Comments on: AnimeGround – Anime Direct Download Site Review

By: Asuka Langley

Asuka Langley — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:16:14 +0000

Really awesome site, when i had adsl before, bittorent aint that easy, downloading animes, i’ve got fiber now, but its still a really great site though. I find the downloads really fast, faster than i’m getting from direct connect. and they always have the newest animes available.

i’m going to keep subscribing to them forever, thats for sure.

By: ryan

ryan — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:08:38 +0000

right now i am subscribed to animeground and it is worth it they have really good speeds i get 1.20mb/s per download wich is crazy
they might not have a really active forum but they have alot of anime for download and i like that it might not be the best looking site but it seems fine to me but this is just my opinion

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:12:21 +0000

Hi,

So what do you guys recommend me to do then when I want
an older manga like JAPAN or KING OF WOLVES from Buronson and
Kentaro Miura. I can buy them and pay twice as much. But then
I have another problem. I still don’t have the manga on my laptop.
So then I have to scan every page myself. Seems a little bit
expensive and troublesome to me.
I really don’t want to support them in making money of the fansubs.
So if anyone of you have a better idea for me then PLEASE let me
know.

Thanks,

Dennis

By: Hung

Hung — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:31:48 +0000

Yeah, I noticed. I think if people are willing to type it in, they totally mean business anyway.

By: scottfrye

scottfrye — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:26:07 +0000

Ok, thanks for the idea. BTW, the image that you have of the site has the URL in it. Not sure if you noticed that.

By: Hung

Hung — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:58:17 +0000

@scott: I thought about that myself, but nowhere in my post did I actually link to their site, and if I did, I would’ve added a rel=”nofollow” to it in order to not help their pagerank.

They say any publicity is good publicity. But I don’t really agree with that, especially since I gave them a pretty harsh review.

By: scottfrye

scottfrye — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:51:58 +0000

Hung, I wrote a review on this site as well and I just got a comment from DS that brings up a really good point.

He says: “…but don’t you think that by accepting their offer, you and Hung are giving publicity to a group that’s profiting from fansubs?”

I wrote up something in response to his comment but I wanted to hear your take on this as well. What do you think?

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:48:16 +0000

I don’t understand the idea that this is paying for fansubs. You’re not paying for fansubs, you’re paying for someone else to collect them for you, and to have them all easily downloadable from the same location. You could use BT, obviously, but you would most likely end up having to wait half a day (at least) to download the first episode in a series, just to see if you are interested or not. Naturally, if the series is recent and popular, BT is pretty painless, but this is definitely not the case with the majority of fansubbed series. I have no problem paying $9 or so for someone else to collect the large amount of anime that this place does, and then to be able to download any of them painlessly.

Again, you’re not paying for the fansubs. You’re paying for the transport method.

By: tiny red man

tiny red man — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 10:34:51 +0000

to think ALL fansubbed animes have the following sentence: “This is a free Fansubbed anime. Not for sale or rent.”

Therefore, you can call all fansubs group available and take illegal action against such evil organization..

if its for the band width, i would say this: “damn it…have some patience for ur BT to download…and its free..”

By: Hung

Hung — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 03:05:58 +0000

@Zima: Quote from the site: “All our servers are hosted on dedicated servers with unmetered dedicated bandwidth.” This means they’re stuck with a certain throughput, but the bandwidth fee they pay for is not based on actual transfer.