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AniDB for anime

Enable Settings → Metadata → AniDB for anime. Rexarr downloads AniDB's title dump and the Anime-Lists mapping (AniDB ↔ TVDB / TMDB / IMDb) — about 20 MB, cached for a week, no API key and no account. With it:

  • Anime movies are recognised in Radarr (which has no anime type): an Anime filter and badge on Movies, and the anime profile is picked by default when transcoding them.
  • Series get their AniDB ids, romaji and kanji titles; the Anime filter uses AniDB as well as Sonarr's series type, and both libraries can be sorted by romaji title.
  • Disc identification searches AniDB first, so a Japanese or romaji disc label (KEKKON_SURUTTE_HONTOU_DESUKA_D1) resolves through the mapping to the right Sonarr series or Radarr movie, marks it anime and turns on absolute numbering. See Disc ripping.
  • AniDB links appear in the detail headers.

The data is refreshed by the Refresh AniDB data task (weekly) and can be refreshed by hand on the Settings page. API: GET /api/anidb/status, POST /api/anidb/refresh, GET /api/anidb/search?q=.