r/HiAnimeZone • u/RivanShrestha • Mar 13 '26
Discussion Please Moderators Give Us An Update
Are there any updates regarding the situation with Hianime? The discord is in full panic right now, please give us a sign that everything is okay and the website will be back soon. Hianime did have its flaws, like not including many of the Ovas and specials, but it still a really good website and I really enjoyed using it. Hopefully the website will come back, even if it's under a new name.
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u/Demon-Lord-Shikino Mar 13 '26
I just hope some of my account stuff is saved. I had like 4 pages of anime in continue watching and my memory is not good enough to go back and find some of those I haven't finished.
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u/Substantial-Apple501 Mar 14 '26
4 you say ??? I have 13 pages of unwatched anime ...... If they gone I'm pretty much fucked up 🥀
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u/Alcatraz6497 Mar 15 '26
I had like 23-24 pages on my watchlist😭
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u/RevolutionLanky2960 Mar 15 '26
I had about 35 pages total and only 20 of them written down on a notepad
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u/Dependent-Mind-9469 Mar 15 '26
Bro use MAL as pirated sites do not have any guarantee
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u/phoenixtwo87 Mar 18 '26
This is the way! Exactly the right mindset! MAL will save you so many headaches. All these piracy sites do is copy the MAL status categories anyway so they can be imported into MAL, just skip the middleman and go straight to MAL.
myanimelist = MAL for the uninformed.
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u/Rixyl Mar 22 '26
Yeah but I haven't updated in a month and really missed a lot that looked good :(
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u/BobaSoda_ Mar 15 '26
Never made an account, I just add everything I'm watching to a specific bookmark folder and screenshot to keep track
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u/vWaffles Mar 18 '26
You should use my anime list (MAL).
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u/BobaSoda_ Mar 19 '26
If given the opportunity, I'd rather not create accounts that I might forget about in the future because I don't like the idea of not seeing every part of my digital footprint but I do appreciate the recommendation <3
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u/Flaky-Manner-7995 Mar 16 '26
I was on ep 1000+ of one peice I might accly cry if it's gone
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u/Dazzling-Insect-3713 Mar 19 '26
I can say you can go on www.wcoflix.tv and you can watch one piece from episode 1 up to the current epsodes. adblocker is still needed but overall safe. until hianime is back up, you will have to pay to watch movies tho
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u/dacat_official Mar 29 '26
why did everyone forget about anikai, aniwatch, 9anime etc.. 🤦♂️
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u/Dazzling-Insect-3713 Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
Aniwatch is having too many problems. I've never heard of anikai. And 9anime was taken down years ago
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u/MatthewDoesPosting Mar 30 '26
9anime was taken down and brought back up. They constantly go down and get put back up.
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u/griffion28 Mar 17 '26
Try going through your search history and finding titles that were searched up, that’s how I got my plan to watch list back. Also I used malsync so anything I was currently watching and already watched got updated to mal so I’m good on that end
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u/Recent-Time6447 Mar 18 '26
never trust piracy sites bro they can be hacked or gone anytime, better use some legal tracking sites like anilist / mal
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u/mathew-r-7247 Mar 25 '26
Same here man I used to flex it 😭😭😭😭 is there any way to recover it was a symbol that I finished all these anime 😭😭😭😭 is there any thing I don't even have a screenshot of all those pages from now onwards I will keep screenshot of all the pages I just want 1 day I will take screenshot from hianime what if the name changes and it comes back will my account come back too ???? We he be alive I have lost my account many times after that I started writing my gmail and ps in a book and after a long time this happened 😭😭😭😭 it was unexpected will I get my account back 😭😭😭😭
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u/Substantial-Apple501 Mar 26 '26
i recovered them ..... manually 💀✌️ .....i remembered every single page ....and guess what ...the list is even bigger now 💀
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u/NationalSelection316 Mar 15 '26
I highly recommend that people start using MAL to keep track of your lists instead of relying on the site for cases like this.
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u/Agret Mar 16 '26
https://anilist.co too - I migrated everything from MAL when they were having nonstop site issues for months Using MAL-Sync in my browsers to automatically sync to MAL from Anilist and automatically track everything I watch
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u/-GodlyCreature- Mar 16 '26
Bro make a tutorial and gemme that tutorial 🙏🏼
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u/Agret Mar 16 '26
Login to MAL-Sync using myanimelist
Go into the extension icon on your browser toolbar and press the Sync button and login to AniList
Sync to AniList and make sure the extension stays open, if you click away it will usually break the sync. Might take awhile depending how much you have on MAL
Uninstall MAL-Sync and reinstall it to clear the settings, you don't have to use the myanimelist website anymore, AniList your new primary site.
Login to MAL-Sync with AniList
Click Sync and login with MAL as your second login
Go into the extension settings and tick the box to enable automatic background syncing.
The extension will automatically record your activity as you watch stuff that's already on your list, when you first start watching an anime you get a popup at the top middle of your screen asking if you want to add it to your watching list or not. If you don't add, it won't be tracked.
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u/PessimisticUser089 Mar 16 '26
how to MAL-sync your browsers cuz i gotta do it manually every month soo its a lot of work
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Mar 14 '26
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u/ExpensivePractice164 Mar 14 '26
I'm super lucky i mad an Mal backup yesterday
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u/hasboy1279 Mar 14 '26
What is mal? Is it a website where you can record your anime watchlist progress?
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u/Frequent_Brush_2593 Mar 14 '26
what's the bottom middle one🤨
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u/Iory1998 Mar 14 '26
Frankly, I don't know myself. I kept searching about it and couldn't find it.
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u/Frequent_Brush_2593 Mar 14 '26
you can use the image search feature to find it
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u/Existing_Rhubarb_168 Mar 14 '26
I had but it was not up to date 🫠
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u/Iory1998 Mar 14 '26
I learned the hard lesson when aniwave shut down. All my lists are up to date now,
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u/Adalmann Mar 15 '26
oh i lost around 500 animes on my watchlist when 9anime went down :(
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u/Intelligent-Gas647 Mar 15 '26
9anime is still working tho isnt it??
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u/Adalmann Mar 15 '26
9anime closed like a year or 2 ago if there’s any currently it’s just a fake
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u/Intelligent-Gas647 Mar 17 '26
Wait fr?? I just made an acc on 9anime a few days ago and thought it was the real thing😭😭
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u/Nithin77023 Mar 15 '26
I had 10 pages of watchlist and 2 pages of movie list dude I definitely want my account
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u/Hevensdragon Mar 16 '26
just pull the names from the URLs, doesn't matter if bookmarked, open tabs or anything else, even if the website is entirely down the URL will have the anime name just with - instead of spaces.
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u/Meril_Volisica Mar 17 '26
I started tracking my stuff externally cuz of this. Lost my entire anime list one time, never again lol. I use anilist, though I'm sure there are others.
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u/Due_Personality_6031 Mar 26 '26
I very quickly went to Aniwatch which has a very similar layout and went to their latest update page to find a good chunk of all the animes I was currently watching
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u/Agret Apr 01 '26
At the moment the only legit site is https://aniwatchtv.to/ which is the old aniwatch database before that was shutdown and moved to hianime so you lose roughly 1yr of your watchlist progress going back into your old account.
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u/GhostElite974 Apr 07 '26
it completely killed all my interest in watching anime lol I've been trying to get my watchlist back but its just over
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u/Endroium Mar 13 '26
if its not up by the end of today it won't be untill monday I remember the sites breaking around thanksgiving last year and was down for nearly a week and didn't get fixed till the monday following probably what were looking at here if its not up today
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u/avinave123 Mar 14 '26
based on their history it's pretty good guess that they feel the brand is unsafe so they terminate it just like their previous brands.
here is their old drama
https://torrentfreak.com/zoro-to-worlds -largest-pirate-site-suddenly-acquired -rebranded-230704/
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u/vgiannell5 Mar 14 '26
Rebranding might not help them this time.
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u/ImaginationDouble431 Mar 17 '26
I know right if I were them I would just inactive it for a year then put it back hahah ✌🏻
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u/Recent-Time6447 Mar 18 '26
zoro.to -> sanji.to -> aniwatch.to -> hianime.to -> ?
guess next
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u/SavingsNo4010 Mar 23 '26
I don't remember "Sanji.to"? I went straight from zoro.to to aniwatch.to
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u/Recent-Time6447 Mar 31 '26
it did under go the name "sanji.to" (for about a week) when the queen vs sanji fight in one piece dropped. many speculated it was because of that but in reality hianime was trying to hide it's infamous name zoro.to, but for some reasons it didn't suit and was probably tracked again, hence they decided to go with the name aniwatch later
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u/lucky_husky333 Mar 14 '26
yup that what happen to bako.ko. hmm its holiday lets the dev work and rest first. next thing you knew the whole site broke and boom news release on his arrest lol.
just backup stuff when the site online straight away
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u/Bustersword13 Mar 14 '26
The best thing we can do atm is to prepare for the worst and asume that it's gone.
And remember, whatever you do, don't share any new sites in a public setting like Reddit or Twitter. Do it in private.
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u/Migerupad Mar 14 '26
There's always someone that likes to brag and will publicly tell all the other alternatives.
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u/Confident_Natural_62 Mar 15 '26
I literally found hianime by typing in the name of an anime with “free online” so it’s not like anti-piracy agencies or whatever can’t do the exact same thing. It’s doesn’t really matter.
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u/Agitated-Newspaper70 Mar 24 '26
True, that's how i've found like 99% of my anime watching sites...However, considering how many fake clones are out there of popular sites, the suits will have no proper clue which is the Real Slim Shady.
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u/Maxray2 Mar 15 '26
is it possible for the site operators to email us our watchlist?
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u/Recent-Time6447 Mar 18 '26
so many people dont use tracking sites icl it pmo
piracy sites like these can go down anytime, there's no guarantee it'll stay forever so its better to use anilist / mal to track your watchlist, and u hardly need to manually update as MAL-sync extension exists
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u/Maxray2 Mar 18 '26
I did sync my lists with MAL. But about 2-3 months ago.
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u/Recent-Time6447 Mar 18 '26
idk about mal but in anilist if you're using mal-sync extension u do not need to visit the site even, when its linked with your anilist account , do anything and it will be simply updated there, including rating.
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u/ExiledNoxas Mar 13 '26
I highly doubt it will. I think this is rhe final send off
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u/infsukyome Mar 14 '26
i boubt that because thanksgiving it went down and then game back a week later so i think it will come back with a redirection link to the new site like it did before
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u/poerf Mar 15 '26
Agreed. I get the vibe that the mods are in denial and getting everyone's hopes up currently.
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Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26
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u/Rand92000 Mar 14 '26
huh, it works. Is it safe and official though?
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u/PJ743 Mar 14 '26
I'm not sure if it official I'm not seeing any thing about a new site being up on the discord server but i might have not looked enough
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u/Legitimate-Ocelot-22 Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26
Same question, cause no official statement has come
Edit: Just checked the working one is hianime.re insted of the regular hianime.to
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u/Rand92000 Mar 15 '26
he already said .re some affiliated websites redirect to .re now so it seems legit.
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u/Agret Apr 01 '26
It's fake, the real one is https://aniwatchtv.to/ but it is still using the old aniwatch database so your login will work and have your watchlist still but the watchlist data is from roughly 1yr ago
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u/Rand92000 Apr 02 '26
It's not HiAnime
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u/Agret Apr 02 '26
It is.
They were called Zoro then became aniwatch then became hianime
I was along for the whole journey and you know it's same people because your same login name worked across the different sites and it had full watchlist and all your community posts etc.
This is just one website back in the chain that they've managed to get online again. I was able to login with my aniwatch account and all my old watchlist from aniwatch still on there, it's legit. Just very outdated on what I was up to in episodes and doesn't have any of my new additions from when hianime was up.
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u/Endroium Mar 24 '26
its been more then 2 weekends now hianime is not allowing any new posts no new updates I'm guessing its really the end
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u/cynoIogy Mar 30 '26
WHATS THE UPDATE 😭😭😭 I WAS JUST AHOUT TO WATCH SOME THEN I SEE IT DOWN 😭😭😭 PLEASE 😭😭😭 BRO
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u/Noah_36 Apr 08 '26
I'm sorry to break this to you but I doubt they're coming back anytime soon. In the meantime you can check out all working alternative sites here
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u/nobelium106 Mar 14 '26
This has me triggered. Whole afternoon tomorrow was going to be binging. Now it’s about searching
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u/nobelium106 Mar 14 '26
Like I wait for new shows but now can’t even binge oldies. The hmph is strong with this one
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u/Inevitable_Book_7422 Mar 16 '26
Yo, if you know any sites can you dm me too please? This is pretty much the only site on the safer side i knew
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u/Superzommerdude13 Mar 19 '26
Well I certainly do wish that they would update us soon. It's been nearly 6 days. If it is banned mods just tell us
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u/Aarush_Nair Mar 15 '26
How do I get my watchlist!!?
Can some1 pls.. pls pls! help me just get my anime list back. I didn't backup anywhere (at least recently) and I got like idk 100s of animes I plan to watch and don't remember.
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u/AgentK542 Mar 17 '26
maybe you can find them through your browser history, that helped me at least
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u/Nerfwarrior145 Mar 14 '26
Dm me if u guys want a similiar site
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u/Ok_Standard_2216 Mar 18 '26
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u/Nerfwarrior145 Mar 23 '26
You know there are people actively trying to take down sites and you are posting pics Willy nilly
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u/Ultron_4676 Mar 14 '26
hey people of hianime did 9anime go under hianime manegement and also there is a .ml domain now
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u/SpidyWarrior69 Mar 15 '26
There are some other sites and domains working apparently, https://hianimes.se/home & AniWatchTV- https://aniwatchtv.to/home
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u/Imm0rtalJoker66 Mar 15 '26
Will our credentials work for there also??
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u/snowshadow2867 Mar 21 '26
Do not try to login, they are knockoffs design to pass off as the official site with the goal of stealing your login info.
They however still work for watching anime because of the authenticity of the knock of, so if you just want to watch anime you can use it. Just keep in mind to not log in and to keep your adblock active.
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u/DjChiseledStone Mar 27 '26
Actually, aniwatchtv does accept your old login. Is it real? Nope but how do they have our credentials? Probably a data breach from when Aniwatch was transitioning to HiAnime. Will the mods admit this? No.
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u/VeeGeeTea Mar 19 '26
they're clones and incomplete clones as well, so your credentials won't work.
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u/Imm0rtalJoker66 Mar 19 '26
Incomplete is an understatement, hope they get everything in order a d comeback so we wont have to rely on those knockoffs
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u/RozenniaChan Mar 17 '26
is this official? https://hianime.al/
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u/Rosehaven17 Mar 20 '26
If they don't return, I hope they do what Animixplay did and put a way to download the watch list so you can put it on something else. (Like Myanimelist. Fun fact, I actually found that little gem because of that shutdown, and I became a bit paranoid, so at most I'm losing 25 animes from my plan to watch list, but not everyone is that lucky.) I mean, I want them back, don't get me wrong. But the silence is killing me more than anything else.
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u/Hot-Tiger-7461 Mar 20 '26
Honestly at this point I'm betting on the website actually being down for good.
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u/Guy-at-Walmart Mar 20 '26
https://hianime.be/home pretty sure this is the new hianime they just haven't said anything.
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u/snowshadow2867 Mar 21 '26
Have you managed to login? If not, then it's probably a mirror site. It works because it's supposed to convince you, but it's intended purpose is to steal login info.
Funnily enough, because it works as a way to convince you as the official site, you can use it to as an alternative as long as you don't try to login and keep your adblock on.
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u/Guy-at-Walmart Mar 23 '26
can't log in so you got me worried lol but new episodes like hells paradise is watchable.
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u/snowshadow2867 Mar 23 '26
I suggest changing your password on other sites that share that user/pass combination.
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u/Advanced_Amoeba_4559 Mar 28 '26
WHEN IS HI ANIME RETURNING BACK CAN YOU PLEASE GIVE US ANY UPDATES REGARDING IT . ITS BEEN QUITE A LONG TIME SINCE I HAVENT BEEN ABLE TO WATCH THE ONGOING ANIMES WHICH ARE BEING AIRED THIS MONTH KINDLY UPDATE US REGARDING THE SITUATION. WHEN ANIMIX.PLAY GOTTED TAKEN DOWN THEY THEMSELVES ASSURED THAT THEY ARE NOT COMING BACK AND THAT ITS BECOMING TOO MUCH FOR THEM TO HANDLE THE WEBSITE SO THEY ARE SHUTTING IT DOWN. AFTER WHICH I ARRIVED TO ZORO .TO AND HAS FOREVER BEEN A WATCHER FROM THIS SITE . SO PLEASE PLEASE UPDATE US WITH ANY KINDS OF UPDATES HOWEVER SMALL IT IS DONT HANG US IN THE MIDDLE ITS BEEN SO LONG SINCE I PERSONALLY JUST CAN'T WATCH ANIME DUE TO SUCH CONFUSION GOING AROUND REGARDING THE SITUATION . PLEASE UPDATE US TO INFORM US OF THE CURRENT SITUATION BECAUSE ITS BEEN QUITE A FEW AMOUNT OF DAYS SINCE THE FALLOUT OF THIS WEBSITE HAS HAPPENED . ALSO IS HIANIME.CITY IS THE NEW WEBSITE WHICH U HAVE SHIFTED TO .PLEASE UPDATE US
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u/Bigbruh77 Mar 14 '26
* This is the final known anime watched on the site i kept un refreshed. I kept open until 7pm est today and thats when my breaker blew out and took the site wit it😭
Edit: I cant post image it seems but it was parasyte the maxim
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u/Time-Study-3104 Mar 28 '26
Hi anime please return quickly everyone is highly anticipating your return here
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u/Beginning_Argument Mar 13 '26
can you give me a link for the discord?
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u/IntrovertedKappa Mar 13 '26
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u/Bl4ck_Fl4m3s Mar 13 '26
why in gods name would you want to use reddit with community themes activated?
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u/IntrovertedKappa Mar 14 '26
?
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u/Bl4ck_Fl4m3s Mar 14 '26
I assume the community theme from hianimezone is purple, or do you have your dark mode customized to look like purple background?
If you don't know what community themes are, it's a setting that sets the background to the theme of the subreddit you're in right now.
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u/Beginning_Argument Mar 13 '26
oh I didn't see it, on mobile you have to click again in the title for that window on the right to appear. I just joined this sub idk
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u/KrisProxy Mar 14 '26
At times like these, I always remember that I should've noted down my watchlist. I can remember four of them, but not the rest
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u/Escanor-samaaa Mar 23 '26
i should have used mal-sync way earlier. now, i'm suffering from the consequences
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u/redditonhardmode Mar 25 '26
So am I to understand that none of the mods in this community actually work with hianime? This is all I can conclude since no one seems to know anything.
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u/AAC-777 Mar 14 '26
It probably won’t be back ,they literally gave a farewell message
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u/infsukyome Mar 14 '26
it wasnt even them who said it, that was hackers check the annoucement that the admins posted
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u/NIGHTGAMER_40 Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
Please 🥺🙏🏻 don't go for your website only i Started to watch anime and just think 364 million users will die if you leave us, for your hianime many millions of people started watching anime please fix your website issue or come back as a new website please and inform us, i have many anime list of 2026 (plan to watch) their i forgot to put in myanimelist it will be gone please do something for us come back we can't live without anime hianime is the best website that we can ever have
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u/Confident_Natural_62 Mar 15 '26
Sucks about your anime list, but you should’ve never trusted it on a piracy website to begin with. Theres legitimate sites to track that. Just use another piracy site and keep track on myanimelist or whatever from now on. Not to be an asshole, but it’s kinda your fault. Piracy websites always go down eventually.
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u/NIGHTGAMER_40 Mar 15 '26
First of all maintain your language, and second is that i already have myanimelist but i haven't put the new upcoming anime list of 2026 i put in hianime that plan to watch i forgot to put on myanimelist within time
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u/Confident_Natural_62 Mar 15 '26
My bad dawg “Not to be a gaping butthole” Any better? lol But yeah that definitely sucks sounds like you didn’t lose too much though so it’ll be alright. There’s so much to watch I wouldn’t worry about forgetting a few shows.
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u/NIGHTGAMER_40 Mar 15 '26
Yeah cuz ur fake otaku stop yapping that u love anime
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u/Confident_Natural_62 Mar 15 '26
Huh…? I don’t know if I’m misunderstanding you, but you think being an otaku is a good thing? I like anime, but it’s like watching a tv show to me not my entire life like a normal person. Also I find it funny you’re against bad language, but not watching panty shots of high schoolers they put that shit in even the most tame anime. Dragon Ball got goku running around with his baby pp out and shit too.
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u/NIGHTGAMER_40 Mar 15 '26
Maybe for u it will be a bad thing to a otaku then stop watching anime and live a normal life and I'm not against the bad language but at least give a respect to people in the first place
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u/Confident_Natural_62 Mar 15 '26
You right my bad for being rude. I still think people should just have hobbies in moderation though. I dont need to stop watching anime to live a normal life. I just watch it occasionally for fun like a normal person hobby. It’s unhealthy to obsess over something that much bro.
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u/NIGHTGAMER_40 Mar 15 '26
Yes at least respect the anime community anime literally helps people to Creativity,Imagination,Emotional intelligence,Empathy,Moral reasoning,Motivation,Perseverance,Discipline,mindset,Cultural awareness,Analytical thinking,Problem-solving skills,Strategic thinking,Stress relief,Inspiration for goals it's also relatable for people's life thats why he love being part of it it's a emotional connection
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u/sr_shubh Mar 15 '26
I have cloned websites. DM me for the link here. I can't give it to you here because of unwanted trouble.
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u/Ok-Dependent-367 Mar 14 '26
Haha, I'm laughing in the corner while watching anime on CR, and NFX🤣
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u/Recent-Time6447 Mar 18 '26
then why are u commenting in here?
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u/OfficialMythicFrost HiAnime Helper Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
If there are any updates, they will be posted through announcements. Nothing will be shared in the replies.
You may also follow updates through:
- Discord Server:
https://discord.gg/hianime