No worries, I now understand that this site is not specialized or efficient in managing TV series but maybe just movies. I now use TVDB for all KODI and PLEX, which can handle season management. I now only do updates for TVDB. TMDB, when you see that you have lost a large community of users, maybe you will consider implementing consistent rules (too late probably) ?

I don't understand this ruling. And might I add, OPs link literally has "Season 2" in it.

For using Season 2 - please use episode groups semantics. Episode Groups are different sortings. Kodi, Plex or emby haven't support the episode groups, so I think you must ask them for integrate them.

Hmmmm, it would make a lot more sense for this website to use the official grouping (season 1, season 2) and to have an episode group for absolute ordering. Then everyone else wouldn't have to change to support incorrect data and you know since that's the way the designers clearly intended it to be arranged.

@G.Desmond said:

Hmmmm, it would make a lot more sense for this website to use the official grouping (season 1, season 2) and to have an episode group for absolute ordering. Then everyone else wouldn't have to change to support incorrect data and you know since that's the way the designers clearly intended it to be arranged.

Yeah, and? We have a default sorting and episode groups! Use them!

PS: All must learn to use multiple sortings - default and episode groups!

Right, apparently you missed my point.

The default sorting should not absolute for shows that separate their episodes by season regardless of the individual episode numbers.

By making it so, you loose data (season information) and in fact are literally the only site that does so.

Is the rest of the internet really wrong (including the official site) and TMDB is right.... I don't think so. By either following the official grouping, i.e.. S02 starts with S02E25 or by using Trakts absolute numbering method, S02E01 (25) and relegating the absolute ordering to an episode group you do not loose any data and it's still clear how the episode were intended to be presented.

If you look at the official website, https://kusuriyanohitorigoto.jp/ it's very clear that there is separate seasons, if you click on the season links they take you to separate pages, https://kusuriyanohitorigoto.jp/season1/episodes/ , https://kusuriyanohitorigoto.jp/season2/episodes/ . I don't see S01E25-48 under the season 1 site, so there is no way any rational person can say that TMDB has this show correctly grouped/arranged/separated.

I don't think it would be a bad thing for other site to integrate episode groups but they are not a fix for having the default soring be flat out wrong.

@G.Desmond said:

Right, apparently you missed my point.

The default sorting should not absolute for shows that separate their episodes by season regardless of the individual episode numbers.

By making it so, you loose data (season information) and in fact are literally the only site that does so.

Is the rest of the internet really wrong (including the official site) and TMDB is right.... I don't think so. By either following the official grouping, i.e.. S02 starts with S02E25 or by using Trakts absolute numbering method, S02E01 (25) and relegating the absolute ordering to an episode group you do not loose any data and it's still clear how the episode were intended to be presented.

If you look at the official website, https://kusuriyanohitorigoto.jp/ it's very clear that there is separate seasons, if you click on the season links they take you to separate pages, https://kusuriyanohitorigoto.jp/season1/episodes/ , https://kusuriyanohitorigoto.jp/season2/episodes/ . I don't see S01E25-48 under the season 1 site, so there is no way any rational person can say that TMDB has this show correctly grouped/arranged/separated.

I don't think it would be a bad thing for other site to integrate episode groups but they are not a fix for having the default soring be flat out wrong.

That's your opinion. But there are different metadatabases, each with its own rules and distinctions within them. Here are rules that must be followed to add episodes to the database, no matter how silly they may seem to you.

rules:

• Episodes are added with their original episode number and first release date in the origin country.
• A new season always begins with episode number 1
• the episodes are numbered continuously, they should be added to the same season

Seasons can't lose - we have episode groups for that. Episode groups are used to group episodes (sort episodes) - whether arcs, seasons, cours or alternate seasons and so on.

No one is criticizing episode groups, which are a very good feature. But the default sorting/grouping should not and must not be the continuous version. Having separate seasons allowed for a more logical, understandable grouping, with a better data source. I've lost count of the discussions on this same subject; this should give us food for thought...

@Vivienb said:

No one is criticizing episode groups, which are a very good feature. But the default sorting/grouping should not and must not be the continuous version. Having separate seasons allowed for a more logical, understandable grouping, with a better data source. I've lost count of the discussions on this same subject; this should give us food for thought...

Authentic adapting is better. Rules are rules! And use the episode groups! Yaeh - many countless discussions.

@Stefan Ringel said:

Yaeh - many countless discussions.

Yes. Whose fault is it?

@Vivienb said:

@Stefan Ringel said:

Yaeh - many countless discussions.

Yes. Whose fault is it?

In my opinion, it is the database users who are frustrated and do not understand that there must be rules to protect the database from uncontrolled growth.

PS: I think, a default episode group should help to mask the virtual seasons into anime rules based staff + multi-language of episode groups.