---
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](https://animanga.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Anime_and_Manga_Wikia).

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:

```python
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.