Eeeks. Just as I stepped my browser into Tokyo Toshokan - the awesome Bittorrent Library for Japanese Media, I saw a link to Forums (new). It seems Tokyo Tosho has brought in its own forum to further hook us into downloading more stuff from Tokyo Tosho!

The evulness is… undescribable.

P.S.: Akagi Episode 4 is out!!! (At Tokyo Tosho, of course)

P.S. 2: Bleach Ep. 68-69 brought a most pathetic semi-conclusion to the filler arc. The kidnappings and everything were just training!?! Bleh.

With a tip from pimp, I ventured into Shareparadise.net (the Megaupload and co. link sharing forum) for anime direct downloads, and indeed, there they were.

Actually, I’ve featured Shareparadise.net before, but a few changes have occured since then - including the addition of these direct downloads and a link-sharing system. But I’ll leave the new link-sharing system for another post (since not many people will be interested in that).

1) Shareparadise.net [Direct Downloads Section]

• Speed: Very Fast
• Content: Tenshi na Konamaiki and Tactics
• Posting Requirements: None at the moment
• Update Frequency: Unknown
• Video Format: .avi (High Quality)
• Note: Requires free registration, but that’s it - at least for now. The direct downloads do not seem to be subjected to any points system - yet. A short HOWTO on the direct downloads is available as a forum thread. And one more thing, the episodes are compressed as .rar files.

Lol, my pronouncement of doom was a little premature after all. Anime-treasures.com is up again, with a mirror for emergencies (anime-treasure.com) too.

Arghh… Doooom is near. Anime-treasures.com is down, with a big sign saying:

Account for domain anime-treasures.com has been suspended

My personal opinion is that the host they were using did not allow serving of copyrighted material, of any country whatsoever. But, it could have been due to a lack of $$$ too, I guess. Hopefully it’s temporary though…

Anime Blog Toshokan’s (ABT) successor - blog好き - is up, and with a new domain too. But it isn’t accepting new anime blogs for the time being:

Please note that currently blog好き is closed for new feeds as my first priority is getting the old feeds working right. I will re-open submission probably early February.

Truthfully, I never used ABT much in the past since AnimeBlogger.net Antenna covered all my anime RSS feed needs. But there aren’t many quality anime feed aggregators around. So, blog好き will surely be on my bookmarks list.

Chiisana.net is down temporarily due to lack of bandwidth this billing month. According to their site announcement:

Due to lack of bandwidth for this billing month, we will not be distributing any more anime this billing month! The 15th of each month is the beginning of the new billing month, so we will start distributing anime again then, please come back then!

In addition, Chiisana.net’s admins answer a few oft-asked questions, like why Chiisana.net is in Japanese. So, while waiting for the 15th to come by, give the site a visit to find out the truth behind the mysterious Chiisana.net.

Damn it. As a sub-only anime fansub watcher, I was pretty thrilled to see Mai-Otome 17 speed-subbed by Farfetched. And what the hell do I get? A parody-sub, and not even a funny one! Yes, it’s the not-work safe type of parody-sub.

Farfetched is farfetched alright. Parody-subs should be labeled as such, or is Farfetched moronic? But I admit, I was equally stupid. Should have guessed from the description at Tokyo Tosho - Quality Speed Sub.

Damn, I was recently told that anime.c.la now only hosts French-subtitled anime. Given the super download speeds people were getting from that site, I’m sure it will be missed by the English speaking anime crowd (that used to use it anyway).

You can actually verify this without downloading any episodes by reading the filenames of each episode for its fansubbing group. You’ll find that all the groups listed are French-subtitlers.