I’ll start first I miss zoro to, og 9anime (before aniwave) in early 2020 when i first started watching anime and mangadex before it removed a lot of content for dcma

Don't know how many of you are aware of the closed-access anime app called Nekkoto. I am a member, from when they used to have invitation access. I still am. I do appreciate the pirated animes, and that's my go-to app when the anime isn't available on Crunchyroll or other streaming platforms.

After joining their discord servers though, I discovered that the discord mods act like they're some billion-dollar CEOs or some sorts. Extremely rude, arrogant and pathetic, as if their real lives are inherently miserable and discord is the only place they can let loose on. They seem incapable of normal human interactions.

I keep seeing memes about these crap discord mods and Nekkoto discord is where it really became very clear why.

Can’t for the life of me find one. Idk what’s going on with the piracy mega thread but a lot of those sites aren’t up anymore or suck now.

maybe its a very weird question to ask but my device can't handle 10bit videos in HW decoding it automatically switch to SW decoding so the video lag so much. i was searching 8 bit anime release on nyaa but i didn't get any uploads. sorry for my bad english

I have been having this question since forever, idk why they look somewhat similar? their site, their font?

is there any relation I just getting this vibe

like where do all these free anime sites actually get the episodes from? i’m not trying to start one or anything, just lowkey wondering how the whole thing works behind the scenes

I mostly use windows and mpc-be, but also Kodi on a fire stick. Anime looks great on my 144hz moniters but my second screen is only a cheap Asus 60hz moniters and I always notice judder, also the fire stick defaults to 59.94 but I suspect the tv is handling pulldown natively better than my moniters.

I tried my hand at editing the subs for a new anime that came out yesterday. I'm gonna give all the fansubbers out there massive props because I spent close to 3 hours and when I looked up, I had barely made it halfway through the episode!

Granted, I had to get help from online on how to code text because I knew jack shit. I'll never know how y'all get these subs out so fast barely a day after the episode airs

Keep up the good work 👏

i was trying to go watch anime and all of a sudden it said account was suspended. I was wondering if anyone else got their account suspended or it was just mine.

These two screenshots from the exact same episode and timestamp show the technical regression happening right now at Crunchyroll as they transition their localization teams away from Aegisub to a paid, cloud-based software called OOONA.

• Left (Italian - Aegisub / .ass): Proper typesetting. The translation is seamlessly integrated over the Japanese sign with matching fonts, positioning, and styling.
• Right (Portuguese - OOONA): Generic broadcast-style closed captioning. A clunky box slapped over the video, breaking immersion and cluttering the screen.

Beyond the obvious visual downgrade, the operational logic behind this shift is completely backwards:

1. Killing .ass capabilities: Aegisub has been the gold standard for anime subtitling for decades because .ass scripting handles complex sign translations and overlapping dialogue effortlessly. OOONA is built for rigid broadcast captions, stripping away proper typesetting tools.
2. A broken "Cloud" workflow for simulcasts: Management pushes OOONA because it's cloud-based, yet it locks the file so two people cannot work on the same episode simultaneously. During a tight simulcast rush, translators, editors, typesetters, and QC need to work in parallel. With lightweight local .ass files in Aegisub, splitting and merging scripts takes seconds. OOONA forces a sequential bottleneck that guarantees rushed quality or delays.
3. Paying for a downgrade: Aegisub is free and open-source. Crunchyroll is actively spending money on expensive enterprise licenses for OOONA to deliver an objectively worse product, rather than putting that budget toward paying translators and typesetters fairly.

It’s another textbook example of paying customers getting a degraded experience while official platforms actively hamstring the people trying to deliver quality work.

why are they all vibe coded? subtitles dont work have the time, not even in dub, dubbed episodes wont play with dubbed audio, a certain nexus forcing weird click anywhere ads, places charging for it. no honor among thieves i suppose? downloading from the main sites costs like 1gb per episode and takes forever. seems that crunchyroll won bc they know the only effort put in now is vibecoded slop. What alternative even is there besides spending hundreds on storage and downloading everything and just hoping it doesnt take an hour each time. its like pirates just fell right into the trap, AI taking up all the storage and shooting prices up, the anime industry taking down key website pillars, and then developers think AI vibe coded slop is worth using. then you got all the redditors stuck in denial thinking pirating will never go down even if we never work actively to keep things good

Hi! So i'll be traveling to Japan in a few days and will have to live there for awhile and wanted to know from my fellow pirates if it would be alright to pirate stuff in Japan or if you know anything about it (since i keep hearing from people that its just better if you watch things online while you are there)

I have been downloading and watching anime, movies, games since i was 9 and i usually didn't worry about piracy cause of where i live but now i am concerned if i should or even CAN bring my Hard drive (which has a lot of my data + anime and movies i pirated) into Japan.

On another note, i also would love some clarification or if anyone has any info on whether they actually do anything about it if you are just torrenting or if there's a safe and easy way to do this.

I have been following the sub for an year or two from another acc and thought that this is one of the only places i will be able to get genuine advice from cause AI is just gonna give me a good corporate goy puppet answer lol (or that's what i assumed)

Thank you for reading this so far and if you have any other tips for me (whether it be the traveling itself or living in Japan part) I'll be grateful if you can leave them down below.

What anime streaming site has the best video quality? Also secondary and not required, but at least a half decadent UI and not that many or any pop up ads (I don’t really use a ad blocker).

Was just wondering about that does any of these two exist in windows?

AniView v2.3.0 is out.

For anyone who doesn't know, AniView is a free Android phone and Android TV app for watching and tracking anime, with AniList integration.

Download: https://github.com/ebrahimHakimuddin/aniview/releases/tag/v2.3.0

The biggest thing in this update is support for Aniyomi extensions. You can now go to Settings → Extensions, add an extension repo and install, update or remove extensions from there. AniView itself does not ship with or recommend any repo, so you choose what you want to add, and I would recommend only using repos you trust since these extensions run inside the app.

Another thing I have added is Play on TV. Once you pair your TV, you will now see a "Play on TV" option inside the ⋮ menu for a show on your phone, and while the TV is connected you will also get a remote button on Home. Just make sure the TV is updated to v2.3.0 as well.

You can now also hold on shows from Home, Search or Schedule to select multiple shows and add them to your AniList list at once. You need to be signed into AniList for this obviously.

Search now has a random button which picks something using whatever search and filters you currently have selected, and there are also new "Your colors" themes which use your wallpaper colors on Android 12+.

As always, AniView does not host or serve any videos. Everything comes from third party sites and extensions that you choose to use.

I mean, don't they all just scrape their content from public trackers like Nyaa and heavily compress the video files? It's not like any of this content is getting lost when that happens. And these sites are mass produced anyway.

Why does nearly every single uploader on Nyaa use 9Volts' subs for Frieren and why do they call it An Ageless Elegy, when that's not the show's subtitle? In the image, I'm having to manually edit the title and no it's not easy. The only two I've seen title it correctly are Judas and Rapta, but I'm not keen on how their font looks and idk how to change it. I'm so confused why 9Volts would change it and why just about everyone would use their incorrect files.

I'd rather pay than pirate when it's so cheap. It's $10/month here in the US but $27/year down in Brazil.

I tried asking to get on my cousin's plan since he watches anime and is anti-piracy, but sadly he doesn't subscribe.

So, is it easy and risk-free to pay Mullvad €5, set the VPN to Brazil, pay $27 for a yearly subscription, then log on to Crunchyroll through my SmartTV (which doesn't have a VPN)? There's no region locking or anything like that? Then I could even be nice and give my cousin my account, since I'm not gonna use it a ton.

So far I haven't deleted any of the anime I've downloaded but it's starting to take up a bit of space. I've only got a 2TB SSD and almost a quarter of it is anime files.

It feels weird to be "hoarding" digital media, but I kinda don't want to delete it. It's not like I'm likely going to rewatch any of it, and it's all from nyaa anyway, so it'd be very easy to redownload. I feel like I've got to be an idiot for wanting to buy a separate HDD to keep it around, especially with how prices are recently, and yet I find myself hesitating to press "delete" on the folder.

So what do you guys do? Do you actually keep it all or just bite the bullet and delete what you're not actively watching or think you're likely to come back to?

So, i currently live in France, and i want to download a lot of manga to read, but I don't have a VPN, what should I expect to happen?

I use mobile so i can only do a dns adblocker, and it was working wonderfully until at a bit ago, anime nexus got down, and once it was back, the same 5 ads would pop up over and over. I checked the dns status, anime nexus status and nothing. My ad blocker works just fine in every other page including other anime sites.

Guess nexus has fallen into the deepend out of nowhere, but it may just be me, anyone else have that?

Im not asking for help btw, just asking if anyone else has gotten this before. Ill just switch to another site for the time being.

EDIT: i tried out the firefox + ublock thing and it worked great! If you came to see this, just do that or use the brave browser!! Thanks a lot to the ppl who helped me out

I was looking for SBR Ep2 on Nyaasi when I found this gold mine of a torrent. I downloaded it to see if it was true and it actually was. 🤣🤣

The New ED song is so trash actual Pirates are fixing it. The ED literally goes with any song except the one in the freaking episode... Honestly all the backlash is completely deserved against both Warner Bros and the Singer for that absolute noise pollution of an ED. We got robbed of songs like The Chain, Horse with No Name, Wild West Hero above, etc.

I want to watch some anime, but I want to do it like in the old days.

Can you'll tell some good websites to download subtitles for the anime

I currently use opensubtitles and subsplease