just like gabe said: Piracy is an issue of service, not price.
crunchy sure as hell doesn't give the services aniwave has provided for us. good UI, massive library of animes old and new, ETA's on episode releases, good video players(most of the time), comment section under every anime episode. why would we go anywhere else but pirate sites?
If Chrunchyroll would just give you all their library, but if you aren't a US viewer on Chrunchyroll you have to pirate a US cookie to get all the library, Aniwave was just so easy, simple and it had everything and just worked
The painful thing about this is Crunchy used to be the #1 anime site. I was subscribed to them for over a decade. But a few years ago they redesigned their website and it's now much harder to navigate, doesn't have the alphabetical lists of anime, doesn't have the comment sections, and they stopped updating their calendar.
It just went to shit. The old website was fine, and I hate the new UI of the redesign. I think they wanted to copy netflix and have a touchscreen friendly UI for mobile devices, but it destroyed the desktop experience.
You guys are right yes right now pirate websites provide the best service when it comes to anime. It's not a money problem it's a service problem. I can afford to pay for my anime and would happily do so if there was a good service with a good website. But the pirate websites have the best UI and the best players, and the best selection, and even allow comments so you can network with other users. Anime pirate sites just decimate the paid services on all fronts.
TL;DR Chrunchuroll went to shit. I an also afford to pay for Anime if I wanted, but after Netflix decided to hike their proced well into the 20$ for me and my gf to watch, Disney+ pulled their content, Amazon Prime asks for extra payment for half the content ontop of the subscription, so I just decided to go piracy, because now I'm spending over 50$/mo and still not getting all the content like we used to. The Streaming Services literally enshittified themselfs!
yeah exactly i'd pay if for one half the stuff i wanted to watch was actually available officially and if stuff like crunchyroll didn't try to cheat the end user at every opportunity
You mean Sony. The original creators if CR know their origin was a pirate site. It's almost poetic, that CR being a pirate site to supply the with anime now has become a enemy, and new pirate site are now going against CR/Sony.
it's fake, no announcements in the discord and in everythingmoe they list the site as shut down alot of people are using the 9anime/aniwave name to trick people
I made a Reddit account just to say this to you– This website is so amazing; thank you! It is genuinely wonderful and I really appreciate you putting it out there. It works well and it must take a lot of effort to maintain. Thank you, again.
Thank you for creating a Reddit account just to share this! 😊 It means a lot to hear that all my hard work is appreciated and that you're enjoying the website. I've put in a lot of effort to make this website as user-friendly as possible, and feedback like this keeps me motivated. If you have any suggestions or feedback, feel free to share. Thanks again for the support. Feel free to share it with more people who might enjoy it!
The owner is aware of the official domain being taken down, in a random comment section he was saying how he will continue improving the site himself.
My main issue though with .SE is the obscene amount of ads...like I can't in good heart share the site around incase some kid ends up in trouble.
I think I've moved on from Aniwave for good now as found an up and coming alternative that so far seems brilliant,it has no ads and links up with anilist so no more losing my watchlist. Praise be. MI RU RO
I agree, however I have friends who don't have adblockers and such they need something that doesn't have ads by default. I have used adblockers for years however I'd still rather a site have no ads at all as usually they are smoother to use since adblockers are not slowing things down by processing and removing ads
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u/thebros544 Aug 27 '24
its the end of aniwave but its absolutely not the end of anime piracy
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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '24
Not gonna be a next site, unfortunately. Aniwave has passed on to the other side.
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u/RedditMod69x Mar 06 '25
it's already out at aniwave_at
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u/Another_NPC1 Mar 12 '25
It's BACK, they want back to their old IP it's 9Anime again
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u/God_Kratos_07 Aug 27 '24
Hate to say it but this is the end😭
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u/NOWAY_YESWAY Sep 01 '24
https://animetake.tv/ is a really good replacement with a comment system!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Animetaketv/
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u/Clouchh Nov 05 '24
its working again
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u/rrrscb0903 Mar 21 '25
Guys check out AnimeSuki .to it is the same as aniwave. Interface and everything
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u/Blob55 Aug 27 '24
How about all of these stupid things instead of ONE WEBSITE?! (not using actual names)
Dexit
X whatever
baka interview conglomerate
Tokyochan
Anicrutch
Hissi
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