TheRealVigilante/Processed_Top_15k_Anime

📦 Anime Recommender Dataset (Sentence-BERT Ready)

This dataset is a cleaned and preprocessed version of the Top 15,000 Ranked Anime Dataset originally published on Kaggle by Quan Than. It is specifically prepared to be used for semantic recommendation systems, including transformer-based models like Sentence-BERT.

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📌 Original Dataset

Source: Kaggle - Top 15,000 Ranked Anime Dataset (updated to Mar 2025)
Author: Quan Than
License: Apache 2.0

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🔧 Modifications & Enhancements

The original dataset has been modified for better use in AI-driven recommendation tasks:

✅ Column Cleanup

• Removed excessive trailing spaces and newline artifacts in all fields.
• Standardized formatting across fields like genres, studios, producers.

✅ Feature Engineering

• Added a new column called combined_features, which concatenates the most relevant text fields:
  • genres
  • type
  • studios
  • producers
  • source
  • rating
  • synopsis

This column is intended for use in embedding generation via NLP models (e.g. Sentence-BERT, TfidfVectorizer).

✅ Consistency Fixes

• Ensured that all text fields are valid UTF-8.
• Filled missing or null values with empty strings ('') for compatibility with model pipelines.

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🧠 Use Case

This dataset is designed to be used in content-based anime recommender systems, especially those using semantic similarity techniques. Typical workflow:

1. Load the combined_features column.
2. Generate embeddings using a model like all-MiniLM-L6-v2 (from sentence-transformers).
3. Use cosine similarity to find top matches.
4. Filter or rank based on score, popularity, or genre.

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🗂 Columns

Column	Description
anime_id	MyAnimeList unique ID
anime_url	URL to the anime’s MAL page
image_url	Link to the anime’s poster image
name	Primary title
english_name	English-translated title (if any)
japanese_names	Japanese name(s)
score	Average user score
genres	Comma-separated genres
synopsis	Full text description
type	Format: TV, Movie, OVA, etc.
episodes	Number of episodes
premiered	Season/year it first aired
producers	Companies involved in production
studios	Animation studio(s)
source	Original work type (Manga, Light Novel, etc.)
duration	Time per episode
rating	Content rating (e.g., PG-13, R)
rank	Rank on MAL
popularity	Popularity rank
favorites	Number of users marking it as favorite
scored_by	Number of users who rated it
members	Number of users in total interested
combined_features	Custom field combining genres, studios, synopsis, etc. for embeddings use

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📂 Format

• File: anime.csv
• Encoding: UTF-8
• Format: Standard CSV
• Rows: ~15,000 (depending on filtering)
• Columns: 23 including combined_features

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🙌 Author Notes

This dataset was prepared by:

👨‍💻 Youssef ElNahas — aka TheVigilante

• 🔗 GitHub Profile
• 💬 For collaboration or feedback, feel free to reach out!

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🛡️ Disclaimer

This dataset is a derivative of the publicly shared dataset on Kaggle. Please ensure you review and comply with the original dataset’s license and usage terms.