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
• 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 - A high performance JavaScript danmaku engine.
• danmaku2ass - Convert comments from Niconico/AcFun/bilibili to ASS format.
• DPlayer - HTML5 danmaku video player.

Downloaders

• Albireo - A 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 - A 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 nodejs 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/).
• 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• Dhufufu - Additional API Docs for some Chinese ACG sites & Related Services (currently outdated).
• hummingbird.me - Anime discovery platform.
• Vocaloid Database - Server software used by vocadb.net.

Image Board

• aint.moe - Your waifu aint moe.
• animeshot - An open and searchable image repository in Node.js.
• BooruSurfer2 - A consistent and space-efficient interface to Booru-like image boards.
• szurubooru - Python-powered booru for small to medium communities.

Image Processing

• cgCompress - Compression tool tailored for Visual Novel CGs.
• hoshizora - Merge two image by alpha channel to get displayed respectively on white/black background.
• Overmix - Automatic anime screenshot stitching in high quality.
• waifu2x - Image Super-Resolution for Anime-Style Art.
• waifu2x-converter-cpp - An improved version of waifu2x.

Image Recognition

• AnimeFace Search v3 - Face detection for Anime. Powered by Imager::AnimeFace and otama - CBIR Engine.
• Illustration2Vec - A 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 - A 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.
• 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.
• 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
• nyaruko_lang
• We-i_lang

Tools

• anitomy - Anime video filename parser.
• arc_unpacker - Visual novel extracting tool in CLI.
• bgm - Display bangumi list in CLI.
• hentaibook - Convert dolijinshi comic on e-hentai.org and nhentai.net to EPUB file.
• 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

Web

• ASS.js - A JavaScript ASS subtitle format renderer.
• Deneb - A web client for Albireo.
• libjass - Renders ASS subs in the browser.
• Pixiv Search Result Unlocker - Allows you to click on blocked pictures.
• WebLive2D - A rebuild of Cybernoids' Live2D demo for interactive systems on mobile platforms.

Uncategorized

• notify.moe - Fetches your anime "watching" list and notifies you when a new anime episode is available.
• 大藏游星的近月计划 - Introduction to ACG production process, and more.

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

• Project ShangriLa (Japanese)

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