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license: mit
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## 📚 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**! 🎨✨

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## 🏆 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.

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## 🗂️ 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. 📸

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## 📝 Metadata (anime_characters_dataset.json)

The file `anime_characters_dataset.json` contains a list of all images and their associated labels.

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## 🔢 Data Fields

- `image_path` ➡️ Path to the character image.
- `label` ➡️ Anime series title (class label).

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## 📊 Data Splits

| Split | Number of Images |
|------|------------------|
| Train | 1,941             |

🔔 *Note: No official validation/test split is provided — users can create their own!*

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## 🚀 Usage Example

```python
import json

# Load the metadata
with open('anime_characters_dataset.json', 'r') as f:
    data = json.load(f)

# Example usage
print(data[0])
```


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## ⚖️ 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! 📜

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## 📌 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`
  - `.gitignore`
  - `README.md`

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