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Sorry, I don't have any software for doing it, I simply presented that as an option.

Looking around, I found a few options quickly though: Several for Linux are listed here. This page lists a ton for DivX movies: here

As for obtaining scripts and stuff, I am not sure where you would go about finding scripts in Spanish. If you or someone else is good at English->Spanish translation, you may be able to find a script at Script Club but you'll need to register for access, and many of the scripts there are either for older and lesser known titles or for the most popular recent shows, very little in the middle.

I would suggest asking on a forum like at AnimeSuki where an actual subtitler might see you.

If the show is unlicensed in the US, it is likely that you can download from BT sites like here and here.

Sounds like you could use BTDownloadRoundRobin , a utility which rotates between several torrents, thus letting you painlessly seed multiple files, but not all at the same time.

Maybe because Bittorrent scales well? Whenever I fire up my Gnutella client, not only can I never find what I'm looking for (whereas Animesuki is a godsend), but my connection gets flooded with search requests and whatnot. Also, about 50% of the time when I try to actually download something on Gnutella, it turns out to not actually be there. The Unix clients sucked hard for a long long time too (how long did it take to get something with a gui and upload support?). Quite frankly Gnutella seemed like a dead end to me. Far too many leeches and not enough content. Bittorrent's automatic sharing of the files you're downloading and good anti-leech protection means you always get good transfer speeds on those big popular files.

BitTorrent has been used already for quite some time. Any anime fan would know AnimeSuki where torrent links are listed for Unlicensed anime. In short, this is nothing new.

If you're into the whole anime thing, like I am, Bit Torrent is a godsend. BitTorrent is the biggest thing to happen to digital fansubs since DivX.

Prior to BitTorrent acquiring digital fansubs of anime was extremely difficult. Especially if you weren't at a college campus. The files are 200MB, so dial up users are out. Releases were made on IRC fserves, so propagation was slow. Things made their way slowly onto other p2p networks like WinMX and DC, but you were never able to find anything and everything. And only IRC fanboys could get things guaranteed as soon as they came out.

BitTorrent changed everything. Check out Anime Suki. The fansubbing groups are now setting up torrents of every episode they release. And every day the newest ones are listed as they come out. So anybody who has a fast enough connection, or is willing to wait for 200MB can get fansubs when they come out, guaranteed. The best new stuff is not limited to the fanboys anymore. And you don't have to deal with other p2p networks where people will do "trad3z onli!" or otherwise cancel your download. And no queues either.

The problem with BitTorrent is that when a file is no longer popular, BitTorrent becomes useless. And if a file is small BitTorrent is also useless. You need lots of people downloading and uploading and you need a big file. Prior to BitTorrent putting a video on a web page either meant you were badass or a big company with big ass servers and bandwith. Or nobody visited you and it didn't matter. BitTorrent brings video back to the web. WebMasters no longer need to fear crashing and burning if they host an awesome video.

If only there was something like SiteTorrent that found some way to keep /.ing away. Something like that will require much thinking however.

1.Be in japan and watch it there

2.Buy dvds and be ripped off by suncoast or buy the Hong Kong imports

3.What I see as the best option....download it off the net, through IRC or what is now becomming the best option, bit torrent. Check out http://www.animesuki.com for starters. It has some good current series on it.

And for all you trolls out there who don't like anime, perhaps you'd change your tune if you had seen some anime other than pokemon and tentacles.

The list of anime to be shown makes envious...why are there never any anime festivals here in Sweden...

Is Kodocha ever shown at anime festivals. This is the funniest shoujo anime I've seen. There a a bunch of torrents over at Animesuki.

Enjoy!

What would be left of Excel Saga after the censors got to it? Apparently the last episode is so bad we're not even going to watch it at the more formal meeting of the Anime Club I go to. They would have to take out a whole character for sure. And several of the subplots throughout the series wouldn't be "fit" for the US audience.

Also, in my opinion its not really a very good series. Its feels kind of recycled after a while. We're on episode 22 or 23 and the last good episode we watched was the one with the attacking pandas, and that episode was in the single digits. Granted, there are still some funny moments here and there.

Now, Witch Hunter Robin, thats a good series. Perhaps CmdrTaco wouldn't like it since he apparently isn't a big fan of plot (I assume when he said "kind of crazy" he was refering to actual plot development). It starts out being a police-but-with-witch's anime (with some pretty neat episodic plots) but at about episode 15 or so it starts getting into the over-arching plot thats pretty nifty.

My favorite anime is Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu. You can BitTorrent it at AnimeSuki.com. Its really funny in a unique way. Don't be quick to judge it as as yet another "WTF Anime", I definitedly started liking it the more I saw of it (though I had more or less decided to watch the whole thing after seeing the intro). Theres good character development, none of the characters are as superficial as they first might seem. Depending on its time slot, they might not have to censor too much, but who knows.

Another great source of new anime is via BitTorrent, AnimeSuki provides links to most new fansubs as they come out. Since a lot of fansub groups now distro with BitTorrent you can often get new releases within hour(s) of them hitting the net.

Anime. Unlicensed episodes which are not illegal to distribute because there are no licensees outside of Asia. At 150-200 megs per episode, you'd be able to fit quite a few series into 150GB.

An excellent source for unlicensed anime epsiodes, subtitled in English, is AnimeSuki, where they're downloadable via BitTorrent - you know, the P2P App with Brains. Downloads are usually quite snappy.

As an added advantage to collecting unlicensed anime, it's usually quite fun to watch. The downside is that once a series becomes licensed, you have to stop sharing it. Right now, there are several good series being released. I recommend Naruto, Mahoromatic and Wolf's Rain.