How We Verify Quotes

Every quote on this site cites a source you can check. When a quote fails verification, it is deleted, not softened. This page explains the machinery, because a claim of accuracy that cannot be inspected is just another claim.

The problem this solves

The anime-quote web is polluted with fabricated lines. Search any popular character’s best quotes and the results will include motivational sentences they never say, invented by content farms and copied between them until repetition reads as confirmation. We know because we caught fabrications on our own pages: lines attributed to My Hero Academia characters that appear nowhere in the work, a quote borrowed from a different series entirely, and a line credited to one character that three trusted sources give to another. All of them are gone.

The source tiers

Primary: Wikiquote’s episode-numbered transcriptions and IMDb quote pages. Verbatim, citable to an episode, and where our newest series pages start. Where a Wikiquote page has an unsourced or disorganised section, we treat that section as untrusted — being on a good site does not make a line good.

Editorial: staff-written outlets with editors — CBR, ScreenRant, ComicBook, GameRant, Crunchyroll News, Anime News Network and peers. Sufficient to verify a quote, with a caveat we keep in view: these outlets reprint each other, so two of them agreeing is weaker evidence than it looks.

Never sufficient: user-submitted databases, user-voted lists, social media, and aggregator listicles. Some of these are the direct source of the fabrications above. A quote resting only on these does not appear here, whatever they claim.

The process

Sourcing happens before writing, never after. A line is located in a trusted source first; the commentary is written around the confirmed wording; the source is recorded and published with the quote. Wording is never repaired from memory, never blended between versions, and never adjusted to fit a point. Where the subtitle and dub scripts genuinely differ, we cite the version we quote.

The rules are enforced by software, not intention: our build fails if a quote is marked verified without a trusted source, if a featured quote is unverified, or if a recorded source is malformed. A page cannot ship in a state that breaks the policy.

What it costs

Deletions. In August 2026 a verification pass removed twenty-nine quotes in two rounds — paraphrases presented as verbatim, lines with no traceable source, and outright fabrications — including pages for characters we then had nothing left to say about. The corpus is smaller than it would otherwise be and every line in it can be checked. That is the trade, and it is the whole point of the site.

Found an error anyway?

Then you have found the most valuable thing a reader can send us. The contact page explains what makes a correction actionable; the short version is the line, the page, and where you saw the real wording. Corrections are read first and fixed fastest.