The Anime Realm

The Anime Realm is for keeping track of what you are watching and reading, finding out what is on, and watching it with other people.

Watchlist and manga shelf

One library for both: anime by episode, manga by volume, each with a status, a score and dates. Entries are private unless you make them public; a public entry appears in Discover with your name, and on your public anime list. A public entry from a member under 18, or one without a birthdate on file, is shown only to their friends. Taste Match on another member's list compares the Atlas-linked shows you've both completed and scored, once you share five. Anime Wrapped is your year in anime, counted from episodes you marked watched; this year's opens on 1 December (UTC). See Tracking anime & manga, and step by step: add and track, lists and bulk edits, import from MyAnimeList and share, Taste Match and Wrapped.

Figure Shelf

The Figure Shelf keeps what you collect — figures, garage kits, plushies, Blu-rays and art books — owned, preordered or wanted. It's private unless you tick Show it on my public shelf, with its photos, and what you paid never shows. A preorder gets a payment reminder three days before it's due; Find a copy looks in partner stores, then the marketplace, then import retailers (affiliate links, never shown to members under 18); and a garage kit or figure can carry a build log. Step by step: add items and track preorders and find a copy and keep a build log.

Airing reminders

Add a currently-airing show to your library from the Atlas as Watching or Plan to watch, and Airing & Season shows its next episodes in your own timezone, with a reminder when each one is out. Its This season chart lists the whole season, with + Plan to watch in one tap. Step by step: the week and reminders and the season chart. Reminders respect your notification settings.

Airing times come from a schedule our staff keep for each show, including the times on streaming services where they differ. If a time looks wrong, use Report a wrong time on the show's page and staff will check it.

Where to watch on a show's page lists the official streaming links our staff have checked, with their subtitle and dub languages. Links for the country on your account come first, and the rest are under Elsewhere. A broken, missing or wrong-country link can be reported from the same place.

Polls & Awards

Anime of the Week is a vote among the shows with an episode out that week, open once you've marked that episode watched and closing the Wednesday after (UTC). Character brackets start with nominations — up to three each — then a vote per match. Seasonal awards are worked out from what members track, score, discuss and vote on. See Vote in Anime of the Week, brackets and the awards.

Watch parties

A watch party is a scheduled time to watch something together and talk about it — the conversation lives here, the video on everyone's own service. RSVP or say you're interested; a host can cap the spots, and a party can belong to one of your Circles. From 30 minutes before the start until three hours after, its page is a room with chat and reactions, a synced player for YouTube, Vimeo or Twitch links, or Start together for everything else; afterwards, a replay. Members under 18 can join the rooms of their Circles' and friends' parties. A party in a Circle links to its voice channels, which come with the Circle Lead's Plus membership or above. Step by step: host or RSVP and in the room.

Anime Clubs are Circles that watch together: a Circle's Lead or an Officer can start a rewatch that schedules a party for every episode, and members join the whole run at once. See Run a rewatch.

Con Calendar

The Con Calendar lists anime cons across the US, by month or on a map, and anyone can open it. Narrow it by month, state, size or distance; answer Going, Interested or Can't make it to put a con on your calendar (or take it off), and hear when its dates are announced or its organizers post news. Signed in, a con's page also has anime meetups — in-person sessions on its dates — and the fandom gatherings cosplayers plan there; a con that isn't listed can be suggested. Step by step: find cons and say you're going and meetups, and suggesting a con. Run a con yourself?Run this con? Claim it, at the foot of its page, asks staff to make you an organizer.

The Atlas

The Anime Atlas is curated: franchise → series and films, with studios, cast and staff, and a character index. It is readable signed out. A show's page is where you track it, open each episode's spoiler-safe room once you've watched it, review it, recommend another show (with it in your library as watching, completed or on hold), follow it, and find official streaming links for your country. Can't find a show? Add it to your library anyway and we'll ask for it to be added; your entry links up by itself when it is. Step by step: shows, episodes and rooms and reviews, recommendations, follows and where to watch.

On the library's Discover tab, Because you finished… works from what you've completed and scored 70 or more. It shows what other fans of that show also finished and loved, from other franchises and not already in your library. A pairing only shows once at least five members are behind it, so no one's list can be read from it.

Making art

Two making tools — the Anime Studio, for drawing, and Cel, for animation — are opening to members in stages. Once one is on for your account it appears under Make in the Realm's rail, and the rail's Help link opens its step-by-step tutorials. Art made in them is shared to the Art Gallery, where you say what it is of — a title, a character, or an original of your own.

The Art Gallery

To find art in the gallery, search its captions and tags, or choose the title, character or tag under a piece to see everything else posted with it. Older art is a page away, below the grid. Tags are kept in lower case, so Frieren and frieren are one tag. A title's page links to all of its art in the gallery.

To hear about new art, follow a title or a character from its Atlas page, or follow the artist. You get one notice a day at most, however many pieces are posted. A character's page has its own art, and you can post yours there too.

If you take commissions, turn on Open for commissions in your profile settings and add one link to your VGen or Ko-fi page. A badge shows on your profile and on your art in the gallery. Waypoint takes no cut and adds nothing to the link. Commissions are for adult members.

Discussion

Each title has its own discussion thread, attached to the title rather than scattered across a general feed. A post can be tagged with an episode, and a tagged post only reaches people who have watched that far: if your library says you are on episode 2, a post about episode 9 is not shown to you at all — not blurred, simply not sent — and it appears the moment you mark episode 9 watched. The thread tells you how many posts are waiting further on.

Every episode that has aired also has its own room, listed under Episodes on the show's page: just the posts about that episode, and a 1–5 rating. A room opens once you've marked its episode watched, and its average rating is only shown to people who have — so a score can't hint at what's coming. When a new episode comes out and you're caught up to the one before, the reminder says marking it watched opens its room.

Untagged posts reach everyone, including people who don't track the show. You can only tag an episode you have marked watched yourself, and the Spoiler checkbox stays for things an episode number can't catch, such as manga spoilers in an anime thread. General only narrows the thread to untagged posts.

You can reply to a post (replies stay one level deep, and a reply sits under its post's episode, so it's hidden from the same people), react to it, and report it if it breaks the rules. You can edit or delete your own posts; an edited post says so. The author of a post hears about replies to it. Posts by someone you've blocked, or who has blocked you, don't appear.

Read the manga or light novel? Tick I've read the source on the show's page and a Source material section opens in its discussion and rooms, collapsed, for talk about the source ahead of the anime. Only people who have ticked it see those posts or can write them, so anime-only viewers never run into them. Untick it and they go away again. If you want a standing group instead of a thread, make a circle.