What we collected, how it connects, and what's missing.
Every number on this page is counted live from the atlas's own data files: where each record came from, how its genres and techniques break down, how festivals, genres and sources link up, the TV animation of the late 80s and 90s, and the gaps the scrape couldn't fill.
Where the data came from
The atlas merges records from IMDb's datasets, the anime databases, Wikipedia, Letterboxd, award and festival pages, school channels and the web. A title counts once for each family of sources that names it.
Genres & technique
Technique is the primary animation method recorded for a title. Genres come from IMDb, the anime databases and Wikipedia; a title can carry several.
Connections
Nodes and links: festivals and awards joined by the titles they share, genres joined when they tag the same title, and sources joined when they name the same title.
From TV, back in the day
Series that began on television from 1986 to 2005, plus TV films, specials and TV shorts. Pick an era; the charts and the list below follow it.
Lost & missing data
What the scrape couldn't fill in, what was thrown away while cleaning, and which sources couldn't be collected at all.