Anime music video. A fan edit that pairs footage from one or more anime with a song or other audio. It is separate from an official opening, ending, or promotional video.
A release that groups several episodes or a complete season into one download. Check which episodes and subtitle versions are included before comparing it with individual releases.
The amount of data used per second of audio or video. Higher bitrate can preserve more detail, but quality also depends on the codec, source, and encoding settings.
A method for encoding and decoding audio or video. H.264, HEVC, and AV1 are video codecs. A codec is different from a container such as MKV or MP4, which holds the tracks together.
A television broadcast block of roughly three months. A series may run for one cour, several consecutive cours, or split cours with a break between broadcast blocks.
A version with a replacement spoken-language track. An English dub, for example, uses English voice performances. A dub can be released on a different schedule from the original audio.
Subtitles created by fans rather than the licensed distributor. A fansub may include translation, timing, typesetting, and editing, and can differ from a platform’s subtitle edition.
Subtitles rendered into the video image itself. They remain visible because they are part of the picture and cannot be disabled as a separate subtitle track.
A Japanese publishing category often associated with illustrated prose volumes. Light novels can be original works or revised versions of web novels, and may become the source for manga or anime.
A link that identifies content for a peer-to-peer client, commonly using a torrent’s information hash. The client locates peers and retrieves the metadata and file pieces.
Japanese comics. Manga can be serialized chapter by chapter and collected into volumes. An anime adaptation may cover only part of the original manga or change the sequence of events.
Korean comics. Many contemporary manhwa are published as webtoons with full-color artwork and a vertical scrolling layout, although the term also includes print comics.
Original video animation and original net animation. These labels describe works initially released for home video or online distribution rather than through a conventional television broadcast or cinema run.
In anime release listings, a video without a translated subtitle track. In manga discussions, an untranslated scan or edition. Raw does not mean uncompressed or unedited video.
A release that moves existing encoded audio and video streams into a container without re-encoding those streams. The files can be large because the original encoded picture and sound are preserved.
A peer is a participant in a torrent swarm. A seed has the complete content and can upload pieces to other peers. Availability depends on reachable peers having the required pieces.
An anime release distributed close to its original broadcast, often with subtitles. The word does not guarantee an identical release time in every region or on every platform.
Subtitles stored separately from the video image, either as a track inside a container or as an external file. A compatible player can switch, disable, or sometimes restyle them.
A BitTorrent transfer distributes a file in pieces among peers. A torrent file contains metadata for the transfer; a torrent client uses that metadata or a magnet link to obtain the content.
A comic published for online reading, commonly arranged as a vertical strip for scrolling. Webtoons originate in several countries, so the format and the country-specific term manhwa are not interchangeable.
