| I've moved on from kissanime since I watch most of my anime on hulu and prime video now but it's the end of an era. Not sure if they still had the countdown clock thing but I still remember back when KNB was at its peak popularity and every week everyone would be watching the clock and getting hyped for the next episode. Good times. |
| I don't care about streaming anime but kissmanga was best site for reading online to me. I don't know sites where I could download manga and it's easier to read it online. Now I try to find some other site which is as good as kissmanga used to be. |
| Well, not that I care about streaming but it will probably be back as a mirror or 2 to 3 other sites will take its place. In the meantime I'm feeling with anyone who was using it. I still remember what a PITA it was when the first nyaa kicked the bucket. Luckily there is already a fallback in case it happens again with the current one. |
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Darkfiend47 said: Pullman said: I feel no pity if shitty streaming sites who steal other peoples free(!) work (of fansubbers etc...) to get rich off it are closing down, but my condolescences if even nyaa is blocked. Nyaa is a good site. Where do you even go for torrents if nyaa isn't an option? Animebytes? For Torrents I'd usually Various sites like Horriblesubs or even pirate proxy lol. But the file sizes are usually larger so I watch online instead. As for the streaming sites since there aren't proper legal options or sites people have no other choice but to use these streaming sites. Those aren't very good torrenting options since they only have the most recent and popular stuff. If you never watch anything outside of seasonals Horriblesubs should be okay, but for anything beyond that I would look into some of the private trackers like bakabt or animebytes if I were you. And choice or not, I hate the 'business model' of sites like kissanime so much that I would rather go out of my way and jump through some hoops to register at a private tracker than give them clicks. I support piracy wholeheartedly but only as a means of making accessability more democratic and I hate the idea of people making money off of if, off of stolen work. I'm an idealist with piracy and it should just be about availability, without profit, especially when the subbers who but the initial work in do so for free, without trying to profit for it. What right do lazy sites like kissanime who just steal the free work f others have to monetize it? It just makes me anygry that they do and everyone is fine with it. It's stuff like that which gives piracy a bad rep if you ask me. Not to mention that the greedy ads make the site barely usable and functionable in the first place. Torrenting is much superior in terms fo quality and comfort anyway so I just hope that more people come back to torrents and abandon these shitty streaming sites for good. Mod Edit: Modified quote of edited post. |
DeadlyRavenAug 15, 2020 7:58 AM
| I probably regret this post by now. |
Pullman said: Darkfiend47 said: For Torrents I'd usually Various sites like Horriblesubs or even pirate proxy lol. But the file sizes are usually larger so I watch online instead. As for the streaming sites since there aren't proper legal options or sites people have no other choice but to use these streaming sites. Those aren't very good torrenting options since they only have the most recent and popular stuff. If you never watch anything outside of seasonals Horriblesubs should be okay, but for anything beyond that I would look into some of the private trackers like bakabt or animebytes if I were you. And choice or not, I hate the 'business model' of sites like kissanime so much that I would rather go out of my way and jump through some hoops to register at a private tracker than give them clicks. I support piracy wholeheartedly but only as a means of making accessability more democratic and I hate the idea of people making money off of if, off of stolen work. I'm an idealist with piracy and it should just be about availability, without profit, especially when the subbers who but the initial work in do so for free, without trying to profit for it. What right do lazy sites like kissanime who just steal the free work f others have to monetize it? It just makes me anygry that they do and everyone is fine with it. It's stuff like that which gives piracy a bad rep if you ask me. Not to mention that the greedy ads make the site barely usable and functionable in the first place. Torrenting is much superior in terms fo quality and comfort anyway so I just hope that more people come back to torrents and abandon these shitty streaming sites for good. I don't mind reading manga online but you are completely right about anime. It's much better quality and comfort watching when you download anime than stream on some site. I had luck someone told me I can download anime instead of watching online when I had 10~ series watched or so xD I use nyaa to download but when I want some older series or there isn't any with enough seeds on nyaa I use rutracker then Mod Edit: Modified quote of edited post. |
DeadlyRavenAug 15, 2020 7:58 AM
| Honestly I'm kinda blown, the community was so active in the comments sections on episodes which made the experience of using kissanime very enjoyable imo. Yeah the captcha in between episodes were annoying, sure some of the server's stream quality wasn't the greatest, but the betaserver usually was fast to buffer, I appreciated being able to force 1080p, and If you used ublock with the right settings you needn't worry about the ads. I really grew attached to the layout of the site, and while I'm glad there are other KA mirrors that emulate .ru around, the volume of content and discourse will be missed. Time to branch out I guess. |
| Isnt that why they run like 5 sites ?? |
Prill said: In two days tops a new Kissanime site with a different URL will reopen. Nothing has changed! No kissanime is dead dead. The server where the anime files are kept is owned by google and google got rid of them. All the files are gone. This is different from the other times kissanime been shutdown because the server got shutdown, not the website. |
| Good riddance! Now I can finally stop having 0 life whatsoever. *Discovers gogoanime* |
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| On another note, I’m having trouble finding another site that has the extensive library, Blu-ray/uncensored version, fansub option, video quality option, and low pop up ads that kissanime had to offer. I’ve tried checking out all the popular alternative sites people suggest but nothing comes close and they always lack something that KA had. |
Starisametaphor said: ChartTopper60 said: NOOOOOOO THAT'S WHERE I FUCKING READ ONE PIECE I really don't care about Kissanime, although I know people did use it. But that's where I read all of my manga ;-; Some manga are hard as hell to find yet the entirety was on Kissmanga. Like the entirety of the obscure manga "Kuro" is there, but I can't find it elsewhere, not even when I last searched for it on Nyaa. Mangadex sucks shit because the limited library and many manga I want to read aren't in full there. I believe they had J-Dramas and K-Dramas as well. And that's probably on TOP of KissCartoon and KissComics. Yeah, I do dislike Kissanime, because I don't like their shitty advertising and clickjacking system + the ads themselves being bottom of the barrel, captcha, awfully compressed videos and logos, and generally awful streaming. But everything under the "Kissanime" hub of sites has a bunch of shit that'll be harder to find from here on out. I've hunted the manga Kuro to no avail, and Kissmanga AFAIK was the only place that I know having it complete in English. This shit sucks. If you want, you can try MangaGo for manga. It has a huuuge selection of manga and webtoons (including Kuro) and if you make an account, you can read the pages all in one go (so no clicking ahead). A fair warning though, the site is mainly used by people who read BL/GL, so there's a huge selection of BL/GL on the front page too. Either way, if you want to read a lot of manga and read them in one go without clicking ahead then I'd suggest MangaGo. There is problem with some sites, they allow you just to read on one go. I prefer to have one page at a moment and click to see next. It's better than scrolling down for me. Mod edit: Removed links to copyrighted, non-fair use material. |
DeadlyRavenAug 15, 2020 7:59 AM
| While it was a shitty site it was also one of the only places to have really obscure anime so the fact it is now gone kind of sucks |
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| God Dammit, KissAnime was where I downloaded most of my anime from. Sometimes, I even stream anime on Discord using that site. Rip Kissanime. |
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MSAtlos said: While it was a shitty site it was also one of the only places to have really obscure anime so the fact it is now gone kind of sucks The thing is that every obscure anime they have, they stole from the original fansubbers who intially uploaded them somewhere sle. They aren't the source for anything, so stuff should still be around on the initial blogs or tumblr posts or facebook groups or private trackers where they were originally released by the people who subbed them. It might have been convenient that they collected all of that in one place, but they didn't provide any of it themselves so nothing is really lost, just gotten a bit harder to find again and you have to actually look for the personal blogs and stuff of the fansubbers and give them the credit they deserve instead of kissanime hogging all the credit and dumping their watermark on everything. Overall I'd call that a win tbh :>. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| F I still doubt it's permanent tho. It's hard to believe cuz it's so sudden without any prior warning or signs. The site worked fine perfectly at 9:30am (in my time) but bam, 'closed forever' at 10:30am. I thought it was some kind of mistake. I know many workarounds but still sad because KA is my first go-to site that I used for about 6 years. Sure, porn ads and captchas are annoying but their database is super reliable, especially when it comes to OVAs, Specials and obscure shows. |
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Pullman said: MSAtlos said: While it was a shitty site it was also one of the only places to have really obscure anime so the fact it is now gone kind of sucks The thing is that every obscure anime they have, they stole from the original fansubbers who intially uploaded them somewhere sle. They aren't the source for anything, so stuff should still be around on the initial blogs or tumblr posts or facebook groups or private trackers where they were originally released by the people who subbed them. It might have been convenient that they collected all of that in one place, but they didn't provide any of it themselves so nothing is really lost, just gotten a bit harder to find again and you have to actually look for the personal blogs and stuff of the fansubbers and give them the credit they deserve instead of kissanime hogging all the credit and dumping their watermark on everything. Overall I'd call that a win tbh :>. Idk why an illegal website taking sources from other illegal uploaders upsets you. Renkini said: F I still doubt it's permanent tho. It's hard to believe cuz it's so sudden without any prior warning or signs. The site worked fine perfectly at 9:30am (in my time) but bam, 'closed forever' at 10:30am. I thought it was some kind of mistake. I know many workarounds but still sad because KA is my first go-to site that I used for about 6 years. Sure, porn ads and captchas are annoying but their database is super reliable, especially when it comes to OVAs, Specials and obscure shows. The servers that contains all the files are lost. If they want to restart kissanime, they’ll have to start from scratch which would be very costly from what I understand Mod Edit: Merged duplicated posts; please use the edit button. |
DeadlyRavenAug 15, 2020 8:00 AM
Classy_Cassy said: Without any backup in this day and age? That's what's griping me tbh.The servers that contains all the files are lost |
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| I use another useful website so that doesn't really impact me, but it's still sad for those who used it daily But hey, if you search a bit, you can easily find a lot of other websites just like kissanime. Piracy will never die ! (coz you are a pirate) |
Classy_Cassy said: Pullman said: The thing is that every obscure anime they have, they stole from the original fansubbers who intially uploaded them somewhere sle. They aren't the source for anything, so stuff should still be around on the initial blogs or tumblr posts or facebook groups or private trackers where they were originally released by the people who subbed them. It might have been convenient that they collected all of that in one place, but they didn't provide any of it themselves so nothing is really lost, just gotten a bit harder to find again and you have to actually look for the personal blogs and stuff of the fansubbers and give them the credit they deserve instead of kissanime hogging all the credit and dumping their watermark on everything. Overall I'd call that a win tbh :>. Idk why an illegal website taking sources from other illegal uploaders upsets you. That's easy. 1. They steal the credit from the people who actually went out of their way to provide the subs for us viewers for free. 2. They monetize that stolen work that was almost always intended to not be monetized. I don't have a problem with piracy/illegal file sharing in general, but I do have a problem with people making money off of it since that contradicts the spirit of piracy as I like to understand it - which is all about availability for everyone, no matter how rich or poor or where you live. Fansubbers upload stuff just to make it so other fans can also watch it, kissanime uploads stuff to make money off of it with tons of ads. I don't think it's that hard to understand why one is scummy and illegal while the other is just illegal. One is using piracy as a means of using their own time and effort making availability more democratic and the other one is using piracy to pocked money without putting in any work themselves. And that's not even mentioning the stolen valor. It's very frustrating to see how many people actually think kissanime does the fansubs themselves and give them props for it, instead of the actual fansubbers who are the backbone of the western (pirating) anime community. Especially if you know how much work it actually takes to properly fansub an episode, not to mention a whole series. The least these people deserve is some credit and kissanime is even taking that away. If all fansubbers stopped tomorrow, kissanime would not be of any use either, but kissanime being gone while the fansubbers are still around doesn't make any difference in the long run for which shows we can watch with subs and which we can't. That really tells the whole story. |
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Pullman said: First, speaking of the situation with German language fansubs: many of those are from the early 2000 when that format had it's heydays. Most of the groups vanished, and while the material is still legal to download, the original sites and torrents are mostly dysfunctional today. Without curator sites taking care of keeping copies alive material is indeed lost, sometimes forever. The thing is that every obscure anime they have, they stole from the original fansubbers who intially uploaded them somewhere else. They aren't the source for anything The other point is that you massively underestimate the effort needed to keep a global player site up and running. Stream hosters come and go, hackers and DDoS happen, legal work needs to be done (even if that's just throwing away the DMCA notifications, it's still work). I understand your criticism of profit making, but let's face it: kissanime & Co are a form of organized crime. And you need to be organized well to keep a global player site with those amounts of data up and running in scaling quality. And organized crime needs to pay it's full time employees, it's like any business, just illegal. Let me add an observation about the BETA servers. I think that the backend was actually Google Video. So what they tried is to use that high availability, high quality hoster while still keeping control of access so they can add ads. They basically messed with Google, and lost. Given the scale of the site, there are few hosters which could be used, the amount of traffic must have been really massive (and expensive). |
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| Rip, I didn't used KissAnime that much , but some old animes can only be found there |
MegamiRem said: Sakuta34_12 said: True, lots of old animes are there which you won't usually find in normal websites.Its sad news Because kissanime has lots of anime that you wouldn't find any other websites Reeeeh seriously guys where do I watch oldies now? Need help ASAP T______T |
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Ghemotoc said: 9anime I guess. It has lots of anime too. Crunchyroll doesn't have a lot of animes and it's the best legal anime site which sux.MegamiRem said: True, lots of old animes are there which you won't usually find in normal websites. Reeeeh seriously guys where do I watch oldies now? Need help ASAP T______T |
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| It's not going to make any difference. Another new pirate sites will appear and replace it. |
| It doesn't matter if you like LoGH,Monster etc.If you are a jobless or college/school dropout living in your mom basement, you are still an unintelligent loser. Taste in anime does not make you a better person. |
| I am cool,i am fine i only lost 300 bookmarked manga. |
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| https://twitter.com/sugachie1/status/1294605601058598912?s=21 Apparently nyaa, horrible subs, gogoanime, 9anime and animedao are next. Mod edit: Removed links to copyrighted, non-fair use material. |
DeadlyRavenAug 15, 2020 8:00 AM
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| meh I rather not use a site when I should disable the adblock |
mhkrAug 15, 2020 8:16 AM
| I stopped using KA 4 years ago, and iirc it's not the first time that they "permanently" shut down. Well as long as they don't touch Hanime we're gucci. |
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| RIP kissanime community you will be missed Mod edit: Removed links to copyrighted, non-fair use material. |
DeadlyRavenAug 15, 2020 8:02 AM
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| Man... When I was told to watch naruto I looked for it on youtube to find a few shitty low quality videos. Then I learned about kissanime and I could see a whole new world at my fingertips. Endless adventures to be had, friends to be made and stories to be told. All those persistent ads, such as the ones popping up as soon as you click/touch the screen or the consecutive 6 ones that pop up once you start a video I took for granted. As much as they fucking pissed me off, in retrospect, they were a fond memory for me. Kissanime brought me into this world but now I have to watch as it leaves. Thank you, baby girl, you will be missed. Oo a hot babe is in my area! |
| Fuck! Kissanime was my go-to website for all the non-mainstream, barely known, and especially obscure anime that you can't find anywhere else. They had the largest library of anime out of all the websites I know, and they didn't halfass the uploads either. |
| Damn this sucks... Crunchyroll expand your fucking library!!! |
| Look for new anime websites. It sucks that all the older/ niche anime will be much harder to find. |
| Personally I only used KA once and despite having an overall poor outlook on that experience, I understand the convenience it provided people being a 'one stop shop'. That being said, things change, but it wasn't the first repository for other people's work and it won't be the last. I guess it's still a hit to those who only stream though until another streaming site fills those shoes. But the content isn't lost, so inevitably someone will fill them. |
InsertCatchyNameAug 15, 2020 6:22 AM
| It was usually my last go-to website, even after YouTube itself. Good riddance, at least they won't profit anymore over banning users of Adblock. Shame they had powerful archives, though. |
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Lolsebca said: It was usually my last go-to website, even after YouTube itself. Good riddance, at least they won't profit anymore over banning users of Adblock. Shame they had powerful archives, though. The ads aren’t even that bad compared to 9anime and gogo |
| Finally, good riddance I guess???? |
 just wanna feel wanted by someone other than the police 😫 |
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