[toyg]

I struggle to understand the general negativity of this thread. Like zillions of other projects seen on HN, this is just someone playing around and offering a service others may or may not find interesting.

Sure, the dataset is currently small, but it can easily get bigger if anyone starts doing things like marking appearance times, quotes with translations, pictures and so on.

Sure, it might not be an official Ghibli project, in the same way IMDB or ComicDB did not start as official projects.

I personally find it fun and will look into building something with it, just for kicks. One obvious application would be a GMap mashup with locations, at least for the realistic films. Another would be a Youtube mashup with clips for each element.

Sometimes the internet seems too cynical even for a sad old fart like me.