NeoDB is primarily a Bangumi-clone. Bangumi (https://bangumi.tv/) is Chinese multimedia tracker, with five categorization: animation, comics, games, music, and live action.

Their community is really dedicated to maintain the most correct information, even having unique metadata that English database does not have them, like manga magazine serialization with exact volume and date.

Edit: In the future, fediverse should have solution for universal metadata sharing for media database. Avoiding potential clashes and empower user to choose their preference (which most of mainstream DB simply does not)

For example, Japanese romanization system. Right now, there's two competing used in English database. IMDB, IGDB etc use Hepburn-romanization MyAnimeList, MangaUpdates, VNDB use system inspired by Nihon-shiki. Both format should be supported to avoid clash. Language display for multi-region system should be implemented as well. e.g.:

English Asia user might want to see Detective Conan as official title
English North America user might want to see Case Closed as official title.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Here's hoping this becomes a proper english version with the same dedication as the original. Think a lot of people could appreciate something like this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Thanks for sharing this