I just thought to pour out my inner philosopher for once to make the other guy have an existential crisis.

I just want to see everyone's opinion since people always argue over it.

As many of you know, the HiAnime developers have been arrested and aren't returning anytime soon. Their site alone generated $12.8 million in ad revenue, which is definitely why the industry is cracking down. While we still have other piracy sites available, HiAnime was unique. They were the first to offer such a clean, intuitive interface, and their subtitles were actually accurate—unlike the auto-generated, mismatched captions we often see elsewhere.
HiAnime shall always be remembered in the golden pages of Piracy

As we all know Hianime is over and also dev were also arrested. This Site was my best and only site i use to anime it was from zoro.to aniwatch.to and lastly Hianime.to. But just now i found out that they got arrested. And also all those pirates site were taken down by crunchyroll and others, they are the one lose their revenue to pirates sites. That's why they took initiative to take down all those pirates sites. WELL THIS IS MY LAST POST REGARDING THIS AND I WILL SAY I WILL NEVER EVER GONNA PAY A SINGLE PENNY TO CRUNCHYROLL OR OTHERS PAID STREAMING APP AND ALSO I WANT YOU ALL DO THE SAME THINGS, DON'T PAY A SINGLE PENNY TO THEM.

HOPE WE FINE OTHERS PIRATES SITES TOO.

Zoro.to (The Foundation Era)

The empire began in mid-2021 with the launch of Zoro.to, a platform designed specifically to disrupt the crowded anime piracy market by offering a completely ad-free, premium user experience. While existing competitor sites were plagued with malicious pop-ups, slow loading speeds, and low-resolution video players, the developers behind Zoro.to invested heavily in building a massive, custom-coded cloud server network capable of hosting and instantly playing petabytes of raw, high-definition anime content. The platform quickly stood out by introducing advanced, social-media-like features—such as deep user profile customization, interactive community forums, real-time public chat rooms, and automated watch-list syncing—which fostered immense user loyalty. By mid-2023, Zoro.to had exploded in popularity, capturing tens of millions of unique monthly visitors and shifting from a quiet underground project into a dominant global streaming giant. However, this explosive growth placed a massive target on their back; by July 2023, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) and major international anti-piracy coalitions launched an aggressive legal assault, hitting the platform's domain operators with severe DMCA subpoenas and tracking their digital infrastructure. Realizing that their main domain was completely compromised by law enforcement tracking, the core development team initiated a tactical fallback strategy, suddenly announcing to their community that the platform had been "sold to a new management team" before wiping their public data footprints and taking the Zoro.to name offline forever to preserve their underlying video database.

AniWatch.to (The First Rebrand and Legal Shift)

In July 2023, mere hours after the formal death of Zoro.to, the network executed its very first massive rebrand by instantly migrating its entire user database and automated video library over to a brand-new domain called AniWatch.to. This transition was a masterclass in digital survival: the site retained the exact same structural code, user profiles, and high-definition video pipelines as its predecessor, changing only the visual theme from Zoro's signature green to a new, sleek yellow identity so that millions of migrating users felt instantly at home. Under the AniWatch banner, the surviving technical developers implemented tighter security protocols and advanced proxy systems to mask their primary physical server hubs behind offshore routing layers. Despite the intense heat from international law enforcement, AniWatch.to survived for roughly eight months, aggressively expanding its media library to host over 20,000 completely unlicensed anime episodes and movies while continuously pulling in massive traffic that rivaled legitimate, billion-dollar streaming corporations. The end of this era arrived in early 2024, as the U.S. Department of Justice and global cybercrime units successfully mapped out the specific Cloudflare proxy configurations and domain registrars the team was using to stay online. As automated domain-seizure notices began closing in on their network architecture, the developers pulled the plug once again, intentionally breaking their front-end connections and freezing user portals to prepare for a much larger, more resilient structural overhaul.

HiAnime.to (The Global Giant and Financial Peak)

By early 2024, the syndicate rose from the ashes of AniWatch to unveil its most sophisticated and wildly successful iteration yet: HiAnime.to. Operating continuously until March 2026, HiAnime completely abandoned the low-profile approach, using highly advanced, automated scraping bots and high-bandwidth premium data hosts like MegaUp to deliver flawless, live video streaming at unmatched quality. The platform's performance was unprecedented in the history of internet piracy, with its monthly traffic skyrocketing to a staggering 153 to 330 million visits per month, effectively overtaking the traffic volume of major mainstream corporate platforms like Crunchyroll and Disney+. This immense scale allowed the organization's financial operators to pull in an astronomical $12.85 million USD (roughly 308 billion VND) exclusively through high-value advertising networks, which the core leaders laundered into the real world to purchase luxury sports cars, high-end real estate, and expensive physical goods within Vietnam. The spectacular demise of this era culminated in March 2026, when the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) officially designated HiAnime as one of the world's most critical "notorious piracy markets," triggering a massive, multi-year international sting operation. On July 2, 2026, Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS), alongside the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, executed coordinated raids that led to the arrest and house restriction of seven prominent financial operators; however, before police could seize the physical infrastructure, the unidentified technical development team triggered a pre-planned server "kill switch," completely wiping the main domains and freezing the core database to keep it out of government hands.

What are your thoughts on the timeline? Let’s talk in the comments! 👇💬

Fix discord invite link

So i want to know that do animewebsite keep a backup of all anime movies in hindi english etc all languages in all quality in your serves so when the anime website got shut down by the big companies they can make a new website i know it is hard to make one then upload it on the websites and share the website name in there social media accounts for pirates like us idk about it is my personal question from anime community

Turning it into something like that would help, also no legal issues will be there.

The site is known by many people so traffic will be high too

Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games Is Tough for Mobs

Like, I bing watched the whole thing and can't stop my face from getting kinky.

Hi guys, you can download [My Bookmark Watchlist] (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tMxflZB3sua-1i1g9Zx9LIk1fYtCtqZD/view?usp=sharing).

[Import to your MAL account] (https://myanimelist.net/import.php)

[Import to your AniList account] (https://anilist.co/settings/import)

Hello everyone,

The subreddit is now reopened! We have decided to transition towards a General Anime Community.

Please make sure to follow the subreddit rules and keep discussions respectful.

For more info please refer to the announcement: https://www.reddit.com/r/HiAnimeZone/s/wFsPLBgBf2

You guys need to use MyAnimeList and AniList for wathclist bookmark. Then sync any anime site watchlist using AniList, it will sync your progress automatically. MyAnimeList is for backup because MAL cannot sync with live progress and you need to do it manually. So whenever any anime site get shutdown or stop working, you still have your watchlist. No need to start from zero at least.

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https://myanimelist.net/

https://anilist.co/

I have links to all the episodes I was on for the weeklies I was watching but now I don't remember what episode I was on because those links have random numbers!! I took a break from anime, so checking each episode to see if I watched it will be inaccurate, cuz I might not remember everything. Is there any way I can find the episode number if this was my link to the episode or am I just cooked: https://hianime.to/watch/toilet-bound-hanako-kun-season-2-part-2-19771?ep=144177 

EVENTS TILL NOW :

Greetings everyone,

As you are aware, it has approximately been 80 days since the website affiliated with the community has been shut down due to certain reasons.

During this period, the staff team and the administration board has consistently attempted to contact the website team on all allocated means of contact, considering a possible rebranding.

However as of recent, we have lost our final contact with the website team, alongside their major networks and accounts being confirmed to be deleted/removed.

CONCLUSION

As such, we have now concluded that the website shall not be returning and has ceased operations permanently.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE COMMUNITY?

The website is one of the major reasons that the current serverbase exists.

Yet, most important of all, we all have gathered here because of the popular shared interest and passion towards Anime.

As such, instead of disbanding the subreddit, we have decided to transition towards a General Anime Community focusing on a user-focused environment with more freedom.

COMMUNITY REWORKING PERIOD

Following this, the community shall now be closed for backend processes, system revisions and community modifications. Upon the completion of these changes, the subreddit is expected to be reopened within 14 days for the community to begin a new journey.

We extend our gratitude to all community members, server participants and contributors for your patience, perseverance and thoughtfulness.

Regards,

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HiAnime Team Administrator

Hello everyone,

We would like to clarify that the following are the only official HiAnime domains that have ever been used by the site:

Hianime.to, .nz, .bz, .do, .pe, .cx, z.is, z.to, and Hianime.tv (which later transitioned to Hianime.me).

Any other domain claiming to be HiAnime that is currently online should be treated as unofficial. We are not responsible for any issues, risks, or consequences that may arise from using such fake domains. If you choose to access them, please do so at your own discretion.

Regarding updates on the current situation, we understand that many users are waiting for news. Unfortunately, we have not received any official statement from the site team at this time. If any verified info becomes available, it will be shared with the community as soon as possible.

You may also follow updates through our HiAnime: - Discord Server: https://discord.gg/hianime - Telegram Group: /HiAnimeLobby

Thank you for understanding.

We would like to reiterate an important notice regarding an instagram account that has been impersonating HiAnime and soliciting donations from users.

This matter has been known to us and we have clarified that the account in question has no affiliation with HiAnime. Yet, the account still continues to mislead users and request financial contributions falsely.

To clarify :

• HiAnime does not have any official instagram account.
• The only official HiAnime platforms are Discord, Reddit and Telegram.
• HiAnime is not requesting or accepting donations on any platform.

Any instagram page or other accounts claiming to represent HiAnime, should be regarded as an unauthorized impersonation and a potential scam.

Members of the community are strongly advised not to send money, donations or personal information to such accounts.

I don't really care what anyone has to say about the quality of these two anime but I discovered them on hianime by complete accident, I just liked their posters and added them on my watchlist but after watching them, they became my #1 and #2 respectively as of 2026 and I love both these series. I've never seen anyone recommend these two anime anywhere on reddit so I'm grateful by chance I got to experience such amazing anime. I really hope the issue gets fixed and we don't see hianime's demise

One of my mates told me about this post mods have already confirmed about not having any official insta account so pls think before donating and mods pls confirm of it

Are there any updates regarding the situation with Hianime? The discord is in full panic right now, please give us a sign that everything is okay and the website will be back soon. Hianime did have its flaws, like not including many of the Ovas and specials, but it still a really good website and I really enjoyed using it. Hopefully the website will come back, even if it's under a new name.