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There are several things available to allow you a good deal of control over your search queries. Instead of simply typing in some text and hoping for something that might match, keep the following rules in mind. These rules apply when submitting a search for one or more general terms (not including field / condition manipulations).
1) Each unique term should be separated by one or more spaces. For example,
tekoki gokkun
2) To search for a single term containing multiple words, surround them with quotation marks. For example,
"race queen"
3) The items that will be selected for your search are those that contain each one of your search terms somewhere in its "details." These details that are always searched by default are: item ID, title, summary, description, language, and subtitles. If one or more of your keywords is not found in any of those fields for an item, it will not appear in your search results.
4) The alphabetic case of your search terms is unimportant
5) Each search term must be at least 3 characters in length
Searching only as described above can leave you feeling very limited, so there are more features available. The following describes how you may manipulate selections/conditions:
Conditional/Negation Operators

These keywords have special meaning in a query and they must be uppercase:

AND OR NOT

When you use the OR keyword, it changes the conditions of the search. For example, the search

Aoi OR Bunko
changes the normal search operation to select each item containing either the word Aoi or the word Bunko in its details.

You can use the NOT keyword to negate a term. In other words, you can select items that do not contain a term. For example, the search

NOT nakadashi
will select any item with details not containing the word nakadashi


The AND keyword requires both terms on either side of it to be in an item's details for it to be selected. This is like the default functionality of a search, but can modify a search when used in conjunction with the OR keyword. For example,

Aoi OR Bunko AND gansha
will select items containing either just the word Aoi and/or both of the words Bunko and gansha.

Note that the AND and OR operators apply only to the the terms directly on either side of them and the NOT operator applies only to the term directly to its right. For example,

nanpa OR "reverse nanpa" NOT amateur public
will create a search for items that must include the term public, must not include the term amateur, and must include at least one of the terms nanpa or reverse nanpa.

Searching Specific Fields

If instead of searching all details of an item for your query you would like to search a specific field, you can specify which field should be searched. The format for using a field specifier is

<field>:<search_term>
where <search_term> is your search term (remember to use quotes if there are multiple words in the term) and <field> is one of the following:
item title idol studio format catg subs lang
Note that there must be no space on either side of the colon (:) when using a field specifier. The different field specifiers allow you to search for your search term only in item ID, item title, idol name, movie studio name, media format, category/genre of movie, subtitle languages, or audio languages, respectively. If, for example, you want to search for items available on DVD and featuring JAV idol Nanami Nanase, you could use the following query:
format:dvd idol:"Nanase Nanami"
Note that if you specify an idol's first and last names as a search term for the idol field, they will be searched in either order because the order of Japanese names are sometimes reversed when translated into English. So, the previous example would search for items featuring either Nanase Nanami or Nanami Nanase. Also note that the preceding rules still apply and the body of a field specification is considered a single term.





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