Submit an anime

Want to help out by submitting and anime? Awesome! Take a read of the criteria below, upload your screenshots to an accessible place, then fill in the form below.

Criteria

Any anime - series, movie, OVA, web short - from any time is valid as long as:

• It hasn't already been done - for obvious reasons I can't list out all the anime done so far so have a dig through the archive
• Isn't hentai
• Has finished airing

Screenshots

Choosing good screenshots for your chosen anime is the hardest part. Below are some tips that may help you:

1. GuessThatAnime visitors are fantastic at guessing anime from the most obscure screenshots (database animals), so be wary of your screenshots being too easy
2. For the first screenshot locations or abstract shots are great, make sure to keep it fair though: if someone has just marathon'ed the anime and the first thing they do afterwards is load up GuessThatAnime, they should be able to identify the first shot
3. The third and fourth screenshots are usually the trickiest to judge the difficulty of - they could be side characters (pets and mascots are perfect), flashbacks, in-universe artwork, or even main characters in disguise, as soon as you introduce character faces though it can be easy to narrow down the director or artist
4. The sixth shot should be an eyecatch or an obvious group shot, by now if someone has ever seen the anime they should get it
5. Some anime have a very distinctive art style which can make them super easy to guess regardless of the screenshot, so you might have to get creative
6. The more well-known and recent an anime the easier it will be to identify, feel free to ramp up the difficulty
7. Misdirection is encouraged e.g. if several anime share characters or technology
8. Try to avoid any Japanese text that may give things away to those who can read it e.g. character or location names
9. No extreme violence or anything too lascivious - it's fine for the anime to be spicy, just make sure the screenshots are SFW
10. If the anime is split-cour, only use screenshots from the first
11. Please no subtitles in your screenshots
12. Screenshots should be as high-resolution as possible, at least 720px wide (DVD resolution)

Getting screenshots

The easiest way to get screenshots is to check out FanCaps.net who have a huge number of anime to choose from.

If FanCaps.net don't have the anime or screenshot you want, and you're watching via a streaming service (Hulu, Netflix, Crunchyroll etc.) then the easiest way of getting a screenshot is to use your OS's functionality:

• Windows
• MacOS
• iOS
• Android

There may also be browser extensions you can use to make the process a little easier, I don't use any but if you know of a good one let me know.

If you're watching media files locally, using something like VLC will allow you to take screenshots.

If you do have media files, and you want to take multiple screenshots then pick the ones you want, and don't mind using the command line:

1. Grab FFMPEG for your platform and install it
2. Work out how many screenshots you want - I usually go for 250 as for a ~24 minute episode, that's a screenshot every six seconds or so
3. Use a calculator and work out how frequently to take a screenshot: length in seconds / amount; e.g. 1440 / 250 = 5.76
4. Use the following FFMPEG command: ffmpeg -v quiet -stats -i yourmediafile.mkv -vf fps=1/fromstep3 "%06d.jpg"
5. You should now have a directory full of images named sequentially e.g. 000001.jpg, 000002.jpg

If you're on MacOS or Linux and are comfortable installing scripts, I made one that automates the FFMPEG process.