Explore — a manual in three chapters
Everything you can do.
A tour of the platform, from tracking what you watch to asking Senpai for something you'll love. Read it cover to cover, or thumb the table of contents and dip in.
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Track & organize
On bookkeeping. The unglamorous half of taste — what you've watched, what you mean to, what's queued for tonight. Five instruments and a calendar.
5 entries
Library
Track what you're watching, reading, and planning.
Add anime and manga with status, progress, scores, and dates. Sort and filter to find anything instantly. The library is the page everything else in Binge Senpai is built around — every score, every recommendation, every Senpai answer begins as a row in here.
Collections
Custom lists for any occasion.
Create themed lists — "Sundays in spring," "If I were braver," "Watched on the train." Collections live alongside status and aren't bound by it; one title can sit in five lists. Use them for moods, for company, for ideas you don't want to lose.
Episode tracking
Click your way through a season.
A visual grid of every episode in your library. Click an episode and the ones before it mark themselves watched — the natural way the eye moves through a season. Mark All, Reset, or expand the carousel for filler labels, recap badges, and air dates.
Calendar
Never miss an episode drop.
A two-week strip of what's airing, when, in your time zone — everything on the air, or just your shows. The catch-up view collects what you've missed in the series you're currently consuming, with New badges for episodes that landed in the last two days.
Import
Bring your existing list in seconds.
Bring it by username — MyAnimeList or AniList — or drop a MyAnimeList XML (.xml.gz too), a Crunchyroll JSON or an Anime-Planet export. A matching cascade reconciles titles to our catalog. Three conflict strategies — Keep existing, Overwrite, or Smart merge (which keeps the higher progress, the earliest start, the latest finish) — give you the dial.
Discover
On taste. What lives at the edge of what you already love. Six instruments, one of which is willing to argue with you.
6 entries
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Chat with Senpai
Your AI anime expert.
Senpai has read your library and your scores. Ask in plain language — "something quiet for a Tuesday," "a twelve-episode show I can finish this weekend," "more of whatever Frieren is." It can search the catalog by mood or theme, look up characters and staff, and add things directly to your library when you're sold.
Personalized appeals
Why YOU should watch this.
On detail pages, a small editorial paragraph explains why this show in particular might land for you — written from your library and your scores. A match score, and a sentence that explains it. Appeals seed in once you've added a few titles, then deepen as the library grows.
You scored Frieren a 9 and your library leans toward stories that breathe — the same hush, episode after episode. Mushishi is that hush, twenty-six times. Drifting. Kind. The episodes don't connect, which sounds like a flaw and works like a feature.
Recommendations
Two ways to find similar anime.
Algorithmic similarity by synopsis embedding, with a match percentage, sits next to community recommendations from real fans — "if you liked X, watch Y," sorted by votes. Both appear on every anime detail page so you can see what the math thinks and what the room thinks.
- Mushishi
- Natsume's Book of Friends
- Aria the Animation
- Spice & Wolf
- Haibane Renmei
- Girls' Last Tour
Universe graph
Map franchise connections.
A pannable, zoomable graph of related works — sequels, prequels, side stories, alternative adaptations. Useful when a franchise has eight entries and you can't remember which one's the prequel. Click any node to navigate; tap to unlock on touch devices.
Browse & search
Filter 28,000+ titles.
By genre, season and year — or only the hidden gems. Sort by trending, top rated, most tracked or newest. Twelve mood presets — Cozy, Dark, Tense, Mind-bending, Romantic and the rest — live on your Library home, where they turn into matching genre clouds behind the scenes.
1,847 titles match.
Review summaries
Hundreds of reviews, in two paragraphs.
Popular series carry hundreds of community reviews, synced from MyAnimeList. Senpai reads them all and writes you two paragraphs: what people loved, what people argued about. Click through to the originals when one of those paragraphs piques you.
Loved: the patience of it. The way episodes refuse to escalate. The composer. The lead's small, specific kindnesses.
Argued about: the pacing of the middle stretch — beautiful or boring depending on the night.
Dive deeper
On adjacency. Past the shows themselves: the people who make them, the studios behind them, the characters who outlive them.
4 entries
Characters
Browse and favorite characters.
Every named character cross-referenced to their voice actor (per locale, with the original Japanese cast star-flagged), the series they appear in, and related characters. Favorite the ones you care about; they form a small private gallery on your favorites page.
People
Voice actors, directors, creators.
Filmographies for everyone who has touched a show in the database. Useful for the night you realize the same composer scored your last three favorites and want to know what else they've done.
- Mushishi
- House of Five Leaves
- The Reflection
Studios
Follow the studios behind your favorites.
Studio pages with the complete catalog, currently-airing shows under a live indicator, signature works, top-rated picks (filterable by genre and year), and notable staff. The same structure exists for producer credits and licensed catalogs.
Favorites
All your favorites in one place.
Every series, character, person, and studio you've ever favorited, on one page. No status, no progress, no scoring — just things you want to keep close. Filter by type when the mosaic gets dense.
That's the manual.
Now go and make a mess of your library.
Roadmap: social recommendation sharing, a quieter mode for nights.
Up next, an addendum on social.
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