ranobe
About

Ranobe

Ranobe is a wiki-style catalogue of Asian fiction. It keeps about 274,000 works across 14 kinds, nearly all of them imported from the sources listed below and then corrected by people. Anyone with an account can edit a page, and every edit is a revision: a new editor's edits wait for a reviewer before they are published, and every one stays in the page's history.

Readers keep a library with shelves and progress. Ranobe is non-commercial: there are no ads and no fees.

Web novels · Light novels · Novels · Manga · Manhwa · Manhua · Anime · Donghua · Dramas · Stage plays · 2.5D stage · Audio dramas · Visual novels · Games

Works
about 274,000
Kinds
14
Sources
7 see all
Edits
Every one a revision
Cost
Free · no ads

Where the data comes from

Nearly every page began as an import. An import writes revisions like any editor, so a page's history says which source wrote what, and a work page ends with a credit to each source whose terms ask for one. These are all of them.

Source What it brings Licence or terms At the source
Makes pages The source a page began from.
Wikidata
Light novels · novels · manga · manhwa · manhua · anime · donghua · dramas · games Titles in every language, people, publishers, dates and relations between works.
CC0 1.0 Public domain; credited by courtesy
wikidata.org
VNDB
Visual novels Titles, staff, developers, publishers, releases, platforms and age ratings. Synopses, each credited to the site it came from.
ODbL 1.0 · DbCL 1.0 Attribution; derived database shared alike
vndb.org
Licence notice

Visual novel data comes from VNDB (vndb.org) under the Open Database License 1.0. Ranobe’s database, derived from it, is made available under the same licence.

MangaUpdates
Light novels · manga · manhwa · manhua Manhwa and manhua pages; for manga and light novels, covers and English descriptions.
Acceptable Use Policy Credit on each page it fills
mangaupdates.com
Shōsetsuka ni Narō
小説家になろう
Web novels Titles, authors, genres, chapter counts and Japanese synopses, re-read every week, inside the two weeks its terms allow.
Narō API terms Copies kept fresh
syosetu.com
MusicBrainz
Audio dramas Releases as editions, their tracks, catalogue numbers and runtimes.
CC0 1.0 Public domain; credited by courtesy
musicbrainz.org
Fills pages Adds to pages another source made.
AniList
Light novels · manga · manhwa · manhua · anime · donghua Covers, banners, English synopses, statuses, seasons, sequels and casts.
AniList API terms Non-commercial use
anilist.co
Dramas Seasons, episodes, air dates, runtimes, networks and casts. No synopses, posters or other images.
TMDB API terms Non-commercial; logo and notice
themoviedb.org
Notice TMDB requires

This website uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB.

Cover art and banners belong to their publishers and artists. Ranobe shows them to identify a work, and any one of them can be taken down on its own (below).

A new source is listed here, with its terms, before it imports anything.

Corrections and takedowns

Something on a page is wrong

Edit the page. A new editor's edit is checked by a reviewer before it is published, and the next import does not overwrite a person's correction: where the source changed the same field, a person decides.

If the mistake came from Wikidata or MusicBrainz, fixing it there as well mends it for every site that reads them.

You hold the rights to something shown

Ask for it to be taken down. Each cover and banner can be taken down on its own, and a synopsis or any other field removed, so the rest of the page stays; the next import does not put it back by itself.

  1. On the page, choose “Report a problem”, then “Copyright problem”.

Software and contact

Version
59987e2 · the revision running now
Languages
English · Português (Brasil) · 日本語