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. [English]
• chiru.no - High quality ACG music streaming. [English]
• Mikutap - Interactive music mixer with Hatsune Miku. [English]
• moefm.sh - Client script for moefm radio. [中文]

Danmaku

• ABPlayerHTML5 - Video Player for danmaku comments. ABPlayer in HTML5. [English/中文]
• CommentCoreLibrary - Javascript Live Comment (Danmaku) Engine Implementation. [English/中文]
• Danmaku - High performance JavaScript danmaku engine. [English/中文]
• danmaku2ass - Convert comments from Niconico/AcFun/bilibili to ASS format. [English/中文]
• DPlayer - HTML5 danmaku video player. [English/中文]

Downloaders

• Albireo - Bangumi auto download and management project. It has a webclient called Deneb. [English]
• anilist-crawler - Crawl data from anilist API and store in elasticsearch. [English]
• BooruDownloader - Downloader for gelbooru, danbooru and other websites that use their engines. [English]
• CeJS - Online novels / comics downloader. [English/中文]
• Comic-DL - Command line tool to download manga and comics from various comic and manga sites. [English]
• Danbooru Downloader - Downloader for Danbooru. [English]
• DMHY - Easily download/auto-download torrent(s) from share.dmhy.org / acg.rip etc. sites for OS X. [中文]
• E-Hentai-Downloader - Download E-Hentai archive as zip file. [English]
• gallery-dl - Command-line program to download image-galleries and -collections from several image hosting sites. [English]
• getComic - Download tencent comics. [中文]
• imgbrd-grabber - Very customizable imageboard/booru downloader with powerful filenaming features. [English]
• JComicDownloader - Tool for downloading some comics and light novels from China. [中文]
• MangaRipper - Download manga (Japanese Comic) from several websites for your offline viewing. [English]
• OkanimeDownloader - Scrape Arabic translated anime from Okanime without any effort. [English]
• PixivUtil (Pixiv Downloader) - Downloader and tag manager for Pixiv. [English]
• Pixiv Illust - Both a downloader and a third-party Node.js api for Pixiv. [English]
• you-get - Dumb downloader that scrapes the web. [English]

Databases / Data Sources

• AniDB API - Official API for AniDB. [English]
• Anilist APIv2 - Official API for Anilist (https://anilist.co/). [English]
• Anilogia - Anime list database. [日本語]
• anime-offline-database - A JSON based offline anime database containing the most important meta data as well as cross references to various anime sites such as MAL, ANIDB, ANILIST, KITSU and more. [English]
• anime-relations - Episode redirections for Taiga. [English]
• animecharactersdatabase - A anime characters database. [English]
• Animeloop - Website for animeloop-cli. [English]
• atwiki - A wiki anime STAFF. [日本語]
• arm-server - A service for mapping Anime ID's between AniList, AniDB, MAL, and Kitsu. [English]
• Atarashii API - Unofficial API for MyAnimeList. [English]
• AnimeThemes - A simple and consistent repository of anime opening and ending themes. [English]
• Bangumi Data - Raw data for Japanese Anime. [中文]
• cal.syoboi - anime bangumi timeline. [日本語]
• Dhufufu - Additional API Docs for some Chinese ACG sites & Related Services (currently outdated). [中文]
• E-HentaiCrawler - E-Heitai Crawler. [中文]
• gochiusa-faces-dataset - A croped animeface dataset from 'Gochuumon wa Usagi Desuka?' [English]
• 一言（ヒトコト） - Get random quotes from ACG. [中文]
• hummingbird.me - Anime discovery platform. [English]
• iakesi - A website collection to map anime scene to real life locations(圣地巡礼). [English]
• Jikan API - Unofficial API for MyAnimeList. [English]
• nyaa - The software behind Nyaa.si. [English]
• NyaaPantsu - Nyaa.se replacement written in golang. [English]
• pixivpy - Pixiv API for Python. [English/中文]
• sakugabooru - A booru like site with anime shot clip with sakuga label. [English]
• Seiyuu.moe - A webpage for searching collaborate anime works between seiyuu. [English]
• Vocaloid Database - Server software used by vocadb.net. [English]

Image Board

• aint.moe - Your waifu aint moe. [English]
• animeshot2 - An open and searchable image repository with telegram bot integration in Node.js. [English]
• atogatari - Share and discover your favorite anime characters. [English]
• BooruSurfer2 - Consistent and space-efficient interface to Booru-like image boards. [English]
• danbooru - Taggable image board written in Rails 4 for danbooru.donmai.us. [English]
• Hydron - Media tagger and organizer backend and GUI frontend. [English]
• Hydrus - A personal booru-style media tagger that can import files and tags from your hard drive and popular websites. [English]
• Moebooru - Fork of danbooru1 that has been heavily modified. Used on yande.re , Konachan.com. [English]
• PBooru - Permanent Booru is an image board web server which takes leverage of the decentralization of IPFS to distribute its content. [English]
• szurubooru - Python-powered booru for small to medium communities. [English]
• TagsTable - Chinese ⇔ Engish translation table for common booru tags. [中文]

Image Generation

• animate-me - A miniapp to convert selfie to anime. [中文]
• avatars.moe - Automatic avatars generator. [English]
• chainer-DCGAN - Generate anime face with neural network. [日本語]
• crypko.ai - Cryptocollectible game on anime character icons. [English]
• DeepAA - Make Ascii Arts by Deep Learning. [English]
• DeepAnime - Generate Anime automatically from illust. [日本語]
• FindTwin - A pick and match game by random generated avatars. [English]
• girl_friend_factory - Anime character generator (Description on Qiita). [日本語]
• gwern.net blog - A anime GANs guidebook. [English]
• kemonogen - Kemono Friends logo generator. [日本語]
• make.girls.moe - Create Anime Characters with A.I. [English]
• seeprettyface dongman - A stylegan danbooru pretrain model with Chinese document. [中文]
• Talking Head Anime - Talking Head Anime from a Single Image (source). [English]
• This Anime Does Not Exist - Synthesize Your Waifu Full-body using StyleGAN2. [English]
• This Fursona Does Not Exist - AI-generated furries in an endless scrolling grid. [English]
• This Waifu Does Not Exist - Synthesize Your Waifu Face using StyleGAN2. [English]
• TwinGAN - Unsupervised Image Translation for Human Portraits to anime. [English]
• Waifu Labs - Synthesize Your Waifu Face Conditionally. [English]

Image Processing

• Anime4K - A High-Quality Real Time Anime Upscaler. [English]
• animeloop-cli - Automatically detect and cut anime loops. [English]
• cgCompress - Compression tool tailored for Visual Novel CGs. [English]
• DeepCreamPy - Decensoring hentai with deep neural networks. [English]
• hoshizora - Merge two image by alpha channel to get displayed respectively on white/black background. [English]
• MangaCraft - Semi-automatic manga colorization. [English]
• mangaEditor - Edit manga and translate it online. [中文]
• Overmix - Automatic anime screenshot stitching in high quality. [English]
• PaintsChainer - Line drawing colorization using chainer. [English]
• sketchKeras - An u-net with some algorithm to take sketch from paints. [English]
• style2paints - Paint line images with AI. [English]
• TachibanaYoshino AnimeGAN - shinkaimakoto mentioned "shinkaimakoto" animestyle transfer model [English]
• upscale.wiki.anime - Image Super-Resolution model wiki [English]
• waifu2x - Image Super-Resolution for Anime-Style Art. [English]
• waifu2x-converter-cpp - Improved version of waifu2x. [English]

Image Recognition

• alt-i2v - Alternative illustration2vec implitation of sigmoids of fully connected layer. [日本語]
• animeface-2009 - Face and Landmark Detector for Anime/Manga. Similar to lbpcascade_animeface but more accurate. [English]
• AnimeFace Search v3 - Face detection for Anime. Powered by Imager::AnimeFace and otama - CBIR Engine. [日本語]
• AniSeg - A faster-rcnn model for anime character segmentation. [English]
• danbooru-tagger - auto labeling danboorulike tags for anime illustration. [English]
• deep cascaded landmark detection - Anime face landmark detection by deep cascaded regression. [English]
• Illustration2Vec - Semantic Vector Representation of Illustrations. [English]
• lbpcascade_animeface - Face detector for anime/manga using OpenCV. [English]
• LFFD animeface - A fast and light-weighted anime face detection based on LFFD &mxnet. [English]
• n_jigen_bot - Telegram bot. Identify if an image is 二次元 or 三次元. [English]
• Osomatsu-san - Use deep learning to distinguish the characters in Osomatsu-san. [日本語]
• transfer-learning-anime - Transfer learning for anime characters recognition. Powered by lbpcascade_animeface for face detection. Available at MoeFlow. [English]

Image Reverse Search

• ascii2d - 2D art search. [日本語]
• Gochiusearch - Fast Scene Search Engine for 'Gochuumon wa Usagi Desuka?'. [日本語]
• Image Search Options (Chrome Extension / Firefox Add-on) - Search multiple image reverse search engines. [English]
• iqdb - Multi-service image search engine, source code here. [English]
• SauceNAO - Reverse image search service, see database coverage here. [English]
• saucenao.kgmi.moe - Better front-end for SauceNAO. [English]
• WAIT: What Anime Is This? - Anime scene search engine. Powered by liresolr. [English]

Mobile Apps

• Amadeus - A side project that aims to replicate the Amadeus App shown in Steins;Gate 0. [English]
• Atarashii - Android client for MyAnimeList. [English]
• EhViewer - Unofficial E-Hentai Application for Android. [中文]
• KonaBot - iOS client for konachan.net. [English]
• LNReader-Android - Light novel reader for android. [English]
• NineAnimator - Elegant, concise, and intuitive anime discovery app for iOS. [English]
• Tachiyomi - Free and open source manga reader for Android. [English]

Programming

• aaencoder - Convert Javascript to kaomoji(顔文字). [日本語]
• gochiusa_lang - . [日本語]
• hanabi - Colorful syntax highlighter inspired by kemono-friends-syntax-highlight and its friends. [English]
• hhiro_lang - . [日本語]
• kawaii-term - Kawaii shell terminal to relieve engineer's stress. [日本語]
• kemono_friends_lang - . [日本語]
• nyaruko_lang - . [日本語]
• RADWIMPS - 君の then-then-then 世は Promise で Future. [日本語]
• We-i_lang - . [日本語]

Subtitles

• aeneas - Automagically synchronize audio and text. [English]
• ASS.js - JavaScript ASS subtitle format renderer. [English]
• dialogue.moe - Search where a dialogue comes from. [English/中文]
• JavascriptSubtitlesOctopus - Displays subtitles in .ass format and easily integrates with HTML5 videos. Supports all SSA/ASS features. [English]
• libjass - Renders ASS subs in the browser. [English]
• SubBuilder - Toolset to help checking and organizing bilingual subtitles (諸神字幕組). [English/中文]
• subsearch.madsck.com - Search source of anime dialogue. [English/中文]
• Sushi - Automatic subtitle shifter based on audio. [English]

Tools

• anitomy - Anime video filename parser. [English]
• arc_unpacker - Visual novel extracting tool in CLI. [English]
• bgm - Display bangumi list in CLI. [中文]
• Comicbook - Convert online comics to .epub e-book. [English]
• getnative - Find the native resolution(s) of upscaled material (mostly anime). [English]
• kuroshiro - Japanese language utility mainly for converting Kanji-mixed sentence to Hiragana, Katakana or Romaji with furigana and okurigana modes supported. [English]
• OpenCC - Project for conversion between Traditional and Simplified Chinese. [中文]
• rankit.ikely.me - Scientific ranking of anime ratings by Rankit. [English]
• Shoko - Anime Collection Manager. [English]
• Taiga - Lightweight anime tracker for Windows. [English]
• Visual Novel OCR - Japanese optical character recognition for visual novels. [English]
• wikipedia_anime_graph - Calculate anime relevance from wikipedia. [日本語]

Web

• acgn-stock - Stock market for trading waifu on PPT (Taiwan). [English/中文]
• awesome-bangumi - Collection of bangumi.tv related projects. [中文]
• Bangumi scripts - Collection of user scripts for bangumi.tv. [中文]
• Deneb - Web client for Albireo. [English]
• japari-pedia - Chrome extension that turns Wikipedia into Japari-Library. [English]
• KarasamaEgg - KarasamaEgg dynamic wallpaper for WallpaperEngine. [English]
• Kemono Adblocker - Replace Advertisements with Kenomo Friends pictures using perceptual techniques. [English]
• Moelib - Website with collections of various nijigen(二次元)-related development resources with filters and multi-language support. Inspired by awesome-acg. [English]
• My Diary - MyDiary from movie 「Your Name」.[中文]
• nKemono - Chrome Extension that replaces all images with Kemono Friends. [English]
• pixi-live2d - Display live2D model as a sprite in pixi.js. [English]
• Pixiv Search Result Unlocker - Allows you to click on blocked pictures. [English]
• WebLive2D - Rebuild of Cybernoids' Live2D demo for interactive systems on mobile platforms. [English]

Uncategorized

• AnimeEffects - 2D Animation Tool. [English]
• guide.encode.moe - A anime RIPPER manual. [English]
• notify.moe - Fetches your anime "watching" list and notifies you when a new anime episode is available. [English]

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