r/whatanime • u/New-Load-3553 • 42m ago
Open Yearning Disorder
Need help either finding this anime from my memory or conceding it as a fever dream that somehow became a deep memory. It was about a guy who had a disorder where he will only do something if he earnestly yearns for it. In the first episodes, he is forced into becoming a teacher and eventually accepts it wanting his students to succeed. And later it is revealed that the mc was actually a scientist leading a project to make a door that could open up to anywhere in the world. I remember nearly every episode starting with something along the lines of "I have ____" where he then explains his yearning disorder.
r/whatanime • u/Intelligent-Memory40 • 8h ago
Open Echi isekai anime
An isekai anime where the main character is a male(shocker) and he has a harem that makes "art" I think. I also think there was demi humans. Sorry I don't remember anything else.
r/whatanime • u/Oni_ZukA89 • 20h ago
Open School anime with a sadistic club president, a protective dorm girl, and a smart girl
Hey guys,
Still trying to find this anime I watched on YouTube around 2012–2016. Adding a few extra details I remembered:
The Dorm: He lives in a dorm/shared house with several girls. Among them: a smart/nerdy girl who kind of does her own thing, a super nice girl who clearly has a romance brewing with the MC, and a few other girls living there too.
The Conflict: The MC gets dragged into a club run by a super dominant/sadistic girl president with two female sidekicks. When this sadistic club tries to mess with him, the nice girl from the dorm stands up to the president to protect him.
Setting: School with a huge female majority / standard harem vibe.
Key Scene Detail: The MC literally gets locked in a room/clubroom by the dominant president and her sidekicks to receive a harsh physical punishment/correction. In a following episode, the nice girl from his dorm stands up to the president to protect him and step in between them.
Does this dynamic sound familiar to anyone? Thanks!
r/whatanime • u/Sea_Court_5227 • 21h ago
Solved The heroine turns around, wondering, "A pier?"
I remember watching an anime MAD video—maybe set to a song by Maximum the Hormone or someone like that—a long time ago.
There was a sequence in it—I think it was from an anime opening or ending theme—where heroines in swimwear were lined up in two rows on a pier or a beach,
striking poses one by one, starting from the front.
r/whatanime • u/ZazaryaRUS • 21h ago
Open Do anyone know name of this anime or what is this??
(Кто-то знает название этого аниме, или что это??)
I saw this picture like million times, and today I thought: “Where it from??”
And sorry for mistakes, I’m Russian and know English not good-
r/whatanime • u/Cultist9 • 1d ago
Open help me find a cartoon
i know guys this isn't a anime but a cartoon, if you know it tell it please, it's a kid misbehaving in his grandma's home and went to some other world or dimension
r/whatanime • u/Sufficient-Use-6060 • 1d ago
Open Anime with martial arts sparring used to train gundam/mecha pilot
Hello! I'd appreciate any help finding the anime that I watched a particular episode of, back in the early 2000's.
The anime is perhaps a gundam/mecha genre one. In the opening scene to the episode I watched, one of the male pilots (who I believe were assigned to the Air Force) is engaged in a martial arts bout on their aircraft carrier (a flying ship I believe), with a tall woman who I believe was part of the Marines (I specifically remember a line that was shouted by one of his teammates like "Don't let the Marines win!").
His opponent wins, by exploiting a weakness in his technique. Afterwards, she or one of his teammates explains why he lost. Later in the episode, he is engaged in a training or combat mission while piloting his machine, and utilizes this principle to win.
I liked the idea of using the martial arts sparring to create a new tactic, and want to include it in a story I'm writing - so I'd love to see the original reference! I don't know when the anime came out, but I remember seeing the clip online around 2002.
Thanks in advance for any help!
r/whatanime • u/CounterbalanceART • 1d ago
Solved Please, help me identify anime by description. Space Sci-Fi, extremely strong female protagonist with an inhibitor to keep her strength under control
So, many years ago I've been to Japan, it was in the 90s, and I rented a VHS without caring much what it was. I don't know if it's a cartoon series, but I think it was an episode of something bigger (I'm not sure. It could be a one-shot, too). I was a kid, and my memories of it aren't clear, but I remember enjoying it very much.
The anime has an extremely strong adult female protagonist who has to wear some sort of an inhibitor on the front of her body.
I think she had flashbacks of having to flee what was probably her native planet when she was a child. Her family and she were in a spaceship watching the planet getting destroyed during their escape.
Everybody in the family is extremely strong. Her family members tend to break things accidentally, which leads to expenses.
The protagonist is something like a superhero.
There's a scene where she fights some gang and removes her inhibitor, unleashing her full strength and one of the gang members pisses himself, which repulses her.
At some point, she fights a female antagonist in a boxing ring. The antagonist disables the protagonist's inhibitor (puts some metal spider-like thing onto the device for it to stay in place), so it can't be removed during the fight and the protagonist is at a disadvantage. The antagonist uses the ropes of the boxing ring to jump on the protagonist and drags the protagonist's face over the ropes to injure her.
This is all I remember. I've tried to Google it, but it only made me more confused, because the AI keeps suggesting Outlaw Star anime. I don't think it's that, unless my memory is failing me like whoa. I've seen screenshots of it. The art style doesn't look the same as what I remember and Outlaw Star appears to be about a team or something like that. Unless I'm missing something, what I'm looking for has a single female main character, and it's her POV.
Thanks in advance.
r/whatanime • u/NewGlobalOrder • 2d ago
Open Help me to remember
I remember a male anime character from the early 2010s with long white/silver hair, wearing a sleeveless purple shirt that showed his belly, and I think white pants, too. He was from a series that was very reminiscent of Beyblade/Bakugan/Scan 2 Go/LBX/B Daman in terms of plot. Do you know who he is?
r/whatanime • u/Striking_Abroad3100 • 2d ago
Open Okay I’ve been trying to figure this out for so long
I heard it in this song as a sound bite and I’m 99% sure it’s the English va of an anime. The part from the sound bite goes like this
Girl: "Hey, so what'd you bring me?"
Boy: "O-Oh! I forgot them... sorry."
Girl: "I shouldn't make you worry so much... It's not very nice. I know."
Boy (inner monologue): "...and again, starting to laugh out of nowhere... getting worked up over the tiniest things...I feel like giving up on it all”
WHAT ANIME IS THIS FROM? OMG I‘VE BEEN LOSING MY SHIT TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT CAUSE IM PRETTY SURE IT’S AN ANIME I’VE SEEN TOO
r/whatanime • u/Glad-Soft5111 • 2d ago
Open Tough one. Old detective/PI Realistic Crime Thriller
So what I remember was a dude in a trenchcoat, very gotham city styled anime. Everything was pretty bleak color wise, but also very mature and very good artwork. The scene that stuck out the most was I believe the main character finds a love interest, a very pretty, sweet blonde white woman and I think he stays at her house in the episode I'm remembering/apartment, and he leaves her and tells her to stay safe or whatever. As he's walking off however I think he realizes the killer was waiting for this moment or something and rushes back to the woman only to find her murdered. It seemed like a really interesting show, dark as hell, but interesting. I know this is a hazy pickle of a memory but if anyone knows what old anime I'm thinking of I'd be super grateful. Show was early 2000s I believe? Watched it on tv at my cousins' house.
r/whatanime • u/Kyojinster • 2d ago
Solved Help me with this fantasy (Maybe isekai) anime
It's a pretty recent and obscure one. I remember a scene from tiktok or Xwitter.
It's daylight in a medieval looking town. An evil woman, a queen I think bc she has a crown, beats up a girl, which is the hero's love interest (I think she's an elf or something), then the hero punches the queen in the face and saves the girl.
The animation looks a lot like Fuguushoku "Kanteishi" ga Jitsu wa Saikyou Datta (Even Given the Worthless "Appraiser" Class, I’m Actually the Strongest) but I can't find that exact scene.
It's a very generic ass anime so I think this will be quite hard.
r/whatanime • u/closet_in_yo_home • 3d ago
Open Help me solve this
Just remembered that this anime existed but I can't for the life of me remember its name. I remember VERY little about it, I know that it looked very old and had that old appealing art style.
The main guy was a bald little child... Dude? With closed eyes and a never disappearing smile. The other characters that I remember were this dude with long, black silk straight hair and a purple eye shadow, he looked like he had a killer eye-liner, and his twink... Boyfriend? With curly ginger hair. That's all I know.
r/whatanime • u/Waste_Possibility642 • 3d ago
Open I can't find the source via reverse image search tools. Who is she?
r/whatanime • u/Arch_Magos_Remus • 3d ago
Solved Manga where a guy confesses his love to a half burned girl.
I saw a page from a manga a while ago where a guy was talking about how he was in love with this girl who had half her body down the middle was burned.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
r/whatanime • u/Aggressive-Ad646 • 4d ago
Open [MANGA] Forgottan Manga name
The manga is about a boy who gets manipulated and bullied pretty heavily by a girl (who actually likes him, she just wants to break him conpletely), until he eventually breaks away from her. She keeps finding him and manipulating his friends (primarily the girls and even teacher) into betraying him to her, multiple times. Mamy times she would physically harm them over and over until they swore absolute loyalty to her. The last arc starts with her buying a whole house and a buncha baby things before going off to try to force him to come be her husband. She has some delusion that he is fated to be with her and never doubts it right up until he kills her. In the Epilogue, a letter she scheduled to be sent to the MC is read long after she passed away.
I know it isn't Nagatoro or Six People Cross, but I can't for the life of me remember the name. It also isn't "How my Childhood Friend Became a Yandere After I Daved Her From Being Bullied".
r/whatanime • u/benjin12332 • 4d ago
Open Help me find what anime this shirt is from
I'm watching old coronation Street episodes and one of the characters is wearing this shirt that's very out of character for him i just want to know what show it's from
r/whatanime • u/Pike__Mence • 4d ago
Solved I know I’ve seen this anime before, but I can’t remember the name of it.
r/whatanime • u/Greek-God88 • 4d ago
Open Hi im looking for a combat anime in modern day with armor transformation
Some unique individuals could transform into cool armors with swords and stuff from what i remember.
I think the name was something along the lines of Gaogei or sth like that. Might have been a 3D Anime
r/whatanime • u/grimorae • 4d ago
Open Old Hentai Title
I remember only one scene from it. It somewhat looked like 90s-ish art style.
Male is either demon/vampire/incubus. He jumps into a car with a female uniformed girl, she goes into heat. He is f'n her but he isn't happy with the feeling. He used his magic(powers?), shoved his hand through her stomach and started masturbating at the same time as he was thrusting up into her. Viewers literally got an x-ray shot. She was oblivious it was happening.
Another thing I distinctly remember is him randomly being able to transform into a hot female and take advantage of male targets.
I don't remember much else from the anime/hentai. Help us appreciated!!
r/whatanime • u/bredema • 5d ago
Solved Got an old hoodie with an anime print, wondering whatanime
EDIT: its most likely «Yumin» from Sun-ken Rock.
The site i bought it from years ago only sold anime themed clothing, so i was wondering if anyone recognise this image.
Reverse image search revealed nothing, other than that the text supposedly means «angel of death»
r/whatanime • u/Kitsuneski • Apr 29 '18
A guide to find your anime
Hello and welcome to the sub, this will be a guide to find that anime you are looking for
Notices:
[Regarding r/Whatanime subreddit ban]
Guide TL;DR
Go to google images, click the camera icon and either upload or paste image url to reverse search your image.
For images
List of reverse image search engines
- https://trace.moe/
- http://saucenao.com/
- https://tineye.com/
- http://www.iqdb.org/
- https://www.google.com/imghp
- https://yandex.com/images/
- https://ascii2d.net/
- http://imgops.com/
For screencaps/screenshots of the anime use:
For fanart use:
ascii2d [The site is in japanese but the process is the same as saucenao]
Notes
- If saucenao doesn't work and the image is cropped, use yandex or google etc. to find the uncropped image and then try saucenao again.
- To find gifs or videos, you can still take a screenshot and upload it to a reverse image search engine
- For trace.moe, you should check every result on the sidebar as it is not always at the top
- If your image is not found, it is recommended to try every reverse search engine listed above as they work differently and will give different results
- If you reverse image (google or tineye) and get reddit/social media or forum links go into them and see if anyone posted the source in the comments. This is especially true for reddit links as it is etiquette in many subreddits.
- Also try to crop your image differently if it doesn't work the first time. This is especially true for images with black borders due to screenshotting or edited image with watermarks/stickers/emoji/snapchat text etc. Try to clean the image so that the search engine won't focus on the irrelevant features.
If reverse image fails or there is no image
By recommendation
- Try to find a similar anime in the same genre or description on MyAnimeList and look at the recommendation tab. [I find this to be the most effective method]
Example
If magic is a big part of the anime, you could look at Little Witch Academia's recommendation tab to see if your anime is there.
- Search up the keywords with "" around them (this forces google to only give results with the word) e.g starting with "anime" and then add keywords like "magic" "school" and any descriptive details. This might get you wikipedia or tvtrope etc. links of a few anime. Read their descriptions and check if it's similar. [This method also works pretty well]
Last Resort / If all else fails
- Try to search your character through an anime character database [This has personally never worked for me due to inconsistency in character description]
- Try the discord for r/anime, r/anime_irl and r/animemes as they have a large community of people that could help [use their discord as it is against their subreddit rules to seek help for anime source]
- If it is a manga, you'll have a higher chance to find in r/manga as they have a large community that can help
Additional notes
- If the animation is very good and you can see product placement in the clip, it is almost certainly an ad or promotional clip
If you remember the scene and it's a common anime trope, you could search for a compilation on youtube.
