A curated list of awesome tools and projects related to anime, comics, games, light novel, visual novel, vocaloid and touhou.
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- Danmaku
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- Image Generation
- Image Processing
- Image Recognition
- Image Reverse Search
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- 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]
- VOICEVOX - 無料で使える中品質なテキスト読み上げソフトウェア、VOICEVOXのエディター. [日本語]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- anime-streaming - A curated list of worldwide legal anime streaming. [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]
- manga-platform - A curated list of worldwide legal manga reading site. [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]
- 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]
- Anime2Sketch - A sketch extractor for anime/illustration. [English]
- AnimeFaceDrawer - Drawing Anime Face with Simple Segmentation Mask [English]
- 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]
- hololive-fusion-generator - Dynamically generates combinations of names and pictures of Hololive members on the fly. [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]
- 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]
- Real-ESRGAN - Practical Algorithms for General Image/Video Restoration. [English/中文]
- 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]
- Waifu2x-Extension-GUI - Video, Image and GIF upscale/enlarge(Super-Resolution) and Video frame interpolation. Achieved with Waifu2x, SRMD, RealSR, Anime4K, RIFE, CAIN, DAIN and ACNet. [English/中文]
- WaifuCutout - Image segmentation (matting) for Anime characters. [English/中文]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- kalidoface - Face and Body Tracking for Live2D / 3D models on the web. [English]
- KarasamaEgg - KarasamaEgg dynamic wallpaper for WallpaperEngine. [English]
- Kemono Adblocker - Replace Advertisements with Kenomo Friends pictures using perceptual techniques. [English]
- MIKUFLA - Dance as Hatsune Miku yourself to the song. [日本語/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]
- ojosama-web - テキストを壱百満天原サロメお嬢様風の口調に変換するWebアプリ. [日本語]
- pixi-live2d - Display live2D model as a sprite in pixi.js. [English]
- WebLive2D - Rebuild of Cybernoids' Live2D demo for interactive systems on mobile platforms. [English]
- AnimeEffects - 2D Animation Tool. [English]
- Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-Books - Anime Girls Holding Programming Books. [English]
- guide.encode.moe - A anime RIPPER manual. [English]
- Hime Display - Universal desktop model displayer for Live2D, Spine, MMD and VRoid. [English/中文/日本語]
- marine_button - Play 宝鐘マリン's voice on web. [日本語]
- notify.moe - Fetches your anime "watching" list and notifies you when a new anime episode is available. [English]
- Vignette - The open source VTuber software. [English]
Some chat rooms or channels of ACG-loving developers
- AniDevTwitter [English]
- Fuyu [English]
- IQDB / SauceNAO [English]
- MoeOverflow [中文]
- MoeFront [中文]
- Project ShangriLa [日本語]