Admin, thank you for this website and good luck on your future endeavors. Can you update shutdown page with FAQ? It would save the trouble of browsing feedback page looking for answers and reduce the flood of repeat questions.
Downloaded 4 recent releases and they appear to be the same. Also searched for 2 recent releases that were not available because site not carrying them.
Thanks for this one. Downloaded a file and it was the same one I would have downloaded here. Looks promising. If they get more aggressive against anti-crap software it could turn into a hard pass. Thanks again.
This has been one of my go to sites for years because of it's lightweight and simple to use ux. Sad to see this go, hope someone brings something similar in spirit to what this once was. Thanks for keeping this up for so long.
Comment in Feedback 18/04/2026 13:33 — Anonymous: "spelunker"
Anime Tosho will stop updating soon, so sad, Thank you, admin for this website for the last 15 years. Good luck on your future endeavors.
I'm just guessing you owner this website. If you want emulate animetosho, upload without reencoding from CR (subsplease & erai), toonshub, and varyg. and don't smash the watermark on hardsubs.
Comment in Feedback 18/04/2026 12:42 — Anonymous: "Anonmouse"
as much i know this site stores nothing related to people (except user and pass) and no useless things except the features, just takes 50-67 mb ram also the ui is so good, it so simple and so good, i hope people get motivated and create something that surpass AT, even i want to try but the issue is i can code but i lack latest knowledge on how to stay completely anon
This is usually ISP throttle, if you can afford VPN that should get around it, but paid ones not free ones. or just rent a seedbox, let the server handle the torrenting for you.
I don't have any aggregation of search stats unfortunately. Not sure how one would rank them either, given that searches can contain multiple terms. I'd imagine group tags would be the most frequently searched terms.
Every day we move closer and closer to oblivion. I basically use AT as my defacto home page since I discovered this place. Firefox says I've visited my bookmark over 7k times.
Oh for the fun of it, do you have stats on the search queries? I would be interested to see a top list of searches done on the site
Comment in Feedback 17/04/2026 15:57 — Anonymous: "Onii-Chan"
Hi Admin,
Would you add the above to the Shutdown page?
Or just add this, “I don't intend to ever come back to this project later” to the top of that page?
It’s been a nice ride, thank you for all the fish, but most here do understand that having to walk away cold turkey from a huge time sink is in your own best interest.
Best Regards, Onii-chan loves you (unless you're scum!)
anyone got any reccomended alternatives to AT, ive been using the AT usenet indexer for most of my anime
Comment in Feedback 17/04/2026 12:24 — Anonymous: "Insert name here"
Most the encoders you named have the encoding settings in the mediainfo (some groups contain this in the torrent description). Figure out how to copy the syntax info ffmpeg or handbrake (if you prefer having a GUI).
Do note anime encoding groups tend to have their settings optimised for anime and some source files are not suitable for encoding.
Comment in Feedback 17/04/2026 12:10 — Anonymous: "WukongSun"
Thank you for the very clearly written post, and for expressing your reasons in a way that we the animetosho fans can understand.
It's the end of an era then, and all we can do is give thanks in as heartfelt a way as we can muster, like Aquours standing at the gates of Otonokizaka Jogakuen: *Bows* "Arigatougozimas"
Comment in Feedback 17/04/2026 11:32 — Anonymous: "you know me"
That's an interesting idea, but I don't really see the point in it unfortunately.
Firstly, this site wasn't designed to be operated by anyone other than myself, and there's a lot of accumulated knowledge that I have that anyone taking over would take quite some time to acquire. Thus if I just handed over the reins, they'd undoubtedly struggle without help from me. Even if I didn't assist and they someone figured it all out from day one, your suggestion still requires me to monitor them, which is something I don't want to do. Also the idea of pulling the plug on someone who's volunteering their efforts doesn't bode well with me, and I can't see motivated people liking such an arrangement anyway.
If someone does want to "take over", I'll be releasing the database/code so that they can do so, regardless of the issue above. They'll be able to run their own AT clone on their own terms without the added baggage of needing to pay tribute to me.
I'm hoping this shutdown encourages AT alternatives, which is something I've actually always wished for. I'm a believer that "competition" is beneficial to the community overall.
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I don't intend to ever come back to this project later, so the 'hiatus' idea isn't what I'm after.
Comment in Feedback 16/04/2026 21:52 — Anonymous: "Anonymoose"
@those who compress and change video/audio files
Whenever I use movavi to try to do this, it turns out like crap. Any advice? (like use a different program or what to do to not make them crap looking)
I literally tried making the new Divinity trailer just more compressed to a reasonable file size like megusta/Elite/Judas/Ember/Sokudo and it turned out like a pile of dinosaur shit.
Comment in Feedback 16/04/2026 17:58 — Anonymous: "animetoshomuststay"
admin-san, have you considered handing the site over to some trusty anons, whilst maintaining an kill switch? I'm sure faggots from /a/ would jump at the chance. If you acted as basically the site landlord it would mean if any volunteers you choose drive it into the ground or abuse the site you could simply pull the plug.
Having others run it whilst you maintain control over the url etc would also give you the chance to treat this year as a hiatus, meaning you could take up the reigns again later. Your obviously emotionally connecting to the site, and I'm sure you understand that a lot of users feel connected to the site too, even though its just an anime site, it's our anime site if you know what I mean. . 15 years, fook, what was first link here? K-On!!? Angel Beats?
Comment in Feedback 16/04/2026 17:44 — Anonymous: "anonymous"
Thanks for sharing
People, gimme links to your fave site that has a front page of updating anime, preferably with jpgs of the anime keyviz like here https://animetosho.org/animes. Oh, incoming episodes of Donguas would be nice too.
19/04/2026 19:43 — p1zrv