You just have to check out Tokyo Tosho now. Something special awaits you, lol.

P.S. Tokyo Tosho’s special offer expires today!

Well, not sure if this really is the “neko sound” anime direct downloads website rllaneis was alluding to, but I’ve found it to be a great addition to the list of direct download websites available to us anime leechers community members out here.

I couldn’t find the reason why rllaneis was against featuring this site, but that could be because this site wasn’t what rllaneis was referring to. Anyway, here’s the usual:

1) TeamSkn’s Public Distro!

• Speed: Very Fast (needs confirmation)
• Content: Recent episodes of most, if not all, ongoing series (e.g. Gokujou Seitokai, Black Cat, Bleach, LAP, REC, etc.), plus some extras depending on user requests.
• Update Frequency: Frequent
• Video Format: .avi (HQ)
• Note: Free registration required. The site has a couple of mirrors too (e.g. teamskn.net).

I would really appreciate it if a few of you would help test the speeds of this site. Speeds are great for me, but given my crappy connection, I’m not sure how fast the site can really get.

I did say in the previous post that a feature on the “neko sound” site wouldn’t take too long, but… it ended up taking a week. This was primarily due to a scholarship interview that I had to attend. In any case, I apologize for my tardiness.

P.S. Yeap, I’ll be using Asides (what you’re looking at now) for out-of-place stuff like the above from now on.

I think I’ve found it. I’m talking about the “neko sound” anime direct download site rllaneis was alluding to in a comment on one of my earlier posts.

According to rllaneis, this “neko sound” site should be one of the best, if not the best, direct downloads site for recent fansubs, but he/she declined to post the URL to the site due to the problems being experienced by the site.

As such, I’ll have to check the site out further, and see if I can/should feature it in a post. Shouldn’t take too long though.

Can’t really remember where I found this site from, but anyway… a hassle-free direct downloads site is always a good addition to an anime fan’s bookmarks list. However, according to the Russian text at the very top of the page, the site will be closing down soon “due to the lack of volunteers” or something like that (based on Babelfish translation).

1) Anime Online

• Speed: Slow
• Content: 42 full anime series (e.g. Angelic Layer, Azumanga Daioh, Dual!, Gravitation, Jubei-Chan, Kino’s Travels, Narutaru, Noir, etc.)
• Update Frequency: Unknown
• Video Format: .avi (HQ)
• Note: Hassle-free site, i.e. no registration required to download.

P.S.: It’s a Russian site, but unlike the other Russian sites I’ve heard of, this one doesn’t require you to have a Russian IP address. However, as expected, download speeds are slow.

P.S. 2: There’s a link on the index page to the site’s FTP as well, but it’s password-protected. The username is: anime, while the password is : emina. However, the FTP’s content is exactly the same as the HTTP-available content. So, I guess the FTP is for people who prefer using FTP clients.

 A recent comment by megadl brought this site to my attention. Thanks megadl!

1) Shana.0wnz.at

• Speed: Fast
• Content: All Shakugan no Shana episodes (both TV-rips and DVD-rips)
• Update Frequency: Very Regular (updated with new Shana episodes as they are released)
• Video Format: .avi (HQ) for TV-rip, and .mkv (HQ) for DVD-rip
• Note: Hassle-free site, i.e. no registration required to download.

P.S. The theme and script being used by the site seem a lot like the ones that were used by EvalPower to distribute Erementar Gerad a couple of months back. I wonder what’s the name of the script. Anyone knows?

Another find from one of the anime forums I usually browse through. But I still can’t find the anime direct download site mentioned by rllaneis. Gah.

1) AnimeParty

• Speed: Fast
• Content: Recent episodes from a few ongoing series (32 episodes in total atm)
• Update Frequency: Regular (updated with recent episodes from ongoing series, but usually lags behind by a few days)
• Video Format: .avi (HQ)
• Note: Hassle-free site, i.e. no registration required to download.

Anyway, has anyone ever encountered a direct download site which is somehow related to this clue: neko sound?

While my heart and brain have no intention of revealing my evulness, my hands are somehow betraying me (and thus, typing out this not-so-nice entry). Arghh…. no… I leech from multiple sites at once, using each as a mirror. This just means that I’m using a download accelerator like Getright and splitting the file into multiple parts, with each part being downloaded from a different direct download site.

Given the large number of direct download sites now available, it really isn’t difficult to find multiple sites that serve the same episodes, especially the more recent episodes from the popular series (e.g. Bleach, Naruto, Black Cat, etc.). But admittedly, this kind of behavior isn’t considerate of the server resources of the various direct download sites. By downloading from multiple sites at once, I’m taxing the servers of all the sites I download from (instead of just one). Bandwidth isn’t so much a problem though since my connection is absurdly (relatively) slow in the first place.

That’s why I’ve been limiting this evul behaviour to only the latest and newest episodes that I just have to watch. On a similar note, I’ve been trying out Getright’s Bittorrent integration, and… it sucks ass. It’s advertised as being able to integrate Bittorrent downloading with direct HTTP downloading - allowing you to exploit both sources for increased speeds. But, I haven’t managed to get it to work. Now, imagine if it did work…