I am thinking of making a replacement, but for a proper one, I will be looking down months of work.

Still hope someone will create a replacement for Anime Tosho.
Not finding any true replacements for ddl's.
Getting watermarks, 720p max, 1.33mb 1080p here reduced to 113mb 1080p and even pop-op watermark at 15m mark. Those are combined with sites skipping anime they don't like and one to three week waits for new episode updates.

Yes I was spoiled by this great site.

btw I think the mix up in prequel/sequel link is caused by the chibi specials, regardless thanks for the serendipitous link

I'm having that, myanimelist.net/anime/40211

see thats the serendipity of this place, I'm really gonna miss all the random stuff that pops up here

Thanks, could you please report that to AniDB?
https://anidb.net/anime/14829

https://animetosho.org/series/luo-xiao...anji.14829
Prequel link looks so wrong

lulz 🥀

Personally I don't care about people here that don't pay attention to what is going on. That's their problem.

I wonder what will happen to users who don't read the announcement when the site stops updating. I know It's going to be a barrage of questions about why the site stops updating.

Yandex has less blocking on pirate sites and their links

Doesn't help that google blocks searches for these sites, so trying to find a sites mirror after a whackamole can be difficult

Will Be Missed:
Library - catalogs varied names - priceless, popular, occasional manual fix, dangerous
Splitter - separates subtitles & audio tracks - priceless, smaller market, dangerous
Detailer - reveals content details - valuable, high interest, dangerous
…
Comments, no registration required - sometimes useful, heave moderation load, dangerous
Retire In Peace

Sorry. The "ppv death squads" are a real thing. Many sites are forced to relocate 2 or more times a year and leave very vague bread crumbs. It's one of the reasons this site went from useful to necessary. These squads
are also why the ddl links here have over the years decreased from a long time to months to 7 to 10 days.
When the big dogs start using high dollar AI, the loss of this place will be seen as the good old days.

pls share your DDL site links here

If there's someone who wants to replicate Anime Tosho, now it's your time to shine.

I am in genuine despair to learn that this site is going away. I have been using this as my daily driver with respect to anime for the past several years ever since a couple nastygrams made me more wary of torrenting. My choice of second resort was XDCC, but that practically got wiped out as a viable option when all the best bots shut down a few months ago. I pray that something new emerges, but things now look so, so grim. Hopefully things don't get as grim as manga downloading has been for the past decade plus, but that seems to be the direction things are moving in.

You can generate direct download links from torrents on this website until proper successor to AnimeTosho emerges.

https://webtor.io/

Anime Tosho shutting down next week, A week for airing anime is literally just next episode, that's how close it is.

well, seeing the announcement, i am filled with sadness. i really loved this site, but tbh, all things must come to an end. i only hoped it wouldnt happen here :(. what series are you guys downloading to keep now? just curious and looking for suggestions :D

Good luck to you Admin. Thanks for developing, operating, and maintaining this wonderful site. You have avoided most of the major stumbling blocks that negatively affect most anime sites.
For many years you were my resource for anime that few sub groups or sites picked up. In Fall of 2024 as may of my fave sites became hard to locate as they played tag with the ppv death squads, you became my primary go to site.

I have found options to ddl most ongoing anime series and places to view the rest.
The ddl choices and scope of info you provide, not being available in one place is a great loss for our community.

Like you, I had hoped many independently created mirrors would be available by now.
I understand your choices and hope you were able to make them free of outside pressures.

Thanks again.

something i wanted to ask from a long time, do you recieve dmca request? or anything greater?

After updates stop, I'll package up all attachments (subtitles, fonts etc) on the server for easier downloading (probably as a torrent).
Note that it'll all be numbered .xz files, so not easy to browse without referencing a database dump.

Is there or when this service stops then an attachments archive be made available. All sub and fonts that were extracted over the time service was active.

We will miss you.
It feels like a sick friend who you know will not be with us long.
Once they are gone, every so often you see something that reminds you of all the good time you had together and you miss them once again.
Thank you for all the good time you shared with us.

For series categorisation, all data can be downloaded from here.
I don't intend to keep this site alive til 2029, for one, I want all links here to be dead for a while, which hopefully encourages people managing links to take appropriate action.

Thanks for the comment.
What question is "frequently asked" here?

Dear Admin,

Since the domain is good until 2029, what are your thoughts on converting the whole site to flat HTML files and sticking it on a free web host?

Why you ask?  The huge amount of series categorized information, especially from years ago, which will become almost impossible to reproduce.  This will also give the replacing alternatives the ability to, eventually, add in all your exiting data to their sites.

Best Regards,
Onii-chan loves you (unless you're scum!)

Not that you can’t find them yourself:
- Deleted, to much effort skimming them to filter out things like ‘has ads’ or ‘monthly log in required.’  If you want to go this route, publish your criteria list and we’ll go dig up a bunch of options for you.
- Or for <100/year use something like ifastnet.com

thanks a lot

Admin it's nearly time for the last ever side panel mascot - Make it a good one! Forgivable if you go for your all time fave chara. All best

admin-san keep it as vague as you want

If there is glowies looking for infos fuck 'em - let them sweat

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.

Looks bad.

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.

The files on AnimeToki look like mirrors of the ASW files, but are they actually different?

Is there no successor site to Anime Tosho?
If there is a successor site to AT, I’d like to know about it.

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.

    

I am sad. Thank you for the good work over the years admin!

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.

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.

Not that I know of, but I think there are people who uploads some of [ASW] releases to tokyoinsider.

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.

low quality

AnimeToki looks pretty good.
What do you all think?

Are there any websites that offer ASW files in DDL format?

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.

This might help you - https://everythingmoe.com/

My provider still allows downloading torrents, but with a speed limit of 450 KBps.
Even my internet is 12.5 MBps.

Is there a website for “DDL” that can serve as an alternative to AT?
I can't use torrents.