[HN Gopher] Largest Japanese Anime Database "Anime Taizen" Opens...
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       Largest Japanese Anime Database "Anime Taizen" Opens to the Public
       Today
        
       Author : KamiCrit
       Score  : 41 points
       Date   : 2022-08-25 19:24 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.crunchyroll.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.crunchyroll.com)
        
       | joeframbach wrote:
       | Doesn't list Shitcom. Literally unusable.
        
       | bdunavant wrote:
       | That's over 9000 anime.
        
       | autoexec wrote:
       | > "Since 2015, The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA) has
       | been promoting the "Anime NEXT_100" project to commemorate the
       | 100th anniversary of Japanese animation. As a major initiative of
       | the project, this database was first released on a trial basis on
       | October 22, 2021, and after confirming functionality and
       | operation, and making improvements and updates, it has now been
       | released to the public."
       | 
       | For all their "improvements and updates" Anime Taizen doesn't
       | seem to be holding up very well against the traffic.
       | 
       | I was curious about the 100 year claim. It's likely anime existed
       | much longer but Namakura Gatana is often considered the oldest
       | surviving Japanese animation and it's on youtube
       | (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jybHrUxO78g)
        
       | hello___world wrote:
       | https://animedb.jp/
        
       | omoikane wrote:
       | The information available for each series seemed rather sparse
       | for the few series I checked.
       | 
       | anidb.net and cal.syoboi.jp seemed more complete with cross
       | references.
        
       | dvh wrote:
       | > "Anime Taizen" Opens to The Public Today, Basic information on
       | about 15,000 registered anime works is covered.
       | 
       | In comparison, according to [1] MyAnimeList has 17'868 entries.
       | 
       | Wikipedia states that "As of 2008, the site claimed to have 4.4
       | million anime and 775,000 manga entries" - this has to be an
       | error.
       | 
       | [1] https://www.quora.com/How-many-animes-are-in-the-world [2]
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyAnimeList
        
         | GauntletWizard wrote:
         | I think that "Entries" is not talking about "Works", but rather
         | "Relations", i.e. each episode director, soundtrack artist,
         | animator, etc would be a "relation" to a work.
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | dentemple wrote:
         | It should be noted that MyAnimeList--as many sites do--splits
         | an anime up into its separate seasons, specials, and sometimes
         | individual cours.
         | 
         | Which means, for example, _Attack on Titan /Shingeki no Kyojin_
         | doesn't count as only one entry. It counts as at least 6
         | entries based on seasons/cours alone, and more if you count
         | OVAs, specials, and recap movies.
         | 
         | MAL Search Result for _Attack on Titan /Shingeki no Kyojin_:
         | https://myanimelist.net/anime.php?cat=anime&q=attack%20on%20...
        
       | RajT88 wrote:
       | 15k sounds like a lot, but I bet it's just the tip of the
       | iceberg.
        
       | snvzz wrote:
       | anidb[0] is definitely larger, while not for profit.
       | 
       | 0. https://anidb.net
        
         | Groxx wrote:
         | Yeah, a quick skim of the anime list comes up above 75,000
         | entries (2,500+ pages of 30 results).
         | 
         | anidb is a (truly wonderful) monster.
        
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           | buzer wrote:
           | From main page under "AniDB Statistics":
           | 
           | > 13898 Anime
           | 
           | The new site does seem to have more entries, but I haven't
           | checked what the differences are exactly (e.g. are some
           | things counted in one but not in other). For example the
           | table shows 36 movies from 1910s, in AniDB there is only 26
           | (search with start time between 1.1.1910 and 1.1.1920, the
           | only entries are movies).
        
             | Groxx wrote:
             | Huh. Maybe they have a row for each translated name too? 5x
             | more due to that wouldn't be crazy.
        
         | zakki wrote:
         | Their statistics in homepage doesn't claim they are bigger than
         | Anime Taizen. They said they only have 13898 animes (title?).
         | And then they mentioned that it is not only for Japan anime but
         | China and Korea as well.
        
       | superchroma wrote:
       | "We have over 404 pages but not the one you're looking for"
        
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