Annotations

Manga109
Annotations.

All works in Manga109 are annotated with detailed labels for characters, faces, bodies, frames, and text. If you wish to use the annotations, please contact us from the Download page.

Example of Manga109 annotations
Example of Manga109 annotations (face, body, frame, and text).
01 / Structure

Annotation format.

Each volume of manga corresponds to a single XML file. The XML files are UTF-8 encoded and structured in the following way.

  • bookTitle of the work
    • charactersList of characters appearing in the work
      • character
      • character
      • …
    • pagesList of pages in double-page spread manner
      • page
      • page
      • …

character gives the correspondence between each character's name and its ID. page gives an overview (page number, image size) and the objects' information in the page. There are four types of objects; each has an object ID, rectangular area (xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax), and additional information specific to the object type. All IDs are 8-digit hexadecimal numbers and are unique throughout this dataset.

01

face

Face of a character.

Character ID is attached.
02

body

Body of a character.

Character ID is attached.
03

text

Typed text and some handwritten text.

Text content is recorded.
04

frame

Frame of a panel.

No additional information.

For detailed criteria, please see the Annotation Criteria ↗.

02 / Statistics

Statistics.

Version #Volume #Images #Annotated #Face #Body #Text #Frame
v2023.12.07 latest 109 10,602 10,130 118,593 157,234 147,887 103,850
v2021.12.30 109 10,602 10,130 118,593 157,234 147,887 103,850
v2020.12.18 109 10,619 10,130 118,593 157,234 147,887 103,850
v2018.05.31 109 10,619 10,130 118,715 157,152 147,918 103,900
03 / Example

XML example.

An excerpt from an XML file is shown below.

<book title="YamatoNoHane">
    <characters>
        <character id="0007a833" name="鳥羽大和"/>
        <character id="0007a840" name="鳥羽撫子"/>
        <character id="0007a877" name="沢本翔"/>
        <character id="0007aac7" name="_Other"/>
        <character id="0007aafe" name="大和の母"/>
        <character id="0007ad16" name="サッカー部顧問"/>
        <character id="0007ad56" name="早坂"/>
        <character id="0007ad91" name="バドミントン部顧問"/>
        <character id="0007adc7" name="大和の父"/>
        <character id="0007b24c" name="高津仁"/>
        <character id="0007b278" name="小野"/>
        <character id="0007b451" name="小泉正平"/>
    </characters>
    <pages>

        ...

        <page index="6" width="1654" height="1170">
            <text id="0007a8bc" xmin="677" ymin="817" xmax="755" ymax="928">なかなか奥まで飛ばないし</text>
            <body id="0007a8bd" xmin="907" ymin="222" xmax="1060" ymax="500" character="0007a840"/>
            <body id="0007a8be" xmin="332" ymin="458" xmax="744" ymax="792" character="0007a833"/>
            <text id="0007a8bf" xmin="58" ymin="181" xmax="134" ymax="407">オレは運動神経いいからそんなのカンタン</text>
            <body id="0007a8c0" xmin="1223" ymin="55" xmax="1567" ymax="500" character="0007a840"/>
            <text id="0007a8c1" xmin="681" ymin="472" xmax="768" ymax="747">第一バドミントンなんて女子のやるスポーツだろー？</text>
            <text id="0007a8c2" xmin="999" ymin="96" xmax="1040" ymax="152">肘から前へ</text>
            <frame id="0007a8c3" xmin="88" ymin="67" xmax="422" ymax="445"/>
            <face id="0007a8c7" xmin="393" ymin="944" xmax="423" ymax="979" character="0007a840"/>
            ...
        </page>

        ...

    </pages>
</book>