Animeentries

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Anime entries are the core pages as they contain most informations available at AniDB.
They can be divided into 7 sections:

File:Animeentry-overview.jpg
Expanded Overview of an Anime

Furthermore at the bottom of the page you will find links for adding episodes, mass-adding episodes, editing the anime entry, Exporting ED2K Links, adding synonyms/short titles, adding companies, adding relations and adding genres.

Basic Info

Every anime entry 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.
  • Categories
    Complete list of all involved genre, places, time period and so on.
  • 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 release date/-year.
  • Producers
    Lists the involved companies and other staff.
  • 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
  • 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.
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