MCP Animenewsnetwork

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 mcp add animenewsnetwork -- npx -y mcp-animenewsnetwork

Claude Desktop, Cursor, and any client using the standard config format

{

"mcpServers": { "animenewsnetwork": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "mcp-animenewsnetwork"] } } }

Node 24 or later is required, and no environment variable has to be set.

With Docker

{

"mcpServers": { "animenewsnetwork": { "command": "docker", "args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "ghcr.io/smeet666/mcp-animenewsnetwork:3.0.0"] } } }

-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

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.

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.

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.

In return: rows, each carrying id, kind, name, type, precision, vintage, date_added and source_url, any of which the report may leave empty. mode says whether the answer was read as recent or as browse, since passing starts_with changes the question being asked, and next_offset continues.

get_news

Reads the news wire.

In return: items, each with its title, link, summary, categories holding every tag the feed carries on the story, and published_at as an ISO timestamp when the feed's date could be read. total_available counts the stories the feed held, which is a fixed feed length rather than the size of the archive.

Configuration

Every variable is optional. Set them in the env block of your client config.

The news wire publishes several times an hour where the encyclopedia changes rarely, so the two are held for different lengths of time. A value outside its range falls back to the default, and the reason is written to stderr.

Errors

Every failure carries one of six