Os2 Anime - Anime on YouTube
Os2 Anime - a component of sorts of Keiichi Anime Forever - aggregates anime episodes hosted on YouTube, providing a one-stop area to watch anime online, i.e. stream anime.
It has a large collection of anime series, and this collection was built ground up from admin (primarily) and user submissions - rather than through blatant link copying from other sites (which some YouTube-powered anime sites have done).
In fact, its collection has decreased substantially (137 series, to be exact) due to link copying by other sites (which was then discovered by CNET and then, by YouTube).
Note: This isn’t a direct download site. It’s an “anime streaming site” (any better name?), so some criteria judged below may not be completely relevant or in the same context as a normal direct download site. For example, speed here would refer to the speed of buffering and streaming, rather than download speed Edit: Although it’s an anime streaming site, it seems that its possible to actually download the anime from YouTube using the VideoDownloader Firefox extension or site (thanks to LewdishLoki for the tip).
1. Os2 Anime
- YouTube Speed: Above Average to Quite Fast (based on general consensus rather than my own testing)
- Content: 162 ongoing (e.g. TOKKO, Gakuen Heaven, xxxHolic, etc.) and completed (e.g. Trigun, Tokyo Underground, Tokyo Mew Mew, etc.) anime series and movies (e.g. Final Fantasy VII: Last Order, Initial D 3rd Stage, etc.).
- Update Frequency: Unknown
- Video Format: YouTube format (but if you download it using the VideoDownloader extension or site, you’ll get a .flv file)
- Note: Hassle-free site, i.e. no registration or forum posting required to access anime. Anime is streamed directly, and must be watched online.
Episodes cannot be downloaded. As such, for slow connections, this service isn’t suitable as a lot of buffering and re-buffering might be required in order to watch an episode.(Refer to edit made above)
Edit: Post corrected based on info from 98s.
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July 26th, 2006 08:05
“Episodes cannot be downloaded.”
*cough*
link.
Admin Edit: I edited to put the link inline cos it was too long for the sidebar. Sorry.
July 26th, 2006 08:10
Aiks… lol.
Thanks for pointing it out. I’ll update the post.
July 26th, 2006 15:48
so…the O2o download is keiichianime??
July 27th, 2006 02:41
Yes, I believe so.
July 27th, 2006 17:36
I considered making a text link, but I didn’t know if Wordpress supports BBcode or HTML.
There’s one way to find out:
[b]bold bb[/b]
bold html
July 28th, 2006 07:18
Hehe, now you know. But don’t worry about it.
It’s really my fault that I haven’t put up some implementation of character wrapping (word wrapping is already enabled) on the Recent Comments sidebar block.
July 29th, 2006 23:13
I have a correction: The original collection was built by themselves by their own staff over a period of several months. User submissions were accepted about five months later but it only lasted one or two days. Within a short time though, the loss occurred and now they have opened submissions permanently.
July 30th, 2006 09:04
Thanks for the correction, I’ll update the post - though the point I originally wanted to impart remains the same, i.e. collection not built through link copying.
August 1st, 2006 09:37
Ah okay. It just bothered me. The staff seemed to get very stressed on the forums when many people kept asking about missing episodes when the team had only three or four working it.
Great job on the site.
August 4th, 2006 07:22
Thanks. I understand what you mean. It can really suck when you see something going wrong and people start blaming the wrong people.
August 7th, 2006 10:27
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January 3rd, 2007 18:15
I got a streaming site up with over 34 hours worth of watchable anime
So if you list them that would be great!
http://www.animereign.com/
January 29th, 2007 14:43
http://animeviewer.net is a good new one, it just opened and it already has the full champloo series
June 23rd, 2007 14:32
http://anitube.net is another and fortunately doesn’t use Youtube.
June 27th, 2007 00:32
In my opinion, http://anitube.blogspot.com is the best site to watch anime. It doesn’t have huge collection of anime, however the ones listed are the best I’ve ever seen (Mushishi, Elfen Lied, Code Geass, Black Lagoon, Claymore, Death Note, Ergo Proxy, Seirei no Moribito, D.Gray-man, Devil May Cry, etc). Or maybe the site admin just have similar taste as I do.
I also notice that the site always has the latest episodes of Bleach and Naruto before I can find them anywhere else.
August 1st, 2007 06:49
http://tv-links.co.uk and crunchyroll.com are pretty hard to beat. tv links has a lotta mainstream popular anime with fast streaming and crunchy roll is great with new just subbed animes
August 27th, 2007 11:30
Go to http://ranmastream.tk/ to watch all the Ranma 1/2 videos
September 17th, 2007 01:19
i like sugsr sugar rune because i learn something here. i love this show this is my favorite. keep watching this.
September 17th, 2007 01:22
i like sugsr sugar rune because i learn something here. i love this show this is my favorite. pls. watch this show.
September 17th, 2007 01:22
i like sugsr sugar rune because i learn something here. i love this show this is my favorite. pls. watch this show.