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Get an anime/manga's reviews

get_media_reviews

Read-only

Fetch user-written reviews for an anime or manga, sorted by most-helpful votes first. Includes a short excerpt; optionally include the full review text.

Instructions

List user-written reviews for an anime or manga, most-helpful-voted first (confirmed live: ordered by rating, not score — see those fields' own descriptions). Always includes summary (a short excerpt); set includeBody to also fetch each review's full text (can be long — leave it off unless you actually need the full text). Use search_media first to resolve a title to its AniList ID.

Input Schema

TableJSON Schema

Name	Required	Description
`id`	Yes	AniList ID.
`page`	No	Page number for pagination. AniList's paginated connections (search results, a title's characters/staff/reviews, activity feeds, forum comments) reject a page whose page × perPage exceeds ~5000 entries with an upstream error, so paging that deep fails rather than returning more results.
`type`	Yes	Whether `id` refers to anime or manga.
`perPage`	No	Results per page (max 50, AniList's own ceiling — it silently clamps anything higher).
`includeBody`	No	Also fetch each review's full text (`body`), not just its short `summary`.

Output Schema

TableJSON Schema

Name	Required	Description	Default
`reviews`	Yes

Schema Changelog

Changes observed during successful MCP inspections.

Changed5 schema fields changedv0.9.0Sep 27, 2026

changedInput schema / properties / perPage / description

Previous value: -"Results per page (max 25)."New value: +"Results per page (max 50, AniList's own ceiling — it silently clamps anything higher)."

changedInput schema / properties / perPage / maximum
```
Previous value: -25New value: +50
```

changedOutput schema / properties / reviews / properties / nodes / anyOf

Previous value: -[
-  {
-    "items": {
-      "additionalProperties": {},
-      "properties": {
-        "body": {
-          "anyOf": [
-            {
-              "type": "string"
-            },
-            {
-              "type": "null"
-            }
-          ]
-        },
-        "id": {
-          "exclusiveMinimum": 0,
-          "maximum": 2147483647,
-          "type": "integer"
-        },
-        "rating": {
-          "anyOf": [
-            {
-              "minimum": 0,
-              "type": "number"
-            },
-            {
-              "type": "null"
-            }
-          ],
-          "description": "Net helpful votes this review received from other users (community helpfulness, confirmed live this is what results are sorted by) — not the reviewer's own opinion of the title, that's `score`."
-        },
-        "ratingAmount": {
-          "anyOf": [
-            {
-              "minimum": 0,
-              "type": "number"
-            },
-            {
-              "type": "null"
-            }
-          ],
-          "description": "Total votes cast on this review's helpfulness (helpful + unhelpful)."
-        },
-        "score": {
-          "anyOf": [
-            {
-              "minimum": 0,
-              "type": "number"
-            },
-            {
-              "type": "null"
-            }
-          ],
-          "description": "The reviewer's own 0-100 rating of the title itself, not a vote count."
-        },
-        "siteUrl": {
-          "anyOf": [
-            {
-              "format": "uri",
-              "type": "string"
-            },
-            {
-              "type": "null"
-            }
-          ]
-        },
-        "summary": {
-          "anyOf": [
-            {
-              "type": "string"
-            },
-            {
-              "type": "null"
-            }
-          ]
-        },
-        "user": {
-          "anyOf": [
-            {
-              "additionalProperties": {},
-              "properties": {
-                "id": {
-                  "exclusiveMinimum": 0,
-                  "maximum": 2147483647,
-                  "type": "integer"
-                },
-                "name": {
-                  "anyOf": [
-                    {
-                      "type": "string"
-                    },
-                    {
-                      "type": "null"
-                    }
-                  ]
-                }
-              },
-              "required": [
-                "id"
-              ],
-              "type": "object"
-            },
-            {
-              "type": "null"
-            }
-          ]
-        }
-      },
-      "required": [
-        "id"
-      ],
-      "type": "object"
-    },
-    "type": "array"
-  },
-  {
-    "type": "null"
-  }
-]New value: +[
+  {
+    "items": {
+      "additionalProperties": {},
+      "properties": {
+        "body": {
+          "type": [
+            "string",
+            "null"
+          ]
+        },
+        "id": {
+          "exclusiveMinimum": 0,
+          "maximum": 2147483647,
+          "type": "integer"
+        },
+        "rating": {
+          "anyOf": [
+            {
+              "minimum": 0,
+              "type": "number"
+            },
+            {
+              "type": "null"
+            }
+          ],
+          "description": "Net helpful votes this review received from other users (community helpfulness, confirmed live this is what results are sorted by) — not the reviewer's own opinion of the title, that's `score`."
+        },
+        "ratingAmount": {
+          "anyOf": [
+            {
+              "minimum": 0,
+              "type": "number"
+            },
+            {
+              "type": "null"
+            }
+          ],
+          "description": "Total votes cast on this review's helpfulness (helpful + unhelpful)."
+        },
+        "score": {
+          "anyOf": [
+            {
+              "minimum": 0,
+              "type": "number"
+            },
+            {
+              "type": "null"
+            }
+          ],
+          "description": "The reviewer's own rating of the title itself (not a vote count, that's `rating`/`ratingAmount` above), on AniList's 0-100 community scale. It stays 0-100 whatever the viewer's configured scoreFormat is, since that setting only changes how anilist.co displays scores. This is NOT the 0-10 scale a personal list-entry `score` uses."
+        },
+        "siteUrl": {
+          "anyOf": [
+            {
+              "format": "uri",
+              "type": "string"
+            },
+            {
+              "type": "null"
+            }
+          ]
+        },
+        "summary": {
+          "type": [
+            "string",
+            "null"
+          ]
+        },
+        "user": {
+          "anyOf": [
+            {
+              "additionalProperties": {},
+              "properties": {
+                "id": {
+                  "exclusiveMinimum": 0,
+                  "maximum": 2147483647,
+                  "type": "integer"
+                },
+                "name": {
+                  "type": [
+                    "string",
+                    "null"
+                  ]
+                }
+              },
+              "required": [
+                "id"
+              ],
+              "type": "object"
+            },
+            {
+              "type": "null"
+            }
+          ]
+        }
+      },
+      "required": [
+        "id"
+      ],
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    "type": "array"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "null"
+  }
+]

removedOutput schema / properties / reviews / properties / pageInfo / properties / hasNextPage / anyOf
```
Removed value: -[
-  {
-    "type": "boolean"
-  },
-  {
-    "type": "null"
-  }
-]
```
addedOutput schema / properties / reviews / properties / pageInfo / properties / hasNextPage / type
```
Added value: +[
+  "boolean",
+  "null"
+]
```

Changed6 schema fields changedv0.7.1Aug 1, 2026

addedInput schema / properties / id / exclusiveMinimum
```
Added value: +0
```
removedInput schema / properties / id / minimum
```
Removed value: --2147483648
```

changedInput schema / properties / page / description

Previous value: -"Page number for pagination."New value: +"Page number for pagination. AniList's paginated connections (search results, a title's characters/staff/reviews, activity feeds, forum comments) reject a page whose page × perPage exceeds ~5000 entries with an upstream error, so paging that deep fails rather than returning more results."

addedInput schema / properties / perPage / exclusiveMinimum
```
Added value: +0
```
removedInput schema / properties / perPage / minimum
```
Removed value: -1
```

changedOutput schema / properties / reviews / properties / nodes / anyOf

Previous value: -[
-  {
-    "items": {
-      "additionalProperties": {},
-      "properties": {
-        "body": {
-          "anyOf": [
-            {
-              "type": "string"
-            },
-            {
-              "type": "null"
-            }
-          ]
-        },
-        "id": {
-          "maximum": 9007199254740991,
-          "minimum": -9007199254740991,
-          "type": "integer"
-        },
-        "rating": {
-          "anyOf": [
-            {
-              "type": "number"
-            },
-            {
-              "type": "null"
-            }
-          ]
-        },
-        "ratingAmount": {
-          "anyOf": [
-            {
-              "type": "number"
-            },
-            {
-              "type": "null"
-            }
-          ]
-        },
-        "score": {
-          "anyOf": [
-            {
-              "type": "number"
-            },
-            {
-              "type": "null"
-            }
-          ]
-        },
-        "siteUrl": {
-          "anyOf": [
-            {
-              "type": "string"
-            },
-            {
-              "type": "null"
-            }
-          ]
-        },
-        "summary": {
-          "anyOf": [
-            {
-              "type": "string"
-            },
-            {
-              "type": "null"
-            }
-          ]
-        },
-        "user": {
-          "anyOf": [
-            {
-              "additionalProperties": {},
-              "properties": {
-                "id": {
-                  "maximum": 9007199254740991,
-                  "minimum": -9007199254740991,
-                  "type": "integer"
-                },
-                "name": {
-                  "anyOf": [
-                    {
-                      "type": "string"
-                    },
-                    {
-                      "type": "null"
-                    }
-                  ]
-                }
-              },
-              "required": [
-                "id"
-              ],
-              "type": "object"
-            },
-            {
-              "type": "null"
-            }
-          ]
-        }
-      },
-      "required": [
-        "id"
-      ],
-      "type": "object"
-    },
-    "type": "array"
-  },
-  {
-    "type": "null"
-  }
-]New value: +[
+  {
+    "items": {
+      "additionalProperties": {},
+      "properties": {
+        "body": {
+          "anyOf": [
+            {
+              "type": "string"
+            },
+            {
+              "type": "null"
+            }
+          ]
+        },
+        "id": {
+          "exclusiveMinimum": 0,
+          "maximum": 2147483647,
+          "type": "integer"
+        },
+        "rating": {
+          "anyOf": [
+            {
+              "minimum": 0,
+              "type": "number"
+            },
+            {
+              "type": "null"
+            }
+          ],
+          "description": "Net helpful votes this review received from other users (community helpfulness, confirmed live this is what results are sorted by) — not the reviewer's own opinion of the title, that's `score`."
+        },
+        "ratingAmount": {
+          "anyOf": [
+            {
+              "minimum": 0,
+              "type": "number"
+            },
+            {
+              "type": "null"
+            }
+          ],
+          "description": "Total votes cast on this review's helpfulness (helpful + unhelpful)."
+        },
+        "score": {
+          "anyOf": [
+            {
+              "minimum": 0,
+              "type": "number"
+            },
+            {
+              "type": "null"
+            }
+          ],
+          "description": "The reviewer's own 0-100 rating of the title itself, not a vote count."
+        },
+        "siteUrl": {
+          "anyOf": [
+            {
+              "format": "uri",
+              "type": "string"
+            },
+            {
+              "type": "null"
+            }
+          ]
+        },
+        "summary": {
+          "anyOf": [
+            {
+              "type": "string"
+            },
+            {
+              "type": "null"
+            }
+          ]
+        },
+        "user": {
+          "anyOf": [
+            {
+              "additionalProperties": {},
+              "properties": {
+                "id": {
+                  "exclusiveMinimum": 0,
+                  "maximum": 2147483647,
+                  "type": "integer"
+                },
+                "name": {
+                  "anyOf": [
+                    {
+                      "type": "string"
+                    },
+                    {
+                      "type": "null"
+                    }
+                  ]
+                }
+              },
+              "required": [
+                "id"
+              ],
+              "type": "object"
+            },
+            {
+              "type": "null"
+            }
+          ]
+        }
+      },
+      "required": [
+        "id"
+      ],
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    "type": "array"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "null"
+  }
+]

Addedv0.3.0Jul 26, 2026
Removedv0.2.0Jul 21, 2026
Addedv0.2.0Jul 21, 2026

TDQS

A4.7/5.0

Behavior5/5

Does the description disclose side effects, auth requirements, rate limits, or destructive behavior?

Beyond the readOnlyHint and openWorldHint annotations, the description discloses the ordering behavior ('most-helpful-voted first' with a live confirmation that it sorts by `rating`, not `score'), states that `summary` is always included, and warns that full review bodies can be long. This gives the agent useful expectations about output size and ordering.

Agents need to know what a tool does to the world before calling it. Descriptions should go beyond structured annotations to explain consequences.

Conciseness5/5

Is the description appropriately sized, front-loaded, and free of redundancy?

Three dense sentences, each earning its place: the first states what the tool does and its ordering, the second covers output shape and optional payload, and the third gives the prerequisite workflow. No filler or redundant restatement of the schema.

Shorter descriptions cost fewer tokens and are easier for agents to parse. Every sentence should earn its place.

Completeness5/5

Given the tool's complexity, does the description cover enough for an agent to succeed on first attempt?

With annotations covering safety and openness, an output schema for return values, and schema descriptions covering all parameters, the description fills the remaining gaps: prerequisite lookup, ordering caveat, and payload-size guidance. Nothing an agent needs to call this correctly is missing.

Complex tools with many parameters or behaviors need more documentation. Simple tools need less. This dimension scales expectations accordingly.

Parameters3/5

Does the description clarify parameter syntax, constraints, interactions, or defaults beyond what the schema provides?

Schema description coverage is 100%, and each parameter already has a clear description. The tool description adds a little context around includeBody's payload-size tradeoff, but it largely restates what the schema already communicates, so the baseline of 3 is appropriate.

Input schemas describe structure but not intent. Descriptions should explain non-obvious parameter relationships and valid value ranges.

Purpose5/5

Does the description clearly state what the tool does and how it differs from similar tools?

The description begins with a specific verb and resource: 'List user-written reviews for an anime or manga.' This clearly distinguishes the tool from sibling media-related tools like get_media or get_media_characters, and the title reinforces the same function.

Agents choose between tools based on descriptions. A clear purpose with a specific verb and resource helps agents select the right tool.

Usage Guidelines5/5

Does the description explain when to use this tool, when not to, or what alternatives exist?

The description gives explicit guidance: use search_media first to resolve a title to its AniList ID, and only set includeBody when the full review text is actually needed because it can be long. It also clarifies the default response content, so an agent knows when the tool is sufficient without extra payload.

Agents often have multiple tools that could apply. Explicit usage guidance like "use X instead of Y when Z" prevents misuse.

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