You finish a series that blew your mind, open the catalog, and start the ritual: half an hour scrolling through covers, three half-watched trailers, and finally, you end up rewatching the same opening. The «top 10» lists don’t help either: they’re the same ten works over and over, and you’ve seen half of them.

Mika is an AI recommender for anime and manga that does the opposite: you tell it what you’re in the mood for or what work you loved, and it gives you specific titles, each with a phrase explaining why they match you. No generic rankings and no made-up series.

Anime and manga recommendation AI

What makes Mika unique isn’t the conversation, but what it knows about each title. It works on a catalog of over 30,000 animes and 140,000 mangas with their full details, and it doesn’t recommend based on name or cover: it knows each work’s format, target audience, release year, whether it’s finished or ongoing, episode or chapter count, source material — manga, light novel, video game, or original — and its creators.

Added to that are genres and, especially, over 400 thematic tags, each with its weight in the work. A series where «time travel happens» is different from one that focuses on it from start to finish, and Mika distinguishes this. Along with the synopsis, all this forms a profile of each work, which it uses to compare with your request. It first searches the catalog and then selects: everything it recommends exists and has its details.

Additionally, if you keep track of what you watch, it takes that into account: it won’t recommend what you’ve already seen, and what you dropped or rated poorly doesn’t count as something you liked.

Anime recommendations

You can ask for anime recommendations as you would from a friend who’s seen half the catalog, with all the nuances you want:

• «A romantic comedy with a heartbreaking ending».
• «A sports anime that’s not football».
• «Dark fantasy from the 90s that doesn’t exceed 26 episodes».

Every part of the phrase matters: «from the 90s» checks the year, «26 episodes» the length, and «dark fantasy» looks for works with that tone, not just those with a dark scene.

You can also start from a series you loved and ask for something similar, or attach it with the «+» button in the chat. Mika compares its entire profile with the rest of the catalog — themes, tone, creators, length, and synopsis at once — and it shows: with Chainsaw Man, it suggests Devilman, Dorohedoro, or Zetman, not just «another popular shonen» randomly. If none appeal, just say «give me four more» and it keeps searching without repeating.

Manga recommendations

The same applies to manga, and its catalog is even larger there. You can ask for manga recommendations based on what you’re looking for — «a psychological horror manga, short and finished», «a seinen from the 2000s with detailed art» — or similar to what you’re reading. With Yotsuba&!, for example, it suggests Azumanga Daioh, which shares everyday humor and a relaxed pace, even if the stories are completely different.

It distinguishes between manga, manhwa, manhua, and light novels, knows if a work is finished or ongoing and how many chapters it has, so «something short to read in one go» won’t give you a series with a thousand chapters.

AI otaku for opinions and clarifications

It doesn’t have to be just «recommend me something». Mika is an AI otaku you can chat with: ask its opinion on a controversial ending, clarify the order to watch a saga with prequels and movies, what the difference is between shonen and seinen, or what a genre you don’t know is about. It only talks about anime, manga, and otaku culture, so if you ask for ramen recipes, it’ll politely steer the conversation back to what it knows.

The recommended works appear as cards with their cover and rating, and open in a new tab to keep the conversation going. To try it, just create a free account: add a few works you’ve seen to your list and ask for your anime and manga recommendations.

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