Anime is a bit different than standard TV shows and movies. Trakt has several features to improve how anime displays throughout the website.

Anime genre.

For the rest of the anime related features to make sense, we first need to correctly categorize how anime shows up on Trakt. As you might know, we use open databases like TMDB and TVDB to get all our data. On these sites, shows and movies are typically assigned the Animation genre. However, this lumps anime in with all the other animated shows and isn’t great for watchers of either.

On Trakt, we added a specific Anime genre to help separate this out. It will tag Anime if in the Animation genre and the country is Japan or the language is Japanese. If you notice any incorrect info on Trakt, update TMDB and TVDB then Trakt will sync up the changes the next day.

Season titles and arcs.

Anime TV shows don’t really have seasons, but that’s how we get all our data. We also get season titles from TMDB and we use those on TV show and season pages. This helps a lot when looking for a specific anime arc.