In a significant development within the online streaming community, several major anime piracy sites, including Aniwave and AnimeSuge, have been shut down.
Aniwave, previously known as 9anime, and one of the most popular platforms with an estimated 170 million visits per month, announced its closure, citing the emergence of improved legal alternatives as the reason behind the decision.
A message posted on Aniwave’s website reflected on the site’s closure:
“Now that everything has improved… it is also time for us to say goodbye. It is difficult to part with something we have invested so much effort and passion into, but it is something we need to do.”
The message concluded by encouraging users to transition to legal services, stating, “If possible, please use legal paid services. It’s something we should do to show our respect for creators and content producers.“
You can check out the entire message in the image below:
The closure message was echoed across related platforms, including AnimeSuge, indicating a coordinated shutdown effort.
Other major sites that have shut down till now include Zoroxtv, Anix, Fboxz and others.
This event follows a broader trend of crackdowns on piracy sites that have targeted the Fmovies network and its affiliates, leading to speculation that this shutdown could be connected to the actions of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), a global anti-piracy coalition.
ACE has been actively targeting anime piracy sites, with a notable recent success being the takedown of Animeflix.
Animeflix, which operated out of Finland and attracted between 7 and 13 million visits per month, was shut down earlier this year. The site, which offered more than 500 anime movies and over 400 series, has now been redirected to the “Watch Legally” page on the ACE website.
More details regarding the shutdowns are probably going to come out in the coming days.
In addition to the actions by ACE, the Japanese Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA) also reported the shutdown of 13 anime piracy sites in Brazil as part of “Operation Anime 2.”
This operation, part of a broader initiative called “Operation 404” in collaboration with the Brazilian government, targeted piracy sites that specialized in Japanese anime content.
The sites, which implemented geo-blocking to avoid detection by Japanese rights holders, were accessible primarily to Brazilian viewers with Portuguese subtitles.
The shutdown affected 16 sites that collectively generated around 21 million monthly visits. Three of these sites were identified as animeshouse.net, animesbr.cc, and meuanime.io.
CODA had previously shut down 36 piracy websites in Brazil as part of this operation.
The crackdown on anime piracy continues to gain momentum globally, with legal actions and coordinated efforts leading to the closure of several high-traffic websites.
However, more such streaming sites are expected to take the place of those taken down.
With major players like Aniwave and AnimeSuge ceasing operations, the landscape of online anime piracy will undergo a notable transformation.
However, it’s not just anime piracy that is facing strict legal actions. Illegal manga reading websites too are under the heat from publishers, especially Kakao and Webtoon, who have ramped up their actions against them.
Kakao recently revealed that it will go after one of the biggest manga piracy sites, whose name was however not revealed.
Source: Torrentfreak
It’ll just hurt the japanime creators pockets.no free dub sites = me not watching = me not knowing of your show(because dubs are a b***h to find on legal sites) = me not buying your obnoxiously overpriced licensed clothing,models,plushies,stupid squashed fat dolls and keep you in the $$$.im used to shows taking years to finish another 6-12 episodes,or just ending.so kill your free advertising,my wallets going to love it,yours,not so much😂
Facts! Anime wouldn’t be as big as it is globally without these sites, especially in the West. Crunchyroll is ass. Ads everywhere and tons of censored content. Would rather never watch Anime again or buy any merch. Japan has been getting on my nerves lately anyway with their politics. Fk em!
I have been watching anime on this site for like 3 years and for a period of time it was like i was addicted to it. Anyway i loved what the site gave us now that it’s getting closed i think i will stop watching anime from now on too. after all we all have to grow up from this phase one day and i have got my chance to do it. i am really thankful for the site for giving us anime this whole time.
yesterday-27-08-2024 when i saw the page after searching animesuge.to i was like my laptop has stopped working i mean that it’s lost it’s worth.
Now i read novel’s i have already grown up from my addictive phase for someone who actually loved to watch anime stay strong brother use animesuge.cc it is still working.
Thnak you for reading my Vent.
This is just enabling a monopoly to the money pinching “legal sites” as the quality of them are lests face it crap they have lit choice and have most episodes and dubs locked behind paywalls which is just ridiculous they can run ads instead which most ppl would prefer and some sites even do that along with paywalls its just bullsht
I agree with previous comments Crunchyroll is ass, there service is fine as far as I’m concerned but they have terrible watchlist order, it’s all just one big as list that gets really confusing to navigate when you have 100 shows in it… the biggest reason I went to AnimeSuge was to watch Chinese Donghua however, now I have to find another site for that or just not watch them as crunchy doesn’t even offer them.
It all comes down to greed. the authors and producers get paid pretty as is for their success, especially when the product spreads far and wide. all this did was make everyone search the new sites that will emerge or not watch there shows anymore at all.
I would say this will backfire on them but I’m sure it won’t, to many people are just sheep and will go with it or stay quiet. the people behind it know there’s millions more that watch legal sites like Crunchyroll so why care about losing the ones who don’t. that’s likely how they see it.
It’ll just hurt the japanime creators pockets.no free dub sites = me not watching = me not knowing of your show(because dubs are a b***h to find on legal sites) = me not buying your obnoxiously overpriced licensed clothing,models,plushies,stupid squashed fat dolls and keep you in the $$$.im used to shows taking years to finish another 6-12 episodes,or just ending.so kill your free advertising,my wallets going to love it,yours,not so much😂
Facts! Anime wouldn’t be as big as it is globally without these sites, especially in the West. Crunchyroll is ass. Ads everywhere and tons of censored content. Would rather never watch Anime again or buy any merch. Japan has been getting on my nerves lately anyway with their politics. Fk em!
I have been watching anime on this site for like 3 years and for a period of time it was like i was addicted to it. Anyway i loved what the site gave us now that it’s getting closed i think i will stop watching anime from now on too. after all we all have to grow up from this phase one day and i have got my chance to do it. i am really thankful for the site for giving us anime this whole time.
yesterday-27-08-2024 when i saw the page after searching animesuge.to i was like my laptop has stopped working i mean that it’s lost it’s worth.
Now i read novel’s i have already grown up from my addictive phase for someone who actually loved to watch anime stay strong brother use animesuge.cc it is still working.
Thnak you for reading my Vent.
This is just enabling a monopoly to the money pinching “legal sites” as the quality of them are lests face it crap they have lit choice and have most episodes and dubs locked behind paywalls which is just ridiculous they can run ads instead which most ppl would prefer and some sites even do that along with paywalls its just bullsht
I agree with previous comments Crunchyroll is ass, there service is fine as far as I’m concerned but they have terrible watchlist order, it’s all just one big as list that gets really confusing to navigate when you have 100 shows in it… the biggest reason I went to AnimeSuge was to watch Chinese Donghua however, now I have to find another site for that or just not watch them as crunchy doesn’t even offer them.
It all comes down to greed. the authors and producers get paid pretty as is for their success, especially when the product spreads far and wide. all this did was make everyone search the new sites that will emerge or not watch there shows anymore at all.
I would say this will backfire on them but I’m sure it won’t, to many people are just sheep and will go with it or stay quiet. the people behind it know there’s millions more that watch legal sites like Crunchyroll so why care about losing the ones who don’t. that’s likely how they see it.
Crunchyroll doesn’t even have a comments section. that’s half the fun reading and sending input. sure, there’s a lot of idiots out there and even more jack ass’s who love nothing more than to hurt others. but there’s far more who actually used it as intended.
Crunchyroll doesn’t even have a comments section. that’s half the fun reading and sending input. sure, there’s a lot of idiots out there and even more jack ass’s who love nothing more than to hurt others. but there’s far more who actually used it as intended.
Tbh this sucks bc theres not another spot to watch anime. Everywhere else is to expensive and it wouldn’t have gotten popular without these sights to begin with. I would be fine if these shows were shown on other streaming platforms like Hulu or Netflix but they arnt and crunchyroll have a small monopoly on this will just cause prices to go nuts. There needs to be a real discussion on the ridiculous price of entertainment because in complete candor I will just stop watching anime all together than pay another subscription