Japanese Media Manager

Japanese Media Manager

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About My Anime 2

My Anime 2

My Anime is a great mix between presentation, functionally and usability for watching and organising your anime. By combining the interface and multimedia capabilities of MediaPortal with the information and management abilities of AniDB, you’ll get a great anime experience.

• Get the latest My Anime here
• My Anime is a plugin for the great media software MediaPortal

 Main window

 

My Anime allows you to list all your anime, no matter whether they are movies, TV shows, or ova, if there on your computer, on the network, or on DVD’s. It allows you to see detailed information about each anime you have, including description, genres, air dates, community ratings, personal ratings, etc. Fanart, DVD Covers, posters, and banners are automatically downloaded giving you a pleasing look to your anime collection. Not only are the anime listed, but each episode is listed as well. Information for each episode is available, preview pictures are downloaded, airing dates are shown, episode descriptions are retrieved, etc.

Nearly every item you see on the interface, like, anime, seasons, episodes, fanart, DVD\VHS covers, banners, characters, upcoming anime, etc.. has a context menu you can bring up with a wealth of options. There are just way to many to list here, but you will find out if you use My Anime .

Features

• List all your anime in a graphically impressive interface.
• Sort anime into groups.
• Mark anime as favourites.
• Many different skins available.
• Different layouts available.
• Shows list of characters in anime and which voice actor did the voice, along with other characters they have done.
• List the related anime of an anime and tells you if they are in in your collection.
• Vote for anime you have. Shows community vote and amount of votes.
• Configuration window for quick setup.
• Download section to search for and download anime and episodes. Tied in with other sections to easier download related anime or anime on the calandar released this month.
• Keep track of which episodes you have watched.
• Shows you which anime you haven’t finished watching.
• Allows you to store anime anywhere, on hard drives, on the network, or on DVD’s.
• Get fan art, DVD posters and banners for your anime.
• View detailed information about your anime and episodes, including description, preview pictures, airing dates, genres, community votes, personal votes.
• Sorts your anime for you. Simply put your anime into a folder and My Anime will move it to where you need it.
• Have your list of anime uploaded to AniDB. This allows you or other people you choose to see it from anywhere in the world.
• Sort your anime by a wide range of attributes like air date, rating, name, watched order.
• Quickly find anime you’re looking for by simply typing in part of its name. My Anime will then show you the anime that contain those letters.
• Filter which anime are current showing by using attributes like, year released, genre, watched/unwatched, favourite.
• Watch anime straight from your list. Automatically marks episodes and anime as watched on your AniDB list when you finish them.
• Built-in resume. Resume any episode from exactly where you left off. Great if you need to stop while in the middle of an episode.
• Anime calendar. View the release dates of your anime or see detailed listing of anime coming out on a calendar. Simply select any anime on the calendar to see detailed info. Great for finding out if a new anime is worth collecting.

Larger feature list here.

Layouts

My Anime has 3 layouts you can choose from to display the main list of anime. These allow you to see more of ether, the list, the fanart or just might look better to you. In the following 3 images, it's the same list of anime being listed, in the same window, just the layout is changed. Even tho they look radically different, they all do the same things.

 

Fanart layout

 

List layout

 

FilmStrip layout

Skins

A range of skins are available for My Anime. Your bound to find something you like. These skins can dramtically change not only the looks but also the layout of the different parts of My Anime. Because each skin gets 3 layouts, you get a good amount of options on how you want it to look.

For more screenshots for each skin follow these links, in order of the above image.

Information windows

My Anime has an assortment of different windows to show you all the information you would need about an anime and your collection.

Anime info

The anime info window shows you detailed information about an anime. The info is fetched from the excellent AniDB database. The window also has a second page showing statistics about your local copy of the anime, like how many times watched and for how long.

 

Anime info AniDB info page

 

Anime info Stats page

Anime Info Groups page

Calandar

This window shows you your anime on a calendar. It lists anime by the months they were first aired. It also shows you anime coming up in the next couple months. By clicking on an anime you are taken to its info window, allowing you to see all the details about the anime known so far. By doing this it allows you to easily find new anime to watch and collect.

 

Calandar window

Relations

The relations window shows all the anime related to another anime. This includes direct sequels and prequels as well as anime that are set in the same universe or have the same characters. This is great for finding all the related anime in an anime universe.

 

Relations window

Characters

This lists all the characters in the anime as well as the voice talent behind the character. Pictures of both the character and the voice actor are shown when available. For each voice actor, the list of characters they have done is shown as well as the anime those characters are in. Pictures of these other characters and animes are also shown.

 

Characters window

Images

Different types of images are downloaded with each anime. These not only look nice, like the fanart, but also help display the anime graphically, like the banners and posters. The posters most of the time are the DVD or VHS covers, so with these you get the feeling like your going through you dvd collection when you browse through the lists. Each set of images are manageable per anime. Here are the windows that let you manage them.

 

Fanart window

 

Posters window

 

Banners window

Options

My Anime has a wealth of options available to customize the way you see your anime. The most common option are available in both the GUI and the configuration dialog.

Support

Where to get support?

If you ever have any problems with the plugin then dont worry because there are plenty of ways to get help. We recommend you check the different support sections in this order:

1. The Manual
2. FAQ section
3. The Guides
4. The Forum
5. Our IRC channel

How do I report a problem?

After you have checked all support sections and have not found a soloution to your problem, then you should report it to us. Remember to search the forums first tho! A developer may already be working on it, and it would help him if all the reports for that problem are in the same place. If you cant find any help with your problem, then you should create a new support topic at the forums. The first thing your going to need to do is grab the logs.

My Anime records its own log and is kept with the other MediaPortal logs. These logs only contain information from the last MediaPortal session. It is a great help to the people reading these logs if you restart mediaportal and only do what is needed for the problem to occur, then quit MediaPortal.

To get the logs, go to Start menu->Team mediaportal->mediaportal->User files->log. If your giving these logs to someone else to help debug a problem, like the developers, then grab the "mediaportal.txt", "error.txt", and "MyAnime2.txt" files and put them into a zip file. If this is a new problem, start a new support tread at our forum, and attach the logs to the post.

Features

 Here are just some of the features:

Collection

• Mark anime as favourites.
• Automatically detects and adds anime to your collection from folders.
• Guaranteed no false positives.
• Import anime into your collection from DVD's
• The ability to sort your anime into groups.
• Sort your anime by a wide range of attributes like:

• Filter which anime are current showing by using attributes like:

• Quickly find anime you’re looking for in your collection by simply typing in part of its name. My Anime 2 will then show you the anime that contain those letters.
• Have your list of anime uploaded to AniDB. This allows you or other people you choose to see it from anywhere in the world.
• Sorts your anime for you. Simply put your anime into a folder and My Anime 2 will move it to where you need it.
• Allows you to store anime anywhere, on hard drives, on the network, or on DVD’s.

Interface

• List all your anime in a stunning user interface.
• Many different skins like:

• Get fan art, DVD covers/posters and banners for your anime.
• Different layouts like:

•  Backgrounds change to the fanart of the selected anime.

Episodes / Watching anime

• Watch anime straight from your list.
• Shows you a image from the episode to help you remember which episode is which.
• Displays the description for each episode.
• Can hide the description for an episode untill you've finished watching it to avoid spoiling the plot.
• Keep track of which episodes you have watched.
• Shows you which anime you haven’t finished watching.
• Intergrates with the download window to allow you to directly download missing episodes.
• Automatically marks episodes and anime as watched on your AniDB acccount's anime list when you finish them.
• Built-in resume. Resume any episode from exactly where you left off. Great if you need to stop while in the middle of an episode.
• Keep statistics on your watching to show you how long you have watch an anime for and the total amount of time you've spent watching anime

Information

• View detailed information about your anime and episodes, including:

- Other episode type count

•  Get statistics about the anime and your usage like:

Relations

• List the related anime of an anime including:

• Tells you if the related anime are in your collection.
• You can get go to the Anime info window for any related anime by clicking on it.
• You can find related anime of the related anime by clicking on it and jumping to the related anime window. 

Downloading

• Type in an anime you want to download and it will go out and search for all the downloads it can find for that anime.
• Mixes with other windows, like the relations window and calandar window, to allow you to quick start downloading anime.
• Connects with uTorrent to automatically start downloading anime torrents when it finds them from a search.
• Can notifiy you when a download is finished with a popup no matter which window your on. 

Calandar

• View the release dates of all your anime.
• See listing of anime coming out on a calendar.
• Shows description and airing dates right on the window.
• Simply select any anime on the calendar to see detailed info.
• Great for finding out if a new anime is worth collecting.
• You can select an anime to download right from the calandar, which will take you straight to the download section.

Characters

• Shows list of characters in anime.
• Which voice actor did the voice for the characters
• Shows other characters the voice actors have done.
• Shows images of: