Anime and manga tracking website

AniList

AniList is a popular anime and manga tracking website for building personal lists, discovering titles, and sharing ratings and activity with other fans.

Core use
AniList helps users track anime and manga progress, organize planned titles, rate entries, and keep personal media lists online.
Content focus
The site centers on anime, manga, characters, staff, studios, airing schedules, tags, rankings, and related metadata.
Community layer
AniList adds profiles, activity feeds, favorites, reviews, recommendations, forums, and social updates around anime and manga lists.
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What AniList is

AniList is an anime and manga database, list tracker, and social website. On AniList, people can search for titles, save what they are watching or reading, score completed entries, follow seasonal releases, and share activity with other fans.

Personal anime and manga lists

The core workflow is a personal list. Users can mark anime or manga as current, completed, paused, dropped, or planned, then update episode or chapter progress over time. That makes AniList useful as a memory aid for long series, seasonal shows, and backlogs that span many years.

Discovery and metadata

AniList pages collect titles, formats, release status, staff, studios, characters, tags, recommendations, and related works. Search and browse pages help users move from a show they know to similar titles, upcoming releases, adaptations, sequels, or works by the same creators.

Social activity and profiles

AniList also works like a fan network. Profiles show lists, favorites, statistics, and recent activity, while feeds let users comment, follow friends, and react to list updates. The social layer gives personal tracking a shared context without turning every title page into a full forum thread.

API and third-party apps

AniList is widely used by third-party anime and manga apps because its GraphQL API exposes much of the site's catalog and user-list functionality. This helps outside developers build clients, bots, dashboards, and discovery tools that connect back to AniList accounts.

Why it matters

Anime and manga catalogs can be difficult to track because titles have alternate names, adaptations, spin-offs, region-specific releases, and long-running installments. AniList gives fans a structured place to manage that complexity while also making taste, ratings, and discovery more visible across a community.

Limits and cautions

AniList scores and popularity rankings are community signals, not neutral measures of quality. Metadata can change, regional legal availability is separate from a catalog entry, and API-dependent tools may break when the service changes or has downtime. Users should treat lists as helpful records, not as an official availability guide.

WHOIS domain data

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Domain
anilist.co
IP address
104.26.14.71
Registrar
NameCheap, Inc.
WHOIS server
whois.namecheap.com
Referral URL
http://www.namecheap.com
Created
July 16, 2013
Updated
June 11, 2025
Expires
July 15, 2026
Nameservers
dave.ns.cloudflare.com (173.245.59.109); amy.ns.cloudflare.com (108.162.192.101)
Domain status
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