Comment in Feedback 03/05/2026 11:57 — Anonymous: "alwaysCryingAboutNyaa"
nekoBT is the worst site ever, I will never link them to any of my services. Cry all you want about Nyaa, at least they are still running after all these years and still providing service to the users, not running away because of lame excuses and bad mouthing others just shows who you really are. Feel free to delete my comment.
It indicates that the browser isn't getting a fast enough response from the host, which means that the ISP is blocking the traffic, most likely because of DDoS Guard, and causing it to timeout.
DNS blocks usually don't result in HTTP responses, so that sounds unlikely to me. If I were to guess, there's something between DDoS-Guard and Nyaa's servers. As this doesn't happen to everyone, perhaps either one of DDG's endpoints has connectivity issues with Nyaa, or Nyaa are dropping some connections, causing a timeout at DDG. But ultimately Nyaa is better suited to diagnosing the issue, not that I think they'd bother.
I've heard users having some success when using a VPN.
HTTP 5xx code indicates a server issue. Client issues are denoted by a HTTP 4xx code. It's possible that the code is wrong, but it's not a user's duty to fix that.
I hope you have better life after this technically shutting down😁
Comment in Feedback 03/05/2026 00:33 — Anonymous: "ProtoClarion"
I wish it wasn't closing down, this has been a comfortable friend in my life. I am really going to miss everything about Animetosho, this is the BEST anime website ever, and I've been cruising anime sites since the early 1990's, the ease of being able to check before downloading something if DUAL means my native language, knowing if the subs are just signs and songs or if it is complete subs. I really appreciated the links to AniDB, MAL, TVDB or Wiki (en), it made a big difference.
I hardly ever had an issue with any download due to your cache policy. There is notheing negative about this site, this is where I stumbled into Overlord, DanMachi, TenSura, Eminence in Shadow,Yuru Camp, Rent-A-Girl, Yama no Susume), Seishun Buta Yarō-Aobuta), Jigokuraku, Mirai Nikki, The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Log Horizon, Sword Art Online, Durarara!!, Blue Period, Welcome to NHKL, Eden of the East, Summer Time Rendering, Solo Leveling....
My heart breaks to think of life without Animetosho.
The account registrations being disabled is likely intentional, so isn't something to "fix", at least, as far as Nyaa.si owners are concerned. What should be fixed is the messaging - clearly "temporarily unavailable" in not the case* and it'd take like two minutes for someone to replace it with a clear, accurate message. I've seen plenty of people assume "temporarily unavailable" is accurate, wondering when registrations would be open again.
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Which highlights the key problem of Nyaa.si - the owners simply Don't Give A Fuck. They've got no reason to deceive, and it doesn't appear that they have some distaste towards newbies (other than not wanting to deal with them), they just simply don't care about the site they're running. No one should be surprised if Nyaa.si just suddenly disappears one day, without warning (just like what happened to the original NyaaTorrents). You might not want to hear this from someone that's shutting down their own site, but I don't see Nyaa ever posting about their decision to shutdown before it eventually happens.
And disabled registrations doesn't "just work" - not allowing new contributors is a broken system. The effect clearly isn't immediate, it's just something that causes a slow gradual decline. In communities, people come and go, and if you prevent people coming, you've just got the natural attrition of users leaving.
People really shouldn't be content with the status quo because "it works". Not only is this an incredibly low bar to set your standards at, if this was universally accepted, there'd never be any improvement.
What's unfortunate is that it's hard to get attention to problems until they actually blow up. I can't say that Nyaa.si will ever "blow up", but in my opinion, the community's over-reliance on one site (whose owner hardly cares) is a problem that too many are apathetic towards.
I'm really hoping that nekoBT can eventually be a worthy alternative. More options is a benefit, not a drawback.
* I'm aware that the top of this page has "temporary" in the description, but it's at least qualified with "somewhat", and ultimately no-one cares about the precise message here anyway
Comment in Feedback 02/05/2026 23:51 — Anonymous: "stop touching me there"
i just got into the site after years just to realize it's gonna die soon 。゚・ (>﹏<) ・゚。
huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge thanks to you and everyone from the community for all the effort, i downloaded a shit ton of stuff from here that i'll always remember happily (μ_μ)
good luck and thanks for everything dear anon, your site will be truly missed (ಥ﹏ಥ)
damn. time is a brutal motherfucker. hope you find what you're looking for. your work and this site will be missed. very sad to see another community bite the dust in the fight for freedom and expression. we all get to our futures. cheers.
Comment in Feedback 02/05/2026 17:14 — Anonymous: "princesses Blackbeard"
Don't force your own fantasies on other people
Comment in Feedback 02/05/2026 17:10 — Anonymous: "Blackbeard"
You mfrs are going to miss talking about how you all wish you were reincarnated in another world as princesses and getting gang banged by a prince and his entourage.
Comment in Feedback 02/05/2026 16:54 — Anonymous: "Captain Obvious"
What about making the website LXtosho, only my releases being fetched after May 9th? I think it would bring a lot of quality to the site after its extinction, what do you think @admin?
The only anime site I ever used. Sad to see you shutting down. Thanks for everything!
Comment in Feedback 02/05/2026 13:03 — Anonymous: "Minato-sama"
I wish you best of luck in life brother, I still remember the day when my friend recommended me this website and I was so surprised to find something so convenient for anime downloading and I have always found everything about this website cool, this website has helped me for my fan subbing purposes as well, I could find rarest fan subs to watch from this website and I have enjoyed it a lot, thank you so much for years of your passionate hard work, not to exaggerate animetosho was a blessing for me. Again, I wish you best of luck in life, if you ever think about comeback then anime community will always be here, to support you. Peace out.
Hey, thank you very much for all the hard work and effort you put into this website and project over the last 15 years. It would be sad to lose your work. In the end, I'm happy I got the chance to see a good portion of the journey. I hope your next station is fulfilling. Take care wherever you are :D.
I just discovered this site and this is the only site that lets me download a really obsolete anime that i was searching for. i am sad that this will be gone but thank you so much for the wonderful site.
Thankful to you for this site and my finding it maybe around 6 or 7 years ago after the other mainly checking a few sub group's pages for their updates. From this found some other sub groups I liked the work of which helped replace most the ones I follow decades ago that all left/retired. Hope all the best for whatever it is you do in future.
Welp, sucks to see this place get shut down I do hope this project gets passed on (like if you change your mind, but you seemed to have made up your mind) it's been great I was excited to see what theme / character you would use for each season every year this site has been a great part of my anime watching adventures it was fast, simple no fuss and I'll be going back to tokyo tosho (what i personally used before discovering you guys) & bookmark everythingmoe thank you for everything Admin and good luck with your future projects I'm sure they'll be just as awesome if not more!
Comment in Feedback 01/05/2026 22:25 — Anonymous: "Anime Lover"
I dont know who or where you are, just wanted to let you know, that your website has been part of my life these past 15 years. Would have missed countless Anime without AT and you cant even begin to imagine, how greatful I am for all the work you put into this site. So it was hearbreaking to read by the end of last year, that you would shut it down permanently. Honestly still kind of a numbing feeling, knowing it will end in rougly a week. Still wanted to express my gratitude for your hard work and invested time. Wish you all the best and hopefully, someone will continue this project in the future.
I am going to miss AT very much. I only discovered it recently (within the last year) and it has proven absolutely invaluable. I can understand you wanting to pass the torch on after 15 years - does anyone know if there is any other site that at least goes someway towards providing the same, or some of the same, information to access torrents?
This might be the last week this site will work normally, and then I guess that's it. Thank you for helping me downloading Anime all this time. I'm gonna miss AT a lot. Good luck.
Comment in Feedback 01/05/2026 15:49 — Anonymous: "Whyareyouevenhere?"
Bro's baiting when a site is closing, I guess you should really get a life. lol
03/05/2026 23:14 — Anonymous: "Derp"