Continuing on with our Naruto and Bleach frenzy, we have Bleach Weekly with us today thanks to a tip from Kon.

1) Bleach Weekly

• Speed: Quite Fast
• Content: Latest episodes of Bleach (from episode 54 onwards)
• Update Frequency: Frequent
• Video Format: .avi (HQ)
• Note: Hassle-free site, i.e. no registration or forum posting required to access downloads.

Next?

P.S.: For those that are sick and tired of Bleach and Naruto, don’t worry. I’ll be slotting in some more conventional DDL sites as well.

Today, we will put BleachTV under the spotlight - as suggested by Suxion in the previous post.

And since we had Bleach7 and NarutoFOB before this, this would be the third Bleach-related direct download site featured this week.

1) BleachTV

• Speed: Above Average (though I could have been downloading during peak hours)
• Content: All episodes of Bleach
• Update Frequency: Quite Frequent (they’re slower than other sites since they convert their files into .rmvb)
• Video Format: .rmvb (LQ to MQ)
• Note: Free registration required. E-mail confirmation required.

Hehe, anyone wants to point to the next Bleach or Naruto DDL site to be featured?

Bleach 7 was one of the best Bleach direct download sites on the web, providing both Bleach anime episodes and manga scanlations for download. Both for anime and manga, Bleach 7 was usually one of the first direct download sites featuring the latest episode or chapter of Bleach.

But quite a while back, the serving of anime episodes was discontinued, leaving only manga for download. However, the site remains the first source I’d look at for Bleach manga (since it’s partnered with M7 - the Bleach scanlation group).

1) Bleach 7

• Speed: Fast
• Content: All chapters of Bleach manga
• Update Frequency: Frequent
• Note: Free registration required. E-mail confirmation required. Multiple mirrors (~4) available for latest Bleach chapters.

Yes, Despair is the nickname of the XDCC bot we’ll be looking at today. So, don’t worry. I won’t be spilling my guts here.

Anyway, the IRC channel that Despair is placed within isn’t particularly popular (no insult to #w-dreamers intended), so I think you can expect quite a number of empty slots, and good download speeds.

1) Despair’s Pack List

• Usual IRC Nickname: Despair
• Usual Locations (IRC Server and Channels): #w-dreamers @ irc.rizon.net
• Content: Episodes from ongoing (e.g. Eureka Seven) and completed (e.g. Gantz, Mahou Shoujo Tai, Mushishi) series.
• No. of Download Slots: 20
• Update Frequency: Unknown
• Video Format: .avi (HQ) and .mkv (HQ)

Finally, after hours of tinkering, Anime Field’s Wordpress 1.5.2 install has been upgraded to WP 2.0.2! Ah… the sweet bliss of WP 2… I think…

Recently, I’ve been reminded by a few people that I haven’t been featuring many Naruto and Bleach direct download sites. So, as the first step of my repentance… here is one of the more popular Naruto and Bleach direct download sites:

1) NarutoFOB

• Speed: Quite Fast (tested on a few Blood+ episodes)
• Content: Most recent episode from Naruto and Bleach, as well as episodes from a few completed series (e.g. Blood+, Black Cat).
• Update Frequency: Frequent
• Video Format: .avi (HQ) for most recent Naruto and Bleach episode, and .rmvb (MQ to HQ) for the rest
• Note: Free registration required. E-mail confirmation required. Multiple mirrors (~4) available for Naruto and Bleach episodes.

From the same site that brought us [XDCC] Osaka’s pack list is oyasumi|Eve - a XDCC bot dedicated towards serving Black Cat episodes.

Again, the number of slots available on the bot is not indicated, but I doubt you’ll ever need to be concerned with this since Black Cat has reached completion.

1) XDCC BOT LIST of oyasumi|Eve

• Usual IRC Nickname: oyasumi|Eve
• Usual Locations (IRC Server and Channels): #oyasumi @ irc.rizon.net
• Content: All episodes from Black Cat
• No. of Download Slots: Unknown (but it should never be full)
• Update Frequency: N/A [Serving Only Completed Series]
• Video Format: .avi (HQ)
• Note: Uses a connection preferencing system, where connections with shorter ping times to the bot are “preferenced”, and may therefore get better download speeds. Furthermore, files on the bot have been renamed, e.g. [Oyasumi] Black Cat - 01.avi to BC01.avi.

This is another bot from the list of XDCC bots contributed by Rainy a couple of weeks back.

Weirdly, the number of slots this bot has is not revealed anywhere (at least, no place I can find).

1) XDCC BOT LIST of [XDCC]Osaka

• Usual IRC Nickname: [XDCC]Osaka
• Usual Locations (IRC Server and Channels): #anime-shrine and #gnu-fansubs @ irc.rizon.net
• Content: All episodes from Karin
• No. of Download Slots: Unknown (but it is rarely full)
• Update Frequency: Quite Frequent
• Video Format: .avi (HQ)
• Note: Uses a connection preferencing system, where connections with shorter ping times to the bot are “preferenced”, and may therefore get better download speeds. Furthermore, files on the bot have been renamed, e.g. [ASH]Karin_1.[ABCDEF].avi to Karin01.avi.