smeet666/mcp-animenewsnetwork

Anime News Network has been covering anime
and manga since 1998. It keeps an encyclopedia of the works themselves, with the
cast and staff credited on each, the episodes, the releases, the opening and
ending themes and the readers' ratings, and it runs a news wire alongside it,
with separate editions for the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.
This server connects a chat client to both. You can search the encyclopedia for
an anime or a manga, read one entry with its credits and its details, list what
was recently added or browse the encyclopedia alphabetically, and read the news
wire. It needs no API key and no account.
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Install
**One-click install**
**Claude Code**
**Claude Desktop, Cursor, and any client using the standard config format**
Node 24 or later is required, and no environment variable has to be set.
With Docker
-i keeps stdin open, which is where the protocol travels, and -t is left out
because a TTY rewrites the stream. The container needs outbound HTTPS to
cdn.animenewsnetwork.com and www.animenewsnetwork.com, and nothing else: no
volume, no port, no credential.
Bundle, without npm
Download mcp-animenewsnetwork-2.0.1.mcpb from
the latest release
and open it. A client that supports MCP bundles installs it on its own, with no
npm and no configuration file to edit. The bundle carries its dependencies, so
nothing is fetched at install time.
What you can ask
- "What does the encyclopedia have on Cowboy Bebop?"
- "Who voiced Spike, and in which languages?"
- "What anime were added to the encyclopedia recently?"
- "What is the anime news today?"
- "How did readers rate that series?"
The ordinary path runs from a search to an entry: a row carries an id and a
kind, and get_title takes both together.
Tools
| Tool | What it does |
| --------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| search_titles | Finds anime and manga by title in the encyclopedia. |
| get_title | Reads one entry, its credits and its details. |
| list_recent | Lists what was recently added, or browses the encyclopedia by letter. |
| get_news | Reads the news wire. |
An entry is addressed by its id together with its kind, since the
encyclopedia numbers anime and manga separately.
search_titles
Finds anime and manga by title.
| Argument | Type | Required | What it does |
| -------- | ------------------------------------------ | -------- | ------------------------------- |
| query | string, at least 1 character | yes | A title, or part of one. |
| kind | anime, manga or both, default both | no | Which part of the encyclopedia. |
| limit | integer, 1 to 50, default 10 | no | Rows to serve. |
**In return:** rows carrying id and kind, which get_title takes together;
name; type, reading TV, movie, OAV, ONA, special, manga or novel;
precision; vintage, the original release date or range as published; and
source_url. A field the entry leaves empty is null.
get_title
Reads one entry. The heavier parts are asked for rather than served by default.
| Argument | Type | Required | What it does |
| ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------- | -------------------------------------- |
| id | integer, 1 or more | yes | The encyclopedia id. |
| kind | anime or manga | yes | Which lookup the id belongs to. |
| sections | array of basic, cast, staff, episodes, releases, related, news, reviews, default ["basic"] | no | Which parts to return. |
| max_chars | integer, 200 to 20000, default 4000 | no | How much of the plot summary to serve. |
| offset | integer, 0 or more, default 0 | no | Where to resume the plot summary. |
**In return:** title, the entry a search row carries, which comes back
whatever was asked for so that any answer can be cited. Asking for basic adds
alt_titles, genres, themes, episode_count, running_time,
objectionable_content, official_websites, picture_url, opening_themes
and ending_themes.
ratings carries the readers' votes, weighted_score and bayesian_score,
each null where the encyclopedia computed none. plot_summary is served a
slice at a time, described by total_chars, returned_chars, offset,
next_offset and truncated. A cast entry names the role, the person and
the lang they performed in.
list_recent
Lists what was recently added to the encyclopedia, or browses it by first letter.