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#Megathread

#Quick Start

The most important things to get you started.

#Websites

#Software

#Essentials

#Websites

Online resources for anime, manga, light novels and more. All links have been carefully selected and vetted by our contributors.

Rating System

R+ Uploads NSFW content on a regular basis.

R Uploads NSFW content, but not always/all of them.

R- Rarely uploads NSFW content.

E Only SFW content.

NR Haven't been rated yet.

Note: None of the websites mentioned are exclusively dedicated to NSFW content. Click here for the dedicated sites.

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#Anime

If you want to get the best quality, use direct download, IRC, or torrent. You can obtain full web release quality on a streaming site that scrapes the official site API, such as KickAssAnime for Crunchyroll and Bilibili content. Otherwise, it is hard to maintain the full quality while managing space & traffic. You can network stream files from direct download, irc and torrents.

  • Aniwave formerly 9anime
    • Huge library with Watch Together feature
    • Less amount of compression compared to other sites that use 3rd party hosts
    • Has both hardsub and softsub (multilingual)
    • Original site's UI is bloated. Use Anix or 9animehq for more minimal experience.
  • KickAssAnime Proxies
    • Scrapes Crunchyroll(duckstream) and Bilibili(birdstream)
    • KAA encodes(videstreaming) are quite good(the new encodes) and loads better.
    • Duck has the highest overall bitrate but may have buffer issue.
    • Has both hardsub(duck) & softsub(rest)
    • Has missing titles. But, you can request them in their support server
  • Aniwatch formerly Zoro
    • Huge library with Watch Together feature
    • Re-encodes shows for smaller size with lower overall bitrate.
    • Softsubs may create issues in different scenarios, but can be beneficial for multi-language support
  • Animepahe
    • Uploads mini encoded files, useful if you want smaller files or have low bandwidth
    • Uploads Blu-ray and DVD versions if available
    • Has a good amount of missing titles
#More
  • Kaguya
    • Scraping based website
    • Has a good amount of sources (Crunchyroll, Aniwave, Kickassanime etc.)
    • Scrapes manga sites too (Mangadex, Katana, Batoto etc.)
    • Only chromium browsers are supported & needs browser extension to work
  • AnimeUI
    • Great upload quality
    • Uses IPFS to stream anime
    • Small library & firefox isn't supported yet
  • Animeflix
    • The main sources are scraper based (Gogo & Zoro)
    • Crunchyroll is available for some of the titles
    • Uploads own encodes too with decent quality but not available for every title

#Manga

For Offcial releases(web, volume, omnibus etc.), download from Nyaa or Madokami. They have very little compression, if any.

  • Mangadex R+
    • Uploads without compression
    • Best reader UI
    • Uploads from various scanlation groups
    • No official translations* since it was created for fansub
    • May remove content if there is a DMCA request by the publisher or doesn't allow upload at all (e.g. One Punch-Man)
  • Comick Alt R+
    • Minimal compression
    • Aggregates from various scanlation groups
    • Has official translations
    • Reader isn't as good as mangadex
  • Mangasee Mangalife Atsumaru R
    • Has official translations
    • Compresses chapter images
    • Chapter updates are relatively slow
    • Atsumaru scrapes from Mangasee but has better UI
  • Colored Manga R
    • Uploads without compression but mostly Shounen centric
    • Has both B&W and colored releases
    • Uploads official translations & volume releases (if available)
    • Lacks in library and upload schedule
  • Manga Fire R
    • The UI is very clean with notification system
    • Uploads both chapter(multi-lang) & volume releases
    • Basic reader UI
    • Watermark on almost every manga chapters
    • Manga uploads are upto x1600
  • Batoto | Mangatoto R+
    • Has both scanlated and official releases
    • Has some exclusive uploads
    • Decent filtering options with site theme options
    • Indexing is really poor
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#Music

#Light Novels

#Games

🚫 List of Untrusted Game Downloading Websites

Try searching with Japanese titles on Nyaa/Sukebei. Also, for Sukebei, try searching with the DLSite product ID.

#Software

Apps and programs for your various devices to take your hobbies wherever you go. Covering (almost) all the operating systems.

#Android

  • Cloudstream Web
    • Minimalist Customizable UI
    • Offers other types of media too
    • Tracking & backup support
    • Local player support
    • Extensions often break
  • Aniyomi Web Manga
    • Unofficial Tachiyomi fork for anime
    • Clean and minimal design
    • Offers other types of media too
    • Has manga reader too
    • Tracking support with enhanced type
    • Good amount of extensions are broken
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#PC

#Manga

  • Houdoku win mac lin
    • Easy to setup
    • Good Customizable UI
    • Has good amount of extensions
    • Tracker integration
    • Can download manga
  • Tachidesk win mac lin
    • Uses the same extensions and backups as tachiyomi so good extension support
    • UI is same as tachiyomi
    • Can download manga
    • No tracker integration
Clients
  • Tachidesk base
    • lots of sources to pick from
    • basic settings for reading
    • lacks basic reader features
    • complicated requirements such as JAVA
  • Sorayomi
    • Needs Tachidesk server to work
    • Minimal and easy to use, outdated 2022
    • insufficient features
    • loads slowly (depends on your internet)
  • Tachidesk JUI
    • Needs Tachidesk server to work
    • Batch downloading manga
    • new tab window while stream reading
More

#Anime

  • Miru
    • Torrent based
    • Pretty good UI with schedule and advanced search
    • Has AL tracking and RSS feed
    • Can stream external magnet link and it'll auto detect the anime.

#Light Novel

#iOS

  • Anime Now
    • Great UI with extension support
    • Downloading episode is supported support
    • Casting support
    • Tracking support
    • Only available trough sideloading
  • 9Animator
    • Decent UI with extension integration
    • Casting & notification support
    • Tracking support
    • Downloading episode available
    • Small number of extensions
    • Only available trough sideloading

#Downloader

  • Hakuneko
    • No Crunchyroll implementation
    • You have to index each site first, which takes quite a long time, after that the search is almost instant, but loading episodes for anime again takes some time depending on the source.
    • Not a great interface, but it does the job, and you can tell it is more thought out for manga.
    • Not too many anime sources, some of them do not work.
    • Hakuneko 7 working sources, 1 is nsfw
  • animdl
    • No UI, terminal based
    • Easy to use once installed
    • Not too many anime sources, some of them do not work.
    • AnimDL 7 working sources, 1 is nsfw
  • ADL
    • No UI, terminal based
    • "Complicated" installation, especially on Windows
    • Uses many different scripts, including animedl, so lots of functionality
    • Tracking capability & many more
    • Same amount of sources as AnimDL
  • Crunchy-cli
    • No UI, terminal based
    • "Simple" installation
    • Crunchyroll account required, Premium if you want all the anime available
    • No streaming, only download
  • Crunchyroll Downloader v3.0
    • Straightforward UI
    • Easy to use
    • Crunchyroll account required if you want premium content
    • About the same functionality as Crunchy-cli
    • No streaming, only download
  • Nyaa Downloader
    • Runs via terminal, has a pretty simple UI
    • Used for torrent downloads that can be redirected/downloaded directly into a BitTorrent client - no DDL functionality
    • for nyaa.si only

You can find more PC related tools here

#Misc-sites

Welcome to the misc-sites page, home to various communities, guides, and tools for your otaku needs and interests.

#Info

#Database & Tracker

#Anime

#Manga & LN

#Illustrations

#Japan

#Books

You can use Anna’s Archive, Z-Library, PDF Drive & Mobilism to download books.

#Others

#Tools

#VTuber

#Random

#Add-ons

Various add-ons to enhance your otaku experience. Includes anime/manga tracking, Discord bots, browser extensions, scripts and more!

#Apps

#Tools

#Extensions

#Scripts

#Learning Japanese

Interested in learning the japanese language? Here you can find resources to aid you on your journey.

#Websites

#Books

#Software

#Communities

#Merch

Looking to buy memorabilia from your favourite series and support the creators? Here you will find information on figurines, plushes, books, CDs and more!

⚠️ Important Information
#Delivery Types
Delivery TypesValueShipping SpeedOffered as OptionMode of Tranportation
Surface MailLowest-CostSlowestOffered🚢
SAL (Economic Airmail)Low-CostSlow2Not Offered1✈️
AirmailHigh-CostFastOffered✈️
EMS (Express Mail Service)Highest-CostFastestOffered✈️
  1. The option for SAL shipments are temporarily unavailable due to covid protocols. You can find JP Post's service availability by country here
  2. Combine the reasonable"ish" rate of surface, with somewhat the faster duration of airmail, but still less priority than airmail

Illustration of speed of the options
Illustration of speed of the options

#Agent Types
  • Forwarder
    • Used in cases when you want to buy goods/Items, but the service or person doesn't ship overseas. You then rely on a forwarder, that will give you a temporary Japanese address to which you can ship the things you need. The forwarder will charge you storage fees + international shipping to send the goods/items to you. You can simply think of this as someone that literally forwards the goods to you, because you don't have a Japanese address of your own.
  • Proxy
    • Someone acting on your behalf that buys, accepts, and ships the goods to you, unlike a forwarder. Generally, recommended for beginners (especially if you are nervous about buying stuff online), however more expensive. They will charge you the purchase fees for the goods + domestic shipping + international shipping fees + any additional fees as per their policy.
#Additional Guides

#Guides

#Info

#Communities

#Retailers

#Agents

#Tracker

#Manga, Anime, OST & Others

#Scanlation

Information and guides pertaining to the world of fan translation, everything from behind-the-scenes looks to tutorials.

#Communities

#Raw

#Resources

You can find a lot more free assests in the Scanner Usage School Server.

#Tools

#NSFW

Everyone has to let off some steam once in a while, we don't judge.

#Websites

#Software

#Others

#Communities

A list of other otaku communities to check out based on your specific interests.

#Forums

#Discord servers

#Subreddits

#Boards