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About Anime Anki Generator

Work in progress! If you find bugs or issues, please report them using the Feedback button in the bottom right corner.

This tool creates personalized Anki flashcard decks from anime subtitles. Search for an anime, choose your JLPT level, and get a deck of vocabulary cards featuring:

• Words actually used in that anime, with the real sentence they appear in
• A short meaning that fits the sentence, plus the full dictionary entry
• A one-line kanji mnemonic, with radical breakdown as fallback
• Word-by-word sentence breakdown (gloss)
• Grammar or usage notes when they help
• Dictionary form surfaced for conjugated words (e.g. 食べます of 食べる)
• Audio for both the sentence and the word

Two ways to study

• Kanji mode: read the sentence, recall the reading and meaning
• Audio mode: listen to the sentence, recall the word

Toggle between modes inside the preview — same cards, two angles.

Study in your browser

After generation you get a preview link with a flippable grid of all your cards. Bookmark it and come back anytime — your study session lives in the browser, no install needed.

How it works

1. Subtitles are fetched from Kitsunekko or Jimaku. Non-Japanese files and pure-Chinese lines are filtered out
2. Text is tokenized, sorted by frequency, and filtered to your JLPT level
3. For each word, a real anime sentence is selected; one LLM call generates contextual meaning, sentence reading, kanji mnemonic, gloss, and optional notes
4. Audio is produced via TTS (cached, so repeat words cost nothing)
5. The preview deck is saved to disk and surfaced via /preview/<deck>

What's from where

• From dictionaries: JLPT word lists, kanji radicals, ateji detection (JMdict)
• From subtitles: the anime sentence and word frequency
• LLM-generated: contextual meaning, translation, mnemonic, gloss, grammar notes

Limitations

• No pitch accent. Word audio lacks pitch accent marking.
• TTS readings. May mispronounce anime-specific names and terms.
• Generated content. Translations and explanations may contain mistakes.
• Subtitle availability. Not all anime have subtitles available.
• JLPT filtering. Some words may be miscategorized by level.
• Ateji detection. JMdict doesn't tag all phonetic kanji words, so some may show misleading breakdowns.

Free to use, limited to 50 words/week per person.