Thanks again for all the comments showing appreciation! I really didn't expect such an outpouring from everyone here.
I'm only responding to questions for now, as I don't have much to comment on otherwise, but your thanks really does warm my heart and makes me feel that I was able to be helpful to many.

❤

Yes, the files are downloaded before subtitles/attachments are extracted. I've written some more info here.

AT's technique is relatively convoluted, but you can find info on it here.

For something simpler, I recall mplayer/MPV having an option to output a frame to an image, so you can use that to have subtitles rendered in the video. It looks like ffmpeg has options for burning in subtitles, or you could use a VapourSynth script to do something similar.

The site downloads the shows first from torrents then admin uses his script(s) to process them automatically. After that you can get subs from this site.

I believe that's covered in the FAQ...

Admin, so how do you get subtitles from .mkv files? I mean, do you download all the shows to extract subtitles?

First of all, I have to say a huge THANK YOU to the site administrator for managing this site for all these years. It's been the primary source for me to get the anime episodes that I am looking for, especially Aikatsu and Precure.

That said, I really hope that come May 2026, someone can see about creating a site almost like this (but not "imitating" it obviously because there are some of us who still don't really do torrents in regards to anime shows). I've really been dependent on this site to get the latest episodes from Precure seasons, so here's hoping a breakthrough can come very soon before then.

Anyone know any good sites for anime that come even REMOTELY as lol someone else said without the BS ...or even with the BS at this point

bubbles of woe
do u have to go?
we js wont know
without you though...?
*sob sob... is like naruto finishing all over again!
*,'0)x

Totally Gutted is being Shutdown, but totally understand AN FAIRPLAY!

Ur Service has been ASTRONOMICAL in providing a reliable source an resources to link an find no end of hard to find anime!

THANSK FOR ALL UR HARD WORK DUDE!

Gonna be sad to say bye to Animetosho...

please recommend any other sites that are good to use :)

i dont think i even know of any other sites other than the ones ive learned of through here an even then- not with descriptions on the links for download...

Thanks Again~ u LEGEND!!D

lol this seems like a sad dream as much I see the latest archive

Both me and my Sonarr will miss you. Thank you for all these years of keeping us alive and fed. Take care Admin o7

Man, first Arutha, now this. :(

Thank you for all your hard work.

*Auto-generated screenshots.

Hi admin. I am trying to build my own AnimeTosho-esque service. I am having trouble getting auto-generated subtitles to display subtitles, particularly subs in ASS format. How did you get this to work? I am using ffmpeg to generate the screenshots, but I'm not sure if there's something else I need to use.

1.5gb back in 2011 must have been a big deal. All these comments from 2011 are time capsules.

Gimme moar catgirls!

Goodbye, old times. First commentator.

And see you from now on forever.

Thank you for (essentially) donating a major part of your life to a project which does not profit you, but many others. It seems easy to help others without any reason or reward in theory, but not in the real life, which can and is unfair at times. I thank you for creating this website and maintaining it for such a long time, without any benefit from it.
Hope you find everything that you wish for in your life.
An anonymous person.

"I may disable some features (screenshots/attachments) and run the feed/API in a degraded state (some requests will fail) to conserve bandwidth until the quota resets."

Feelsbadman.

Thank you for everything, I am a quite young user of this site but it will not be forgotten, I love this website.
Sorry for the lack of construction and the poor language level

Love, sincerely

admin,
Thank you, for everything. I've moved homes 7 times, in four different countries, since I first came across AT - probably from cyber12 or a-s or somewhere similar - and found yours to be the least obtrusive while being succinct in its presentation. Even with the occasional blackouts and "banning" by certain principlaties... you stuck to your guns and came this far. For all that and more, I salute you, Sir/Ma'am
When the invevitable 4chan thread about some obscure news site covering this internet-monumental event gets started, I hope you take some time to comment to those of us who will no doubt miss coming here.
May your work go down in internet lore/history - not in terms of controversy or infamy - but in terms of legacy, appreciation and lifetime achievement(?) brownie points(!) alongside the work of sites/services/etc like gg, mazui, ubw (and, of course, horrible!).
Sincerely,
HC

There's a bunch of heuristics and guesswork to try and handle typical cases. Yes, a lot of regexes.

It does retry for a while because sometimes the torrent gets renamed, or more info gets added to AniDB.

I've had the thought, but generally liked the idea of handling most of these cases in code, as it effectively improves the automated matching, whilst handing off the task means more manual work for someone.

There are backups, but I almost never use them. Restoring a backup often means you have to reprocess a bunch of stuff and deal with potential mismatches etc. It's basically a last resort.
Fortunately the design of this system has some redundancy (database is replicated from the updates server to the web servers), so I can often use that.

There's rate limiting here too; I'm probably more generous than Nyaa.si though, plus AT would get less traffic than Nyaa.
Otherwise I generally keep an eye on traffic patterns to see what looks problematic.

I've actually avoided doing that. Not having to co-ordinate has its perks, and I always wanted the option to walk away. Also harder to label the operation a 'conspiracy', which requires at least two people.

I'm thinking of putting them in a 7z (or maybe multiple). The smaller packages (like NZBs) will probably just be on the storage server.
The larger stuff will probably be a torrent.
I'm not sure if anyone's interested in the screenshot data, which is the largest data set.

I haven't really been keeping up with it, so I don't know.

Thank you for your service all these years.

This is a fantastic site. Thank you for over 10 years of amazing service. Hope everything goes well for you in life.

Thank you for all the years you maintained this site. It'll be missed! It was a great place and you put a lot of work into it. I appreciate that you're giving a few months of notice, because that increases the odds of someone being able to get a replacement up and running. I hope very much that someone will step in and do that, but even if they don't. the extra months of notice mean people have more time to look for inferior alternative options. I wish you the best of luck for the future.

Thanks for everything throughout the years. Always loved getting everything on AT because it was so organized, informative and user friendly. Felt like I found the holy grail of anime when I stumbled upon this site by accident a decade ago.

Best of luck on your future endeavors.