I'm broadly interested in the MBTI personality framework, and I also love anime. For those who don't know what MBTI is, here is a great diagram that illustrate what it is. Once I was searching for the personality type of my favorite anime character, and I noticed that there might be a relationship between how an anime character looks v.s. what's their personality types.

Personality database is a great way to obtain character arts, anime name, and their personality types. Here we scraped all characters in the top anime in the chart. The information include: anime name, genre, character name, MBTI type and enneagram type.

All enneagram types are in the format of [main_type]w[wing_type]. Wing type is the type that is nearby the main type (plus/minus one from the main type) that you identify most with.

In the image folder, you have subfolders named with the anime and avatars of characters in that anime. Note that:

1. The folder name could be different from the anime name because folder name doesn't allow certain characters.
2. Same with the image file name.
3. Avatar image could be empty.

Using this dataset, one can train a facial attributes detector to extract attributes like hair color, eye color, eye wear, facial hair, and so on.

On the other hand, you can also just train it as a classical image classification task.

One might also consider just use this to analyze popular types in anime.

Happy coding!

Github source code: https://github.com/tianyimasf/tidy-tuesday-social-dataset-analysis/blob/main/scrape_anime_character.py