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Last entry 14 August 2026.
14 August 2026
What to watch before Minions & Monsters
Search started asking this in the second week of August, and the answer is more interesting than the question: nothing. Minions & Monsters is set in 1920s Hollywood, which puts it first in the franchise by about forty-five years despite being the seventh film released.
10 August 2026
Boruto, and why its filler lists disagree
Published counts for Boruto range from 28 filler episodes to 206, on the same 293. The reason is that Boruto never fell behind its manga the way Naruto did, so most of it is anime-original by design rather than by delay. All 293 episodes are now broken into 25 arcs, with what the material is and whether to watch it kept in separate columns.
9 August 2026
A saved list
The site could record what you had watched and nothing about what you meant to watch. You can now save a franchise for later from its page or straight from the picker, and the dashboard separates the ones you chose from the rest of the catalogue.
9 August 2026
Collections that know what month it is
A Halloween list is worth a great deal in October and nothing in March. Collections now carry a season, and the home page surfaces whichever one is current. Three new lists came with it, including one for the long dark of January.
9 August 2026
Naruto and Bleach, with the filler marked
Both series now have arc-by-arc tables showing which episodes are anime-original and which of those are worth watching anyway. Bleach is 366 episodes across sixteen arcs; Shippuden is 500 across twenty-three.
9 August 2026
Television finally counts towards runtime
Series used to contribute nothing to any total, so Bleach reported six hours for a franchise that is four hundred episodes. Where a per-episode running time has been published, episodes now count, and totals that include an estimate say so.
9 August 2026
Post-credit scenes for DC, Spider-Man and X-Men
Forty-five more films checked against two credits databases. Four DC films are deliberately left unrecorded because no source affirmatively checked them, which is different from having none.
8 August 2026
What should I watch?
Three questions (what you want out of the evening, how long you have, and how much untangling you will put up with), narrowing every franchise on the site rather than a preset shortlist.
8 August 2026
Six anime franchises
Evangelion, Fullmetal Alchemist, Attack on Titan, Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen and Chainsaw Man, and an Anime shelf to put them on.
8 August 2026
Progress you can back up
Export what you have watched to a file and load it on another browser or device. It never leaves your machine. There is no upload and no account, which is the point.
8 August 2026
A privacy notice, and no analytics at all
Google Analytics was removed rather than gated behind a consent banner. The site sets no cookies and collects nothing, which made the notice much shorter to write.
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