@Admin

Thank you for the reply~<3

In my last post I meant to express that I feel you for closing down AT, because the technical debt in the code would make it less fun to run AT. Apart from the financial and operational burden.

Stay well and have fun with your new next projects~<3

Thank you very much for everything dude

I feel that you might be trivialising it a bit too much (then again, I do that a bit as well).
It might seem 'easy', but there's a degree of discipline that you need to maintain. And it's easy to slip up.

I suspect half of those "anonymous bullet-proof" hosts are just scams, and those that aren't are typically flaky at best. Those that have some reputation may decide to charge a fortune, given the niche they're in.
Although it's not particularly that hard to figure out the right host, I'd hardly call it a straightforward matter either.

NAT is about having multiple devices share an IP. It does nothing to anonymise you, nor does it "change" your IP (at least in the way you're hoping).

Man, I wish someone would make a clone of this site. I fucking hate that all the anime sites I use are closing down one by one.

> Every good VPN service is locked behind a paywall

This sucks.

My most favorite go to website is being shut down on my birthday.  :-(

I guess you will have to look for a VPN: https://www.youtube.com/@techlore/search?query=vpn
And hook qBittorrent to VPN by going to Options > Advanced > Network Interface > VPN Service you bought.
So you can safely use torrents, unless your Internet Provider hates VPNs too.

Administrator, thank you for all your hard work running Anime Tosho.
Since I can’t use torrents and can only watch anime via DDL, the loss of Anime Tosho is a real blow to me.
I hope a good alternative or successor DDL site will emerge.

This was my favorite website to check on releases and to quickly grab attachments
it will be sorely missed :'D

Staying anon is orders of magnitude easier than the boring stuff of running a site.

You could basically just pay some anon-friendly hosting provider in some random DMCA-resistant country in Monero, log in via a privacy focused VPN, and that's all entirely solved. Money aside anybody can do this much.

Check https://everythingmoe.com/
There's some links in there.

Unfortunately, nothing will ever be like AnimeTosho. It will live on in our hearts.

He already replied to something like this, seems he doesn't want someone else to just bastardize his dear project, and instead wishes someone else would make their own thing (possibly with the help of his own code) instead of just relying on some random anon half-assedly running the site. I imagine he wants to fuck off into the wilderness and never hear about hosting a site ever again, which I can understand.

You CAN use torrents, you just don't wanna be assed to. Go find a seedbox provider.

Sad to see that this site is going. It was a fantastic way to easily search for torrents of anime subs as I still use that method to download files so I don't need to resort to streaming.

Anyone know of alternative torrent sites for anime these days? Shana project is pretty bad now & Nyaa is really hard to search.

This is devastating the site was the most reliable and constant way to find dubbed anime losing this site has generally got me depressed, but thank you for all you've done over the past years in running the site enable me to find many good anime's. I have no right to be asking this since I lack the knowledge nor the funds to run a site like this, but are you unwilling to hand it off to somebody if they are willing and able.

no luck searching DDL website with multisubs like erai.

any?

You're telling me AniDB didn't just collaborate?

I just assumed Admin went and asked pretty please and they just gave him an API key and half-wrong internal docs.

This site's been such an amazing resource. Every time I wanted an anime torrent over the years I came here for it. I think it's wild you never asked us for money or even made this announcement seem like "if you all give me money I'll continue".

It's honestly super sad to see this happen, especially as sites like this feel like some last bastions of a bygone era where the internet felt really alive, partially because of this fossilized PHP web design reminiscent of places like AniDB and sadpanda.

I just want you to know this wasn't 15 years down the drain. The contribution you gave the world was massive, if you consider how many people you made a little happier. It's only sad that you won't get the recognition you deserve, and 10 years from now this place will only have been a nice distant memory. I could see you visiting my country and I wouldn't know I owe you a beer. Hell, I don't even know anything about you. But you made me happy and I want you to know that.

I just saw the shutdown announcement. I wanted to thank you for all the efforts and hardwork you put into AT. Me and my cousin (died 2021) is/was a regular visitor of your site since early 2013. I am just happy to remember my bro enjoying your site as much as I did before he passed away.

Thank you for everything you've done!

i am talking about public ip 😭 btw from NAT i rembered anyone reading this please disable NAT-PMP and UPnP these are literally shit i cant explain everything but just disable them

Login required? hell no.

https://digitalcarnage.info/ has also been mirroring, I believe, usually way faster than animetosho.
i've noticed they've been picking the main release groups like subsplease after 4-6 mins of the torrent releasing..

RIP Anime Tosho... It was a great run. You guys single-handedly kept up my usenet subscription for years with your content.

not vpn but nat just like how all routers already do for free

british way to ask for free vpn 😺🥀

qb should implement this feature someone suggested so we can ddl torrents without worrying. github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/24067

As far as the 9th of May date, the site's not closing, so existing links will stay there. Past that date, there won't be new links.

I just wanna know, if the site's gonna close, will the DDL links be available for downloading, until they eventually go kaput?
I'm in a location that I cannot DL torrents right now.

so afraid to reply because i have nothing important to talk but not replying will be rude meow oni chan

Your site has been truly amazing, it will be something that will be truly missed. You could tell that you really where invested in this project from the themes and constant updates. I wish you the best of luck in future endeavors.