I dont want to be swamped with ads and I also don't want to have to spend a bunch of money to unlock it all so im looking for something convenient that allows me to read it without hassle

anyone got any recommendations?

Hi, I'm currently learning Japanese and a currently endangered language. Since there's limited resources on the language I'm learning, I was wondering if anyone knew of any resources for getting into fansubbing so I could try to strengthen my skills in both simultaneously. I doubt they'd be very good subs but as far as I know there's also no one else doing subs in that language so I wouldn't have any competition, and it'd just be for fun/practice anyway, I don't think anyone would even use them. Any help would be great. Thanks!

Hello fellow pirates,

I am looking for a source of official Video cover attachments for corresponding anime that come with the BluRay releases (not sure about DVD releases). I prefer them over the default screen-shot based covers generated by media player (they look cool),

So far, I source them by downloading the BluRay iso and ripping it out from that (I have started replacing my digital anime collection with BDRemuxes, and in the process, I came across the video covers). But these isos are few and far between, especially for anime that have already released their BluRays >2 years ago, as the seeds just die out.

Question: Is there a place that hosts it? I have a few official covers, so I am all down to fill in the archives (mine are incomplete 😝).

Many thanks in advance.

A fellow pirate

so i have found an obscure anime called pluster world and i have all the seasons for it. the problem is , i don't have the knowledge on how to do fansubs from japanese to english and was wondering what resources are available as well as any forums i can get connections so i can see the results.

So there is this website that I really like called Mangabaka, where it is essentially a manga tracker similar to Myanimelist or Bakaupdates, and it essentially has the biggest list of Manga online.

Is there a similar website that has a list of every anime ever? Because with the most popular anime tracking sites like MAL, Anidb, and Anilist, they don’t list every anime ever.

Hello everyone I am an incoming student at UCLA and I noticed during my orientation they mention that you can't download media since they can track it I just want to know what is the difference is? I am asking this because I would hate if I needed to choose between paying for a subscription to watch JJK season 4 when it airs and potentially getting in trouble with the dean if I do get caught streaming it. Also the site that I use for watching anime is reanime

Has anybody noticed that Judas is behind or missed a few weekly episodes when normally they're fairly on time? It's not a huge issue for me, but I have a little ocd and like files to be consistent throughout. Been grabbing DKB files in the meantime as a stand-in while I wait 🤔

I kept opening the same site over and over just to check if a new episode was up, so I built something that does it for me. It's called AnimeOnTrack, AOT for short, yeah I know xD. It's free and open source under GPL-3.0, and there's no account, no telemetry, no ads.

It tracks currently airing anime across six sites, AnimeYT, TioAnime, AnimeFLV, JKanime, GogoAnime and AnimeLand, and tells you when something you follow has a new episode. It also keeps a local copy of the AniList catalog, around 22,000 titles, so browsing and filtering feels instant and works offline. Your follows, watch progress and backlog carry across every site you use, so if you watch an episode on one site and later switch to another, it already knows and only the playback links change. Marking an episode as seen also marks everything before it, so you never end up with weird gaps in your progress. There's also an optional backup of your database to your own Google Drive if you want it.

Random thing I didn't plan for, episodes open in a little embedded browser window inside the app, and I genuinely have not seen a single ad in it since. Turns out that's not some ad-blocking feature I built, it's just that the window doesn't support popups at all. Most of the ad noise on these sites fires as a popup or a redirect, and since there's nothing on my end that knows how to open a new window, those calls just go nowhere. Wasn't the goal, but I'm not complaining.

The tricky part was Cloudflare. No normal HTTP client gets past the challenge, so the app drives a hidden browser window, waits for it to clear, and pulls the rendered page back into Rust. Everything else, browsing the catalog, the discovery deck, the stats, is local, so the sites only get hit when they actually have to be.

It's Windows only for now. There are macOS and Linux builds too, but the scraping part is still Windows only, so on those it opens and then just gets stuck at setup.

Here's the link if you want to try it, https://github.com/Yearsuck/AnimeOnTrack/releases

The repo is public and it's GPL-3.0, so anyone can read the source, audit it or fork it. I have no relationship with any of the six sites.

If you try it and something's broken or missing, let me know. When a site changes its page layout the adapter for it breaks, and I'd rather hear about it than have it silently stop working for people.

It’s been almost two months since we launched itachi(.tv), and we’d really love to hear your honest feedback.

Our goal has been to create a fast, clean, and completely ad-free anime streaming experience. We built our own scraper and currently operate five of the streaming servers ourselves.

If you’ve tried Itachi, what do you like about it so far? What feels confusing, broken, or could be improved? We’re especially interested in feedback about the design, playback quality, server reliability, mobile experience, and features you’d like to see next.

Please be completely honest—we genuinely want to make the site better. Thanks to everyone who has checked it out and supported us!

Remember in the early 2000s users would be downloading Anime via IRC by XDCC bots since it was similar to HTTP downloading. So I'm wondering do you still download by IRC instead of streaming/torrent? the sad part is that aren't many XDCC bots these days since many prefer to stream

Title: Info about Demon Slayer Special Edited Version releases?

Hello!

I’m trying to document which releases exist for these Demon Slayer Special Edited Versions, ideally in 1080p or better:

Entertainment District – Infiltration Arc

Entertainment District – Decisive Battle Arc

Swordsmith Village – Enemy Attack Arc

Swordsmith Village – Connected Bonds Arc

Hashira Training – Opening Arc

Hashira Training – Hashira Gathering Arc

Does anyone know if any release groups have released these, and if so, what group/source/quality they used?

I’m only looking for information about existing releases.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Hey everyone!

I’m a teenage dev, and lately, I’ve been getting super frustrated with how slow or unreliable a lot of the current Android streaming apps/APIs have become. So, as a fun passion project, I decided to build my own from the ground up!

It’s called AnyPlay. It is 100% free, open-source, and has absolutely zero ads.

I designed it to be an advanced media aggregator that acts as a search indexer for Anime, Movies, and TV Shows. Instead of just wrapping a slow website in a webview, I built custom Java bridges to run the heavy lifting natively on your phone.

What it actually does:

• Native HLS Streaming: Scrapes .m3u8 manifests and processes them natively using ffmpeg-kit for blazing-fast playback without the buffering.
• Embedded Torrent Engine: I embedded jlibtorrent directly into the app, so it handles P2P data fetching incredibly fast in the background.
• Metadata Tracking: It automatically indexes metadata and cover art cleanly using the AniList and TMDB APIs.
• Clean UI: Built to be smooth, fast, and easy to navigate.

Disclaimer: To keep things legally safe, AnyPlay is strictly a search aggregator/client. It doesn't host, store, or distribute any files itself.

I'd absolutely love for you guys to test it out, try breaking it, and let me know what features you want me to add next!

Download the APK here: https://github.com/ArturCaffeinated/AnyPlay/releases/tag/1.0.0

Check out the Source Code: https://github.com/ArturCaffeinated/AnyPlay

Let me know what you think in the comments! Feedback (and GitHub stars) are super appreciated!

Many anime sites are not playing on ps4 or when u watch automatically it skips 10-40 seconds or replay another 40 seconds in row i want one that doesn't have these problems and works well there

I used to use anime chicken but i use apple now so I was wondering what the best or what you guys prefer on apple

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Funimation Initial D Fourth Stage DVDs used anamorphic widescreen. This means the 16:9 video is horizontally compressed (squished) to fit onto a standard 720x480 DVD frame, so it should be displayed as 16:9 480p.

However, looking at the archives that have survived, almost everything seems to be destructively cropped into 4:3 (Pan and Scan, losing detail on the sides) rather than a proper anamorphic stretch.

Does anyone know the encoding history of this specific dub release? Was there ever a definitive fan-group back in the day that correctly encoded the 16:9 version, or did one bad 4:3 crop just become the standard that got endlessly copied across the internet? Not asking for links, just curious if a proper release is even out there to look for.

So I live in the US and recently i changed my internet provider to xfinity since my previous isp was honestly getting way too expensive for what i was actually getting. Now with my previous isp I torrented without a care in the world. I never really got a letter or notice for torrenting without a vpn whether it was for anime, movies, tv shows, games, ect.

The only time i ever did get a notice was when I torrented a nintendo switch rom, but even then they didn't really send a letter but instead, I just got a notification on my account saying to be careful because someone on my internet was downloading something illegally, and in the same message, the title of the game I had downloaded was attached to it.

Now after switching to xfinity i have not torrented once. From what ive heard they tend to be on the stricter side, especially when it comes to movies, although im not really sure to what extent. Currently I tend to stick to either ddl or using real debrid to download the torrent. However it is a bit of a pain to keep on downloading torrents like that, especially anime torrents where im trying to download a whole series or season of a show.

So my question is, if you live in the US have any of y'all had trouble with your ISP when torrenting anime without a VPN, or should i just get one.

First, disclaimer: I Don’t Condone Or Encourage Piracy. This is specifically about my experience as someone who actually wanted to switch to legal streaming.

I used to watch on HiAnime and similar sites. After HiAnime went down, I decided to stop hunting for another pirate site and just go fully legal. I figured I’d pay for a proper service, support the industry, and get a better experience overall.

So I tried Crunchyroll.

I was honestly surprised by how underwhelming it felt.

This was my first real stretch with it, so I went in with decent expectations. It’s the biggest dedicated legal anime platform, so I assumed the overall experience would at least match what the unofficial sites offered in terms of usability and discovery.

Instead I kept missing a bunch of things I’d taken for granted.

Discovery

This is my biggest issue. Finding something I actually want to watch feels harder than it should. The recommendations rarely hit for me, and browsing the catalogue doesn’t feel like exploring a proper anime library.

HiAnime had solid genre/category browsing, popular/trending sections, seasonal anime, upcoming shows, etc. Even if you didn’t know what you wanted, it was easy to just wander around and find something interesting. On Crunchyroll I often feel like I’m just being shown rows of titles without good tools to dig deeper.

Library and organization

With a library this big, filtering and organization should be strong. I want to narrow things down by genre, year, popularity, status, etc. and quickly understand what I’m looking at. Instead it can feel cluttered, and a lot of titles get thrown at you without clear ways to sort through them.

Quality of life

This one genuinely surprised me. Unofficial sites had a ton of small QOL features that made watching easier: clear filler episode markers, upcoming episode indicators, next episode countdowns, clean season organization, useful info at a glance.

None of that is revolutionary. It’s just good UX. When you’re watching a long-running series, knowing what’s filler is useful. When you’re following a seasonal show, knowing when the next episode drops is useful. I don’t get why a paid anime service isn’t already doing these basic things really well.

Community and comments

This is the part I miss the most. HiAnime had episode comments and a broader community feel. Highly upvoted or trending comments would surface, and that actually helped with discovery. You’d finish an episode, read some comments, laugh at something dumb, see someone mention another series, and suddenly have a new show to check out.

Crunchyroll feels a lot more isolated by comparison. I’m not saying they need to copy every feature, but a stronger community side would go a long way.

UI

It’s not unusable, but for a paid service focused specifically on anime, I expected it to feel more polished and purpose-built. Instead I regularly catch myself thinking the unofficial sites were just easier and more pleasant to use. That’s a weird realization when you’re deliberately trying to go legal.

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So… why should I pay?

I’m willing to pay. This isn’t about refusing to spend money or the price itself. I deliberately tried Crunchyroll because I wanted to move away from piracy.

But if the legal option feels worse to me in discovery, organization, QOL features, community, and overall UI, then what’s the real consumer incentive beyond “the other option is illegal”?

**“Support the creators” is a valid ethical argument. I’m not arguing against that**. But it’s not a product argument. If I’m being asked to pay, I’d like the service itself to give me a genuine reason to prefer it.

Make discovery better. Make the catalogue easier to navigate. Improve the QOL features. Build some actual community. Give people a reason to choose the legal option because they actually like using it more.

That’s what I expected when I switched, and I was surprised by how much I missed from the unofficial sites.

Curious if anyone else has felt the same after trying to go legal, or if most people find Crunchyroll good enough that these issues don’t really matter.

Hey all,

I'm getting into romance visual novels (Aokana, Summer Pockets, Making★Lovers) after watching anime, but most dedicated platforms default to pre-patched adult/eroge versions.

I'm looking for strictly All-Ages / SFW releases (Japanese voice acting + English text, untouched base game equivalent, zero 18+ content).

Which trusted indexers or Megathread sources host clean All-Ages visual novel releases instead of adult repacks?

Thanks for the help!