About Ranobe
A wiki-style catalogue of Asian fiction: about 274,000 works across 14 kinds, nearly all imported from the sources below and corrected by people. Anyone with an account can edit, and a new editor's edits wait for a reviewer before they are published.
Readers keep a library with shelves and progress. Ranobe is non-commercial: no ads, no fees.
Web novels · Light novels · Novels · Manga · Manhwa · Manhua · Anime · Donghua · Dramas · Stage plays · 2.5D stage · Audio dramas · Visual novels · Games
Where the data comes from
A work page credits each source whose terms ask for it. These are all of them; open one for what it brings and its terms.
Wikidata 9 kinds · CC0 1.0
Titles in every language, people, publishers, dates and relations between works.
CC0 1.0 · Public domain; credited by courtesy
wikidata.org ›VNDB Visual novels · ODbL 1.0 · DbCL 1.0
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 ›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 4 kinds · Acceptable Use Policy
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 · Narō API terms
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 · CC0 1.0
Releases as editions, their tracks, catalogue numbers and runtimes.
CC0 1.0 · Public domain; credited by courtesy
musicbrainz.org ›AniList 6 kinds · AniList API terms
Covers, banners, English synopses, statuses, seasons, sequels and casts.
AniList API terms · Non-commercial use
anilist.co ›
Dramas · TMDB API terms
Seasons, episodes, air dates, runtimes, networks and casts. No synopses, posters or other images.
TMDB API terms · Non-commercial; logo and notice
themoviedb.org ›This website uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB.
Covers and banners belong to their publishers and artists. 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. The next import does not overwrite a person's correction; where the source changed the same field, a person decides.
You hold the rights to something shown
Each cover and banner can be taken down on its own, and a synopsis or any other field removed; the rest of the page stays, and the next import does not put it back by itself.
- On the page, choose “Report a problem”, then “Copyright problem”.
A report needs an account.
Software and contact
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