Kaizen

Why Watch Anime Like a Normie?

Ever tried watching anime from the terminal? 🖥️✨ Yeah, me neither. But one day, while staring into the abyss of CLI tools and minimalism-induced existential dread, we thought: Why not? 🤷‍♂️

Kaizen is here to fulfill that dream (or nightmare, depending on how much you love the terminal). A native, no-nonsense, super-aesthetic TUI for streaming your favorite anime—right from your beloved command line. 🎥🎌

No more context-switching, no more bloated browser tabs screaming at your CPU like it owes them money. With Kaizen, it’s just you, your terminal, and an uninterrupted anime binge-fest.

So, grab your instant ramen 🍜, fire up Kaizen, and let’s go full weeb mode. 🌸✨ Terminal supremacy, but make it anime. 🎉

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Installation, Update & Uninstallation

[!IMPORTANT]

For Arch linux, we have released kaizen in AUR.

To install it using yay use this command

yay -S kaizen-git

if you use paru then in that case

paru -S kaizen-git

For other linux distros

1. Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/serene-brew/Kaizen

1. Install it

chmod +x ./install.sh

./install.sh

View Version Info

kaizen -v

Update and Uninstallation

To update

kaizen -update

To uninstall

kaizen -uninstall

Configuration

Once Kaizen is installed, you can find config.yaml file in your ~/.config/kaizen directory. If it is not present, then copy the config.yaml into ~/.config/kaizen directory. That file contains some default colors for kaizen, however you can modify it according to your own needs.

Keybinds

[!NOTE]

Known issues

This is a TUI which requires a very specific kind of display size, so either fire up Kaizen in full screen terminal or decrease the size of terminal like show below if you have a very small resolution monitor.

[!IMPORTANT]

Info about the API and the Backend

The API is Home grown by Serene Brew and due to the current circumstances of unofficial APIs being taken down, we decided to keep the codebase confidential, however the API endpoints are still being used in Kaizen

Contributors