diff --git a/scraper/service.js b/scraper/service.js
index c6aef1b..9421bb4 100644
--- a/scraper/service.js
+++ b/scraper/service.js
@@ -647,6 +647,16 @@ class ScraperService {
       const source = this.resolveAdapter(item.url)?.adapter.id || item.source;
       const otherAccessError = this.state.queue.some(entry => entry.id !== item.id && entry.source === source && entry.status === 'error' && entry.failure?.kind === 'access');
       if (otherAccessError) throw new Error('Review the access-blocked job for this source first');
+      // Older queued records may still carry the URL slug/ID as an automatic
+      // metadata query. A retry must repair that fallback too (not just confirm).
+      const canonicalTitle = String(item.sourceTitle || '').trim();
+      const search = String(item.metadataSearch || '').trim();
+      const seriesId = String(item.seriesId || '').trim();
+      if (canonicalTitle && !item.metadataSearchExplicit
+        && (!search || search === seriesId || search === String(item.title || '').trim())) {
+        item.metadataSearch = canonicalTitle;
+        if (String(item.title || '') === seriesId) item.title = canonicalTitle;
+      }
       item.status = 'queued'; delete item.error; delete item.failure; delete item.nextAttemptAt;
       item.recoveryAttempts = 0;
       delete this.state.sourcePaused[source]; delete this.state.circuits[source];
diff --git a/scraper/test/queue-inspection.test.js b/scraper/test/queue-inspection.test.js
index edf04ce..e11379f 100644
--- a/scraper/test/queue-inspection.test.js
+++ b/scraper/test/queue-inspection.test.js
@@ -12,6 +12,16 @@ async function confirm(item) {
   return item;
 }
 
+async function retry(item) {
+  const service = Object.create(ScraperService.prototype);
+  service.state = { queue: [item], currentIds: {}, sourcePaused: {}, circuits: {}, incidents: [], paused: true };
+  service.event = async () => {};
+  service.recomputeStatus = () => {};
+  service.resolveAdapter = () => ({ adapter: { id: item.source } });
+  await service.control('retry', item.id);
+  return item;
+}
+
 test('confirming an inspection uses the canonical title for automatic metadata lookup', async () => {
   const item = await confirm({ id: 'job', seriesId: '01J76XYFHVMSQVDJPQ42TN2XYN',
     title: '01J76XYFHVMSQVDJPQ42TN2XYN', metadataSearch: '01J76XYFHVMSQVDJPQ42TN2XYN',
@@ -36,3 +46,14 @@ test('legacy automatic title searches are replaced with the inspected canonical
     kind: 'inspection', status: 'ready' });
   assert.equal(item.metadataSearch, item.sourceTitle);
 });
+
+test('retry repairs a legacy URL-ID lookup before requeueing it', async () => {
+  const item = await retry({ id: 'job', seriesId: '01J76XYFHVMSQVDJPQ42TN2XYN',
+    title: '01J76XYFHVMSQVDJPQ42TN2XYN', metadataSearch: '01J76XYFHVMSQVDJPQ42TN2XYN',
+    sourceTitle: 'The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System', source: 'weebcentral',
+    status: 'unavailable', error: 'AniList HTTP 404' });
+  assert.equal(item.metadataSearch, item.sourceTitle);
+  assert.equal(item.title, item.sourceTitle);
+  assert.equal(item.status, 'queued');
+  assert.equal(item.error, undefined);
+});