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Watch anime directly from your terminal with a UI like websites: ani-ex

I made an anime streaming TUI for the terminal — ANI-EX

Hey everyone

I’ve been working on a terminal-based anime streaming app called ANI-EX GitHub Repository

It lets you browse, search, and watch anime directly from your terminal with a UI that feels closer to a modern streaming app than a traditional CLI tool.

Features

  • Anime home dashboard with trending + latest releases
  • Instant search with history
  • Episode browser with SUB/DUB toggle
  • Direct playback in mpv or VLC
  • Poster rendering inside the terminal using Sixel/chafa
  • Vim-style keyboard navigation
  • Persistent config + player preferences
  • Responsive terminal UI with smooth navigation

Built using:

  • Bun
  • neo-blessed
  • AnimePahe API
  • mpv / VLC integration

The goal was to make terminal anime browsing feel clean, modern, and actually enjoyable instead of just “functional.”

Example workflow:

Home -> Search -> Detail -> Player

Current release:

  • v1.0.0

The project is open source and contributions/feedback are welcome since it’s still evolving and there are definitely areas to improve.

Would love to hear what terminal users/anime fans think.

https://github.com/KiyoKun01/ani-ex

u/shuruilimbu — 3 days ago
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Found this pretty cool anime streaming repo today just like Ani-cli : Ani-ex

Just stumbled across this insanely intresting anime streaming repo on GitHub and had to share.

Not gonna pretend it’s fully stable or production-ready yet, there are definitely rough edges and bugs here and there — but the UI and overall vibe are genuinely impressive for an open-source project.

The design is super clean, animations look great, and the codebase is interesting to explore if you're into:

  • anime apps
  • streaming UIs
  • React/Next.js projects
  • frontend inspiration
  • open-source side projects

Feels like one of those repos with a lot of potential if it keeps getting worked on.

Kinda refreshing seeing projects that prioritize aesthetics + experimentation instead of just boilerplate dashboards everywhere.

github.com
u/shuruilimbu — 3 days ago