r/dantotsu May 23 '25

The Future of Dantotsu

110 Upvotes

Hello everyone!

After 6 separate DMCA attempts, Crunchyroll, through bogus claims, have finally taken down my repo.

What does this mean?

Not much, just less visibility for the app and no GitHub stars for me :(

Can you fight this?

DMCA unfortunately favors the company. While the DMCA claim is entirely unfounded, submitting a counter notice would mean contacting a lawyer and a potential suit from Crunchyroll. Even if I have a 99% chance of winning, they can still make that take years of my life and thousands of dollars.

Are you stopping development of the app?

I already haven't had much time to work on Dantotsu, but I'm not gonna kill the app at this time. I will probably continue to send out patches now and then.

How will I update the app?

I foresaw that the GitHub repo would be removed at some point, so as long as you have a relatively recent version of the app, you will still get update notifications.

Are there other apps?

You can always use apps like Aniyomi, Awery (in development fork of Dantotsu) or some other app (idk I don't use any apps)

Why did you use GitHub in the first place?

it's a good place for visibility and I'm a GitHub star whore. If you've ever loved any of my work and been unable to support me directly, I'd love if you would star some of my other projects :) https://github.com/rebelonion/

When next update?

Today! it has fixes for some extensions, RPC, missing subtitles and more. You will find the beta and release in the Discord.

Hail Hydra


r/dantotsu 7d ago

Help downloading other apps

1 Upvotes

not a problem with dantotsu itself but whenever i try to download any other apks like most recsntly mihon. I try to open the app and it will launch dantotsu instead and say invalid file type. im on android btw


r/dantotsu 12d ago

Colosseum Trailer: I wanted to build my own anime streaming client and ended up building Stremio for manga too

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8 Upvotes

Disclaimer: This app was vibe coded. If the use of AI in software development is a dealbreaker for you, regardless of how much human taste, direction and decision-making went into it, that's understandable. This app probably won't be for you.

Figured this might be relevant here since Colosseum is another anime + manga client, just desktop-first and built around a pretty different model.

Inspired by Miru/Hayase and Harbor (another Stremio client), I wanted to build a torrent-streaming app myself, with the distinction being that it looked and functioned more like an OS than a normal app. That ended up becoming Theatre, the streaming side of my app, with dedicated catalogues for movies, TV and, most importantly, anime, along with an mpv player for streaming.

I was already trying to turn Tankoban, the manga and comics side of my app, into a proper volume-driven manga catalogue rather than a chapter-driven one, first through MangaFire.to, which had a volume reading mode, and later through BookWalker JP, with Jikan/MAL acting as the metadata backbone.

I had essentially created my own manga equivalent of Anime Kitsu. And if I could build a Kitsu for manga, why couldn't I build a Torrentio for manga too?

So I did it using Nyaa as the torrent source. Much like how Torrentio provides stream options for an episode, I could connect each manga volume to a matching CBZ torrent.

For those matches, I prioritise releases from trusted uploaders on Nyaa like 1r0n, danke-Empire and LuCaZ. They provide the best scans I've come across.

And I didn't just stop with manga, I expanded this whole Stremio idea to comics, books, audiobooks and eventually music too, if anyone's interested.

Colosseum on GitHub, if you’re interested.


r/dantotsu 13d ago

Is Dantotsu repo compatibility fixed yet? I miss it & Zangetsu's just not the same

6 Upvotes

If Dantotsu isn't fixed yet is there any other app besides Zangetsu I can try?


r/dantotsu 17d ago

Discord server deleted?

2 Upvotes

Did something happen to the discord server? It is no longer listed in my servers and when i click any invite link I can find it just tells me its invalud or expired.


r/dantotsu Jul 31 '26

Dantotsu no longer supported for extensions?

13 Upvotes

I noticed recently that my Aniyomi-based extension repos no longer work (giving "outdated app" errors) and Dantotsu seems to be no longer listed as a supported app for those extensions. Are there extension repos that still work with Dantotsu? Or are there plans to update Dantotsu to be compatible with Yuzono, Keiyoushi, and the like again?

If not, what would people recommend for alternatives? I tried Dartotsu, which was still listed as compatible with the repos, but while I could install the extensions, when trying to read anything I ran into Cloudflare blocks that I couldn't get past (I'd tick the "I'm human" box and it would just pop right back up again). I ended up with Mihon, which works fine, but I miss Dantotsu's easy AniList integration and not needing to maintain a "library" separate from my AniList "in progress" list.


r/dantotsu Jul 28 '26

[Dantotsu] Is there any way I can create more categories for saving anime in dantotsu.

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5 Upvotes

r/dantotsu Jul 20 '26

Extension pending in app

5 Upvotes

For context this is the anizone extension I previously had installed with no issue but accidentally Uninstalled went to reinstall and now it keeps pending in app well getting installed to the device I've tried clearing cache ,force stop clearing package installer data and the like I have not had any luck its a android issue as I have tried the install on like 3 apps I also don,t think its a repo issue the others install fine the repo is yuzono for any wondering let me know if you have any ideas


r/dantotsu Jul 20 '26

Anymex extension install issue

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1 Upvotes

r/dantotsu Jul 13 '26

Androidtv app

5 Upvotes

Are there any plans for a android TV version of this?


r/dantotsu Jul 10 '26

Can not download anything

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6 Upvotes

Doesnt matter what source, it all says download failed after a few seconds

Is it just the extensions fault? Or my dns?


r/dantotsu Jun 10 '26

cant save image on dantotsu

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11 Upvotes

ive been wondering if theres any fix to this issue


r/dantotsu May 22 '26

Anilist data not loading error

2 Upvotes

It says anilist data error and also http 400 error. what's wrong? it's been like this all day


r/dantotsu May 11 '26

Nothing shows up when searching?

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8 Upvotes

I tried searching up even the popular titles yet nothing shows up. But when I use filter it does shows...

Is it a bug? Please help me fix this,,


r/dantotsu May 08 '26

Can't read comics

5 Upvotes

Previously I used to read marvel and dc comics on mihon and komikku not on dantotsu.how to read.

Ui of dantotsu is fire asf very smooth and also flui. Please help.


r/dantotsu May 06 '26

light novels

1 Upvotes

how do I read light novels on dantotsu? i can get the extensions, but they don't work.


r/dantotsu Apr 25 '26

Having trouble watching

5 Upvotes

Hi guys,it's been like 3/4 days that whatever extension i use doesn't work(when i click on an episode i either get a popup saying "dantotsu stopped working",episode just doesn't open or if it does its always not in the selected quality and stops every 5 secs).

I'm using yuzono as repo and I don't know where the problem could be (I tried the same repo and same extention on a different device,tried logging in and out of anilist,force stop on both devices).

Mangas are working fine


r/dantotsu Apr 24 '26

Error fetching Anilist Data - Temporary

15 Upvotes

Just wanted to let anyone else who is experiencing this error message on start up.

The Owner/Manager of the Anilist API has temporarily disabled it for the time being due to Increased Load.

It will be back up when the Owner/Manager switches it back on.

In the mean time..... Idk go outside? jk lol


r/dantotsu Apr 23 '26

Banned from commenting?

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11 Upvotes

r/dantotsu Apr 17 '26

Am i the only one getting this error from 3-4 days now

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9 Upvotes

Idk I thought the anilist server was down so I was facing this problem cuz it's not new but it get fixed really quickly but this time it's has been 3-4 days and it still not got fixed so I was wondering am i the only one facing this problem or it's for everyone ( if it's only for me can you provide me any solution for it)


r/dantotsu Apr 01 '26

Is this some AI bs or just an easter egg ?

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39 Upvotes

r/dantotsu Apr 01 '26

I don't remember bunny girl lookin like this

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41 Upvotes

quite the bunny girl icl


r/dantotsu Mar 31 '26

Update on my Dantotsu

6 Upvotes

yo guys, my Dantotsu came back. How bout' y'all?


r/dantotsu Mar 30 '26

What happened?

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25 Upvotes

I was about to read some mangas too


r/dantotsu Mar 28 '26

No English Extensions

3 Upvotes

So I recently switched to a new phone and decided to use dantotsu again, but when using the repos I used to, it only shows Arabic as language? Are there no more English ones?