * Production I.G
- * Madhouse
- * OLM
- * Sunrise
- * TMS Entertainment
- * TOEI
Anime title translations (English <-> Japanese)
- http://www.geocities.com/scottishninja/japan/anime.html Some (<250) titles
- Hentai: The H-list
- Hentai: http://noumsio3.tripod.com/vhs.htm