Crunchyroll MCP Server

MCP server for Crunchyroll anime streaming - search anime, manage watchlist, track viewing progress

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What is the Crunchyroll MCP server?

Crunchyroll MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on Crunchyroll directly instead of describing what you should do. MCP server for Crunchyroll anime streaming - search anime, manage watchlist, track viewing progress.

What you get

Crunchyroll anime streaming MCP connector for personal AI agents. Lets Claude and other AI assistants manage your Crunchyroll account — search anime, track progress, manage your watchlist, get recommendations, and more.

  • Search — anime series and movies
  • Browse — by genre, popularity, new additions, or simulcast season
  • Show details — — series info, seasons, episodes
  • Watchlist — management — add, remove, view
  • Watch history & progress — — track and update playhead positions
  • Continue watching — — pick up where you left off

Setting it up

Installation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at @striderlabs/mcp-crunchyroll on npm and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.

What the assistant can call

Once Crunchyroll is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:

  • Authentication — The Authentication tool exposed by this server
  • Watchlist — The Watchlist tool exposed by this server
  • Recommendations — The Recommendations tool exposed by this server
  • Account — The Account tool exposed by this server

Before you rely on it

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the crunchyroll mcp server does with a few real requests.

Choosing this one

Among the developer tooling options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Crunchyroll's toolset — Authentication, Watchlist, Recommendations and 1 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by markswendsen-code; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
AuthenticationThe Authentication tool exposed by this server.
WatchlistThe Watchlist tool exposed by this server.
RecommendationsThe Recommendations tool exposed by this server.
AccountThe Account tool exposed by this server.

How to install the Crunchyroll MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crunchyroll": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@striderlabs/mcp-crunchyroll"]
    }
  }
}

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Example prompts to try

  • Use Crunchyroll to Authentication.
  • Use Crunchyroll to Watchlist.
  • Use Crunchyroll to Recommendations.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Crunchyroll to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 4 tools (Authentication, Watchlist, Recommendations, and more) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Crunchyroll directly.