Awesome ACG

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.

Contents

• Audio
• Danmaku
• Downloaders
• Databases / Data Sources
• Image Board
• Image Processing
• Image Recognition
• Image Reverse Search
• Mobile Apps
• Programming Languages
• Subtitiles
• Tools
• Web
• Uncategorized
• Developer Groups

Audio

• 0x40-web - HTML5/CSS3 Canvas + Web Audio clone of the 0x40 Hues Flash.

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.

Downloaders

• Albireo - Bangumi auto download and management project. It has a webclient called Deneb.
• anilist-crawler - Crawl data from anilist API and store in elasticsearch.
• Danbooru Downloader - Downloader for Danbooru.
• DMHY - Easily download/auto-download torrent(s) from share.dmhy.org / acg.rip etc. sites for OS X.
• JComicDownloader - Tool for downloading some comics and light novels from China.
• PixivUtil (Pixiv Downloader) - Downloader and tag manager for Pixiv.
• Pixiv Illust - Both a downloader and a third-party Node.js api for Pixiv.
• you-get - Dumb downloader that scrapes the web.

Databases / Data Sources

• AniDB API - Official API for AniDB.
• Anilist API - Official API for Anilist (https://anilist.co/).
• Anilogia - Anime list database.
• anime-relations - Episode redirections for Taiga.
• Atarashii API - Unofficial API for MyAnimeList.
• Bangumi Data - Raw data for Japanese Anime.
• Dhufufu - Additional API Docs for some Chinese ACG sites & Related Services (currently outdated).
• E-HentaiCrawler - E-Heitai Crawler (Chinese).
• 一言（ヒトコト） - Get random quotes from ACG.
• hummingbird.me - Anime discovery platform.
• nyaa - The software behind Nyaa.si.
• NyaaPantsu - Nyaa.se replacement written in golang.
• pixivpy - Pixiv API for Python.
• Vocaloid Database - Server software used by vocadb.net.
• Animeloop - Website for animeloop-cli.

Image Board

• aint.moe - Your waifu aint moe.
• animeshot - Open and searchable image repository in Node.js.
• atogatari - Share and discover your favorite anime characters.
• BooruSurfer2 - Consistent and space-efficient interface to Booru-like image boards.
• 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.
• szurubooru - Python-powered booru for small to medium communities.
• TagsTable - Chinese ⇔ Engish translation table for common booru tags.

Image Processing

• cgCompress - Compression tool tailored for Visual Novel CGs.
• chainer-DCGAN - Generate anime face with neural network.
• hoshizora - Merge two image by alpha channel to get displayed respectively on white/black background.
• animeloop-cli - Automatically detect and cut anime loops.
• Overmix - Automatic anime screenshot stitching in high quality.
• PaintsChainer - Line drawing colorization using chainer.
• waifu2x - Image Super-Resolution for Anime-Style Art.
• waifu2x-converter-cpp - Improved version of waifu2x.

Image Recognition

• AnimeFace Search v3 - Face detection for Anime. Powered by Imager::AnimeFace and otama - CBIR Engine.
• Illustration2Vec - Semantic Vector Representation of Illustrations.
• lbpcascade_animeface - Face detector for anime/manga using OpenCV.

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 (Chrome Extension / Firefox Add-on) - Search multiple image reverse search engines.
• 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.
• WAIT: What Anime Is This? - Anime scene search engine. Powered by liresolr.

Mobile Apps

• Akhyou - Anime streaming app for Android.
• Atarashii - Android client for MyAnimeList.
• EhViewer - Unofficial E-Hentai Application for Android.
• KonaBot - iOS client for konachan.net.
• LNReader-Android - Light novel reader for android.
• Tachiyomi - Free and open source manga reader for Android.

Programming Languages

These are mostly languages based on Brainfuck.

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

Subtitles

• aeneas - Automagically synchronize audio and text.
• ASS.js - JavaScript ASS subtitle format renderer.
• 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).

Tools

• anitomy - Anime video filename parser.
• arc_unpacker - Visual novel extracting tool in CLI.
• bgm - Display bangumi list in CLI.
• Comicbook - Convert online comics to .epub e-book.
• kuroshiro.js - Japanese language utility mainly for converting Kanji-mixed sentence to Hiragana, Katakana or Romaji with furigana and okurigana modes supported.
• OpenCC - Project for conversion between Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
• rankit.ikely.me - Scientific ranking of anime ratings by Rankit.
• Taiga - Lightweight anime tracker for Windows.
• wikipedia_anime_graph - wikipediaからアニメに関連するデータを解析する

Web

• Bangumi scripts - Collection of user scripts for bangumi.tv.
• Deneb - Web client for Albireo.
• KarasamaEgg - KarasamaEgg dynamic wallpaper for WallpaperEngine.
• 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.

Uncategorized

• AnimeEffects - 2D Animation Tool.
• avatars.moe - Automatic avatars generator.
• doko.moe - Free file hosting and Bittorrent tracker.
• hanabi - Colorful syntax highlighter inspired by kemono-friends-syntax-highlight and its friends.
• japari-pedia - Chrome extension that turns Wikipedia into Japari-Library.
• kemonogen - Kemono Friends logo generator.
• 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)
• n_jigen_bot - Telegram bot. Identify if an image is 二次元 or 三次元. (author unknown)
• notify.moe - Fetches your anime "watching" list and notifies you when a new anime episode is available.
• subsearch.madsck.com - 搜尋動畫台詞出處。

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