Search anime/manga, franchise watch order, schedule, characters, rankings, studio filmography.
Connect Anime to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. Search anime/manga, franchise watch order, schedule, characters, rankings, studio filmography. The anime mcp server is what makes that connection.
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
anime_search_media — Search anime or manga by title, genre, tag, season, year, format, or status. Returns ranked results with IDs, titles, scores, format, andanime_get_media — Full detail for one anime or manga by AniList ID — synopsis, format, episode/chapter count, status, season, studios, source material, genres and tagsanime_get_relations — Franchise untangler. Walks the related-works graph from a media ID beyond one hop — sequels, prequels, side stories, movies, OVAs, source andanime_get_schedule — Airing schedule for a season or upcoming episode window. Season mode lists all anime airing in a given season/year. Upcoming mode returns the nextanime_find_characters — Characters and voice actors for a title, or look up a character/VA by name. Returns characters with role (main/supporting/background), voice actorsanime_get_recommendations — Recommendations for a title, merged from AniList and Jikan (MAL), with scores and vote counts. Optionally accepts what the user liked about theanime_get_rankings — Top, trending, or seasonal rankings. Filterable by genre, tag, and format. Top returns all-time by score; trending returns current week; seasonalanime_get_studio — A studio's full filmography by name or AniList studio ID — all titles the studio produced, sortable by year or score, with format, status, andPrerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this serverInstallation — The Installation tool exposed by this serverSetup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.
Configuration is passed through the environment: MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE, MCP_LOG_LEVEL, MCP_HTTP_HOST, MCP_HTTP_ENDPOINT_PATH. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
This sits in the file and storage access group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Anime's toolset — anime_search_media, anime_get_media, anime_get_relations and 7 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by cyanheads; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Anime's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| anime_search_media | Search anime or manga by title, genre, tag, season, year, format, or status. Returns ranked results with IDs, titles, scores, format, and episode/chapter counts. AniList primary; Jikan fallback on empty results. |
| anime_get_media | Full detail for one anime or manga by AniList ID — synopsis, format, episode/chapter count, status, season, studios, source material, genres and tags (spoiler-flagged), AniList and MAL scores side by side, streaming link |
| anime_get_relations | Franchise untangler. Walks the related-works graph from a media ID beyond one hop — sequels, prequels, side stories, movies, OVAs, source and adaptation — and returns them in suggested watch/read order. |
| anime_get_schedule | Airing schedule for a season or upcoming episode window. Season mode lists all anime airing in a given season/year. Upcoming mode returns the next episode for each airing title within a date window, with UTC timestamp an |
| anime_find_characters | Characters and voice actors for a title, or look up a character/VA by name. Returns characters with role (main/supporting/background), voice actors by language, and cross-links to other media. |
| anime_get_recommendations | Recommendations for a title, merged from AniList and Jikan (MAL), with scores and vote counts. Optionally accepts what the user liked about the source title to contextualize picks. |
| anime_get_rankings | Top, trending, or seasonal rankings. Filterable by genre, tag, and format. Top returns all-time by score; trending returns current week; seasonal returns the current or specified season sorted by popularity. |
| anime_get_studio | A studio's full filmography by name or AniList studio ID — all titles the studio produced, sortable by year or score, with format, status, and episode count. |
| Prerequisites | The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server. |
| Installation | The Installation tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"anime-mcp-server": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "bunx",
"args": ["@cyanheads/anime-mcp-server@latest"],
"env": {
"MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE": "stdio",
"MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "info"
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| MCP_LOG_LEVEL | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| MCP_HTTP_HOST | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Optional |
| MCP_HTTP_ENDPOINT_PATH | Filesystem location the server is allowed to use. | Optional |
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