Some links to "direct download" archives for anime

[timepiececlock]

anime websites with direct download resources/archives

1. http://www.cyber12.com/ - TONS! mostly linked via megaupload and similar file sending websites, and I don't think you need to register for it.

2. http://www.anime-eden.com/ - huge archive of many series, usually complete, download from servers two at a time, also music, free registration necessary. They have a lot of older series as well as new ones.

3. http://www.boontan.net/ - several series, download from servers, free registration necessary, lots of recent series.

4. http://chauthanh.info/animeDownload/?ami - several series, a lot of the more obscure ones that other sites miss, download from servers, no registration necessary, but a limited number of downloads per 24 hours.

5. http://mesmerisz.livejournal.com/3570.html - a livejournal masterpost list with a few hundred series linked through megaupload, well organized.


For newer fansubbed anime, this has become the preferred way of distribution. Bittorrent is becoming a thing of the past. I hesitate to wonder what would happen to all of the anime fans (and all of the television fans too) if one day all the file sending sites on the internet collapsed and vanished?

Comments

[irrel.livejournal.com]

That's funny, I get all my anime through bittorrent =P It's way faster!

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Faster, but a lot more risky. It gives access to your computer files to other users when you're connected, and it's very easy for people to trace the dissemination of a bitorrent file. I don't use any peer-to-peer sharing programs for security reasons, and me not wanting to be charged with theft. That's not as much of a problem with anime unlicensed by American production companies, but a lot of anime series these days are bought up and become licensed property as soon as they're released in Japan, without waiting a year or two like in the past.

[hakeber.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's the way I've been heading as well.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Seems sensible. And with the amount available, if I have to wait some elapsed time to get more episodes, I always have other series waiting to be watched in the interim.

[hakeber.livejournal.com]

Also:

http://www.anikat.com

http://www.lolipower.org/

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

thanks.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Thanks for a these links again!

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

you're welcome!

I downloaded some soul eater to watch. One episode in, I'm kind "meh" but we'll see. I never got more than 3 eps past Bleach and I've watched/read 400 chapters of Naruto, so... shonen is touch and go with me.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

You know, Shounen is touch and go with much of my flist. And actually, you're the second person who's told me that they watched the first episode and didn't feel the love.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Shonen is a lot about whether I've seen something before, and whether I'm in the right receptive mood for it. DBZ got to me after watching it on tv after school and eventually I was a fan. FMA is kind of shonen and kind of not, and it took 3 episodes before I decided I would enjoy it. (I was also marathonning it at a con, so had nothing else to do.) With Bleach, I was put off by the crazy-dad humor which reminded me too much of Ranma 1/2 (that I loved) and just seemed been-there-done-that, and then I was deeply put off by the plain unbelievability of carrot-top kid facing down a giant demon with no fear or even the mildest bit of concern despite having never been in any kind of magic battle before.

Naruto got my attention for having a 'world' so different from usual, and for the look of love the poor orphan boy gave to Iruka when he got presented with a headband at the end of episode one. Naruto suckered me in with "aaaawwwww"s and has held me there for a long, long time. I just wanted to kill everyone in that fucking village for what they did to their children. ...I just wish the manga-ka cared about that as much as I did.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was a pretty affecting moment.

I just wanted to kill everyone in that fucking village for what they did to their children.

Oh, god, I know. Sometimes I want to beat Jiriaya and Kakashi over the head with a brick, personally. And Konoha as a whole... I was reading one of the latest chapter, and I was going, 'oh, sure, you love him NOW that he's winning. Where the hell was that love when he was an innocent baby?'

It makes me appreciate Hinata and Sakura so much - Hinata for seeing that Naruto was a good kid, and Sakura for changing her opinion and standing by him when everyone else was thinking that he was a fool.

...I just wish the manga-ka cared about that as much as I did.

I wish the mangaka cared about HALF the stuff I cared about.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Did you ever watch any of the first season episodes? The end credits were beautiful--one of the best credit sequences I've seen in anime. None of the rest ever quite lived up.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I know I've seen some of the first season episodes, but I never ever stick around to watch the end credits, so I haven't see them.

"Don't try to look so wise."

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I'd recommend it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDqAHOF3Yzs

butterflies, soft golden colors, hi "aaaaawww" heartbreak factor, especially the lyrics. They told me to come back for more. Stick to the end--there's a nice closing image, too.

You know how I'm so/so on Aang but I love Naruto to bits and pieces? You can thank the first season of the anime for a lot of that sentiment. There's few anime kids that I wanted to hug more than Naruto. And, at times, Sakura and Sasuke too. (though Sakura grew out of that need and Sasuke made himself repulsive).

Of the openings, the second opening is my favorite. After the third set I stopped paying attention.

Re: "Don't try to look so wise."

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

*sobs*

Oh, god, the ending is heartbreaking - and the song.... *wibbles*

And yes, Naruto DOES get more credit from me than Aang does for several reasons, and the fact that he has suffered so much and so many people have failed him is one of them.

The second opening is watachable, which for me in a compliment. I have a tendency to loath anime openings.