--- a/src/gui/dialog/settings/application.cc	Fri Nov 07 15:28:22 2025 -0500
+++ b/src/gui/dialog/settings/application.cc	Fri Nov 07 15:40:56 2025 -0500
@@ -112,7 +112,8 @@
 		}
 
 		{
-			/* Hopefully I made this easy to read... */
+			/* Hopefully I made this easy to read...
+			 * TODO: Call into the anime list page and tell it to re-sort everything. */
 			QCheckBox *hl_above_anime_box =
 			    new QCheckBox(tr("Display highlighted anime above others"), appearance_group_box);
 			hl_above_anime_box->setCheckState(highlighted_anime_above_others ? Qt::Checked : Qt::Unchecked);
@@ -120,7 +121,7 @@
 			hl_above_anime_box->setContentsMargins(10, 0, 0, 0);
 
 			connect(hl_above_anime_box, &QCheckBox::stateChanged, this,
-			        [this](int state) { highlight_anime_if_available = !(state == Qt::Unchecked); });
+			        [this](int state) { highlighted_anime_above_others = !(state == Qt::Unchecked); });
 
 			{
 				/* This is here because the above checkbox actually depends on it to be checked. */

--- a/src/gui/pages/anime_list.cc	Fri Nov 07 15:28:22 2025 -0500
+++ b/src/gui/pages/anime_list.cc	Fri Nov 07 15:40:56 2025 -0500
@@ -76,8 +76,14 @@
 
 bool AnimeListPageSortFilter::lessThan(const QModelIndex &l, const QModelIndex &r) const
 {
-	/* TODO obey session.config.anime_list.highlighted_anime_above_others;
-	 * need to add a huge bias towards unavailable anime */
+	if (session.config.anime_list.highlighted_anime_above_others) {
+		QVariant left = sourceModel()->data(l, Qt::UserRole + 1);
+		QVariant right = sourceModel()->data(r, Qt::UserRole + 1);
+
+		if (left.toInt() && !right.toInt())
+			return 1;
+	}
+
 	QVariant left = sourceModel()->data(l, sortRole());
 	QVariant right = sourceModel()->data(r, sortRole());
 
@@ -192,6 +198,8 @@
 				default: return data(index, Qt::DisplayRole);
 			}
 			break;
+		case Qt::UserRole + 1:
+			return !!Library::db.GetAnimeFolder(list[index.row()].GetId());
 		case Qt::TextAlignmentRole:
 			switch (index.column()) {
 				case AL_TITLE: