Awesome ACG

A curated list of awesome tools and projects related to anime, comics, games, light novel, visual novel, vocaloid and touhou.

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Contents

• 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

Audio

• 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。

Danmaku

• 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?

Downloaders

Multi-tools

• you-get - Dumb downloader that scrapes the web.
• JDownloader?

Universal Non-Anime Downloaders

• gallery-dl - Command-line program to download image-galleries and -collections from several image hosting sites.

• imgbrd-grabber - Very customizable imageboard/booru downloader with powerful filenaming features.

• BooruDownloader - Downloader for gelbooru, danbooru and other websites that use their engines.

• CeJS - Online novels / comics downloader.

• Comic-DL - Command line tool to download manga and comics from various comic and manga sites

• Manga-Py - Manga

• Comic Crawler - Manga

• Free Manga downloader - Manga

• Novel Grabber - Novel

• JComic downloader - Manga/Novel

• Fiction House - Novel

• Work Crawler - Novel

Universal Anime Downloaders

• Anime Downloader - Anime
• Monkey-DL - Anime
• AniGrab - Anime
• Hakuneko - Manga/Animew

Gallery-specific Downloaders

• 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.

Databases / Data Sources

Anime Metadata

• 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

Production Wiki

• atwiki - A wiki anime STAFF
• Seiyuu.moe - A webpage for searching collaborate anime works between seiyuu (Voice Actors).

Gallery Metadata

• pixivpy - Pixiv API for Python.
• E-HentaiCrawler - E-Heitai Crawler (Chinese).

Others

• 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.

Referenfces

• iakesi - A website collection to map anime scene to real life locations(圣地巡礼).

Torrent Software

• nyaa - The software behind Nyaa.si.
• NyaaPantsu - Nyaa.se replacement written in golang.

Others

• sakugabooru - A booru like site with anime shot clip with sakuga label
• Vocaloid Database - Server software used by vocadb.net.

Character Database

• animecharactersdatabase - A anime characters database
• Personality Database - Anime Personality Assessment
• Waifu Database
• Anime Database that has info on Characters
  • https://www.anime-planet.com/characters/asuka-langley-soryu
  • https://anidb.net/character/39
  • https://www.absoluteanime.com/neon_genesis_evangelion/asuka

Image Board

Public Boorus

• Danbooru - Taggable image board written in Rails 4 for danbooru.donmai.us.

• Moebooru - Fork of danbooru1 that has been heavily modified. Used on yande.re , Konachan.com.

• PBooru - Permanent Booru is an image board web server which takes leverage of the decentralization of IPFS to distribute its content.

• Szurubooru - Python-powered booru for small to medium communities.

• Philomena - Elixir-based and feature-rich Danbooru copycat created by a brony

  • Alternate Repo and Cyberbooru

• Gelbooru is making an Open Source repo https://github.com/zixaphir/gelbooru-fork

Booru Browsers

• 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

Booru Cache and Personal Boorus

• 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

Booru-related Utilities

• 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.

Image Generation

Guides

• gwern.net blog - A anime GANs guidebook

Conversion

• 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.

Pick-apart Generators

• avatars.moe - Automatic avatars generator.
• https://picrew.me/

Random AI Image Generation

• 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.

Baka Mitai?

• Talking Head Anime - Talking Head Anime from a Single Image (source).

X Does not exist

• 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.

Logo or Text Generators

• kemonogen - Kemono Friends logo generator.
• persona5 - Persona 5 title generator.

derivation Projects

• crypko.ai - Cryptocollectible game on anime character icons. https://waifulabs.com/

Image Processing

Unsorted

• 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.

Animify

• TachibanaYoshino AnimeGAN
• shinkaimakoto mentioned "shinkaimakoto" animestyle transfer model

Upscaling

• 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).

De-censoring Enhancement

• 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.

Color Enhancement

• 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.

Image Recognition

Segmentation and Faces

• 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.

Auto-tagger

• 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.

Image Reverse Search

• 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.

Mobile Apps

replication Apps

• 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.

Platform-specific Apps

• Atarashii - Android client for MyAnimeList.
• EhViewer - Unofficial E-Hentai Application for Android.
• KonaBot - iOS client for konachan.net.
• AnimeXStream - Android client for GoGoAnime
• AniStream

Universal Comic/Novel Reader

• 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.

Booru Apps

• Nori - Booru browser with variants like Nori Derpibooru and Nori with Rule34
• Flexbooru - Kotlin-based alternative with better support with A de-limited release

Programming

Code converters

• aaencoder - Convert Javascript to kaomoji(顔文字).
• RADWIMPS - 君の then-then-then 世は Promise で Future.

Barainfug games

• gochiusa_lang
• hhiro_lang
• kemono_friends_lang
• nyaruko_lang
• We-i_lang

Programming Utilities

• hanabi - Colorful syntax highlighter inspired by kemono-friends-syntax-highlight and its friends.
• kawaii-term - Kawaii shell terminal to relieve engineer's stress.

Subtitles

• 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.

Tools

• arc_unpacker - Visual novel extracting tool in CLI.
• bgm - Display bangumi list in CLI.

Trackers

• Taiga - Lightweight anime tracker for Windows.
• MALSync - Mutli-Tracker Integration to Anime Websites.

Ranking and Recommendation

• 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

Translation and Text Cleaning

• anitomy - Anime video filename parser.
• OpenCC - Project for conversion between Traditional and Simplified Chinese.

File Conversion

• Comicbook - Convert online comics to .epub e-book.

Japanese Aid

• 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

Anime Management

• Shoko - Anime Collection Manager

Web

• 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 )

Uncategorized

• 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.

Developer Groups

Some chat rooms or channels of ACG-loving developers

• AniDevTwitter (English)

  • https://github.com/AniDevTwitter
  • irc://irc.rizon.net/AniDevTwitter
  • https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AniDevTwitter

• Fuyu (English)

  • https://fuyu.moe/
  • irc://irc.rizon.net/Fuyu

• IQDB / SauceNao (English)

  • https://iqdb.org/
  • irc://irc.rizon.net/iqdb

• MoeOverflow (Chinese)

  • https://moeoverflow.org/
  • https://telegram.me/moeoverflow
  • https://github.com/moeoverflow

• MoeFront (Chinese)

  • https://moefront.github.io/
  • https://github.com/moefront

• Project ShangriLa (Japanese)

  • http://akibalab.info/
  • https://github.com/Project-ShangriLa