Animé Newb Guide

[Bex]

New to animé? This guide could help you a lot.

All thanks go to boneheadjoe9 on the pspcrazy forums.

Most of you people are clueless on most things animé so I set up a little guide for the clueless ones among us.
Few things you should know...


1.PSPCrazy is not the only place you can get animé! For all you people requesting this and that, try a Google search or SOMETHING first, It is almost guaranteed you will find something.
2.Never pay for animé Unless its an official release of the series.
I have seen people go to pay sites to get their animé, and seriously, why?
Unless you got cash to burn, I would suggest not going to pay sites.
Check other sites, somewhere is bound to have it. Ask one of us senior animé watchers if all else fails.
3. Don't know something about an animé?
Go to sites like [Only registered users can see links. ] and sites like that.


Titbits of Knowledge

-Most animé comes out in 26 episodes, they usually come in increments of 13 episodes.
-THERE ARE MORE SERIES THAN NARUTO AND BLEACH! Seriously, so many good series come out all the time, and you force yourself to sit through fillers, do yourself a favour and watch something else. There is nothing wrong with these really popular series, but there are more things that you could be watching.
-Do not judge animé as a whole as Pokemon, or Yugioh.
Those dubbed shows are animé but are completely childish compared to almost all others.
-If you don't like it, don't complain, or say it sucks. Keep it to yourself, because a lot of us really like it, if its not for you, keep your mouth shut, or rather, keep your hands off the keyboard.


Links

Many people have asked me, "Where do you get all this new animé"?
New animé comes out in a variety of places.
First of all, you will need bittorent. If you don't know what that is, google it, there is a client you can download, and releases come out in torrent files. These are files opened by that client and download based on how many people have finished the file and uploaded it again, which is how things work.

The sites that animé comes out on are:
[Only registered users can see links. ] This site includes anything animé or Japanese related, including animé, (RAWs,English Subs, Subs in other languages, Music, Music videos,Hentai,etc)

[Only registered users can see links. ]
This site only has Subbed animé, and is very organized, compared to others.


Direct Download sites

I know there is a thread for these, but many of them are old.
Here are the few of my favourite sites.

[Only registered users can see links. ] (This site has many animé series, manga series, online animé streams, OSTs, and many more things, it updates frequently and usually has new releases as they come out)

[Only registered users can see links. ] (Has many animé series for download)

[Only registered users can see links. ] (Another of my favourite animé sites that has Rapidshare galore. All animé there is RMVB.

[Only registered users can see links. ] (This site has many series to chose from, but for me downloads have either been slow, or unreliable, but does have a great selection)

[Only registered users can see links. ] (This is Vanquiz's site, and also has many animé downloads)


News Sites

[Only registered users can see links. ] has all news concerning animé you will ever want....or not want, your choice.

[Only registered users can see links. ] Has links to popular animé blogs, which review new episodes, and whatnot.


Wallpapers

[Only registered users can see links. ] Great Animé wallpaper site that's constantly, don't download too much or they ban you from downloading though.

[Only registered users can see links. ] Another good site with wallpapers, scans, etc that is also updates frequently.


Animé Terms

Animé- Japanese animation, usually subbed by fansubbing groups for us to watch.

Hentai-Animé Porn, I don't like this stuff, but I don't represent everybody obviously

Fansub- A animé episode with subtitles in various languages. Released by many fansubbing groups on the above websites.

Dub- A animé episode that has been translated and re-voiced, or dubbed, to that language. This is what you seen on TV, many series have also been censored due to being to "mature" for us to handle.

RAW- This is the unsubbed animé that airs in Japan, usually untouched. don't watch unless you understand Japanese, and if your reading this, I'm assuming you don't.

Manga- These are the Japanese 'comics' that many animé series are usually based off of.

Scanlation-Manga translations to English.


If you have anything to add, please post it in this thread, Thanks.

[Lauren]

Lol, I'm an animé newb, very interesting to read

I've also heard of ecchi though, as a type of animé what is that? :confused:

Great post, I'm getting more and more interested in anime these days. Seen some great shows already. Thanks, gonna use a couple of those links.

[Bex]

What anime's ya watched so far?

Death Note
And I'm watching One Piece, Naruto, ecchi and Bleach.

Hooray for Anime!

[Bex]

Ooooh, what ecchi ya watching?

Air Gear and Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon

And there is so much more to watch, but i must be patience. One by one, damn its hard

[Snuggle Bunny]

thanks never heard of Minitokyo

[poisonpixel]

Cool.
I always wondered what the irc.??????.????? on the beggining of subbed anime meant.