Dear Members,

I am sorry to inform you that we are going to be closing down our direct downloads February 7th 2009. It has been a quite wonderful adventure running this service for you, and yet while it has been a blast, we are now currently unable to maintain the site due to lack of funding, need and interest. With the combination of torrents and video streams, AnimeBW can not keep up with the rate at which the anime community grows. I do hope some day we return them, but this is not foreseeable in the immediate future. While not required to, if you have got a Complete account and still have time left on it we will be able to refund a very small portion of it. If you donated recently we can return it all if your account has not yet expired by the close date. I apologize for the sudden termination of the downloads but it is the only solution available at this time.

It has been an honor, thank you for choosing AnimeBW all these years for your DDL needs.

Yay! I've just received a new raid card in the mail. This card should give us a chance to expand our media as currently we are running low on disk space. What will happen is over the next few months I will be purchasing 1TB hard drives and installing them into this card. This card can handle 8 new drives so we can open up quite a selection of files to download.

Anyway, how it works:

We will set the card up so we can have one or two drives fail before we need to replace it giving us 6.5TB or 5.5TB of space to work with. I'll probably go with the 6.5TB of anime storage space. If you really want to help us out and purchase these drives ahead of schedule you can donate to us and we'll give you an AnimeBW Complete account for your effort. Each $2 USD given to us will give you one month of our premium service. Already have a Complete account? Each $1 USD that you donate will extend your account by one month.

After a long time of no activity to the download section, the anime has finally been updated. Due to recent hardware space limitations and large amounts of requests to the files, I had to disable the free section from downloading from one drive and had ceased the updating of our content. Luckily, I have since reduced load on the server and added a new hard drive in it on my trip to Chicago. We now have two drives dedicated for anime, which will probably soon be three drives. I hope by June of next year we will have a very powerful and spacious server waiting for us. Think in amounts such as ten or more Terabytes.

So until then we get to use what space we have, and allocate it out over the next 7 months. Enjoy your updates, the rest of the anime files should be finished downloading within the week, or something like that...

Ok, so I cleaned up the review code a bit and found that it was actually done for quite a while. Oops? You can now review your anime that you have rated. You need to rate it first before you can comment. This means you should have watched it before you talk about it. We don't need 'experts' on a series who have only read the manga talking about how the anime sucked even though they haven't seen it.

I've already submitted a few of my thoughts on the anime I watched on this site and so far it appears to be bug free. I have a feeling I'll be eating those words soon enough, but until then, review your anime that you have seen by clicking Review this anime on the download information page!

If you have any ideas on how the listing of anime you have rated and not reviewed/reviewed could appear better and easier to use and navigate through, let me know by using our contact form or dropping a comment here. Or something like that...

The donation drive to get the new hardware is now complete! We did not reach the amount required to purchase the new RAID card, so I'll have to put it off for a while. We earned $81.68 subtracting from AnimeBW Complete subscriptions. With the subscriptions, we made about $60 extra. So, all in all, we will not be getting a new card to put in more drives, but we may, in the distant future, put up a new server dedicated to our anime media files.

All Complete accounts are now being sent out. If you have donated from 8/22 until today 9/30, and have not received an account by the end of the day, please contact me as soon as you can. Thank you.

There have been a couple updates to the layout. Most noticeably the comments link for these news posts. If you click on comments, you no longer get sent directly to the forum, but instead, you get sent to a page where you can view the most recent comments. This will eventually be the page where you make comments on our news and this forum section will be hidden from view. Until then, you still make comments here. The reason it is as it is now is because I believe it is useful to just quickly view the last few posts without having to visit the forum section.

The other updates to the site are not nearly as obvious, but still useful. At least I think so. I've added status bars to the downloads section as well as a link where you can submit your review of the anime. You need to rate it first before you can review! I'm almost done with the reviewing code, just double checking and optimizing it as best as I can. For now you can just look at a link that goes no where... or something like that...

Currently the server is being hoarded by requests for files and honestly, our drive that we have on Amy can not take the load. I am investing quite a bit of money into a RAID card from 3ware and three 1TB drives. These drives will soon be eight. I will be moving all of AnimeBW's media to this controller. This should increase read performance and the overall safety of our data. The problem is, this costs a lot of money. $900 USD to be exact. I am surprised at how many visitors a month we get to our download section considering how stale it has been in the past month.

All I ask is for $1 USD. Not from our regular forum members, but the leechers from this site. If the leechers finally gave one dollar for the website by either PayPal donation or any other means, we would have enough for seven drives instead of three, and we would be able to add 5TB of new content. If we can reach this goal by September 30th, I will give access to all the users who donated to all our media. Manga, OST, anime, J-Pop, you name it.

By myself, It would take a few months to comfortably purchase all this hardware, but with your help, it shouldn't take more than 2 weeks. That is, if every person who has taken advantage of our download service helped out.

Donation drive has now ended!