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How to Find Anime by Image

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Welcome to our anime character !nder

by image guide! In this article, we will
teach you the basics of anime reverse
image search, for advanced tips, check
out our follow-up article. It is also helpful
to read our anime !nder resources
page, where we list all the resources we
have that are helpful in !nding anime
related content.

Have you ever found a picture and

wondered, “what anime is this”? If yes,
don’t worry, there are many anime
image search tools available to help you
!nd anime by image. In this article we
will list the methods that have the
highest rate of success, so if any of the
methods listed in the earlier part of this
post are unhelpful in teaching you how
to search anime by image, keep trying
the other options in our list until you !nd
the correct anime title.

1. How to Find
Anime by Image:
Using Reverse
Image Search Tools
Using a reverse image search tool is by
far the most reliable and quickest way to
perform anime image search. There are
many services available online, but only
a couple of them are actually good, so if
none of them give you the necessary
result, it is better to either try to tweak
your search parameters, or try another
method of !nding anime by image. We
will list the top tools available at the
current moment and compare their
e"ectiveness and ease of use. We used
three test images, to compare the
e"ectiveness of the tools, which you can
see below.

Image 1: Lu"y from One Piece, with a partially hidden

face, but wearing his trademark Straw Hat.

Image 2: cropped face of Money King Bambina from

Toriko

Image 3: an obscure panel from the manga Vagabond

Google Image Search

Google Image Search is the best anime
image search tool, because Google has
the best database for images overall. On
the other hand, they rely heavily on
their text-search capabilities and can
output results that have a relation to the
image related keyword, but not
necessarily to the content of the
searched image. In most cases, however,
it works like a charm and should point
out many sources that will lead you to
the correct anime title. With our test
images, Google image search had no
trouble locating the source for image 1
and image 2, but dished out a few pages
in Japanese although the images search
was performed from an english domain.
So one thing to keep in mind with
Google Image search is, that the results
of the anime image search will be linked
to the keywords related to the image
and you may either have to scroll
through some pages until you !nd a
result in english, or use a browser
translate tool to render the search
results in english.

Using Google Image Search is pretty

straightforward. Just navigate to
images.google.com, click the camera
icon and either drag and drop an image,
post the image URL, or upload the !le
manually. Performing this anime image
search will usually lead you to a bunch of
web pages that can help you !nd the
anime title you are looking for.

performing a Google Image Search

TinEye
If Google has the best database, TinEye
has the best index for image search
available. That means, if Google Image
Search does not give you good
associated keywords for your image,
your next best chance is to use TinEye to
locate all known domains where your
searched image is being used and try to
!nd out the title of the Anime/manga by
visiting these domains. The anime image
search process itself is convenient, just
navigate to tineye.com and enter the
URL of the image, or upload it from your
PC. The !lter to use is by
domain/collection. Tineye does not
retain the uploaded images, so the
search process should be anonymous.

The problem with the Tineye anime

image search, however, is that it will
quite often return many results for the
reverse image search, but if the domains
where the images are hosted on don’t
provide enough context for !nding your
anime, the search will either not be very
helpful, or you will have to look through
a bunch of domains, before you !nd the
anime title.

For our test images TinEye easily found

answers for image 1 and image 2, but
had trouble with !nding good results for
the more obscure image three. The main
problem was that the domains were the
results were found had already been
taken down, which is a pretty common
problem for Tineye as compared to
Google Image Search.

Performing a reverse image search on TinEye

Saucenao

Performing a reverse image search on saucenao.com

Sauceno.com is the most obscure service

on this list, but it works surprisingly well
both in terms of delivering good search
results and in user experience. The
anime image search tool gave correct
results for image 1 and image 3, but
surprisingly generated a bunch of false
positives for image 2. So this anime
image search tool is a bit of a wildcard
on the list, but if Google Image Search
and TinEye fail to generate results, it may
be worth it to give saucenao a shot. The
search process is simple, but the image
!le needs to be uploaded, a URL cannot
be posted. On the other hand, the anime
image search tool has the convenient
feature of actually pointing out the title
you are looking for, as it is directly
intended to look up the source title of
images from anime, TV shows etc.

Search returns detailed information on the source of

image

2. How to Find
Anime by Image:
Using Anime
Character Lists
Still not sure what is this anime you have
an image of? If you have tried all the
listed reverse image search tools and
none of them yielded any helpful results
or showed you how to !nd anime by
image, it may be helpful to look through
some popular anime character lists. If
the image you have contains an anime
character, it may have distinctive traits
that are helpful in !nding the source of
the content. There are basically three
anime character lists available, which
could be helpful in !nding the anime you
are looking for.

Anime Characters
Database
Out of all the anime character listings
available online, ACD appears to be the
best, because it enables more
complicated search queries. So, If you
can describe the anime character you
are looking for in detail, navigate to the
animecharactersdatabase.com Search
and pick out the visual cues that point to
your character in as much detail as you
can. This type of search is pretty e"ective
for !nding obscure anime characters
with distinctive visual traits.

picking characteristics for animecharactersdatabase.com

search

AnimePlanet
Characters List
This is the second best list online,
because it allows for basic search
queries like Gender, Hair and Role which
could help narrow down the list of
candidates. Also the pictures of the
characters tend to be pretty clear and
helpful for identifying them. To perform
the search, just navigate to Animeplanet
character list narrow down the list of
characters, and see if you can identify
your target. The appearances of the
characters in media are usually
documented in detail.

Narrowing down the list on animeplanet.com

MyAnimeList

MyAnimeList character list

The last list worth checking out is

MyAnimeList’s character list. There isn’t
any way of narrowing down the search
or changing parameters, but the
characters are ranked by popularity and
the pictures of the characters are pretty
clear so it might be worth checking out
the list if your character is well known in
the anime community.

3. How to Find
Anime by Image:
Posting on Forums
If none of the listed search tools were
helpful and you still don’t know how to
!nd anime by picture, the next logical
option is to ask the anime community.
Just post the image into one one of the
following well known forums or social
media platforms and politely ask if
anyone knows the source of the image.

anime.stackexchange is the best

Q&A board if you want serious
answers to your questions
MyAnimeList Anime & Manga
Recommendations sub-forum could
be helpful in !nding your anime by a
description post.
Anime Forums recommendations
sub-forum could be helpful as well.

And of course you can always connect

with us on twitter, or ask a question in
the comment section below.

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