What it is
Omakase Plus is private preview software for a trusted self-hosted environment. A request can begin with a recommendation or an exact title. The pipeline resolves the anime, season, aliases, and expected episodes before it tries to acquire anything.
It searches the sources the operator configured, ranks and deduplicates candidates, and keeps going when a candidate fails. A candidate becomes ready only after identity, useful episode coverage, subtitles, representative playback, and Plex publication checks agree.
If the configured sources are exhausted, Omakase Plus reports that result honestly. It does not turn an unavailable episode into a green check, and it does not promise universal availability.
Why it exists
Media automation often treats a completed transfer as success. Omakase Plus treats the download as evidence to inspect. The useful outcome is a correctly identified, playable anime with visible episodes and switchable subtitles in the managed Plex library.
That difference shapes the whole system:
- failed candidates carry a reason and the search continues;
- Real-Debrid and local storage are acquisition adapters behind one readiness contract;
- only verified media is promoted into the managed library;
- scheduled checks follow airing titles while releases and providers catch up;
- support bundles, backups, release receipts, and rollback stay part of normal operation.
Deployment choices
The public documentation covers an existing Docker server, a dedicated Proxmox LXC or VM, and the smallest first install: local storage plus Plex. Real-Debrid plus Plex is a separate provider lane. qBittorrent behind a VPN is an explicit optional path with its own legal and network boundary.
What changed recently
The latest private release rebuilt the day-to-day experience around watching instead of administration. Home, Library, Discover, and Activity now lead. The Library opens on unfinished anime and separates titles that are in progress, ready to start, waiting, completed, or available in the full collection.
Each title keeps a progress ledger across trusted Plex, manual, and AniList events. It shows what was watched, what comes next, and where the latest trustworthy state came from. Completion can archive a title from the default view, while cleanup still proves Plex absence first and preserves AniList history, shared assets, and externally owned media.
The release was verified against the real private library with desktop, mobile, reduced-motion, database, migration, playback, and rollback checks. Automatic Apple TV progress remains disabled because the available Crunchyroll state does not expose exact series, season, and episode identity. Manual progress is the honest path until that evidence exists.
Public and private boundary
The explanation, architecture, and operator guides are public at omakase-plus.jhinx.dev. The application, source repository, credentials, private routes, account data, provider details, and runtime evidence remain private.
Public Omakase is still the separate bring-your-own-key recommendation experience. Omakase Plus begins after a title is chosen and owns private acquisition, verification, publication, and recovery.