metadata

license: cc-by-4.0
language:
  - en
tags:
  - Anime
  - Manga
  - Fandom
  - Wiki
  - Image
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M

Anime Manga Characters Dataset

This dataset is a metafile containing information about 247,034 anime and manga characters sourced from 2,372 fandom wiki sites. Each entry represents a character along with its associated metadata. The dataset has been deduplicated based on the url field to avoid redundancy, although a single character may still have multiple associated URLs.

Potential Applications

Multimodal Data Creation: Use the URLs to download the respective wiki pages and images, and construct multimodal datasets (e.g., interleaved image-text datasets for machine learning tasks).
Document Retrieval: Leverage the dataset to retrieve relevant documents or create search and retrieval models.
Image Captioning: Pair images of characters with textual metadata for image captioning tasks.
Text-to-Image Generation: Generate detailed images of characters based on descriptive metadata.
Data Analysis: Perform data analysis on anime and manga characters.

Dataset Construction

The reference list of anime and manga is sourced from the Animanga Fandom Wiki.

The dataset includes the following meta fields:

title: The name of the character, corresponding to the title of the fandom wiki page.
site_name: The title of the anime or manga, representing the source site name of the fandom wiki.
url: The URL of the character's wiki page.
description: A brief summary of the character's wiki page (truncated, not the full content).
image: The URL of a representative image associated with the character.

The pseudo code for getting metadata from each fandom wiki html:

def get_metadata(html):
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'lxml')
    metadata = {"title": "", "site_name": "", "url": "", "description": "", "image": ""}
    if meta := soup.find("meta", {"property": "og:site_name"}):
        metadata["site_name"] = meta["content"]
    if meta := soup.find("meta", {"property": "og:title"}):
        metadata["title"] = meta["content"]
    if meta := soup.find("meta", {"property": "og:url"}):
        metadata["url"] = meta["content"]
    if meta := soup.find("meta", {"property": "og:description"}):
        metadata["description"] = meta["content"]
    if meta := soup.find("meta", {"property": "og:image"}):
        metadata["image"] = meta["content"]
    return metadata

The dataset has been deduplicated based on the url field to avoid redundancy.

Acknowledgments

This dataset owes its existence to the passionate contributions of anime and manga fans worldwide who curate and maintain the fandom wikis.