Unable to work with anime where the sequel chain contains OVAs/Specials about jellyfin-ani-sync HOT 5 CLOSED

This is not an issue on the anime list side, as its falling back to manually searching the API.
If it is an issue its on MAL's side as the special is categorised as the sequel. Not much we can do.

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This is not an issue on the anime list side, as its falling back to manually searching the API. If it is an issue its on MAL's side as the special is categorised as the sequel. Not much we can do.

This is intentional because the special is critical to the story and is necessary for the third season to make sense. That anime isn't the only anime with something between seasons, because I can think of the Demon Slayer movie for example

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I'll check if we can add a flag to not retrieve specials when searching. It is strange that the plugin is falling back to manually searching the API though, this is the old and unreliable method of identifying shows. Normally it is able to identify shows using the anime list XML file, for more reliable detection make sure you are using one of the recommended metadata providers.

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I'll check if we can add a flag to not retrieve specials when searching. It is strange that the plugin is falling back to manually searching the API though, this is the old and unreliable method of identifying shows. Normally it is able to identify shows using the anime list XML file, for more reliable detection make sure you are using one of the recommended metadata providers.

I am using the Anilist provider primarily, should I switch to TVDB? I didn't bother mostly because I'm using Sonarr which is already using TVDB.

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I am using the Anilist provider primarily, should I switch to TVDB? I didn't bother mostly because I'm using Sonarr which is already using TVDB.

If you can yeah the TVDB metadata provider works a lot better with the plugin as we can map directly to results in the anime list XML file we use.

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