Season grouping overrides

[brandon]

@Biblio

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,

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:

@brandon

Requesting TV Season splits

As I’m sure that many of the people who’ve explored the new audiovisual portion have discovered, TMDB has some pretty strong and unfortunate opinions on how tv series should be split into seasons. Namely, if a series keeps sequential episode ordering across seasons and the publishing company doesn’t specify separate seasons, then they do not split seasons.

Unfortunately, that’s a very frequent occurrence for many anime series and the resulting TMDB season organization is in direct contradiction to most platforms you can watch the series on, which causes a lot of confusion.

As a result, I’ve enabled a process for you to split seasons into multiple seasons! Simply go to the top of the episodes section on a desktop computer and click the ‘+ Request Episode Split’

As you can see, you can specify the episode range for each season, a title and an image if you have one. I also ask that you submit some sort of evidence for your split.

Do note that if I approve the split, then I do my best to update your user items as best I can. So if you’ve marked all the episodes complete, then I will add that season to your library as ‘finished’ with the same date finished as the original season. If you had the season marked ‘in progress’ but all the episodes in season 1 are finished, then I mark that season finished for you…

However, I’m still working on getting the activities sorted out, so your TV watching sessions may not appear on the right season. Hopefully coming soon.

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.