These are the anime direct download sites/forums and XDCC bots featured here in the past couple of weeks (in chronological order). Yep, I forgot to do this last week.

1. AnimeDump.org – Anime Direct Downloads Site
2. Codain Anime – Anime Direct Downloads Forum
3. Os2 Anime – Anime on YouTube
4. Nanashi-Fansubs XDCC Bots – Eureka seveN Haven
5. Misha.Distrocity – Anime Direct Download Site
6. ID-TV – Anime Hosted on Megaupload
7. AnimeDownloadz – DDL Site
8. Anime-Sensei – .rm Anime Hosted on Megaupload
9. Pink Sugar – Anime on Free File Hosts

For more anime DDL sites, you can check out the previous wrap-up or jump straight the whole list of anime DDL sites we’ve reviewed.

If you haven’t been driven to boredom by the two anime sites hosting anime on free file hosts (like Megaupload) we’ve seen this week, here’s another one.

Unlike the previous two though, this one is a forum which requires a set number of posts before allowing you access to their download links. So, I’m pretty sure it is going to be of interest only to some of you.

Nevertheless, note that… it’s pink all right – at least in terms of the forum skin used.

1) Pink Sugar

• Speed: Unknown
• Posts Required to Access Downloads: 15 posts for first set of anime and 30 posts for second set.
• Posts Required Per Download: None
• Content: 13 completed (e.g. Turn A Gundam, Mai Otome, DN Angel, etc.) and 2 ongoing anime series (Air Gear, Black Lagoon), as well as 5 movies and OVAs (e.g. Tsubasa Chronicle Movie, Hellsing Ultimate OVA, etc.)
• Update Frequency: Low
• Video Format: .avi (HQ)
• Note: Free registration required. Forum posting also required to access downloads. The site only uses free file hosts, i.e. they do not have their own media server.

This anime direct download forum suggests that it provides anime through both its own media server and free file hosts, but I can’t seem to find any links to anime uploaded to free file hosts at the site.

So, until I’m informed otherwise, I’ll assume that Codain Anime does not provide any anime on free file hosts. Update: The site’s admin has clarified that they do not place anything on free file hosts.

1. Codain Anime

• Speed: Unknown (sorry, didn’t have time to make the 5 posts, but it’s admin suggests speeds of around 200KB/s)
• Content: Around 20 ongoing (e.g. Welcome to the NHK, Ouran, Tonagura, Zero no Tsukaima, etc.) and 10 completed anime series (e.g. Fate-Stay Night, Azumanga Daioh, Air, Suzumiya Haruhi, etc.).
• Posts Required to Access Downloads: 5 posts
• Posts Required Per Episode: None
• Update Frequency: Quite Frequent
• Video Format: .avi (HQ), .mp4 (HQ) [not completely sure, please correct if wrong]
• Note: Free registration required (e-mail confirmation not required). 5 forum posts required to access downloads section.

Here are the anime direct download (DDL) sites and forums we’ve seen in the past week (in chronological order):

1. Red Clouds – Anime Direct Download Site
2. Boontan.net – Anime Direct Download Forum
3. Say Anime! – Anime Direct Download Site
4. AkiraBlaid – Anime Direct Download Site
5. HSB Site – An Update

For more anime DDL sites, you can either check out last week’s wrap-up or jump straight the whole list of anime DDL sites we’ve reviewed.

I reported on HSB Site’s temporary anime direct downloads last month, with the thought that the site would end that service by this month.

It seems, however, that I was mistaken. It’s not that the entire direct downloads service was going to be taken down, but its forum posting requirement was going to be reestablished. From what I can gather, HSB Site doesn’t impose any forum posting requirement until 75% of that month’s bandwidth allocation has been used up. Once that happens, a forum posting requirement is set to decrease the amount of bandwidth being used. But when the next month’s bandwidth allocation comes in, the forum posting requirement is removed.

At the moment, this requirement seems to be off. The selection of anime series they provide through their own media servers has also been changed since my feature last month.

1) HSB Site

• Media Server Speed: Average (slightly better than last month)
• Content: 8+ completed anime series (e.g. Digimon Frontier Season 4, Ranma 1/2 Season 1, Street Fighter 2V etc.) and several movies (e.g. Stret Fighter Alpha The Animated Movie, Street Fighter Alpha Generations 2005, etc.) on their own server, and about 70+ more (both ongoing and completed anime) on free file hosts (4300+ episodes in total).
• Update Frequency: Average
• Video Format: .rmvb (LQ to MQ) or .avi (HQ) or .mkv (HQ)
• Note: Free registration required, but forum posting is not required at the moment. When 75% of their bandwidth has been used up, a 1 forum post per download requirement is enacted until next month’s bandwidth allocation comes in.

Endracion e-mailed me a couple of days back with an almost complete write-up on this anime direct download forum, so I really only had to check on a few nitty gritty bits + do some verification to write this post.

One does wonder then why it took me so long to get this published. (-..-)

1. Boontan.net

• Speed: Unknown (I didn’t check it out myself since I didn’t want to make 10 forum posts, but Endracion, one of the forum’s admins, says download speeds vary from 200kbps to 900kbps)
• Forum Posts Required To Access Downloads: 10 posts
• Forum Posts Required Per Download: None
• Content: Around 35 ongoing (e.g. Chevalier, The Third, TOKKO, etc.) and 6 completed (e.g. Karin, Shakugan no Shana, Onmyou Taisenki, etc.) anime series.
• Update Frequency: Frequent
• Video Format: .avi (HQ), .mkv (HQ)
• Note: Free registration required (e-mail confirmation not required). 10 forum posts required to access downloads section. Up to 3 simultaneous connections allowed for non-donators. Donators media available, but it is strictly optional.

Da-Anime consists of a Blogspot blog (more of a site than a blog really) and forum filled with anime hosted on free file hosts (primarily Megaupload actually) that have been uploaded by admins and members.

In practice, it’s similar to sites like RequestAnime.com and Instant Anime, but there is one difference. The site has anime listed on both its blog and forum, where the former is hassle-free, while the latter requires free registration. Of course, you’ll get more anime if you register at the forum.

It has a large collection of anime series and movies (quite a number of rare anime movies there) – especially in their forum – but there is one thing that annoys me. Everytime you load a page on their blog, there’s a pop-under announcement that points you to their forum. While it’s good for people who have no idea they have a forum, there’s really no reason to make it appear on every page load. I feel it would be best to limit the pop-under to once a session.

Update: Edited with new URL to Da-Anime. Sorry for being super late on this.

1) Da-Anime

• Megaupload (Free File Host) Speed: Average
• Free File Host Content on Blog: 65+ completed (e.g. Pretear, Berserk, Gunslinger Girl, etc.) and 3+ ongoing anime series (e.g. Blood+, Eureka Seven, etc.), as well as 25+ movies (e.g. Saint Seiya – Heaven Chapter, Yonna in the Solitary Fortress, etc.).
• Update Frequency: Frequent
• Free File Host Content in Forum: 80+ additional completed (e.g. Read or Die, Kimi ga Nozomu Eien, Re Cutie Honey, etc.) and ongoing anime series (e.g. xxxHolic, Ergo Proxy, etc.), plus several additional movies (e.g. Air Movie, Naruto Movie 1, etc.). “Additional” refers to the fact that the content in the forum doesn’t overlap with the blog.
• Update Frequency: Frequent
• Video Format: .rmvb (LQ to MQ), .avi (HQ), .ogm (HQ), .mp4 (HQ)
• Note: Blog is hassle-free, i.e. registration or forum posting not required to access downloads. However, the forum requires free registration (e-mail confirmation required), though forum posting is not required to access their downloads section. The site only uses free file hosts, i.e. they do not have their own media server (or rather, they used to have one for uploaders).

Here are the anime direct download sites and forums we’ve seen in the past week (in chronological order):

1. [Download] Anime – Pay-For-Use Anime FTP
2. XeN NeTwOrKs – .rmvb Anime Direct Download Site
3. Phantasy:Anime – Anime Direct Download Site
4. Instant Anime – Anime Direct Downloads Forum
5. Future-Anime.com – .rmvb Anime Direct Download Forum

For more anime DDL sites, you can check out the previous wrap-up.