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The word 'anime' (アニメ) is a Japanese shortening of the English word 'animation' — a gairaigo, or foreign loanword.
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The Engagement & Discovery Layer for Anime
Own the habit layer, and every show gets
watched more, dropped less, talked about longer.
AnimeSphere isn't another place to watch anime — it's the layer that drives watch-time into the catalogue and keeps fans from churning. A daily-return engine (games, the Aspect League, Wrapped, the Senpai AI companion) wrapped around an un-clonable seiyuu graph and a personal taste-and-diary record. The retention and discovery surface a streamer can't build alone, plugged straight into your titles.
Catalogue indexed
20k+
anime, with seiyuu/staff graph
Built-in games
28+
daily-habit retention surfaces
OP / ED archive
14k+
themes across 4,800+ shows
Retention systems
6
league · streaks · pass · Wrapped · quests · achievements
Watched more
Every surface routes fans toward a licensed stream: trailer feed, soundtrack pages, episode rooms, and a deep-linked 'Watch on' funnel on every title. We turn browsing into watch-through on your catalogue.
Dropped less
The daily-return loop — games, the Aspect League ladder, streaks, Wrapped, and a 'catch me up' recap flow — gives fans a reason to come back and finish the season instead of stalling at episode three.
Talked about longer
Reactions, episode discussion rooms, lists, and the seiyuu/staff graph keep a title alive in the community between seasons — the long-tail engagement a player alone never captures.
The Retention Loop
A daily-habit engine, already shipped
Streamers win on hours watched and months retained. AnimeSphere is the meta-game layered on top of watching: a reason to open the app every day that keeps your subscription worth paying for between big releases.
28+ catalogue games
Seiyuu quizzes, sakuga spotlight, six-degrees-of-seiyuu, draft-day leagues — most with leaderboards, all bound to the catalogue. Play is the habit; the habit is the moat.
The Aspect League
A weekly relegating ladder — Genin to Shadow Monarch — that turns watching and playing into a competitive season with promotion, relegation, and a live board. Engagement that compounds week over week.
Wrapped + progression
Weekly and annual Wrapped recaps with shareable cards, a Season pass with daily quests, streaks, and achievements. The proven Spotify-Wrapped retention and viral loop, scoped to anime.
Senpai, the AI companion
A taste-aware AI companion that knows what a fan has watched and nudges them to the next title — turning 'I don't know what to watch' into another session on your catalogue.
The Un-Clonable Layer
Data you can't buy, only accrue
Catalogue and player are commodities; a streamer can license either. What they can't shortcut is years of fan behaviour and a graph nobody else has wired.
The seiyuu & staff graph
20k+ titles cross-linked to voice actors, staff, studios, and a 14k+ OP/ED archive across 4,800+ shows. This is what powers the recommendation games and the 'because you loved this VA' discovery a flat catalogue can't do.
Personal taste & diary
Every fan's watch diary, ratings, moods, taste-twins, and Wrapped history — the first-party taste signal you cannot get from Nielsen or Parrot. Own us, and you own the read on what your audience actually wants next.
Demand Intelligence
What the catalogue should push next
A weighted blend of watchlist intent, discussion, reactions, and licensing petitions — the per-title demand signal that tells a programming team where to point promotion and where a legal stream is missing. The gap flag fires when fans in a region are actively asking for a title to be licensed.
| # | Title | Demand | Adds | Comments | Petitions | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 |  Cowboy Bebop 1998 · 86/100 | 322 | 0 | 0 | 11 | Licensing gap |
| 02 |  ONE PIECE 1999 · 87/100 | 277 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 03 |  Death Note 2006 · 84/100 | 277 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 04 |  Attack on Titan 2013 · 85/100 | 277 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 05 |  JUJUTSU KAISEN 2020 · 84/100 | 177 | 0 | 0 | 19 | Licensing gap |
| 06 |  Horimiya: The Missing Pieces 2023 · 81/100 | 120 | 0 | 0 | 30 | Licensing gap |
| 07 |  My Dress-Up Darling 2022 · 80/100 | 110 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 08 |  Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- 2016 · 81/100 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 09 |  Mob Psycho 100 2016 · 84/100 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 10 |  My Hero Academia 2016 · 77/100 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 21 | Licensing gap |
| 11 |  Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 2023 · 91/100 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 21 | Licensing gap |
| 12 |  Vinland Saga 2019 · 87/100 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 13 |  BLUE LOCK 2022 · 80/100 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 14 |  Dr. STONE 2019 · 81/100 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 15 |  The Rising of the Shield Hero 2019 · 77/100 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 16 |  To Your Eternity 2021 · 81/100 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 17 |  DARLING in the FRANXX 2018 · 70/100 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 18 |  Gachiakuta 2025 · 82/100 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 19 |  PSYCHO-PASS 2012 · 81/100 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 20 |  Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign 2015 · 73/100 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Aggregated, anonymized activity. No individual user data is exposed. Full per-title reports available to partners.
Licensing Gap Map
Where fans are petitioning for a legal stream
Every row is a region where users filed a license request. Bring this list to your acquisitions meeting — these audiences already exist and are asking for a product to exist.
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Top ask: Neon Genesis Evangelion
47
petitions
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Top ask: Horimiya: The Missing Pieces
18
petitions
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Top ask: Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
13
petitions
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Top ask: Horimiya: The Missing Pieces
10
petitions
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Top ask: Horimiya: The Missing Pieces
10
petitions
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Top ask: My Hero Academia
9
petitions
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Top ask: My Happy Marriage
9
petitions
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Top ask: Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
8
petitions
Attribution
Discover → Stream funnel · last 30 days
Every click out of AnimeSphere lands on a licensed streaming source. This is the warm, pre-qualified traffic your platform is already receiving.
Discover impression77
Trailer viewed0
Added to watchlist0
Clicked to licensed stream96
Discover → Click rate124.68%
Genre mix across the watchlist
- Drama2,975
- Action2,714
- Comedy2,465
- Adventure2,137
- Sci-Fi2,047
- Romance1,723
- Fantasy1,694
- Supernatural1,247
Partner API
Curl it into your pipeline
The same data that renders this page, as JSON or CSV. 5-minute cache, no auth today, partner tokens echoed in response headers. Drop it into your BD dashboards.
GET /api/partners/feedJSON · CSV · public
# JSON — overview + top-50 demand rows + regional petitions + funnel curl -s https://animesphere.app/api/partners/feed?limit=50 | jq '.topDemand[0:5]' # CSV — drop straight into your BI tool curl -s 'https://animesphere.app/api/partners/feed?format=csv&limit=200' \ -o animesphere-demand.csv # Partner token echoed in X-Partner-Token header for attribution curl -sI 'https://animesphere.app/api/partners/feed?token=crunchyroll-bd'
Need signed tokens, webhook push, or a locked-to-your-catalogue view? Email us.
Three Ways To Partner
Pick the integration that matches your team
Acquisitions
Licensing-gap report
Monthly delivery of the titles + regions your audience is petitioning for, deduped against your existing catalogue. Scope a new acquisition with evidence of demand, not hope.
Request sample reportMarketing
Verified referral program
Signed referral links that let us attribute conversions back to your partner dashboard. We light up a 'Watch on <Platform>' module with your branding on every matched title.
Discuss attributionEditorial
Co-curated drops
Spotlight a new season, tie-in merch, or anniversary release inside AnimeSphere's /drops and /discover feeds. Native placement, no ads, measured in real watchlist adds.
Pitch a dropLegal posture
We do not stream, host, or link to pirated anime. Ever.
AnimeSphere only links out to officially-licensed distributors — Crunchyroll, Netflix, HiDive, and others. For shows with no legal stream in a region, we route fans into a petition + import/Blu-ray affiliate flow instead of off-site piracy. This protects your catalogue value and keeps us compliant with the Japan 2021 leech-site law and US contributory infringement precedent (MGM v. Grokster).