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.
I don’t think TMDB is going to change. I have seen hundreds of posts asking TMDB to change it, they are stubborn as a mule. Trakt needs to change something that they can control on their end. Either switching anime to a different api OR if that is too expensive, they could add functionality to their current sorting method. For example, if when you sorted by series, the same options that are available for western TV shows where there and worked. Specificly you need to be able to mark an entire season as “watched” without having to mark each episode individually. It also needs to be changed to list the episodes you have watched properly. In other words: You mark season 1 and 2 as watched but not season 3. It lists you having watched 24 episodes of 2 seasons, rather than 24/36 of season 1.
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A far as how complicated it is to change the api, claud.ai could probably be used to help with that coding task. It’s pretty cheap to use now.
I do agree that the listing on those shows TMDB’s groups the episodes together in one season should be better and have said that there many times.
But, the problem with changing to use an anime database is how different they handle series. Each season, special, OVA, gets a different page and because of that, it would be hard to match everything. Also, currently, we have specials and movies that aren’t even allowed on MAL, so that data would be deleted if we changed to use their API. So even that wouldn’t be a perfect solution as MAL can be very strict in what they allow in their database too. (I’ve had pages of mini anime rejected there because they weren’t animated ‘enough’, for example).
On anime that don’t have the issue of the ‘everything in one season because the episodes are continuos’, the pages here make a lot more sense in my opinion, as everything is grouped together (you can see all seasons, OVAs, specials in the same page, and you also know how many episodes that anime has in total). They are also listed like that on most streaming services. The ideal would be that TMDB changed their rules, and they did change them recently for one issue people complained about, so it doesn’t seem impossible.
However, I do think it would be good to mark a whole season of the alternate order as watched, and will ask the developers if it’s possible to add that. I honestly don’t know about using an alternate order as default as that might break things in places I do not understand, so that’s a better question for the developers too.
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It doesn’t really need to be default as long you can do 3 things.
- Mark a whole season as “watched” without marking each episode 1 at a time.
- Have the system remember what seasons you watched, like it does with the default display for western shows. Just a purple check mark letting you know you watched that season when looking at it under the “seasons” display.
- Let you rate anime by season like you can western shows. Some seasons are fire while others are trash. Don’t want to rate a whole show good when only season 1 was good.
Anyway glad to see a response from CS on this, hopefully you can convince the devs to do it. As I mentioned in a different post, some anime have hundreds of episodes. Marking them one at a time is not good.
for point 1, i got around doing that one at a time with a third party app (rippple – yeah its three p’s lol). not ideal of course but i also did a lifetime sub thing on that app cuz it was cheap, but i think there is a way to do this i’m just not sure.
for point 2, mine actually does show it that way with the progress bars below the seasons (so no check mark but the progress bars work)
point 3, definitely want that implemented, even though i personally don’t rate shows very often. If i do get in the habit of doing that, it would be nice to do so by season like you mentioned
+1 to this. Promised Neverland season 1 was great. Season 2 was garbage. I want to be able to see that.
Also, having hundreds of episodes in 1 season makes it a real pain to find a certain episode. TMDB isn’t going to change this, the moderator seems to think that they’re frankly crap idea is amazing.
Wish there was a way to escalate this to some admins of higher ups so they could correct this crap rule.
Ya, wth happened to S2 of Promised Neverland? S1 had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. S2 was just a mess.
Hopefully they will implement of some fix sooner, rather than later. Anime is more popular than western TV these days.
Yes, can we please have a default order setting.
See this please: https://trakt.tv/shows/case-closed-1996/seasons/1
1k+ episodes in a single season is just bonkers.