Glad to hear that this site is useful to you, and thanks for your words of support!
whats the lore behind this site, what made you want to do it
I don't think there's much lore here. There was a site I used to use around 2010 for DDLs, Anime Take, but they only uploaded one release. I wanted something that'd mirror all releases, giving DDL users access to the same releases that torrents provided (for new releases) and figured that it'd be possible to automate such a process.
continue it, anything cool planned in the future?
I'm happy to provide a service that others (including myself) find useful. I don't really have future plans - for one, I don't want to expand the scope of this project too much. An original goal was long term viability, which means low maintenance (via heavy reliance on automation) and low cost. Doing too much increases the maintenance burden (as well as development time).
Comment in Feedback 21/10/2025 22:45 — Anonymous: "animetoshoLore"
hi admin
i usually post monthly 'thank u admin' posts since starting my journey on anime
benefited a lot from here for sure, maybe one day i'll pay it back (safely of course)
whats the lore behind this site, what made you want to do it, continue it, anything cool planned in the future?
I could, but generally prefer to avoid using cookies whenever possible. I'd generally recommend just bookmarking the URL with your desired filters set.
Halloween isn’t just about costumes and candy.. it’s also rooted in ancient traditions honoring the dead, much like a modern echo of remembering those who came before us.
Ah I see now, thanks. It looks like it's done via the tag system, which makes things complicated.
I really don't want this place being for anime discovery - AniDB does a much better job at that - so I'd recommend cross checking over there. Sorry that that's not what you wanted to hear.
Despite the many arguments in the chat, and sometimes with the admin, I congratulate you on your policy of no ads on the website. Keep up the good work.
What I mean is to use the tags from AniDB that indicate which country a show comes from (at present, AniDB lists Japanese Anime, Chinese animation, and Korean animation, and in turn AnimeTosho shows all of them together on the main feeds). On AniDB, there are checkboxes on the season charts that let you toggle any one of these regions so that, for example, you can only see Japanese Anime - or only China or only Korea or any combination of the three.
It would be nice to do the same thing here, especially on the Series sort page. So that when I'm just browsing to see what's been uploaded recently I don't have to double-check where something is from. Sometimes I will see entire pages of Chinese shows because there was a mass upload from someone. No complaint, I'm just not interested.
I an't put pictures here. If you go to the Season Chart page on AniDB, then look at the righthand options bar you will see checkboxes under Region, you can turn on and off shows from an entire country that way.
It would also be cool if this was an option saved in one's profile. :)
Torrents aren't posted at a steady rate, so there needs to be enough capacity to handle spikes. Also, you need to over-provision, otherwise when something breaks/slows down or when you need to pause processing for upgrades etc, you'll never be able to catch up if normal operation requires 24/7 maxed out bandwidth. Batches processed here are done at lower priority.
With the number of files processed increasing, files getting larger over time, and the fact that bandwidth capacity hasn't improved at all here for the past ~8 years, I don't see any increase in processing capacity any time soon.
The primary goal of this site is to mirror the latest episodes to DDL services; everything else is largely an extra. Batches are not a goal here (they used to be completely skipped, but I figured I could let some through). Sites like releases.moe have very different goals in mind, and you'll likely find AT's aims don't fit in there particularly well. If you want something more closely aligned with their goals, I'd suggest either starting your own website for such, or encourage/collaborate with other interested parties to do so.
I also don't plan on expanding the scope of this project - I'd much prefer others handle stuff AT doesn't target. In my opinion, having more websites makes for a healthier environment, over relying on one/few providers.
how unlikely is this to change, I imagine bandwidth isn't maxxed 24/7, I imagine you could suspend batch related jobs if you need bandwidth for non-batch jobs, but I guess this is grasping at straws
simply interested in this because of the API tosho offers on top the metadata it gets from indexing them, and unfortunately those massive batches tend to become the most popular torrents because of indexes like releases.moe
Comment in Feedback 10/10/2025 03:06 — Anonymous: "Kamonohashi"
If you pay any attention to the amount of files he processes in a day you will that he uses a lot of bandwidth. Sometimes you even have to wait a couple of hours or more to see DDL show up. He does this for free and can't appease everyone.
If you think a torrent should be on Usenet, my suggestion would be to download it and upload it yourself. You can try posting requests here, but there's no guarantee they'll be honored. This is partly governed by if there's available bandwidth for the task.
Is it possible to filter the series page by region (Japan, Korea, China) just as AniDB does? It looks like all the shows on AniDB are already reliably tagged.
(I don't know if this has been suggested before, I scanned ten pages back and didn't see anything.)
Thanks for raising the issue. It looks like they changed things slightly which broke the uploader. This should be fixed now and it looks like the backlog is being processed.
hello senor tosho man, I'm currently in the process of loosing my shit trying to compile your node-yencode library for electron, I attempted to create a PR for it, but to be honest I want to end my life when working with this shit and I can't even figure out what the issue is, as the node errors for NAPI are so opaque its unfunny.
Could you possibly help fix your library on electron?
VARYG did upload the requested episode so I think it's entirely possible it was a real poster. Not from VARYG myself, but as someone from a different release group, I sometimes fulfill requests that make sense to me. Of course I only post through a proxy, it'd be dumb to do otherwise, no matter the site, if you're releasing.
Do you want to find out? Post your public IP. But why do you assume that the FBI has any jurisdiction over where I am?
And to respond to your question, "YES", if the logs show the user "click", they will assume it was downloaded. Then, they will quantify it to see if it holds up in court, and not only the US.
Comment in Feedback 06/10/2025 04:16 — Anonymous: "Kamonohashi"
So you are saying that is legal to download these torrents/files? Or maybe your 'IP' logs from your activity on the site will be protected by the site host in the event of a warrant or investigation.
Thanks you! And yes, I know I can use torrent files for verification, but there are two drawbacks: - Torrent programs are not designed for verification. I need to prevent them from seeding the file, and they will still connect to trackers. If the checksum fails, they interpret it as an incomplete file, not as an error. They persist the torrent file and I have to remove it. - Sometimes a tiny part of a file is combined with a part of another file into one block, and if I don't have the other file, I cannot completely verify the file I have. (this can happen for example with a torrent that has a script for removing dub tracks)
It would be no effort to someone that has/uses VPN. I can change locations with the click of a button, not a "great effort". Having a VPN and a seedbox makes it nice for downloading new movies without getting a naughty boy notice.
22/10/2025 09:22 — admin