While I understand that anime seasons as a whole are an inconsistent mixed bag (Mob Psycho 100 comes to mind - a series with 3 seasons, however each season is given names such as Mob Psycho II, Mob Psycho III, etc., as well as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure taking place in "Parts", but Part 1 and 2 airing in a single season) but this is exactly why the community should be listened to when considering such decisions.

The website may use absolute numbering, but almost everywhere else (including other official sources such as promotional material) consider this a new season, "Season 1" has a start and end point you would expect of an anime season, as does Season 2, and almost every other database and source registers "Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2" properly, making cross-compatibility a nightmare.

I fail to see how the moderators of TMDB would so rigidly defy the general consensus on this, let alone completely lock the creation of new seasons (defeating the purpose of a community-driven media database).

If the rules state that you have to purposefully butcher the content's order and grouping in a database, then forgive me for saying that perhaps those rules deserve a second look.

I must urge TMDB to reconsider their stance on this.

I'm just curious how this works, since looking at One Piece on this site, it has the episodes broken into multiple seasons but the episode numbers do not start at 1 for each season like you said. I feel like this is inconsistent?

@bluebubbee said:

I'm just curious how this works, since looking at One Piece on this site, it has the episodes broken into multiple seasons but the episode numbers do not start at 1 for each season like you said. I feel like this is inconsistent?

It is inconsistent. One Piece is a show that's planned to have this fixed. But due to the amount of episodes, it's taking a while to actually get around to dealing with it, and iirc, the mods plan to automate the process.

How is thing going on for almost a year?

I've only glanced over this thread, but it seems the community unanimously says this should be 2 seasons.

Are mods here really this tonedeaf?

I don't want to deny the fact that marking the new episodes as season 2 makes the most sense.

But what i understand from mod responses here is that there are technical limitations that dictate the current way of numbering episodes. Therefore, changing the system would likely require lots of effort across the board and implementing big data migration tasks.

I might be wrong though.

I highly doubt it's technical limitations. If that were the case, then other Anime would be affected as well.

From scanning this post and looking at the comments the mods won't change this because of rules listed here: https://www.themoviedb.org/bible/tv/59f743289251416e71000037#5b71c6b4c3a3684161000001.

Mods, is there way to do a petition to update the rules or for special exceptions? Look at the rules I didn't see a direct way to put in feedback.

@raze464 said:

It looks like the newest episode (Hidden Inventory/懐玉) is listed as episode 25 on the official website so it appears the new episodes will continue from the previous numbering. According to our anime-specific guidelines, this means all episodes should be listed in a single season.

what do you think it gonna happen bro...

@raze464 said:

It looks like the newest episode (Hidden Inventory/懐玉) is listed as episode 25 on the official website so it appears the new episodes will continue from the previous numbering. According to our anime-specific guidelines, this means all episodes should be listed in a single season.

Es el episodio 25 del total de la serie, el cual pertenece a la temporada 2, en sus web queda bastante claro, el meter los 47 episodios en una única temporada no me parece que siga con vuestras pautas especificas de anime si no más bien cabezonería en algo que se contradice con el sitio web original.

@molinamos said:

is there way to do a petition to update the rules or for special exceptions?

The prettiest solution would be to update their website to allow multiple orders (Streaming order, Absolute order, DVD order, Disney+ order, “common sense” order, …) instead of having those episodes group that are not user-friendly when you use Kodi, …

Then, for Jujutsu Kaisen, we would have the official order with only one season (that will be funny if the season 3 starts with S03E01, TMDB will create a season 2 for the season 3) and we would have a streaming order (used officially by Crunchyroll for example) with two seasons

@Pierrou said:

@molinamos said:

is there way to do a petition to update the rules or for special exceptions?

The prettiest solution would be to update their website to allow multiple orders (Streaming order, Absolute order, DVD order, Disney+ order, “common sense” order, …) instead of having those episodes group that are not user-friendly when you use Kodi, …

Then, for Jujutsu Kaisen, we would have the official order with only one season (that will be funny if the season 3 starts with S03E01, TMDB will create a season 2 for the season 3) and we would have a streaming order (used officially by Crunchyroll for example) with two seasons

This is by far the best idea.

There already are episode groups.

Then, for Jujutsu Kaisen, we would have the official order with only one season (that will be funny if the season 3 starts with S03E01, TMDB will create a season 2 for the season 3) and we would have a streaming order (used officially by Crunchyroll for example) with two seasons

No. The official order should be two seasons. There is only one place on the whole planet where it's one season and it's here and that should be relegated to its own episode group.

Just do what it is in one piece and several other animes. Split to the new season, use absolute numbering. I can't belive this is such a problem. These animes have separate seasons in Japan ie they come out separate years etc. Just make a Season 0 that is the absolute numbering and then let us have all of the other seasons as duplicate info. It is ridiculous to organize it this way. I don't want to have to scroll through 400 episodes to get to the next episode or rewatch certain episodes in Emby/Plex. Especially not via a remote. I don't think anyone else does either. This site is the reason I have to choose different meta data providers for different animes. I made the mistake of using this place for one of the Dragon Balls...never again.

how are the mods ignoring the fact that on the website it literally says 第1期 and 第2期 which are season 1 and season 2.....

Oh my god this issue again with yet another anime. This site is legitimately unusable as a metadata source for this entire type of media.