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Bartłomiej Buchała edited this page Mar 18, 2026 · 66 revisions

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Important - current documentation is for versions 1.x of library and is largely obsolete (although most of the endpoints overlaps). The newer version of documentation is now part of the repository under docs

Link to docs

Old (v1) documentation

Getting started

Using own instance of Jikan

Rate Limiting

Migrating to version 2.0

Available methods

Anime

Characters

Club

Manga

People

Rankings

Season

Search

Users

Other

Jikan Metadata

Quick Start

C#

// Initialize JikanWrapper
var jikan = new Jikan();

// Send request for "Cowboy Bebop" anime
Anime cowboyBebop = await jikan.GetAnimeAsync(1);

// Output -> "Cowboy Bebop"
Console.WriteLine(cowboyBebop.Data.Title);
// Output -> "TV"
Console.WriteLine(cowboyBebop.Data.Type);
// Output -> "R - 17+ (violence & profanity)"
Console.WriteLine(cowboyBebop.Data.Rating);


// Send request for "Berserk" manga
var berserkManga = await jikan.GetMangaAsync(2);

// Output -> "Berserk"
Console.WriteLine(berserkManga.Data.Title);
// Output -> "Publishing"
Console.WriteLine(berserkManga.Data.Status);


// Send request for Hayao Miyazaki
var hayaoMiyazaki = awiat jikan.GetPersonAsync(1870);

// Output -> "宮崎"
Console.WriteLine(hayaoMiyazaki.Data.FamilyName);


// Send request for Lain Iwakura
var lainIwakura = await jikan.GetCharacterAsync(2219);


// Output -> "https://myanimelist.net/character/2219/Lain_Iwakura"
Console.WriteLine(lainIwakura.Data.Url);

var lainVA = await jikan.GetCharacterAnimeAsync(2219);

// List Lain's voice actresses with their respective languages
foreach (var entry in lainVA)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Name: " + entry.Person.Name + ", language: " + entry.Language);
}

var lainAnime = await jikan.GetCharacterAnimeAsync(2219);

// List all anime in which Lain appeared
foreach (var entry in lainAnime)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Title: " + entry.Anime.Title);
}

General information

Home Page

Getting started

Using own instance of Jikan

Migrating to version 2.0

Rate limiting

Winforms issue

Methods

Anime

Characters

Club

Manga

People

Rankings

Season

Search

Users

Other

Jikan Metadata

Class Schema

Main Classes

Secondary Classes

Search related classes

Enumerations Schema

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