Jikan vs Studio Ghibli

Jikan is a free, keyless wrapper around MyAnimeList's public web data, confirmed live at api.jikan.moe/v4 with a real anime lookup and a wide-open Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * header. It has no official affiliation with MAL and can lag behind it after a MAL outage, but it remains the most widely used way to query MAL data without OAuth.

The original ghibliapi.herokuapp.com now returns Heroku's 'No such app' placeholder — Heroku retired free dynos in November 2022 — but the project lives on at the community-maintained ghibliapi.vercel.app mirror, confirmed live with a real films listing and Access-Control-Allow-Origin echoing the request's Origin. It remains a free, keyless, read-only dataset of Ghibli films, people, and locations.