ksyasuda · Aug 1, 2026 · Aug 1, 2026 · Aug 1, 2026 · Aug 1, 2026 · Aug 1, 2026
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ Browse sibling episode files and the active mpv queue in one overlay modal. Open
     <td><b>Jellyfin</b></td>
     <td>Browse, launch, and cast media from your Jellyfin server with setup and discovery controls in the app tray</td>
   </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td><b>Anime Browser</b></td>
+    <td>Search anime sources you supply as <a href="https://github.com/aniyomiorg/aniyomi">Aniyomi</a> extension APKs and play an episode in mpv with the overlay attached (<code>subminer anime</code>); SubMiner ships no repositories and bundles no sources</td>
+  </tr>
   <tr>
     <td><b>Jimaku</b></td>
     <td>Search and download Japanese subtitles</td>
@@ -178,6 +182,8 @@ See the [full requirements list](https://docs.subminer.moe/installation#_1-insta
 
 ```bash
 paru -S subminer-bin
+# optional: the anime browser bridge, shared with Mangatan and updated by pacman
+paru -S mangatan-extension-server
 ```
 
 </details>
@@ -256,19 +262,28 @@ Full guides on configuration, Anki setup, Jellyfin, immersion tracking, and more
 
 SubMiner builds on the work of these open-source projects:
 
-| Project                                                                                     | Role                                                                    |
-| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| [ani-skip](https://github.com/synacktraa/ani-skip)                                          | AniSkip API client for anime intro/outro skip timestamps                |
-| [Anacreon-Script](https://github.com/friedrich-de/Anacreon-Script)                          | Inspiration for the mining workflow                                     |
-| [asbplayer](https://github.com/killergerbah/asbplayer)                                      | Inspiration for subtitle sidebar and logic for YouTube subtitle parsing |
-| [Bee's Character Dictionary](https://github.com/bee-san/Japanese_Character_Name_Dictionary) | Character name recognition in subtitles                                 |
-| [GameSentenceMiner](https://github.com/bpwhelan/GameSentenceMiner)                          | Inspiration for Electron overlay with Yomitan integration               |
-| [jellyfin-mpv-shim](https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-mpv-shim)                          | Jellyfin integration                                                    |
-| [Jimaku.cc](https://jimaku.cc)                                                              | Japanese subtitle search and downloads                                  |
-| [Renji's Texthooker Page](https://github.com/Renji-XD/texthooker-ui)                        | Base for the WebSocket texthooker integration                           |
-| [Yomitan](https://github.com/yomidevs/yomitan)                                              | Dictionary engine powering all lookups and the morphological parser     |
-| [yomitan-jlpt-vocab](https://github.com/stephenmk/yomitan-jlpt-vocab)                       | JLPT level tags for vocabulary                                          |
+| Project                                                                                     | Role                                                                         |
+| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| [ani-skip](https://github.com/synacktraa/ani-skip)                                          | AniSkip API client for anime intro/outro skip timestamps                     |
+| [Anacreon-Script](https://github.com/friedrich-de/Anacreon-Script)                          | Inspiration for the mining workflow                                          |
+| [Aniyomi](https://github.com/aniyomiorg/aniyomi)                                            | Anime extension API and data model the anime browser targets                 |
+| [asbplayer](https://github.com/killergerbah/asbplayer)                                      | Inspiration for subtitle sidebar and logic for YouTube subtitle parsing      |
+| [Bee's Character Dictionary](https://github.com/bee-san/Japanese_Character_Name_Dictionary) | Character name recognition in subtitles                                      |
+| [GameSentenceMiner](https://github.com/bpwhelan/GameSentenceMiner)                          | Inspiration for Electron overlay with Yomitan integration                    |
+| [jellyfin-mpv-shim](https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-mpv-shim)                          | Jellyfin integration                                                         |
+| [Jimaku.cc](https://jimaku.cc)                                                              | Japanese subtitle search and downloads                                       |
+| [M-Extension-Server](https://github.com/1Selxo/M-Extension-Server)                          | Runs Aniyomi extension APKs off Android; the bridge the anime browser drives |
+| [Mangatan](https://github.com/1Selxo/Mangatan)                                              | Reference client for the bridge protocol the anime browser speaks            |
+| [Renji's Texthooker Page](https://github.com/Renji-XD/texthooker-ui)                        | Base for the WebSocket texthooker integration                                |
+| [Yomitan](https://github.com/yomidevs/yomitan)                                              | Dictionary engine powering all lookups and the morphological parser          |
+| [yomitan-jlpt-vocab](https://github.com/stephenmk/yomitan-jlpt-vocab)                       | JLPT level tags for vocabulary                                               |
 
 ## License
 
 [GNU General Public License v3.0](LICENSE)
+
+The anime browser drives [M-Extension-Server](https://github.com/1Selxo/M-Extension-Server),
+downloaded from its upstream releases at runtime rather than
+bundled or redistributed here; its bundles carry their own dependencies, including a JRE and
+GPL-3.0 NewPipe Extractor. SubMiner includes none of them and talks to the bridge
+over its own HTTP protocol. It ships no extensions or repositories by default.
diff --git a/bun.lock b/bun.lock
diff --git a/changes/anilist-season-resolution.md b/changes/anilist-season-resolution.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+type: fixed
+area: anilist
+
+- Resolving "season N" against AniList no longer lands one season short for franchises whose broadcast seasons are listed as several entries. AniList records the back half of a split cour ("… Season 2 Part 2", "… Cour 2", "第2クール") as its own sequel, and the resolver counted each as a season — so Mushoku Tensei season 3 resolved to the season 2 entry and Re:ZERO season 4 to season 3, which then drove the character dictionary and AniList progress updates to the wrong series. A sequel carrying a part or cour marker that matches the season it continues is now followed without advancing the season count, in both the relation walk and the air-order fallback. Titles are compared ignoring punctuation, and the marker is looked for in every title and synonym rather than just the display title. A wrong match cached before this fix is remembered in `character-dictionaries/anilist-resolution-cache.json` and needs removing (or overriding from the character dictionary picker) for the affected series.
+- A special or OVA sitting in a franchise's sequel chain is walked through without counting as a season. Dr. STONE links STONE WARS to New World through a one-episode special, which made New World resolve as season 4 and every later season shift with it.
+- An AniList rate limit or network failure while walking sequel relations is reported so the caller can retry, instead of falling through to the air-date fallback. That fallback is for a franchise with missing relation edges; running it after a failed lookup turned a transient 429 into a confidently wrong season.
+- The shared title parser recognizes spelled-out episode labels (`Episode 4`, `第4話`) and a season named at the end of the title (`… Season 3`, `… 3rd Season`, `… S3`), which now fill the Season field instead of being searched for as part of the series name. The TsukiHime modal gained a Season field to match Jimaku, and seasons after the first are included in its search query so a later season's releases are actually found.
diff --git a/changes/anime-browser.md b/changes/anime-browser.md
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+type: added
+area: anime
+
+- Added an anime browser window that searches Aniyomi extension sources, shows cover art and episode lists, and plays an episode in mpv so the overlay and mining tools attach as usual.
+- Added `subminer anime` and the `--anime` flag to open the browser, plus a "Browse Anime" tray entry.
+- Anime extensions are read from `<userData>/anime-extensions`; drop Aniyomi `.apk` files there to add sources.
+- Added a source settings tab so extensions that need configuration (server address, credentials, quality) can be set up from the browser; values persist per extension and source, and updated extension schemas replace stale saved field definitions without losing values. Older unscoped preferences are discarded once because their package ownership cannot be proven safely.
+- Added an Extensions tab for adding repository URLs and installing, updating, or removing extensions in place; extensions that fail to load are listed with the reason. Repository requests time out instead of hanging, and APK updates are staged before replacing the installed copy.
+- Browse, Extensions, and Source settings are tabs, so each one gets the full window instead of sharing it with the search results.
+- Repository URLs only need to be an https URL to a `.json` index; the file name is not restricted to `index.min.json`.
+- The source picker offers "All sources", which searches every installed source at once. Results stream in as each source answers, with per-source progress in the status bar. Results are tagged with their source, failures do not blank the grid, and **Load more** appends later pages without duplicating streamed entries.
+- The Extensions tab opens with an Installed section listing every extension on disk with Remove — including ones added by hand or whose repository has since been removed — and Update where a configured repository still carries it.
+- Added `anime.repos`, `anime.extensionsDir`, and `anime.preferredQuality` config keys. SubMiner ships no extension repositories and performs no discovery.
+- Anime playback targets Japanese audio: dub-labelled entries are skipped when the source offers an alternative, `alang` prefers Japanese, and the source's own audio and subtitle tracks are loaded into mpv (Japanese selected) instead of being discarded, so all of them can be switched from mpv's track menu.
+- The primary subtitle slot stays reserved for Japanese: a source that only has, say, English subtitles gets them added with a normalized language tag (`English` → `en`) but not selected, so the regular `secondarySub` auto-load can route them to the secondary slot instead.
+- HLS streams pass through a local strip proxy that removes fake image headers some hosts glue onto their video segments and gives disguised segment URLs (`.image`, `.jpg`, `.css`, and other rotating fake extensions) a media-safe local alias, so those streams play in mpv and support Anki audio and image extraction with current ffmpeg releases. Upstream responses use identity encoding so playlists remain readable for URL rewriting.
+- The strip proxy retries a failed segment fetch once after a short pause and logs upstream error statuses; a host that errors on the very first fetches right after an episode resolves no longer kills the whole playback, disconnecting clients release their active upstream fetch instead of consuming the socket and bandwidth in the background, stalled response bodies retain the upstream inactivity timeout, and only origin-form requests can reach the configured local bridge.
+- The strip proxy no longer forwards `Range` headers to the bridge: ffmpeg opens every HLS segment with `Range: bytes=0-`, the bridge answers some of those with 206, and a partial response bypassed the disguise strip, so whether an episode played depended on the bridge's cache state.
+- A bridge that dies out from under the app (killed, crashed, or stopped mid-operation) no longer leaves the browser failing every request until an app restart: the exit is detected, surfaced in the status bar, and the bridge restarts on the next request.
+- "Playing" is only reported once mpv actually configures a video output; when a stream fails to decode, the browser shows mpv's error instead of claiming playback started while no window ever appeared.
+- The bridge bundle is downloaded from the newest upstream release that ships a bundle for the platform (skipping releases older than the oldest server SubMiner is known to work with), the same way Mangatan fetches it, so all four published bundles (macOS arm64 and x64, Linux x64, Windows x64) work without a maintainer hashing each one first.
+- The Extensions tab's available list has a language chip row: pick one or more languages to narrow a repository index that otherwise lists every language it knows, or "All" to clear the filter. Rows name the language ("Japanese" instead of `ja`) and the Available heading counts what the filter leaves.
+- A stream's subtitle tracks are downloaded to a temp directory and loaded into mpv as files rather than streamed from the source URL, so they can serve as the alass reference in Subsync the way Jellyfin subtitles do. The format is detected from the file's own content, a track that fails to download falls back to its URL so the episode still plays, and the directory is removed when the next episode starts or the app exits.
+- An episode launched from the browser carries its series, season and episode number through the app instead of a single joined string: stats group by series (every stream previously landed in one entry named `m3u8`), rewatching reuses the existing entry, the Jimaku and TsukiHime modals prefill Title/Season/Episode from the source's own listing, AniList updates use those fields directly, and the mpv title reads `Series S03E04 - Episode Name`.
+- Opening the browser shows a tray icon on every platform and — on macOS — puts the app in the Cmd+Tab switcher and Dock, so you can switch between it and mpv; the Dock icon is released again when the window closes during playback. Launching a video starts a regular SubMiner session, and in `subminer anime` standalone mode closing the window during playback no longer quits the app and kills the stream.
+- The episode list has a filter box: type an episode number (`12`), a range (`12-18`), or part of an episode name to narrow a long list, with a `6 of 25` counter while it is applied. Escape inside the box clears the filter instead of leaving the detail page.
+- Episodes already watched are dimmed and marked in the episode list, with a watched count in the header. The marks come from the stats history playback already writes (an episode is marked once a session passes the completion threshold), so they match the stats window and survive the stream URL changing between playbacks. They refresh when the browser window comes back to the front, and stay empty when immersion tracking is disabled.
+- Right-clicking an episode opens a menu for marking it watched or unwatched by hand, plus "Mark this and N below watched/unwatched" for the episode and every episode listed under it. Sources list newest first, so a span covers the back catalogue, which is how a series watched elsewhere gets caught up. A filter never narrows what a span covers, and the status bar reports how many episodes were touched.
+- Marking an episode that was never played creates its stats row, carrying the same series, season and episode fields playback would have recorded. Both stats library views join the lifetime tables, so a manual mark does not show up there as watch time nobody spent, and clearing a mark creates nothing.
+- Episodes can be queued instead of replacing what is playing. Every episode row has **Play** and **Queue** buttons (clicking the row still plays now), the right-click menu offers the same two, and a queued episode shows its place in line ("next up", "#2 in queue") with a queue count and **Clear queue** in the episode header. The queue spans anime, resolves and appends each episode to mpv's real playlist as soon as it is queued while subtitle tracks cache in the background, so next/previous navigation works immediately and the next episode starts without a resolution pause when the current one ends. Queueing with nothing playing just plays.
+- Added an in-player Anime Browser modal on `Ctrl+Alt+A`. The shortcut toggles it without losing its page or scroll position. It stays within the player bounds and shares the active episode, playback queue, source configuration, and watch history with the standalone browser, while each surface keeps independent search and navigation state. The modal validates its embedded page before changing overlay state, so a load setup failure leaves it closed rather than revealing a broken modal.
+- The bridge is reused from a package-manager install when one exists: on Arch the AUR `mangatan-extension-server` package (shared with Mangatan) is picked up from `/usr/share/mangatan/extension_server`, so nothing is downloaded and pacman keeps it current. `anime.bridgeDir` points SubMiner at a bundle anywhere else. `subminer-bin` lists the package as an optional dependency.
+- SubMiner records which bridge release it installed and, once the bridge is running, checks GitHub for a newer one; when there is, the banner offers an **Update to vX** button. The new release is downloaded beside the running bridge, then the bridge restarts on it. The updater waits for a bridge still starting to stop and keeps the previous bundle until the replacement is active. The Extensions tab shows the bridge version, where it lives, and who updates it without describing an unchecked install as current.
diff --git a/changes/linux-overlay-content-ready-fallback.md b/changes/linux-overlay-content-ready-fallback.md
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: fixed
+area: overlay
+
+- Fixed the overlay never loading (stuck on the "Overlay loading" OSD spinner) when the Yomitan content-script reload raced overlay window creation at startup, most visible when playing from the anime browser on Linux/Wayland: a hidden window stops painting after that reload, so the ready-to-show signal that gates showing the overlay never fired. Content-ready now falls back to did-finish-load after a short grace period.
diff --git a/changes/macos-window-activation.md b/changes/macos-window-activation.md
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: fixed
+area: macos
+
+- `subminer anime` (and `--settings` / `--sync`) now bring their window to the front on macOS. `show()`/`focus()` only reorder windows inside the app that is already active, so the window opened behind the terminal that launched it; SubMiner now activates itself when opening one. The anime browser also restores its Dock icon before showing rather than after, because the overlay's fullscreen transform leaves the app as an accessory process that macOS refuses to bring forward at all.