A curated list of awesome tools and projects related to anime, comics, games, light novel, visual novel, vocaloid and touhou.
Sharing, suggestions and contributions are always welcome! Please take a look at the contribution guidelines first.
- Audio
- Danmaku
- Downloaders
- Databases / Data Sources
- Image Board
- Image Generation
- Image Processing
- Image Recognition
- Image Reverse Search
- Mobile Apps
- Programming
- Subtitles
- Tools
- Web
- Uncategorized
- Developer Groups
- 0x40-web - HTML5/CSS3 Canvas + Web Audio clone of the 0x40 Hues Flash.
- chiru.no - High quality ACG music streaming.
- Mikutap - Interactive music mixer with Hatsune Miku.
- moefm.sh - 萌否电台bash脚本客户端。
- ABPlayerHTML5 - Video Player for danmaku comments. ABPlayer in HTML5.
- CommentCoreLibrary - Javascript Live Comment (Danmaku) Engine Implementation.
- Danmaku - High performance JavaScript danmaku engine.
- danmaku2ass - Convert comments from Niconico/AcFun/bilibili to ASS format.
- DPlayer - HTML5 danmaku video player.
- Applying this to Youtube since they started to have live comments?
- you-get - Dumb downloader that scrapes the web.
- JDownloader?
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gallery-dl - Command-line program to download image-galleries and -collections from several image hosting sites.
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imgbrd-grabber - Very customizable imageboard/booru downloader with powerful filenaming features.
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BooruDownloader - Downloader for gelbooru, danbooru and other websites that use their engines.
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CeJS - Online novels / comics downloader.
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Comic-DL - Command line tool to download manga and comics from various comic and manga sites
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Manga-Py - Manga
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Comic Crawler - Manga
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Free Manga downloader - Manga
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Novel Grabber - Novel
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JComic downloader - Manga/Novel
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Fiction House - Novel
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Work Crawler - Novel
- Anime Downloader - Anime
- Monkey-DL - Anime
- AniGrab - Anime
- Hakuneko - Manga/Animew
- PixivUtil (Pixiv Downloader) - Downloader and tag manager for Pixiv.
- Pixiv Illust - Both a downloader and a third-party Node.js api for Pixiv.
- Albireo - Bangumi auto download and management project. It has a webclient called Deneb.
- OkanimeDownloader - Scrape Arabic translated anime from Okanime without any effort.
- E-Hentai-Downloader - Download E-Hentai archive as zip file.
- Danbooru Downloader - Downloader for Danbooru.
- DMHY - Easily download/auto-download torrent(s) from share.dmhy.org / acg.rip etc. sites for OS X.
- anilist-crawler - Crawl data from anilist API and store in elasticsearch.
- AniDB API - Official API for AniDB.
- Anilist APIv2 - Official API for Anilist (https://anilist.co/).
- Anilogia - Anime list database.
- arm-server - A service for mapping Anime ID's between AniList, AniDB, MAL, and Kitsu.
- Atarashii API - Unofficial API for MyAnimeList.
- hummingbird.me - Anime discovery platform.
- Bangumi Data - Raw data for Japanese Anime.
- Jikan API - Unofficial API for MyAnimeList.
- cal.syoboi - anime bangumi(新番) timeline
- atwiki - A wiki anime STAFF
- Seiyuu.moe - A webpage for searching collaborate anime works between seiyuu (Voice Actors).
- pixivpy - Pixiv API for Python.
- E-HentaiCrawler - E-Heitai Crawler (Chinese).
- anime-relations - Episode redirections for Taiga.
- Animeloop - Website for animeloop-cli.
- Dhufufu - Additional API Docs for some Chinese ACG sites & Related Services (currently outdated).
- 一言(ヒトコト) - Get random quotes from ACG.
- iakesi - A website collection to map anime scene to real life locations(圣地巡礼).
- nyaa - The software behind Nyaa.si.
- NyaaPantsu - Nyaa.se replacement written in golang.
- sakugabooru - A booru like site with anime shot clip with sakuga label
- Vocaloid Database - Server software used by vocadb.net.
- animecharactersdatabase - A anime characters database
- Personality Database - Anime Personality Assessment
- Waifu Database
- Anime Database that has info on Characters
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Danbooru - Taggable image board written in Rails 4 for danbooru.donmai.us.
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Moebooru - Fork of danbooru1 that has been heavily modified. Used on yande.re , Konachan.com.
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PBooru - Permanent Booru is an image board web server which takes leverage of the decentralization of IPFS to distribute its content.
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Szurubooru - Python-powered booru for small to medium communities.
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Philomena - Elixir-based and feature-rich Danbooru copycat created by a brony
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Gelbooru is making an Open Source repo https://github.com/zixaphir/gelbooru-fork
- aint.moe - Your waifu aint moe.
- atogatari - Share and discover your favorite anime characters.
- BooruSurfer2 - Consistent and space-efficient interface to Booru-like image boards.
- BooruSharp
- Hydron - Media tagger and organizer backend and GUI frontend.
- Hydrus - A personal booru-style media tagger that can import files and tags from your hard drive and popular websites. There are multiple WebUI like this and this, and Browser Companion
- animeshot2 - An open and searchable image repository with telegram bot integration in Node.js.
- TagsTable - Chinese ⇔ Engish translation table for common booru tags.
- TranslatePixivTags Japanese ⇔ Engish translation table for common booru tags.
- gwern.net blog - A anime GANs guidebook
- TwinGAN - Unsupervised Image Translation for Human Portraits to anime.
- DeepAA - Make Ascii Arts by Deep Learning.
- animate-me - A miniapp to convert selfie to anime.
- avatars.moe - Automatic avatars generator.
- https://picrew.me/
- chainer-DCGAN - Generate anime face with neural network.
- DeepAnime - Generate Anime automatically from illust.
- FindTwin - A pick and match game by random generated avatars.
- girl_friend_factory - Anime character generator (Description on Qiita).
- make.girls.moe - Create Anime Characters with A.I.
- seeprettyface dongman - A stylegan danbooru pretrain model with Chinese document
- Waifu Labs - Waifu generator.
- Talking Head Anime - Talking Head Anime from a Single Image (source).
- This Waifu Does Not Exist - Display random StyleGAN 2 faces.
- This Fursona Does Not Exist - AI-generated furries in an endless scrolling grid.
- This Pony Does Not Exist - AI-generated ponies in an endless scrolling grid.
- crypko.ai - Cryptocollectible game on anime character icons. https://waifulabs.com/
- animeloop-cli - Automatically detect and cut anime loops.
- cgCompress - Compression tool tailored for Visual Novel CGs.
- hoshizora - Merge two image by alpha channel to get displayed respectively on white/black background. NOTE: original repo is gone, please check
- mangaEditor - Edit manga and translate it online.
- TachibanaYoshino AnimeGAN
- shinkaimakoto mentioned "shinkaimakoto" animestyle transfer model
- Anime4K - A High-Quality Real Time Anime Upscaler.
- waifu2x - Image Super-Resolution for Anime-Style Art.
- waifu2x-converter-cpp - Improved version of waifu2x.
- upscale.wiki.anime - Image Super-Resolution model wiki
- getnative - Find the native resolution(s) of upscaled material (mostly anime).
- DeepCreamPy - Decensoring hentai with deep neural networks.
- Hent-AI - Censor detection
- Deep Mosaics - alternative for censorship detection
- Screentone Remover - Removes screentone from manga
- Overmix - Automatic anime screenshot stitching in high quality.
- PaintsChainer - Line drawing colorization using chainer.
- MangaCraft - Semi-automatic manga colorization.
- sketchKeras - An u-net with some algorithm to take sketch from paints.
- style2paints - Paint line images with AI.
- gochiusa-faces-dataset - A croped animeface dataset from 'Gochuumon wa Usagi Desuka?'
- animeface-2009 - Face and Landmark Detector for Anime/Manga. Similar to lbpcascade_animeface but more accurate.
- AnimeFace Search v3 - Face detection for Anime. Powered by Imager::AnimeFace and otama - CBIR Engine.
- AniSeg - A faster-rcnn model for anime character segmentation.
- deep cascaded landmark detection - Anime face landmark detection by deep cascaded regression
- lbpcascade_animeface - Face detector for anime/manga using OpenCV.
- LFFD animeface - A fast and light-weighted anime face detection based on LFFD &mxnet.
- Osomatsu-san - Use deep learning to distinguish the characters in Osomatsu-san.
- alt-i2v - Alternative illustration2vec implitation of sigmoids of fully connected layer.
- danbooru-tagger - auto labeling danboorulike tags for anime illustration
- Illustration2Vec - Semantic Vector Representation of Illustrations.
- n_jigen_bot - Telegram bot. Identify if an image is 二次元 or 三次元. (author unknown)
- transfer-learning-anime - Transfer learning for anime characters recognition. Powered by lbpcascade_animeface for face detection. Available at MoeFlow.
- ascii2d - 二次元画像詳細検索.
- Gochiusearch - Fast Scene Search Engine for 'Gochuumon wa Usagi Desuka?'.
- Image Search Options, powered by SauceNAO (Chrome Extension / Firefox Add-on) - Search multiple image reverse search engines.
- Search By Image - Search multiple image reverse search engines. Covers sites not included in SauceNAO. INCLUDES Firefox and Chrome
- iqdb - Multi-service image search engine, source code here.
- SauceNAO - Reverse image search service, see database coverage here.
- saucenao.kgmi.moe - Better front-end for SauceNAO.
- Trace Moe - Anime scene search engine.
- Amadeus - A side project that aims to replicate the Amadeus App shown in Steins;Gate 0.
- IMApp - A side project that aims to recreate the messaging App shown in Persona 5.
- Atarashii - Android client for MyAnimeList.
- EhViewer - Unofficial E-Hentai Application for Android.
- KonaBot - iOS client for konachan.net.
- AnimeXStream - Android client for GoGoAnime
- AniStream
- LNReader-Android - Light novel reader for android.
- Tachiyomi - Free and open source manga reader for Android, with support for LANraragi.
- NineAnimator - Elegant, concise, and intuitive anime discovery app for iOS.
- Nori - Booru browser with variants like Nori Derpibooru and Nori with Rule34
- Flexbooru - Kotlin-based alternative with better support with A de-limited release
- hanabi - Colorful syntax highlighter inspired by kemono-friends-syntax-highlight and its friends.
- kawaii-term - Kawaii shell terminal to relieve engineer's stress.
- aeneas - Automagically synchronize audio and text.
- ASS.js - JavaScript ASS subtitle format renderer.
- dialogue.moe - Search where a dialogue comes from. (Chinese)
- JavascriptSubtitlesOctopus - Displays subtitles in .ass format and easily integrates with HTML5 videos. Supports all SSA/ASS features.
- libjass - Renders ASS subs in the browser.
- SubBuilder - Toolset to help checking and organizing bilingual subtitles (諸神字幕組).
- subsearch.madsck.com - 搜尋動畫台詞出處。
- Sushi - Automatic subtitle shifter based on audio.
- arc_unpacker - Visual novel extracting tool in CLI.
- bgm - Display bangumi list in CLI.
- Taiga - Lightweight anime tracker for Windows.
- MALSync - Mutli-Tracker Integration to Anime Websites.
- rankit.ikely.me - Scientific ranking of anime ratings by Rankit.
- wikipedia_anime_graph - wikipediaからアニメに関連するデータを解析する
- anitomy - Anime video filename parser.
- OpenCC - Project for conversion between Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
- Comicbook - Convert online comics to .epub e-book.
- DJT - The best Japanese Aids list
- kuroshiro - Japanese language utility mainly for converting Kanji-mixed sentence to Hiragana, Katakana or Romaji with furigana and okurigana modes supported.
- Yomichan - Japanese Dictionary Add-on for Firefox/Google with Anki Support
- QuizMaster
- Anki and Ankidroid - For remembering vocabs, with 2K/6K/10K all the way up to 30K words in a deck
- Shoko - Anime Collection Manager
- acgn-stock - Stock market for trading waifu on PPT (Taiwan).
- awesome-bangumi - Collection of bangumi.tv related projects.
- Bangumi scripts - Collection of user scripts for bangumi.tv.
- Deneb - Web client for Albireo.
- japari-pedia - Chrome extension that turns Wikipedia into Japari-Library.
- KarasamaEgg - KarasamaEgg dynamic wallpaper for WallpaperEngine.
- Kemono Adblocker - Replace Advertisements with Kenomo Friends pictures using perceptual techniques.
- Moelib - Website with collections of various nijigen(二次元)-related development resources with filters and multi-language support. Inspired by awesome-acg.
- nKemono - Replaces all images with Kemono Friends. (Chrome Extension)
- pixi-live2d - Display live2D model as a sprite in pixi.js.
- Pixiv Search Result Unlocker - Allows you to click on blocked pictures.
- WebLive2D - Rebuild of Cybernoids' Live2D demo for interactive systems on mobile platforms.
- My Diary - MyDiary from movie 「Your Name」 ( build with Vue 2 )
- AnimeEffects - 2D Animation Tool.
- doko.moe - Free file hosting and Bittorrent tracker.
- guide.encode.moe - A anime RIPPER manual
- notify.moe - Fetches your anime "watching" list and notifies you when a new anime episode is available.
Some chat rooms or channels of ACG-loving developers
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AniDevTwitter (English)
- https://github.com/AniDevTwitter
- irc://irc.rizon.net/AniDevTwitter
- https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AniDevTwitter
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Fuyu (English)
- https://fuyu.moe/
- irc://irc.rizon.net/Fuyu
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IQDB / SauceNao (English)
- https://iqdb.org/
- irc://irc.rizon.net/iqdb
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MoeOverflow (Chinese)
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MoeFront (Chinese)
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Project ShangriLa (Japanese)