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.

EDITION 4.15 15 ENTRIES SPRING 2026
CONTENTS
I
CHAPTER I

Track & Organize

Your anime and manga command center.

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
Binge Senpai · A Manual § I · TRACK & ORGANIZE pg. 05

Library

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.

View library → (sign in required)
· FOOTNOTE · POWER MOVES
  • Multi-select status: combine Watching, Paused, and Planning at once.
  • Sort by Status Priority for a next-up queue you don't have to think about.
  • Grid or List view — your choice persists in the URL.
FIG. 1.1
Cowboy Bebop
1998 · 26 EP · 4 / 26
fig. 1.1 — library.
Binge Senpai · A Manual § I · TRACK & ORGANIZE pg. 06

Collections

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.

View collections → (sign in required)
· FOOTNOTE · POWER MOVES
  • Three built-in collections — Favorites, Watchlist, Set Aside — can't be deleted.
  • Crunchyroll custom lists land as Collections automatically on import.
  • Add anything to any collection from the toolbar on its detail page.
FIG. 1.2
Tonight, alone
7
Sundays in spring
4
If I were braver
11
fig. 1.2 — collections.
Binge Senpai · A Manual § I · TRACK & ORGANIZE pg. 07

Episode tracking

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.

Find this on any anime detail page.
· FOOTNOTE · POWER MOVES
  • Clicking any tile cascades — no drag, no batch select.
  • Mark All Watched and Reset sit on the same toolbar.
  • From the calendar you can also mark the next episode without leaving the strip.
FIG. 1.3
SEASON 1 · 7 of 26
click any episode
fig. 1.3 — episode tracking.
Binge Senpai · A Manual § I · TRACK & ORGANIZE pg. 08

Calendar

A two-week strip of what's airing, when, in your time zone — only the shows you're tracking. 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.

View calendar → (sign in required)
FIG. 1.4
MON · 4
Apothecary
EP 8 · 20:30
TUE · 5
WED · 6
Dan Da Dan
EP 4 · 12:00
Frieren
EP 26 · 21:00
THU · 7
FRI · 8
Sakamoto
EP 17 · 23:30
fig. 1.4 — calendar.
Binge Senpai · A Manual § I · TRACK & ORGANIZE pg. 09

Import

Drop a MyAnimeList XML or a Crunchyroll JSON export. A seven-strategy 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.

Start an import → (sign in required)
FIG. 1.5
XML
mal-export.xml
1,247 entries · 2.3 MB
reading mal-export.xml
fig. 1.5 — import.
Binge Senpai · A Manual § I · TRACK & ORGANIZE pg. 10
II
CHAPTER II

Discover

Find your next favorite.

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
Binge Senpai · A Manual § II · DISCOVER pg. 11
· MARQUEE · TRY IT HERE ·

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.

Start a conversation → (sign in required)
PLATE I · WORKING DEMO
YOU
Something quiet for a Tuesday.
SENPAI
Three picks. Mushishi — twenty-six episodes that refuse to escalate. Aria the Animation — a city as a feeling. Natsume's Book of Friends — small kindnesses, small ghosts. None of them in your library yet. Start with Mushishi.
(sign in to chat with Senpai)
Binge Senpai · A Manual § II · DISCOVER pg. 12

Personalized appeals

On detail pages, a small editorial paragraph explains why this show in particular might land for you — written from your library and your scores. Not a match percentage; a sentence. Appeals seed in once you've added a few titles, then deepen as the library grows.

Find this on any anime detail page.
FIG. 2.2
FOR YOU · MUSHISHI
Why you, specifically.
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.
fig. 2.2 — personalized appeals.
Binge Senpai · A Manual § II · DISCOVER pg. 13

Recommendations

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.

Find this on any anime detail page.
FIG. 2.3
BY MATCH
Mushishi 96%
Natsume's Book of Friends 91%
Aria the Animation 87%
BY THE ROOM
Spice & Wolf +412
Haibane Renmei +287
Girls' Last Tour +156
fig. 2.3 — recommendations.
Binge Senpai · A Manual § II · DISCOVER pg. 14

Universe graph

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.

Find this on any anime detail page.
FIG. 2.4
Vinland Saga S2 Manga OVA Spin-off
fig. 2.4 — universe graph.
Binge Senpai · A Manual § II · DISCOVER pg. 15

Browse & search

By genre, year, season, and source. Sort by popularity, score, favorites, release date, or rank. Twelve mood presets — Cozy, Dark, Tense, Mind-bending, Romantic and the rest — convert into matching genre clouds behind the scenes.

FIG. 2.5
2010-2025 ≤ 13 EP NOT SEEN
1,847 titles match.
fig. 2.5 — browse & search.
Binge Senpai · A Manual § II · DISCOVER pg. 16

Review summaries

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.

Find this on any anime detail page.
FIG. 2.6
4,287 REVIEWS · IN TWO PARAGRAPHS
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.
fig. 2.6 — review summaries.
Binge Senpai · A Manual § II · DISCOVER pg. 17
III
CHAPTER III

Dive Deeper

Explore the anime world.

On adjacency. Past the shows themselves: the people who make them, the studios behind them, the characters who outlive them.

4 ENTRIES
Binge Senpai · A Manual § III · DIVE DEEPER pg. 18

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.

FIG. 3.1
Spike
Faye
Jet
Ed
Ein
fig. 3.1 — characters.
Binge Senpai · A Manual § III · DIVE DEEPER pg. 19

People

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.

FIG. 3.2
Hiroshi Nagahama
DIRECTOR · 12 WORKS
Mushishi 2005
House of Five Leaves 2010
The Reflection 2017
fig. 3.2 — people.
Binge Senpai · A Manual § III · DIVE DEEPER pg. 20

Studios

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.

FIG. 3.3
Studio Ghibli
1985 — 2024
'85'95'05'15'24
fig. 3.3 — studios.
Binge Senpai · A Manual § III · DIVE DEEPER pg. 21

Favorites

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.

View favorites → (sign in required)
FIG. 3.4
47 SERIES · 23 CHARACTERS · 6 STUDIOS
fig. 3.4 — favorites.
Binge Senpai · A Manual § III · DIVE DEEPER pg. 22
That's the manual.
Now go and make a mess of your library.

Roadmap: AniList import, social recommendation sharing, a quieter mode for nights. Up next, an addendum on social.

← back to cover reading as a guest printed in spring 2026