Anime

Is there a good anime scanner for plex?

what specifically are you looking for?
I suppose your Animes do go as regular movies or tv shows w/ seasons and episodes?

Some Ants-in-me may be difficult to locate - until you realize a lot of it is over at TVDB as a later season of something that came before it - with a Similar Name. Some searching usually bears edible fruit rather quickly, but the name you have to use may not be the name you think it is.

https://www.thetvdb.com/

Just remember TVDB is always right - even if they’re wrong.

I think there used to be an Ants-in-me Agent, don’t know if there still is or not, or care much, but there’s basically ONE source for TV Shows and that’s TVDB. Best get used to it early in your career.

I love the opportunity to throw this in - so do please keep asking those Ants-in-me questions…:

B)

@tom80H said:
what specifically are you looking for?
I suppose your Animes do go as regular movies or tv shows w/ seasons and episodes?

For some series tvbd uses season 2 episode 1 while the releases are comming out as season 1 episode 22 for example

Yea, TVDB loves to do things their way.
I guess they think it’s less cluttered, or something.

The bottom line is - if you want matches do it like TVDB does it.
There aren’t many other good options.

Sometimes it’s worth checking if the TVDB has a DVD order which matches your structure. This e.g. saved me w/ Futurama. If so, you can tell Plex to use that order instead of the air date based sequence.

how do i use the dvd order?

assuming you want to apply the DVD order to a single show…
after it’s matched, click Edit and look for Episode sequence(?) in the Advanced tab (loosely translated… should be the very last setting).
Default setting is “by air-date” but you can also pick from “DVD order” and “Absolute Numbering” (no idea what that one is used for…).

After saving the show’s settings, Plex should refresh its metadata – if it doesn’t, manually refresh it.

and be aware that some shows won’t work for DVD order no matter what you do.