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March 15th marked the last month this site would receive advertising revenue.

As of today, June 15th that has ended! ( 3 months in a financial void )


It wasn't easy, but with help from 13x31 donating generously each month I was able to make the server payments and avoid serious financial trouble. Hopefully the future will be kind to us.

5 Years!


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, anonymous17, Satellizer123, LiCobra, Igraine, InfernalQueen, 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! ^_^

We've been kicked out of Google AdSense and adBrite denied my request to use their ad network.

Google sent me this letter on March 15th: Google Letter 1

They had threatened us back in October of 2011. I was prepared, and had a backup plan: apply at adBrite.

Joining was easy, but their reviewers rejected us.

You can read through the emails exchanged:

adBrite 1 ( to us )
adBrite 2 ( from us )
adBrite 3 ( to us )
adBrite 4 ( from us )
adBrite 5 ( to us )



Essentially, they rejected us for being an adult site. Which is false, but I accept we have some images that are NSFW. I asked them for guidance as to what they considered adult.

Their answers basically came down to "anything that might make an adolescent male giggle or say BOOBS ". If I removed everything past that threshold, there wouldn't be an ACDB left.

I didn't see many options, clearly they don't want us. So I asked what was the deal between them and fakku.net And they replied with even more hostility.

So be it.

Anime Characters Database will not be supported by advertisements for the foreseeable future.


I will be running JList promotions for the time being. JList does not pay me for showing their ads. They only pay me a commission on sales. You can support the site by clicking one of the JList banners and shopping at JList.