Chrome Extension

OtakuHQ

Your personal anime control room — weekly schedule, favorites, episode alerts, trending charts, search, streaming links, and anime news. One click on the toolbar icon.

Weekly Schedule Live Countdowns Favorites + Alerts Trending Anime Search Official & Fan Sites Anime News Top by Genre

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Schedule

Full Week Schedule

Mon–Sun tab bar for the current week. Each day loads on demand and caches instantly. Every episode card shows a live countdown — pink/cyan gradient when hours away, gold when less than an hour, orange under 15 minutes, pulsing red when airing now.

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Favorites

Save & Track Anime

Heart any anime from the schedule, search results, or releases. Your favorites appear in a dropdown from the ♥ icon in the header, each with a live episode countdown. The toolbar badge shows how many favorites are airing today.

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Alerts

Episode Notifications

Toggle "Episode alerts" to receive a Chrome notification 15 minutes before any favorited episode airs — even with the popup closed. The background service worker checks every minute so you never miss a drop.

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Badge

Toolbar Badge Counter

The extension icon badge updates every minute, showing the number of your favorited shows with an episode airing today. Hover the icon for a precise tooltip.

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Hot Now

Trending This Week

A horizontal scroll strip of the top 15 currently trending anime on AniList. Rank badges highlight the top 3; score badges color-code by quality — green, yellow, red.

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Anime Search

Search any title via AniList. Results show cover art, score, format, episode count, and genre tags. Debounced input keeps it fast. Favorite directly from search results.

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Watch

Streaming Platforms

Compact icon strips split into Official (Crunchyroll, Netflix, HiDive, Prime Video, Disney+, Muse Asia, and more) and Fan Sites (HiAnime, 9Anime, AnimePahe, Gogoanime, AnimeKai) with live domain resolution. Filter by region or search by name.

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Fresh Reads

Anime News

Six recent headlines from Google News, locale-matched to your selected region (All / Global / India / US). One tap opens the source article.

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Discover

Top by Genre

Tap any of 16 genre pills — Action, Romance, Psychological, Mecha, Horror, Slice of Life, and more — to browse the highest-scored anime in that genre, with pagination.

Permissions at a glance

Permission	Why it's needed
`storage`	Save region preference, favorites, notification toggle, domain cache, and sent-alert log — all locally on your device.
`alarms`	Run a 1-minute background check to fire episode alerts and update the badge counter.
`notifications`	Show a Chrome notification 15 minutes before a favorited episode airs.
`graphql.anilist.co`	Fetch schedule, releases, trending, search, and genre data from AniList's public API.
`news.google.com`	Fetch the anime news RSS feed.
`<all_urls>`	Follow HTTP redirects to discover current working domains for fan streaming sites. OtakuHQ does not read or modify any web page you visit.