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How do I use search

First of all, you have to know what are you looking for. Is it an anime, or is it a person or maybe an anime character. You have to make a selection at Search In based on what are you looking for. Select:

• Anime titles - if you looking for anime by title
• Manga titles - if you looking for manga by title
• Seiyuu* - if you looking for a voice talent (seiyuu) behind anime characters
• Person* - if you looking for a person behind the anime/manga (author, animator, etc)
• Anime character - if your looking for anime character
• Manga character - if your looking for manga character

Next, type in your query at the Search for field. Pick the input as good as possible because garbage in usually results in garbage out.

Then pick your search method by selecting one of the radio button.

Smart Search is the default search method. This method will choose the best (most of time) combination for the search. For example, if you are looking for a person named Hayashibara Megumi (last name, first name) and you typed in Megumi Hayashibara, Smart method will search for Hayashibara Megumi (last name, first name) and Megumi Hayashibara (first name, last name). This search method will search differently if you are looking for anime title instead of a person's name.

Exact Match is the search method for you if you looking for an exact match, word-to-word (case insensitive) with you search query.

Keywords is the search method to look entries that contain your search query partially or the entire phrase. For example, 'select one' will give you results like 'select one not two', 'computer will select one winner only', and 'deselect one from the top'

Any is looking for any combination for your search queries. For example 'view result' will give you results like 'these are the result', 'results can be viewed with browser', and 'result is not always the right answer'