Please consider another database for animes as source than that damn tmdb.
They’re freaking useless when it comes to animes.
Their anime rules are a joke. No matter how many users are complaining.
Clearly it is an aberration… and they absolutely do not want to change despite all the arguments…
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Jujutsu Kaisen it’s « ok »…
But look Urusei Yatsura: Season 1 (2022) — The Movie Database (TMDB) …
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There are a lot of cases which are ridiculous, for many, many shows.
Putting EVERYTHING in one season, wrong airdates, segments (because some TV station COULD air those in a different order, which is basically based on old US cartoons. Wtf?).
And the arrogance. “Each site/database has their own rules” - Yeah, but only tmdb does it completely different.
Or: We thought a lot about our anime guidelines
Obviously not.
This ruins my trakt experiences. Really, it does.
And don’t get my started on superdork97 and his crazy Race friend.
We sync over the season groups and display those on the Trakt website. Does that allow you to see the episodes listed in the correct arcs? Most anime has several different groupings afaik.
We’ve looked into other anime databases and our conclusion was there is no “perfect” source to handle it all. I’m not excusing the issues with TMDB, just saying it is something we’ve looked into.
There’s never a perfect database. But tmdb makes it unnecessarily weird.
What about MAL? I guess any database would be better than tmdb when it comes to animes 
They’re literally the only ones doing it differently than anyone else. Their reasoning though, could be stand-up comedy.
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You guys really need to fix the anime, it’s so hard to track what season I am on and quickly mark seasons as watched. I have to mark EVERY episode as marked individually. Consider some anime have hundreds of episodes.
Then I will keep shouting into the void till it’s fixed. There is no logical or valid reason for them not to change the way they are doing anime right now. And there IS a way for that to happen. The mods could manually sperate the seasons if they don’t have an automatic method.
Also the sorting method available right now, doesn’t allow us to mark whole seasons and JUST that one season as “watched”. So no this doesn’t work right.
it does work that way if you split out the season with the method i showed
but again if you want it fixed you need to complain over at TMDB since that’s where trakt gets the data from
Except it doesn’t. The option to mark all episodes of a season doesn’t function. There is also no option to rate a whole series.
I don’t pay money for TMDB. I pay money here.
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i understand that, but trakt doesn’t have their own database for anime. or any movies or tv shows for that matter. it all comes from existing databases. so you need to complain over at the source. dont get me wrong, i agree that it should be better but thats not trakts fault
Trakt shouldn’t be charging for VIP if they can’t fix their own site. Sorry no amount of excuses will work when you are charging a fee to use your site.
You sure are quick to accept defeat for someone named Wolverine. They CAN fix it, they just aren’t because sticking their established source is easier.
theyve had to change sources due to others charging for API usage. and other databases don’t offer an API as far as anyone has figured out (MAL or Anime Planet)
They do:
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well like i said, i agree with you. it could be much better. I don’t know about you, but I’m not a web dev and I’m pretty sure it’s not as easy as just flipping a switch to change one database to another. They would also need to specifically parse the data for anime only. The easier solution would be to get TMDB to follow an actual standard and not some arbitrary bullshit rules they make up as they want.