References

This section is relevant only if you wish to fully fill all the information on your karaoke.

Websites

When you edit or add a song, it’s important to have good references so not to make a mistake when naming artists, singers, songwriters, studios, etc.

Beware, some of them use a particular writing style (with quotes or other special characters).

• For animation :

  • anidb (songs tab on an anime page, right after the Anime Tags section )
  • MyAnimeList
  • vgmdb
  • Series-centric wikis
  • Wikipedia (check all languages)
  • NicoNico / BiliBili (for AMVs)

• For video games and visual novels :

  • vndb
  • Series-centric wikis
  • Wikipédia (check all languages)

• For tokusatsu and live series:

  • Series-centric wikis
  • Wikipédia (check all languages)

• And as a rule of thumb :

  • Google (!)

Lyrics

• Lyrical Nonsense : Probably one of the best. Lyrics in kanjis + romajis and sometimes more. They’re very active about adding new lyrics and update those after the single’s released (which gives us the precious booklets containing lyrics). In order to know if one of their transciptions is an ear-made one, scroll down and you will see the status, “official” “transliteration” or “by ear”. You will usually also get the song’s release date.
• VGMdb : A huge database containing singles / albums / OST released to this day. You’ll sometimes find booklet scans by looking on the right at the “cover” field on the song’s page.
• Anime Lyrics
• Anime Song Lyrics
• Asia Lyrics