metadata
license: mit
📚 Dataset Summary
This dataset features 1,941 anime character images, neatly organized into 322 folders, each representing a different anime series 🎌.
- 📦 Size of downloaded files: 152 MB
- 🪄 Size of auto-converted Parquet files: 151 MB
- 📊 Split: Train only
- 🎭 Classes: 322 unique anime titles
Perfect for image classification, anime recommendation systems, and visual style analysis! 🎨✨
🏆 Supported Tasks
- 🖼️ Image Classification: Predict the anime title based on a character image.
- 🔍 Visual Similarity Retrieval: Find visually similar anime styles.
- 🛠️ Model Fine-tuning: Customize vision models (ViT, ConvNeXt, etc.) for anime domains.
🗂️ Dataset Structure
📁 Directory Layout
Anime_Characters/
├── dataset/
│ ├── .hack__G.U. Returner/
│ │ ├── Haseo.png
│ │ ├── Ovan.png ...
│ ├── Air Gear/
│ │ ├── Onigiri.png ...
│ ├── Bleach/
│ │ ├── Ichigo Kurosaki.png ...
│ └── (other anime folders...)
├── anime_characters_dataset.json
├── .gitignore
└── README.md
Each folder inside dataset/ represents an anime class, and contains images of characters from that anime. 📸
📝 Metadata (anime_characters_dataset.json)
The file anime_characters_dataset.json contains a list of all images and their associated labels.
🔢 Data Fields
image_path➡️ Path to the character image.label➡️ Anime series title (class label).
📊 Data Splits
| Split | Number of Images |
|---|---|
| Train | 1,941 |
🔔 Note: No official validation/test split is provided — users can create their own!
🚀 Usage Example
import json
# Load the metadata
with open('anime_characters_dataset.json', 'r') as f:
data = json.load(f)
# Example usage
print(data[0])
⚖️ Licensing
⚠️ Important:
This dataset may include content protected by copyright.
It is intended strictly for educational, research, or non-commercial use under fair use laws.
Always verify before commercial usage! 📜
📌 Additional Notes
- The dataset includes raw images and JSON metadata.
- Images have been auto-converted to Parquet format for Hugging Face Dataset Viewer.
- 📂 Anime_Characters:
dataset/anime_characters_dataset.json.gitignoreREADME.md