What sites could I use? Torrenting not ideal. I'm not even sure what a torrent is.
I'm not even sure what a torrent is.
Torrenting is basically just a special way to download something onto your computer. The complex computer jargon is that torrenting refers to the use of a peer-to-peer file sharing communication protocol called BitTorrent, but you don't really need to know what that means in the same way as you don't really need to know what "ActivityPub" is in order to use Hexbear.
To torrent you need to first install qBittorrent (qBit) onto your computer from www.qbittorrent.org. After doing that, you just find a website listing torrents, find the one you want, click the magnet, select the files you want from the list that pops up, click "OK", and then in a matter of minutes you'll have the show or movie you want as video files on your computer, easy peasy.
However!
You should first get a VPN subscription and set qBittorrent to only connect to that VPN. This is so that copyright trolls don't get your IP address. If you've already set up your VPN, you can bind qBit to that VPN by going to tools → options → advanced → and then finding the setting "network interface" and setting that to whatever looks like it's your VPN. Note that if you do this, you'll need to turn on your VPN for qBittorrent to work.
When searching for torrents, you should sort search results by number of "seeders" (S), and check the torrent's description and comments before downloading it. If you want dubs, you should look for the words "dual audio" in the name of the torrent. Also, if the torrent's files are all .mkv files, then that's just the standard video file format for anime torrents. Windows File Explorer often has trouble showing thumbnails for .mkv files, so if you use Windows, be aware of that.
Otherwise, if there's anything else, I think you can figure out the rest through trial and error and just looking it up or asking people. Torrenting isn't nearly as spooky scary complex difficult as I thought it would be when I first started doing it I think last year. "The water is warm and shallow" so to speak.
This being said, I currently still prefer to stream if possible, and I already PM'd you the websites I use for that.
Sent from Mdewakanton Dakota lands / Sept. 29 1837
Treaty with the Sioux of September 29th, 1837
"We Will Talk of Nothing Else": Dakota Interpretations of the Treaty of 1837
https://9animetv.to/ has pretty much everything. I love it. It's not even the only anime streaming site, there's a bunch.
Honestly funny how the "actual" 9anime ended up being rebranded to Aniwave last year and was later forced to shut down earlier this year, meanwhile this "fake" 9anime that every user of the other one warned against remains, and basically says that, "No, actually the other one was the fake!" — Frankly, it hardly matters for pirate streaming sites, but I still just preferred to use the one I was assured was genuine, so I never actually tried 9animetv.to. The main difference between 9animetv.to and Aniwave is that the former has softsubs similar to most other anime streaming sites, meanwhile Aniwave had hardsubs.
I'll need to try this one around a bit to see if it has the buffering issues like the other softsub websites I'm familiar with.
Sent from Mdewakanton Dakota lands / Sept. 29 1837
Treaty with the Sioux of September 29th, 1837
"We Will Talk of Nothing Else": Dakota Interpretations of the Treaty of 1837
I've had a torrent system behind a vpn for a long time but there used to be websites that would stream a large catalog of movies for free so long as you could out up with 720p. Maybe some comrades will know the urls.
There are also apps like popcorn time that basically turn torrents into streams, which can be pretty convenient. Use a vpn for that as well.
Torrents are your friend. There are two possible problems though.
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Does what you want to grab have subtitles?
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Are the subs any good?
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