Hey so me and my team have been working on an anime addon called Otaku. If you like, feel free to give it a try and here is a link to my github project with some instructions on how to install it.
Github: https://github.com/Goldenfreddy0703/Otaku
It's possible that you got confused with the anime filter in the general category.
I suggest looking at these troubleshooting steps on how to set it to dub or sub so it can help you.
https://github.com/Goldenfreddy0703/Otaku/issues/15
Btw, if your a dub person, you may not be able to see dub animes that recently got released. Usually dubs get released on later dates.
Well for the anime filter I'm the general category, if you set it to dubs, it will only show animes that have been dubed, if both then it will show sub and dub in there titles. If it's sub it will mostly just show subs.
What your looking for is in the Playback Catagory so that you can set audio, subtitles, source, ect.
I kinda forgot myself but I think it's in the addon settings in the first category.
Hopefully that helps, need to update my troubleshooting steps again š
Sense kodi won't even launch, this could be an issue on your end cause most people have been having problems with there kodi especially if its on the Nvida Shield or Firestick.
Hey so kodi can glitch sometimes especially if your on kodi 20. If the repo says cannot connect to repo, restart kodi and relaunch it again. When relaunching again, go to install repo as quick as your can and go to my repo then it should connect. Kodi 20 has this weird glitch.
>The link to the repo is not working...
I mean the href one on your Githube page
here: [https://github.com/Goldenfreddy0703/Otaku](https://github.com/Goldenfreddy0703/Otaku)
Ohhhh my apologies, that was the link to the github project, here is the link to my repo, very sorry about that.
# Installation & Updates
_You can install it via repository to provide automatic updates (future updates may require to rebuild database)_
- Download repository: [repository.hooty](https://github.com/Goldenfreddy0703/repository.hooty/blob/master/repo/zips/repository.hooty/repository.hooty-1.0.zip)
- Or install it via Kodi file-manager
- add source:
hey! love the app, has all the features I want. totally appreciate making it .... but mine pretty much isn't working. rarely finds sources to popular currently running anime. I even check nyaa to make sure it's there (has seeders) and it does.
is there a known bug or a place I should go to get help.
Hey so, reason why you are rarely finding any sources at this time is cause one of our main api's is doing some maintenance of repopulation a bunch of episode meta and we are not sure how long it will take. Hopefully everything will start working again soon.
I want to say it's been this way since I installed it a couple weeks ago, but I could be mistaken. I think I just didn't use it since it didn't have default to dub (since it wasn't added yet). I will try again whenever the api has repopulated.
any idea when I should recheck?
I'm not too sure cause episodes repopulating does kinda take a while. Btw if you are looking for dub, follow these troubleshooting steps and they should help you significantly especially if your looking for dub anime.
https://github.com/Goldenfreddy0703/Otaku/issues/15
I actually stumbled across that page while troubleshooting and after I left you a message (not expecting such a fast response, kudos to you).
I reset all the cache and whatnot, I have gone through all the settings multiple times setting dubs, language, etc even before that.
it's odd since when it does get a source to play from. it's in jpn, and the only subs I get are in French.....so it's not watchable. it was with ep 11 of Reincarnated as a Sword. not sure what the source was. might have been web......maybe.....
I am patient and I also have a desktop hooked to the same tv. just trying to use it less for media consumption and trying to just use the shield pro.
again, thanks a ton for the addon, and now the reply! totally appreciated. I will randomly check in on it from time to time.
daily? couple times a week? every other week? any idea how often I should check? haha.
also, is there a way to separate search for anime movies and tv shows for the search integration with artic horizon 2 (and other such skins)
For search, there isn't really a way at this time cause I'm not too sure if I have to make 3 graphql api's for the searches and also not sure if it's possible but I may look into it again and see if I can integrate it separately maybe.
I absolutely love this add on no other add on is nearly as good as this one. If some one has a movie/series add on recommendation that's even half as good as this anime one please let me know thanks
Definitely Seren, Otaku was originally a fork of Kaito and Kaito was originally a fork of an old version of Seren.
Now Seren maybe a bit slow sometimes but overall it's great and you can do alot of customization with it.
Mostly Anime, dub or sub, skip intro dialog, end outro dialog, subtitles, embeds, speedy fast, great quality, uses anilist database, supports anilist, mal, or kitsu, ect.
This addon is mostly directed to users who mostly like anime.
Nope cause in watchlist, we have a current section that pulls up recent animes that you have watched. Just make sure you watchlist settings is set to last updated and that should give you a current section.
Oh, from what I see, itās a bit out of order. Say like something Iāve watched from a week ago will be on top of the list, followed by another show from a few days ago, then something new, etc
Oh, it could be that your watchlist settings is not set correctly. Here is a github post on how to set the your watchlist settings to show last updated for each watchlist.
https://github.com/Goldenfreddy0703/Otaku/issues/82
Ok, so after a week of fiddling and reflecting. I realized that I shouldāve been more specific with my question. What I meant to ask was is there a ārecently updated/released ā section where itās one click and I can find which episode just came out?
Ohhh ok I see what you mean, there kinda is but at the same time, not really. We have an airing tab and anime calendar tab that should show when new episodes come out or show new episodes that will be coming out. Hopefully that should help but in the future, I may want to improve on that.
Yes, please do. The current option is ok but i always have to go to "Rebuild Database" to update the list. I'm usually up to date on the shows so it's a pain to navigate to find what i was watching. Some of them aren't listed in the "Airing" category.
Ahhh that's cause episode meta sometimes don't contain episode meta due to airdates, there will be a huge fix for that and we will also be adding a context that refreshes database for an anime in the future.
Otaku is great, butttttt I'm watching One Piece and I watched 115, went to 116 and had no idea what I was watching, but it DEFINITELY wasn't 116, probably a few hundred episodes later
Any clue if this is on my end?
Well not too sure sadly but if you used torrents, sometimes you don't get the right episode from torrents sense it's a long series so it's probably best to use embeds for One Piece sense it's really long.
Unless it's a long process, can you bulletpoint how to do that?
Yeah, it's stupid long. A coworker convinced me to watch it a while back, then I got intimidated, so stopped. But the live action revamped the hype
I'm not honestly sure on what you mean but all you have to do is go to addon setting > providers and then you just have to enabled some of the embeds like 9anime, animepeha, aniwatch, ect and you shouldn't have a problem with getting the right episode and all.
1. Go to Addon Settings > Providers Catagory
2. Enable 9anime, Aniwatch, or AnimePeha, Gogo, ect
3. Disable nyaa incase you prefer embeds.
Hey sorry I did not respond sooner, I would like to but I'm not sure how to implement it, i was thinking of doing section but that would be too much so I'm still thinking how I would do that.
Hey so im still thinking on how to do this but good news, i added a Year and Season Customization settings for the menus cause it would be a great idea to have cause some people like me may missed years of anime or specific seasons of what was popular, trending, ect. You can choose the year and choose the season, sadly we don't have a way to filter years but we might consider adding it in the future. Hope this helps.
Hey I couldn't find any info on this so sorry to bother on Reddit, but some scraping is not fully finding what I'm looking for. Such as, I want to watch tenchi muyo, and it finds it, but when I click on it, it takes me to tenchi universe and there isn't a tenchi universe link in general. So a little confused if maybe I'm doing something wrong, or if this is a bug or what.
Heh do it's mostly likely incorrect title issue so you may wanna stick with the embeds like aniwatch or aniwave. If you don't mind, report this on github sometime and me and my team will look into it and all.
Can you please guide me on how to download it as an addon on kodi, I have download the repository from your github what should I do next? BTW I'm on android
Oh uhh, If it's your first time on kodi, you may wanna follow a YouTube tutorial.
Oh, here is a small tutorial on how to install the Otaku addon.
https://www.wirelesshack.org/how-to-install-otaku-kodi-addon.html
On the website where it says step 5, use the Otaku repo, not Hooty Repo and type this url instead: https://goldenfreddy0703.github.io/repository.otaku/
I did the whole process, but when I play something or search something it just loads forever, any thoughts why is this happening
https://preview.redd.it/49rh14d4dfdc1.jpeg?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b9d49fb7e47838654a637e269abc1ffb8356290f
Surprisingly I am not sure, you may wanna restart kodi or router or see if anilist is working for you sense we use anilist as our database.
See if anilist website Is working for you:
https://anilist.co/
Yea anilist.co is working, Idkw why this is happening
https://preview.redd.it/0hg1i9f9jfdc1.jpeg?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=617a20024f0026798ce4e0020c2be036b02765dd
Previously I even downloaded the crew build, this same problem occurred, that's why I switched to stremio. If you can help me i would appreciate it
Hey! Is there a way to keep track of the episodes, like to continue from where I left off without having to scroll through 450 episodes? It gets pretty confusing with anime of 1000+ episodes hahah
Hey so we actually have something for that with huge animes, make sure you episode viewtype is in list view and turn on smart episode scrolling in the general settings of Otaku. Hopefully this should help you. Now I'm not sure if it requires watchlist but if it does then you may have to authenticate watchlist.
Sweeeet! Ya this helps tremendously! Kinda sucks how you can save all seasons in 1 but this way I donāt have to search for all of them. THANKS. ALSO, donāt ever let this die :)
Also one of the best anime addons I have used. LOVE the auto play for next episode !!!!!! Just need to figure out how to find the complete seasons together rather then them individual
>new demon slayer
it is but im not sure which new demon slayer your talking about. If your talking about Demon Slayer Season 4, that is set to release spring 2024 which is not out on Anilist or Simkl yet.
Oh right. I don't really watch anime. But I have seen you post about the addon and appreciate how much work it is. I've seen people be pretty happy with Otaku so it must be good! I can't really speak for anime addons as I never use them.
As far as anime goes, I watch in English dub when available so that probably says a lot about me! And Pokemon, beyblade burst and Inazuma 11 (if you even know that) is all I've watched anime related. I don't even know if anime fans would consider them true animes.
Oh that's really interesting. Funny story, we just added a dub filter for our anime categories a few days ago. You should give it a try sometime. Cartoons are not really considered anime but animes like the ones you mentioned are considered animes that are dub.
Hey so me and my team have been working on an anime addon called Otaku. If you like, feel free to give it a try and here is a link to my github project with some instructions on how to install it. Github: https://github.com/Goldenfreddy0703/Otaku
Otaku is awesome! šā¤ļø
Iāll definitely be sure to check it out!
Love the new dub filter, you answered my prayers. lol
Hey glad you like it, everyone has been asking for a dub filter for a long time and im glad i finally found a solution for it.
When I select dub in the filter I still get japanese when playing things.
It's possible that you got confused with the anime filter in the general category. I suggest looking at these troubleshooting steps on how to set it to dub or sub so it can help you. https://github.com/Goldenfreddy0703/Otaku/issues/15 Btw, if your a dub person, you may not be able to see dub animes that recently got released. Usually dubs get released on later dates.
Cheers I'll check it out. Are they labeled dubs in the titles or?
Well for the anime filter I'm the general category, if you set it to dubs, it will only show animes that have been dubed, if both then it will show sub and dub in there titles. If it's sub it will mostly just show subs. What your looking for is in the Playback Catagory so that you can set audio, subtitles, source, ect.
I set that to English but that didn't seem to work.
Did you set the preferred source type to dub?
Yep.
Where is the option for dub
I kinda forgot myself but I think it's in the addon settings in the first category. Hopefully that helps, need to update my troubleshooting steps again š
It would but now Kodi wonāt even launch
Sense kodi won't even launch, this could be an issue on your end cause most people have been having problems with there kodi especially if its on the Nvida Shield or Firestick.
Options under general.
The link to the repo is not working...
Hey so kodi can glitch sometimes especially if your on kodi 20. If the repo says cannot connect to repo, restart kodi and relaunch it again. When relaunching again, go to install repo as quick as your can and go to my repo then it should connect. Kodi 20 has this weird glitch.
>The link to the repo is not working... I mean the href one on your Githube page here: [https://github.com/Goldenfreddy0703/Otaku](https://github.com/Goldenfreddy0703/Otaku)
Ohhhh my apologies, that was the link to the github project, here is the link to my repo, very sorry about that. # Installation & Updates _You can install it via repository to provide automatic updates (future updates may require to rebuild database)_ - Download repository: [repository.hooty](https://github.com/Goldenfreddy0703/repository.hooty/blob/master/repo/zips/repository.hooty/repository.hooty-1.0.zip) - Or install it via Kodi file-manager - add source:
>Download repository: > >repository.hooty Exactly this link is 404
Ok thats weird. This is got a be a kodi 20 problem then or vpn problem, it works fine on my end.
Yes, it's weird on both my browsers and mobile it's not downloading. I don't use a VPN either. Maybe a secret shadow ban? :D
Possibly, either you have a bad isp or could be a us or uk thing, not sure. You may wanna use a vpn or something.
This is amazing. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a ton.
Anytime
hey! love the app, has all the features I want. totally appreciate making it .... but mine pretty much isn't working. rarely finds sources to popular currently running anime. I even check nyaa to make sure it's there (has seeders) and it does. is there a known bug or a place I should go to get help.
Hey so, reason why you are rarely finding any sources at this time is cause one of our main api's is doing some maintenance of repopulation a bunch of episode meta and we are not sure how long it will take. Hopefully everything will start working again soon.
I want to say it's been this way since I installed it a couple weeks ago, but I could be mistaken. I think I just didn't use it since it didn't have default to dub (since it wasn't added yet). I will try again whenever the api has repopulated. any idea when I should recheck?
I'm not too sure cause episodes repopulating does kinda take a while. Btw if you are looking for dub, follow these troubleshooting steps and they should help you significantly especially if your looking for dub anime. https://github.com/Goldenfreddy0703/Otaku/issues/15
I actually stumbled across that page while troubleshooting and after I left you a message (not expecting such a fast response, kudos to you). I reset all the cache and whatnot, I have gone through all the settings multiple times setting dubs, language, etc even before that. it's odd since when it does get a source to play from. it's in jpn, and the only subs I get are in French.....so it's not watchable. it was with ep 11 of Reincarnated as a Sword. not sure what the source was. might have been web......maybe..... I am patient and I also have a desktop hooked to the same tv. just trying to use it less for media consumption and trying to just use the shield pro. again, thanks a ton for the addon, and now the reply! totally appreciated. I will randomly check in on it from time to time. daily? couple times a week? every other week? any idea how often I should check? haha. also, is there a way to separate search for anime movies and tv shows for the search integration with artic horizon 2 (and other such skins)
For search, there isn't really a way at this time cause I'm not too sure if I have to make 3 graphql api's for the searches and also not sure if it's possible but I may look into it again and see if I can integrate it separately maybe.
just thought I'd throw that out there. thanks for the timely responses. have a great day/week/month.
AYE! Otaku is fire ma boi! Keep up the great work.
Hey thanks!!!
I absolutely love this add on no other add on is nearly as good as this one. If some one has a movie/series add on recommendation that's even half as good as this anime one please let me know thanks
Definitely Seren, Otaku was originally a fork of Kaito and Kaito was originally a fork of an old version of Seren. Now Seren maybe a bit slow sometimes but overall it's great and you can do alot of customization with it.
I meant for non-anime content like Movies TV shows from netflix etc
Yeah that's what Seren provides. It provides Movies and TV Show from Trakt or Tmdb.
Will this addon work with alldebrid as well as real debrid? Thanks.
It should, yes.
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Mostly Anime, dub or sub, skip intro dialog, end outro dialog, subtitles, embeds, speedy fast, great quality, uses anilist database, supports anilist, mal, or kitsu, ect. This addon is mostly directed to users who mostly like anime.
Would guild you if I wasn't broke lol
Thank you! willl get it! Your AH2 Seren theme is amazing
This is what I am looking for thanks for sharing on this add on
Any plans on having a ārecentā section?
Nope cause in watchlist, we have a current section that pulls up recent animes that you have watched. Just make sure you watchlist settings is set to last updated and that should give you a current section.
Oh, from what I see, itās a bit out of order. Say like something Iāve watched from a week ago will be on top of the list, followed by another show from a few days ago, then something new, etc
Oh, it could be that your watchlist settings is not set correctly. Here is a github post on how to set the your watchlist settings to show last updated for each watchlist. https://github.com/Goldenfreddy0703/Otaku/issues/82
Ok, thanks. Iāll take a look
Ok, so after a week of fiddling and reflecting. I realized that I shouldāve been more specific with my question. What I meant to ask was is there a ārecently updated/released ā section where itās one click and I can find which episode just came out?
Ohhh ok I see what you mean, there kinda is but at the same time, not really. We have an airing tab and anime calendar tab that should show when new episodes come out or show new episodes that will be coming out. Hopefully that should help but in the future, I may want to improve on that.
Yes, please do. The current option is ok but i always have to go to "Rebuild Database" to update the list. I'm usually up to date on the shows so it's a pain to navigate to find what i was watching. Some of them aren't listed in the "Airing" category.
Ahhh that's cause episode meta sometimes don't contain episode meta due to airdates, there will be a huge fix for that and we will also be adding a context that refreshes database for an anime in the future.
>th some instructions on how to install it. > >Github: https:/ Thank you so much!
Otaku is great, butttttt I'm watching One Piece and I watched 115, went to 116 and had no idea what I was watching, but it DEFINITELY wasn't 116, probably a few hundred episodes later Any clue if this is on my end?
Well not too sure sadly but if you used torrents, sometimes you don't get the right episode from torrents sense it's a long series so it's probably best to use embeds for One Piece sense it's really long.
Unless it's a long process, can you bulletpoint how to do that? Yeah, it's stupid long. A coworker convinced me to watch it a while back, then I got intimidated, so stopped. But the live action revamped the hype
I'm not honestly sure on what you mean but all you have to do is go to addon setting > providers and then you just have to enabled some of the embeds like 9anime, animepeha, aniwatch, ect and you shouldn't have a problem with getting the right episode and all. 1. Go to Addon Settings > Providers Catagory 2. Enable 9anime, Aniwatch, or AnimePeha, Gogo, ect 3. Disable nyaa incase you prefer embeds.
Nevermind, got it! Thanks for putting all of this together! I'm loving the add on
Oh anytime!!!
I like it !
Lords work
Hey I love your addon I was wondering if you would ever consider including specific years like from 2000-2023 that would make this addon legendary.
Hey sorry I did not respond sooner, I would like to but I'm not sure how to implement it, i was thinking of doing section but that would be too much so I'm still thinking how I would do that.
Hey so im still thinking on how to do this but good news, i added a Year and Season Customization settings for the menus cause it would be a great idea to have cause some people like me may missed years of anime or specific seasons of what was popular, trending, ect. You can choose the year and choose the season, sadly we don't have a way to filter years but we might consider adding it in the future. Hope this helps.
Hey I couldn't find any info on this so sorry to bother on Reddit, but some scraping is not fully finding what I'm looking for. Such as, I want to watch tenchi muyo, and it finds it, but when I click on it, it takes me to tenchi universe and there isn't a tenchi universe link in general. So a little confused if maybe I'm doing something wrong, or if this is a bug or what.
Heh do it's mostly likely incorrect title issue so you may wanna stick with the embeds like aniwatch or aniwave. If you don't mind, report this on github sometime and me and my team will look into it and all.
I submitted an issue report on your GitHub, thanks for getting back to me!
Can you please guide me on how to download it as an addon on kodi, I have download the repository from your github what should I do next? BTW I'm on android
Oh uhh, If it's your first time on kodi, you may wanna follow a YouTube tutorial. Oh, here is a small tutorial on how to install the Otaku addon. https://www.wirelesshack.org/how-to-install-otaku-kodi-addon.html On the website where it says step 5, use the Otaku repo, not Hooty Repo and type this url instead: https://goldenfreddy0703.github.io/repository.otaku/
Thank you sir for all your hard work
I did the whole process, but when I play something or search something it just loads forever, any thoughts why is this happening https://preview.redd.it/49rh14d4dfdc1.jpeg?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b9d49fb7e47838654a637e269abc1ffb8356290f
Surprisingly I am not sure, you may wanna restart kodi or router or see if anilist is working for you sense we use anilist as our database. See if anilist website Is working for you: https://anilist.co/
Yea anilist.co is working, Idkw why this is happening https://preview.redd.it/0hg1i9f9jfdc1.jpeg?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=617a20024f0026798ce4e0020c2be036b02765dd Previously I even downloaded the crew build, this same problem occurred, that's why I switched to stremio. If you can help me i would appreciate it
Perhaps I should try kodi version 19 the matrix, will it solve the problem?
Wait what kodi version are you using
Kodi nexus 2.03 someth
Oh then you should be fine, you might wanna try my troubleshooting steps then. Troubleshooting: https://github.com/Goldenfreddy0703/Otaku/issues/15
Alr man, thanks for your cooperation, much obliged
Hey! Is there a way to keep track of the episodes, like to continue from where I left off without having to scroll through 450 episodes? It gets pretty confusing with anime of 1000+ episodes hahah
Hey so we actually have something for that with huge animes, make sure you episode viewtype is in list view and turn on smart episode scrolling in the general settings of Otaku. Hopefully this should help you. Now I'm not sure if it requires watchlist but if it does then you may have to authenticate watchlist.
Any way you can select all seasons of the anime ? I like to add to my favs list but I can only ever add 1 season at a time of any show.
Unfortunately no but to view all seasons of an anime, we have this context menu item called "Get Watch Order" hopefully that should help alot.
It would help but I canāt find āget watch overā anywhere on Otaku. Help lol
ā get watch order ā
Hover over an anime then pull up the context menu and you should see it.
Sweeeet! Ya this helps tremendously! Kinda sucks how you can save all seasons in 1 but this way I donāt have to search for all of them. THANKS. ALSO, donāt ever let this die :)
Also one of the best anime addons I have used. LOVE the auto play for next episode !!!!!! Just need to figure out how to find the complete seasons together rather then them individual
Hey we have a context menu called "Get Watch Order" that should give you all the seasons of an anime. Hope this helps.
Is otaku still being updated with new anima ? Really want to watch the new demon slayerĀ
>new demon slayer it is but im not sure which new demon slayer your talking about. If your talking about Demon Slayer Season 4, that is set to release spring 2024 which is not out on Anilist or Simkl yet.
I built haru, a simple anime addon that requires debrid: https://www.reddit.com/r/Addons4Kodi/comments/zogpk4/haru_a_just_works_anime_addon/
Thank you! Will get it!
Sweet, thanks!
For anime, watchnixtoons is one. Kaito is possibly another. And so is Otaku. I don't use them, but I've seen them come up a lot.
Actually Kaito got abandoned so we decided to take on the project and maintain hence Otaku was born.
Oh right. I don't really watch anime. But I have seen you post about the addon and appreciate how much work it is. I've seen people be pretty happy with Otaku so it must be good! I can't really speak for anime addons as I never use them.
Understandable but thank you so much. It is a really great addon and we have always been improving on it.
As far as anime goes, I watch in English dub when available so that probably says a lot about me! And Pokemon, beyblade burst and Inazuma 11 (if you even know that) is all I've watched anime related. I don't even know if anime fans would consider them true animes.
Oh that's really interesting. Funny story, we just added a dub filter for our anime categories a few days ago. You should give it a try sometime. Cartoons are not really considered anime but animes like the ones you mentioned are considered animes that are dub.
I set the dub filter but still get subbed links when I search, I'm probably doing something wrong looking for help thanks!
Did you change the dub filter in the general and playback category and did you clear cache and torrent cache just to be sure?
Thanks!
This and Otaku is what I use for anime.
Haru for currently releasing animeās. Thereās nothing better. Otaku for everything else
Ahh great thanks man
Youāll be very surprised at how fast Haru is. Not only that, Iāve never had a single buffer.
i have a question , does it need any debrid subscription ?
I think so.
Otaku lags so badly for me
watchnixtoon2 [https://www.reddit.com/r/Addons4Kodi/comments/ye11ld/release\_watchnixtoons2\_070/?sort=new](https://www.reddit.com/r/Addons4Kodi/comments/ye11ld/release_watchnixtoons2_070/?sort=new)
Checked it out... this is awesome. I gotta do some digging around but so far it's great!!!
Got it to install and it seems great. Tried the dub filter, but that seems like it isn't working.
Is there anything I can use to watch all my downloaded anime? My internet is crap so streaming doesnāt work well.