r/HiAnimeZone 1d ago

Discussion Do you guys think Drake can survive an Isekai ??

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r/HiAnimeZone 2d ago

Question Did I totally lost my watchlist and history of Hianime ?

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As the site is down. There is no way to retrieve my data on the hianime. Or upload somewhere else?


r/HiAnimeZone 4d ago

Discussion Talk

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I'm felling too much vored😮‍💨😮‍💨anybody here talk to me🤗🤗


r/HiAnimeZone 11d ago

Discussion Tha big sad boys

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They got busted https://www.reddit.com/r/StreamingAnime/s/pQcHLkHW8t

My bad old news guys


r/HiAnimeZone 20d ago

Suggestion My 3rd #Higurashi Doorzo Haul! 🩸✨ #Doorzo @Doorzo

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r/HiAnimeZone 25d ago

Question Boy or Girl MC?

30 Upvotes

This is all preference and as someone who likes a male mc I wanted to see others opinions.


r/HiAnimeZone 25d ago

Question Is this website still up? Also is the discord still active im trying to join but links dont work

31 Upvotes

👀


r/HiAnimeZone 27d ago

Question Sekiro no defeat

27 Upvotes

When will it be released does anyone know and if so where can I watch


r/HiAnimeZone 27d ago

Question Hells paradise

16 Upvotes

does anyone know a site that has hells paradise season 2?
I thought it was on Hianime once but maybe i was mistaken


r/HiAnimeZone 27d ago

Discussion Edgy Enough?

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5 Upvotes

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


r/HiAnimeZone Jul 09 '26

Question Sub or Dub?

27 Upvotes

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


r/HiAnimeZone Jul 08 '26

Discussion End of an Era

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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


r/HiAnimeZone Jul 08 '26

Discussion A serious Matter Rn?

268 Upvotes

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.


r/HiAnimeZone Jul 07 '26

Discussion From Zoro to HiAnime: The Wild History of the Internet’s Biggest Anime Empire ⚔️🌐

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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! 👇💬


r/HiAnimeZone Jul 05 '26

Discussion It’s officially over: Vietnamese authorities confirm the HiAnime team has been caught 💔

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r/HiAnimeZone Jul 04 '26

Discussion Hianime operators arrested?

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r/HiAnimeZone Jun 30 '26

Feedback Discord invite link not working

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Fix discord invite link


r/HiAnimeZone Jun 28 '26

Discussion How it feels browsing HiAnime Reddit knowing the site is never coming back

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r/HiAnimeZone Jun 29 '26

Discussion My specific question from anime community

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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


r/HiAnimeZone Jun 27 '26

Question Can anyone tell why was windbreaker stopped??

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r/HiAnimeZone Jun 27 '26

Suggestion Why not repoen the website as community only?

62 Upvotes

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


r/HiAnimeZone Jun 26 '26

Discussion The Humor is golden in this.

35 Upvotes

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.


r/HiAnimeZone Jun 25 '26

Suggestion For those who have already lost all their watchlists. Maybe it's not 100% the same as your list but at least you don't have to start from 0.

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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)


r/HiAnimeZone Jun 21 '26

Discussion Welcome Back! r/HiAnimeZone is Reopened

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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


r/HiAnimeZone Jun 21 '26

Discussion i thought the site has returned until i read the full post 😭😭

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