These are the anime direct download sites featured this week (in chronological order):
For more anime DDL sites, you can check out last week’s wrap-up.
Anime Field’s Naruto and Bleach Week might have ended two weeks ago, but given the insatiable downloading desires of Naruto and Bleach fans, I figured I couldn’t go wrong featuring a Naruto and Bleach direct downloads forum.
1. OtakuTalk
Edit: An updated review of OtakuTalk is available.
These are the anime direct download sites and XDCC bots featured this week (in chronological order):
If you missed last week’s wrap-up, you can still get it here.
Lavendermedia.tk is most similar in type to Shareparadise.net - anime forums in which some of their admins and members upload episodes onto free file hosts, e.g. Megaupload, which are then provided to other members to download.
In the case of Shareparadise.net, members are required to accumulate points by posting or uploading anime to free file hosts (and posting the link), which can then be used to access download links to files uploaded by other members.
But in the case of Lavendermedia.tk, a more conventional system is used, where you will just have to accumulate 30 non-spam posts in order to access their Full Episodes section, after which no additional posting is required to maintain membership or to access download links.
I’ve seen quite a wide range of anime forums that provide direct downloads to their members. But this is the first time I’ve seen an anime direct downloads forum hide the number of forum posts that its members have to make before being granted access to the forum’s direct downloads.
Supposedly, this approach encourages active and non-spam posting by its members as there are no set limits publicly available, but whether this works, that’s another story altogether.
1. AnimeArk
Anyone’s a member of this forum (with direct download access)?
These are the DDL sites and XDCC bots we’ve covered this week. In chronological order, they are:
Okay, I’m exaggerating a little with the post title since these sites weren’t really dead in the first place - just temporarily down. But anyway, exaggeration or not, these sites are back up, alive and kicking:
It’s a pity I can’t report the same for Anime-Treasures.com though.
Now for another break from the Bleach and Naruto marathon. This one is also an anime-specific site, but for Eyeshield21 instead.
So, if you happen to follow Eyeshield21, here it is:
I know there’s a lot of unknowns in this feature, and I apologize. But since I don’t follow Eyeshield21, I don’t really have any reason to make those non-spam posts.
Therefore, any comments from experienced users of DeimonHigh are very, very welcome. 