Best site for watching anime

Where I live, since any anime channel is unable, at least in my cable, I'll have to rely on online sites to watch latest animes, like Nichijou, Tiger And Bunny, Bunny Drop, and such.

How do you guys watch animes? Also, if any of you know good site to watch anime? I'd appreciate it if you tell me.

I usually check Crunchyroll. If they don't have it, I look it up.

Stream. Goodanime.net.

First I check to see if it's available on any site legally like Crunchyroll or Hulu.

If it's not...

I use streaming for all but Nichijou. The site I use is gogoanime.com

I think the legal options are Hulu and Crunchyroll, and that's it. Correct me if I'm wrong. Of course, if you want to watch something not on those sites, simply googling it will bring up a myriad of anime streaming sites with varying degrees of annoying ads and clutter. You could also try downloading directly from fansubbers' sites if you don't want ads bothering you.

Torrents! Nyaa is a great place to look. Aways good torrents with good seeds.

Hate stream sites. The quality is never as good as of a downloaded anime. Specially at full screen. Also, any hiccup in the Internet may cause annoying lags. Furthermore, the good stream sites are all US only, anyway.

The guy is Korean, so I don't think legal options are viable for him.

PS:Just discovered that Crunchyroll is apparently not US only. Cool. It still has adds and the quality still sucks (Doesn't seem any better then You Tube). So, yeah, torrents for the win.

edited 16th Jul '11 10:40:03 PM by Heatth

Yeah, no Hulu for me. Just checked the Crunchyroll but it had a really small library, as far as I can see.

Torrent...my computer is laptop and it can't contain much. Maybe I could erase some series that I'm not going to watch.

i usually torrent
because i hate megavideo
bakabt.com is a great place to get high quality torrents

edited 16th Jul '11 10:54:46 PM by CommanderObvious

It really depends on what your requirements are.

Are you dead set on streaming? Well, if so and Crunchyroll is not really a viable option (and if you are outside the US, its less than stellar), I have no real advice, since I only stream on CR.

Otherwise, if you want to stay up to date on basically everything, Tokyo Toshokan is, hands down, the best anime related torrent aggregator. Basically every anime related torrent ends up there eventually.

There are some other sites (such as the aforementioned Baka BT) that are better if you are looking for batch torrents of completed series, but for week-by-week watching, TT is unmatched.

Streaming...what is that? I've heard people talking about it a lot.

I don't really mind not being up to date, although I would be nice.

Before I could get my marvelous 1Tb HD, I reserved a few Gb (less then 10, if I remember correctly) for animes. Whenever it run out of space (more or less a complete series), I deleted it all to open space for more.

As long you have more then 500Mb of free space (which you likely have) you can go on downloading and deleting episodes.

Didn't know that Tokyo Toshokan. Nyaa always worked for me. But I guess it worth a look.

edited 16th Jul '11 11:05:30 PM by Heatth

...I'm going to go cry in a corner now.

*slaps forehead* Episodes download! I thought that when you guys said episode, you meant the whole series.

...need a tissue?

edited 16th Jul '11 11:06:31 PM by dRoy

Not every group releases on Nyaa, but everything that is put on Nyaa ends up on TT. TT's just an aggregator, Nyaa's an actual torrent host. But there are tons of those, so its way easier to just go to TT, instead of having to check Nyaa, plus the sites of groups that don't host on Nyaa.

Which torrent it vary. Usually for already completed series, the torrent with all episodes is usually healthy, while the torrent with only a single one barely has any seed. However, even a torrent with a full series is still divided by episodes. If you have no space the program will complain you can't download it, but then you can select just a few for download, nd things will run smoothly. You can keep downloading episode by episode if needed.

Thanks. Didn't know about that.

PS:Oh, about stream. Unless I am much mistaken, streams are episodes watched directly on-line, like in You Tube.

edited 16th Jul '11 11:11:37 PM by Heatth

......You know, I think I can understand why Setsuna went all WTF?......

i was like
have you been into the internets
bakabt does have some anime blocked (anything that's licensed really)
but the torrents ive used are all healthy and are great visually and subtastically

edited 16th Jul '11 11:20:03 PM by CommanderObvious

^^ If you want to stream though, it's best to use sites besides Youtube. Like the ones other people mentioned above.

youtube is unreliable these days
too many anime and movies are taken down

Still nice for the ones they still have up though.

Do anyone else just grab the torrents from the translators' sites? Just check myanimelist for any series you want; they will have a complete list of every fansub group doing the anime.

Sure, but its so much easier to just go to TT.

Especially when you are following 15+ anime a season, from just as many, if not more, fansub groups.

The English Niconico site has a few shows legally streaming each month. It's completely free, but you're required to make an account. While the player doesn't give proper fullscreen, it does seem to break down less than Crunchyroll's.

My method for watching stuff:

• 1. Find a legal stream like CR, NN, or Hulu
• 2. Torrent a fansub if I can find it in 480, since my computer chokes on 720p
• 3. Use fanstreams and hope that the site was nice enough to put things on Dailymotion since all the other players suck hard.

yeah about fanstreams
but i get really mad when people put videos on megavideo

edited 17th Jul '11 3:50:45 AM by CommanderObvious