There are a few ways you can utilize Anime Decks effectively if you’re looking to save time in exchange for space in your Anki library. How can I actually utilize this giant amount of cards? Seems Convoluted See my blog post on Anki Card Templates and how to convert – See below for the post on Anki Card Templates. You can actually take the data on any of the decks you find, and convert the cards to a new card type, depending on what you prefer. Reading, Listening, or Vocab Cards? Can I just converting the Decks to 1 format: Simply download the deck, open it in Anki, move it around and change the format. You can stick the decks in a hierarchy in an Anki profile of your choice: The average anime deck with images and audio may take 200-500MB of space in Anki, so considering the space is takes on your devices as well. Syncing doesn’t slow down with large collections with Anki on PC/Mac and Ankimobile. On iOS, it’s fine to stockpile decks, because it’ll save you time searching for the cards.

If you plan to rep on mobile, you’re going to want to put your cards in a separate profiule if you run Android. Ankimobile (Anki for iOS) is a native and proper port of Anki, and can handle a giant deck like this. Where should I put these? In My Main profile or separate?Īnki won’t slowdown significantly even if you have 300k cards in your deck, but Ankidroid (Anki for Android) will be unusable long before that point. There are ways you can efficiently utilize a premade anime deck to save yourself time from mining at the computer every day. You can also copy the entire line or part of the line from the show, then find the card, and move it to your main deck and study it. Or you can just do a daily amount of new vocab from an anime you’re watching. You can watch and read and do your lookups as you want, maybe write down the words, and then find sentences later. This is an alternative to mining vocab cards and sentences cards as you immerse. Here it’ll say “Being an adult is hard for everybody.” Here we also have the English Translation as a clickable hint.

The front has a picture from the show along with a line from the script in Kanji, and the back has the Kanji+Furigana reading for the sentence, the audio, and the definition. Here’s an example of a Japanese Reading Sentence Card. Optionally, there may be an English translation of the show which can aid context (especially if you haven’t seen the show, or haven’t seen it in a while).

Anime decks are essentially the entire script of an anime, converted to Anki cards.Įach card will have a screenshot of the show, the audio for the line, and the Japanese script.

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