Only three ongoing series available on this anime DDL site, but it’s hassle-free and fast. Few things are more important than that when it comes to direct download sites (well… at least to me).

1) StarFreeze

• Media Server Speed: Quite Fast
• Media Server Content: 3 ongoing series (Utawarerumono, Soul Link and Demonbane).
• Update Frequency: Above Average
• Video Format: .avi (HQ)
• Note: Hassle-free, i.e. registration and forum posting not required to access downloads.

Here’s another Blogspot blog filled with anime hosted on free file hosts. We’ve already seen three in the past couple of months, so it should already be a familiar sight.

Note that while the admin has announced that the site has moved to a new location, all the anime links have yet to be transferred over. So, I suggest sticking with the old site for now.

1) SuzukaJC’s Anime Media

• Speed: Unknown (too many free file hosts used)
• Content: 58 completed (e.g. REC, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, Da Capo, etc.) and 3 ongoing anime series (Bleach, One Piece, Kyou Kara Maou ).
• Update Frequency: Average
• Video Format: .rmvb (LQ to MQ), .avi (HQ)
• Note: Hassle-free site, i.e. registration or forum posting not required to access downloads. The site only uses free file hosts, i.e. they do not have their own media server. The site is also currently moving to a new location – which is still under construction.

Here’s an anime direct download forum for those of you with a deeply ingrained posting habit. They have quite a bit of content, but only a few episodes won’t require you to rack up non-spam forum posts.

While gaining access to ongoing series will only cost you 10 forum posts, getting to the completed series section will set you back by at least 100 forum posts. They do have some (only recent eps of Naruto and Bleach) hassle-free anime episodes on YouTube for your streaming pleasure though.

1) Anime Capsule

• Media Server Speed: Average
• Media Server Content: 13 ongoing (e.g. Ouran, Kiba, Utawarerumono, etc.) and 11 completed (e.g. Trigun, DN Angel, FLCL, etc.) anime series, plus 2 movies (FF7, Cowboy Bebop Movie).
• YouTube Content: Recent episodes of Naruto and Bleach.
• Forum Posts Required to Access Downloads: None for the most recent Bleach and Naruto episodes, as well as their streaming media. 10 posts for ongoing series. 100 posts for completed series. 500 posts for Trigun (anything else?). Yeah, that’s 2 zeroes.
• Forum Posts Per Download: None
• Update Frequency: Above Average
• Video Format: .rm, .rmvb (LQ to MQ) or .avi (HQ)
• Note: Free registration required (e-mail confirmation not required). Forum posting required to access most downloads (i.e. everything except the latest episodes of Bleach and Naruto).

If you dare say that there isn’t enough direct download sites for Naruto, I’d probably have to hurt you real bad. Seriously. Why? Because here’s yet another one.

Naruto Community provides all episodes of Naruto, plus a little bit more on their servers, and all you need to do is to register.

Since they have a forum (though forum posting is not mandatory), they do have some anime uploaded to free file hosts by their users, e.g. Yu Yu Hakusho, though I can’t be certain how much there is since the site doesn’t seem to want to feature what’s available.

1) Naruto Community

• Media Server Speed: Above Average (for both their FTP and HTTP mirrors)
• Media Server Content: All episodes of Naruto, and anime OSTs from 14 series.
• Update Frequency: Above Average
• Video Format: .rmvb (LQ to MQ) or .avi (HQ)
• Note: Free registration required (e-mail confirmation not required), but forum posting is not required to access downloads.

Here’s a currently hassle-free, i.e. no registration or forum posting required, anime direct download forum. “Currently” because AnimeBW normally requires you to be active on their forums before you are given the password to their direct downloads section.

But the password was removed a couple of days back. For how long, I have no idea. So, I suggest you take advantage uhmm… utilise the available resources now.

1. AnimeBW.com

• Speed: Average
• Content: 10 ongoing (e.g. Air Gear, xxxHolic, Kiba, etc.) and 40 completed (e.g. Futakoi Alternative, Tenshi no Konamaiki, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, etc.) anime series.
• Update Frequency: Unknown
• Video Format: .avi (HQ)
• Note: Temporarily a hassle-free site, i.e. no registration or forum posting required to access downloads. Normally, free registration and active forum posting (exact details on what “active” means are not provided) is required before you are passed the password to the downloads section.

Like most anime direct download sites these days, AnimeSeat.com offers downloads through their own media server and through free file hosts.

Stuff on their media server can only be accessed by those who make 15 non-spam posts, while stuff on free file hosts are automatically accessible by anyone who registers.

It must be noted, however, that their free file host archive was built up by scraping from other sites like Da-Anime, rather than through their own uploaders. I highly disapprove of this behaviour, but at least, the admins did clearly state what they were doing, and attributed their content to the true uploaders (unlike some sites). There is still need to link back to the original site though, which they have not yet done.

1) AnimeSeat.com

• Media Server Speed: Unknown (making 15 posts… urgh…)
• Media Server Content: There’s supposed to be several completed series (e.g. Chobits, Full Metal Alchemist, Hunter x Hunter, etc.), but I can only confirm the existence of Hunter x Hunter.
• Posts Required to Access Downloads: 15 posts for media server content, none for free file host content.
• Posts Required Per Download: None
• Free File Host Content: 1 ongoing (Eureka 7) and 15 completed (e.g. Chrno Crusade, s-cry-ed, Shaman King, etc.) anime series.
• Update Frequency: Average
• Media Server Video Format: .rm (LQ to MQ)
• Free File Hosts Video Format: .avi (HQ)
• Note: Free registration required (e-mail confirmation not required). Forum posting is required to download from the site’s own media server, but not for free file host content.

Here’s Lopki.com, an anime direct download site that provides anime through three mediums. One: Their own media servers. Two: Free file hosts like Megaupload. And three: YouTube.

So, if anything, this site has gained the distinction of having one of the most criteria to review – as you’ll soon realise.

1) Lopki.com

• Free File Host Speed: Unknown (too many different ones used)
• Free File Host Content: 18+ completed anime series (e.g. Slam Dunk, Shaman King, etc.)
• YouTube Speed: Above Average to Quite Fast (based on general consensus rather than my own testing)
• YouTube Content: All episodes of Elfen Lied, latest 50 episodes of Naruto, and 1 episode of Bleach.
• Media Server Speed: Average to Above Average (they use a range of different servers)
• Media Server Content: 52 anime series, both ongoing (e.g. Naruto, Air Gear, Utawarerumono, etc.) and completed (e.g. Cowboy Bebop, Azumanga Daioh, Trigun, etc.).
• Update Frequency: Quite Frequent
• Video Format: .avi (HQ), .ogm (HQ) [not definitive, more video formats might have been used]
• Note: Free registration required (e-mail confirmation not required), but forum posting is not required to access downloads. Additional registration required to access forum (e-mail confirmation not required). The site hosts hentai as well, but since only donators can access it, the site is kid-safe.

Frontalweb is yet another an anime direct download forum which provides anime on free file hosts. But unlike most forums, there has yet to be a posting requirement.

From a quick check, their free file hosts of choice seem to be Megaupload and Oxyshare.

1) Frontalweb

• Free File Host Speed: Unknown (multiple free file hosts used)
• Content: 291 anime series (both ongoing, e.g. Soul Link, Air Gear, Bleach, etc., and completed, e.g. Orphen, Chobits, Boys Be, etc.), OVAs (e.g. Fushigi Yuugi OVAs, Green Green, etc.) and movies (e.g. GITS Innocence, Howl’s Moving Castle, etc.).
• Update Frequency: Above Average
• Video Format: .avi (HQ), .ogm (HQ) [not definitive, more video formats might have been used]
• Note: Free registration required (e-mail confirmation not required). Forum posting is not required to access downloads. The site only uses free file hosts, i.e. they do not have their own media server.