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In the past, I've used apps that have suggested films, books, or music to me
based on a set of items I've enjoyed that I provide to the app.

Is there anything like that for anime? Basically I'm looking for something in
which I can input that I like anime X, Y and Z and for it to suggest that I
might like anime A because it has similar themes, or because other people who
like X, Y and Z have also said they like A.


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Are there any anime suggestion engines?


Yes there are engine's such as that. A good sample would if you are a owner of
a filled in [Myanimelist](http://myanimelist.net/). If you have that can go to
mal graph mal.oku.im and see recommended. I attached my own recommended as a
sample for this. <http://mal.oko.im/d3ullist/recs,anime>

Then again in the end it all depends on your own taste´s.


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[Anime-Planet](http://www.anime-planet.com/) and
[MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/) have user submitted suggestions for
shows on a "if you liked X, you might like Y" setup.

As a developer myself, this is something I've wanted to look into making, and
MyAnimeList seems to be the most common site to be used for an engine as they
provide an API to programmers.

**Anime-Planet Recommendations:**

_Per-show Recommendations:_ ![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/M2AVNl.png)

**Update:** Anime-Planet now have version 1 of a _personalized recommendation
engine_ that works off what you have already seen

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PSHysm.jpg)

**MyAnimeList Recommendations:**

_Per show recommendations_

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/agwk3l.png)

There are a couple of engines based off of MyAnimeList that people have made
such as [AnimeRecs](http://www.animerecs.com/) (which is down at the moment)
or [mal.oko.im](http://mal.oko.im/)

There's also a new anime cataloguer [Hummingbird](http://hummingbird.me/)
which gives you a range of recommendations based on what you've watched, what
genres you like, which are your favourites. It seems to be the easiest to
access and isn't soley show-specific.

**Hummingbird Suggestions:**

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TJLcq.png)

**Other Sources** Other websites which provide anime have recommendations
engine built in, Usually these are based off of what similarly interested
people have enjoyed also.

Crunchyroll (Thanks @David_Starkey ):

![Crunchyroll](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z5jfP.jpg)

Amazon:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aeR2i.jpg)


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There aren't really dedicated "suggestion engines" for anime. your best bet is
looking through places like [MyAnimeList] or [AnimePlanet]. Otherwise, you can
go through something like [this](http://thatanimesite.tv/anime-list/), scroll
through to something that has genres you like, and look for whether or not it
is highly rated.

In the end, there are plenty of websites you can go to that will give you info
about series, recommendations, suggestions, etc., but nothing with a dedicated
system. Just use a bunch'a different sites, and you won't go wrong.


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Just to add to the list, there's also [anidb](http://anidb.net/perl-
bin/animedb.pl?show=main) which will also provide related, similar, and random
anime recommendations


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I love this site: <http://animesuggestions.com/>

You just type any anime you like, _e.g. "One Piece" or "Hunter x Hunter"_ ,
and it shows you a bunch of similar animes from which you can choose whatever
catches your eyes, I guess.

(I only tried it once and I searched "Nagi no Asukara" and found "Elfen Lied",
and I really liked it, okay?)


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[AniDB](http://anidb.net) also has a recommendation feature. To use it, you
need to add the series and episodes you watched to your AniDB MyList. Most
importantly, you also need to _rate_ the series from 1 to 10 (10 being best).

The system then uses some hidden algorithm based on what you voted and what
others voted and thereby predicts your votes for series you have not yet
watched. You can even remove recommendations from the prediction list if you
say ‘I’m not going to watch that, stop telling me I’m going to rate it with a
9’.

Note that for recommendations to work best, you should attempt to vote in a
way that puts your median at 5.5 and resembles a standard distribution. While
the system ‘corrects’ votes for overall series ratings, if you use exaggerated
votes you will also receive exaggerated vote predictions (such as 13, which is
obviously larger than 10).


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[graph.anime.plus](http://graph.anime.plus) is a great analyser for your
myanimelist profile.  
On top of giving you a great deal of information on your habits and breakdowns
on what you've listed it appears to just trawls through your favs and pulls
the mal recommendations ( ~~it'd be damn cool if it~~ _[I've found a damn cool
tool that](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/39574/23554)_ finds similar-
minded people and recommend things you haven't seen that they liked).

![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tJ7ra.png)

Another thing it does in the same tab is show you related items that you
haven't seen yet, which may yield a sequel or cool OVA you missed

![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iOXKh.png)

* * *

* * *

[AniPlan](https://www.anime-planet.com/forum/threads/new-feature-personal-
anime-suggestions-for-you.225602/) does both of these too

![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wMrHF.png)


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adding another answer since this is a drastically different way to go about it

You can use [affinity.animesos.net](http://affinity.animesos.net/) to search
for other people that share your tastes (based on mal's affinity).

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/twWbM.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/twWbM.png)

Wow, someone with >95% affinity! Click their name to see their profile, then
simply click the "~ shared" link.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mfTfJ.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mfTfJ.png)

I recommend sorting by score and first looking at what you two agreed on and
what you didn't to be able to gauge where their tastes will apply to you, then
just scroll down to the "Unique to [them]" section to add some of their
favourites to your plan-to-watch!

* * *

Disclosure though; see how the affinity search said we only shared 11, yet mal
says we share 79? Mal includes the unscored entries as items able to be common
between people.

[Here's a link to the comparison
page](https://myanimelist.net/shared.php?u1=_Arris_&u2=Hashbrown777&type=anime&o=2),
we might not be a great pair to extrapolate our opinions to each other.  
So I bumped the search requirements to only use people with 50 shared titles,
and that dropped my closest match to 69% affinity, [but have a look at our
comparisons
page](https://myanimelist.net/shared.php?u1=Oliver255&u2=Hashbrown777&type=anime&o=2).

This should be a much more useful match to find new anime, especially if I
work my way down the result list and see any titles that continue to pop up in
a lot of peoples lists. Good luck!


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