From here: Audiovisual initial feedback and requests - #32 by brandon
Description of your request or bug report: TMDB sometimes (often) lumps the entirety of an anime into a single season because of the continuous numbering system - even when there are clear season breaks. Implement the possibility to override the automated season groupings in order to split these in a more useful fashion (on user request).
I am finally starting to tackle this. First, I’ll just say that I’m only doing season splits… not completely custom groupings as I don’t think we’ll need it.
I’ve gone through and projected what would happen if I automatically split seasons by consecutive episodes airing more than 30 days apart. So, if one episode airs in April and then next one in May, I’d say it’s the start of a new season.
I exclude ‘Specials’ seasons from this analysis as those are special.
Take a look at the data below and see if the problem season of yours is in here and split correctly!
This process found 145 seasons that potentially need to be split.
ANALYSIS DATA
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本好きの下剋上 司書になるためには手段を選んでいられません S1
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TERRACE HOUSE BOYS & GIRLS IN THE CITY S1
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テイルズ オブ ファンタジア THE ANIMATION S1
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A Certain Scientific Railgun T
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Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld
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How would you handle the names for those split seasons?
For example for Attack on Titan i think it would be fine to split up S3 Part 1 and Part 2 in individual seasons but it would be very confusing if S3 Part 2 would be called Season 4 and all subsequent Seasons be off too (and i assume this would be the case for a lot of other shows too)
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That’s a good point. To be clear, this process won’t be fully automated, it’s just an attempt to raise flags on a season and prompt potential splits.
I’ll be able to mark each each split with a custom name and image. I probably would start off with the dumb S3 & S4 for Attack on Titan, but a user report could alert me that it should be called differently 
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What happens if you split with 60 day gaps instead of 30? This 30 day split list is definitely including some unexpected results, such as 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ S1 and 刀語 S1 and A Certain Scientific Railgun T. Those are just the shows I’ve seen and I can say with certainty that they should stay as one season. There were definitely others on here that looked suspect, though the three I wanted changed were correctly on this list as well.
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Here you go. This one dramatically reduces the number of seasons for 名探偵コナン, I’m not sure how @Biblio feels about that.
Reduces to 96 affected seasons. I also required seasons to be > 2 episodes… we were getting some strange 1 & 2 episode seasons due to perhaps bad tv data?
60 Day Split
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本好きの下剋上 司書になるためには手段を選んでいられません S1
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テイルズ オブ ファンタジア THE ANIMATION S1
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Tales of Symphonia The Animation: Tethe’alla
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A Certain Scientific Railgun T
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Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld
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Edit: Regardless, we’ll still allow users to request a season split (there would be a button on the season page) and allow them to specify which episodes, add images / names… etc. So hopefully not a huge requirement for accuracy on the auto process.
I was simply thinking this would operate as something to flag data & potentially propose splits to someone who’s requesting them.
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I’d be curious too. At least in AniList’s case, it just lists this show as a single season that started in 1996 and is still ongoing.
Yeah that seems reasonable. It seems like there are probably going to be too many exceptions to automate the actual splitting process.
I don’t really mind. Episodes are more important than seasons to me personally. 
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So, overall the automatic splitting isn’t perfect, because apparently the data is not perfect. (Because Japan, generally, really sticks to their anime seasons.)
Maybe you could add a “user suggestion” field, where people can recommend a season split, if they detect something is wrong. Basically outsourcing the manual correction part. 
Conan is in season 31, I think,
1 more option that might work is making seasons at least 12 episodes long, but also including any episodes until you reach at least a 6 weeks break or something… 
and does the data include runtime? if yes, you could try splitting anything below 20 and above 30 minutes into a “specials” season.
I will also, now check, how to fix tmbd, or if I even can. on the other end, imdb has too many seasons. 
this anime seems difficult to enter correctly. 
Edit: You can’t. They deal with long-running anime by putting all episodes in number order into 1 season. 
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So actually I did decide to drop the automatic splitting approach and will just be relying on user requests, as per my recent announcement about in the Product updates thread:
Feel free to request them! I’d love your help on how to split up Conan @Biblio as that season 1 is ridiculous and i’m not sure how to split it up.
To be frank though, even AniList seems to keep all those episodes in one season 
It also might be somewhat ok for episodic shows?? Like you probably don’t need to watch Conan in order, so having one season might be better as then people can just pick off episodes they watch. Idk. It’s definitely not pretty though and would definitely be curious to hear your feedback.
If we do keep large seasons like that, we for sure have to change the grading structure so that you can grade after you watch ‘x’ number of episodes or something… as most people won’t finish the entire season.
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I feel so old. Missing all the new features. I am very sorry. 
Personally, I kinda like knowing I am already 31 seasons in, but I am not bothered if it’s not showing that. Anyways, I’ll submit a season split, so you have the data, if you make the decision for seasons. It’s not a big time investment, if you decide against it either. 
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whoops! Yeah that’s a bug with the season split logic, it should be marked populated.
Thanks - I’ve fixed that problem.
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Closing as Fixed as it’s implemented already.
