A repost from the news, since our birthday celebration deserves a forum thread! ^^



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Five years ago today, I registered animecharactersdatabase.com with the hopes of creating a website that would people find the answer to "Who's This Character".

We went online early May 2007 with a thousand characters from roughly a hundred sources. All indexed by 6 key traits: Eye Color, Hair Color, Hair Length, Age, Gender, and animal ears.

These past 5 years, the site has grown so much. Form 10,000 daily visitors and 30,000 characters in 2010 to 50,000 daily visitors and 46,000 characters in 2012.

A lot of amazing things began happening in 2011.


anonymous17 (aka Hime-sama), Yeray, LiCobra, EatsSweets, Igraine, flareburst have all contributed over 1000 characters! Hime-sama did the impossible, contributing over 9000 characters in under a year.

Bogie, Sas, Hikarihaze, LiCobra, sunshade, InfernalQueen, Igraine, anonymous17 and EatsSweets have all done an amazing job helping with the Who's This Character Board. Solving more than a hundred posts each! And Bogie's past 1000.

And can't forgot our moderators that keep the site running smoothly, helping with a great many things! CaptainBrain, 13x31, Satellizer123, LiCobra, Igraine, InfernalQueen, anonymous17, and Shinigami_55!


Yet, with all we've accomplished in 5 years, I feel we still have so far to go!


With a growing community, and an ever dynamic site.... one day, we'll be #1 in anime!






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A little shoutout for me (Rei).

I added the first 26,000 characters from 2635 anime and game titles. 100% of the code that runs ACDB was written by me, and continues to be maintained by me. ( Currently 287631 lines, 894698 words, 10882448 bytes of code and 15581 subversion commits ) I build and maintain our servers. First with OAMP ( OpenBSD + Apache + MySQL + PHP ) setups in 2008 up until 2010 when I switched to FLMP ( FreeBSD + Lighttpd + MySQL + PHP ). I've taught myself PHP, Assembly, Bash, MySQL, DNS, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Gentoo Linux, Debian Linux, GDB, and C among many other tech skills along the way. It's been a fun journey for me, one I hope never ends! ^_^

[ Edited May 1, 2012 ]

私は日本語を少し読むと書くをできます。あなたも？

Give a "HELL YEAH!" for the great ACDB and for the awesome Rei!

Hey, its just 5 years, compared to the end of the journey. this is nothing n.n

Watch yourself so you dont meet the Loli Ban Hammer

Well said Shini! Let's do a cake! I've already prepared the candles:

I'm Neko, the Catboy of the Anime Characters DataBase! Meow!

happy birthday,ACDB
I returned

WELCOME BACK YERAY! :O

welcome back yeray. hope to be able to talk to you again

Watch yourself so you dont meet the Loli Ban Hammer

Awwwww yeahhhh Yeray is back! Joy to the world!!!!

Congratulations and fifty more.

Hooray for 5 years!
WB Yeray! Good to see you again! ^^