World's Largest Japanese Anime Database 'Anime Taizen' Opens To the Public (crunchyroll.com) 23
The world's largest comprehensive database on Japanese anime, Anime Taizen, was opened to the public today, August 25, at 13:00 (JST). Taizen means "A book that collects all things related to the matter" in Japanese. Crunchyroll reports: 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. As of the end of July 2022, Anime Taizen has approximately 15,000 registered titles, mainly Japanese commercial anime works released from 1917 to the present. In addition to title name searches, the database has search functions for chronology, Japanese syllabary, keywords, etc. As a result of the research to date, the number of episodes amounts to approximately 180,000.
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When they even do anything, they probably infiltrate chatrooms etc, pretend to be one em, and then it's arresting party time.
It's pretty hard to track pedos because most of em are parents or very close relatives.
Asian websites (Score:1, Troll)
Why is it that literally every website written in an Asian language looks like ebay circa 1999?
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I don't know about other asian cultures, but the japanese one is a mix of modernity and stillness.
Some stuff is bleeding edge, while other will be hopelessly static or outdated.
You'd never believe how long it took for japanese 2D PC games to display graphics that went above 800*600 resolution (while hardware could go way above).
I think there is a lot of aversion to risk-taking concerning what the japanese customers might like or not, so a lot are taking refuge into what is already known to work.
For example,
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Because Japanese and Chinese are much more information dense than English writing, and also easier to scan for keywords. So they don't need to use as much formatting and whitespace to guide the user's eyes.
They also aren't obsessed with designer layouts, preferring functionality and usability. They won't break scrolling just to make sure some massive images show up full screen, or make you click through several information-free pages to get to what you actually want. That has the added benefit of not needin
Japanese-only clunky as shit DB site (Score:1)
Unfortunately this seems to be a clunky (old fashioned UI), slow, Japanese only database. You can only search in Japanese, not by English titles, and the UI is only in Japanese. A single frame (typically the poster) of the movie or tv series is shown, but unless I missed it there is only the number of episodes in a TV series instead of actually the names of them, descriptions, frames, etc. Finally, every time you click the search button you have to click through a long-assed popup EULA and does not save you
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MyAnimeList has more than 20,000 entries [myanimelist.net], though there are at least a few (likely not many) that are Chinese or Korean animation rather than Japanese, so they wouldn't be included in this database. It's also possible that MAL breaks down separate seasons into their own entries more often. For example, MAL has a separate entry for Haikyuu!! Second Season, while this does not. But then again, it does have a separate listing [animedb.jp] for the 2nd cour of Haikyuu!! To The Top, so who knows.
They might be drawing compariso
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I agree, MAL is far superior to this poor offering. Someone needs to show it to the authors of the new site.
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You know what. I take it back. Fuck Japanese. They should let you use English, or at least a standard romanization.
I like how you took us through the whole thought process there, since it was amusing. Japanese is probably the best-romanized language out there, anyone who can pronounce SAD can be understood by just sounding it out. I know because I've done it, and I conclusively do not speak Japanese (though I can recognize some words from when I used to watch a lot of Anime.) Even the Japanese used romaji during the Meiji era, but it didn't really catch on. Pity, because those overwrought character systems based literal
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There are 8474 kanji!
There are quite a bit more than that! Unicode has 75,963 kanji encoded. Given that you have to memorize each one of them to have any hope of understanding what they mean or how to pronounce them in various contexts, that's a pretty terrible language design! If you don't know one, it's not like you can sound it out. Looking one up is a guessing game, "is this the radical or is this?", all assuming your dictionary even has it recorded.
There are "just" 2,136 jouyou kanji, which are taught in schools and wh
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They know it sucks, but the average person doesn't seem to want it fixed.
Yes, I noticed that. My guess is that they want to see other people go through what they had to go through.
Yes, it's information dense, but is that really a good thing?
Nope. That just leads to oversharing, and information overload. I read somewhere that Japanese people are better at picking elements out of a mess and ignoring everything else, which if true does explain a lot of Japanese web design... but elefino if it is or not
Re: Japanese-only clunky as shit DB site (Score:2)
Uh, no. Your rant is misplaced and unexpectedly violent. I am near native fluent in Japanese both speaking and typing. The problems are the Eula popping up constantly, slow website response, lack of episode names and descriptions, and finally yes lack of multilingual support because this specifically is aimed at spreading culture overseas. An English UI with ability to search English titles could be useful. Personally I search in both Japanese and English when trying to figure out the convoluted history of
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Unfortunately this seems to be a clunky (old fashioned UI), slow, Japanese only database. You can only search in Japanese, not by English titles, and the UI is only in Japanese. A single frame (typically the poster) of the movie or tv series is shown, but unless I missed it there is only the number of episodes in a TV series instead of actually the names of them, descriptions, frames, etc. Finally, every time you click the search button you have to click through a long-assed popup EULA and does not save your affirmation in your cookie so yes, over and over again... how stupid! DOA. Unfortunately you will get a lot more info from Wikipedia, Youtube or anime aggregation sites. It is supposed to also carry info about toys, events, games and collaborations but not sure if it is up to date or can ever even keep up to date. There may be good stuff in there, someone else with more knowledge who can evaluate it can look. Japan wants to spread its culture as a soft power but this DB as it currently stands is painful to use and only in Japanese so perhaps this is the end of its first phase and beginning of its next? Or is it destined to be ignored? I am hoping the DB will be improved and translated as the Anime next 100 [years] project explanation on the site (linked at the bottom) talks about the history of anime and spreading the culture internationally, mentioning the 2020 Olympics, etc. and being run by the animation association should at least have a current list of movies and tv shows. I'd guess it is impossible for it to include manga / light novels.
Paragraphs. Do you speak them?
Aside from Wikipedia? (Score:2)
Physics has only 96: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Anidb.net (Score:2)
I've been using that site for years and recommend it
https://anidb.net/ [anidb.net]
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They got Spaceship Sagittarius listed! (Score:1)
The anime industry in Japan is excellent. (Score:1)