Welcome to the website! I hope you will enjoy Akyoto work.
I recommend you to check these following post Clarification #1 and Clarification #2
No way a dead project? It looks so simple and clean, but besides that I have a question how do they have all the anime I’ve watched through 1999-2021 that doesn’t sound dead much to me if they still keep up to date with the newest anime.
Akyoto having hand injuries and not mutch free time he don’t update the site anymore except in some cases. For the database you can thank Spyros. He like a lot the website and continue to add and update informations about animes. There is also others members of the Editor team editing animes but Spyros do globally everything.