Anime-Stop

I have found myself in one of those rare times that I have nothing to upload, no requests, and no broken links for fix. Out of boredom, I have decided to make an intro to anime post that will be made into a page and added to the navbar.

First off what classifies as anime? Anime is any animated program that originated in Japan. Other shows have been done in the "Anime Style"such as Avatar, but these are not actual anime.

Anime comes in 2 basic forums, subbed and dubbed. Subbed anime is in the original language, but has translated subtitles. Dubbed animes have had the voices redone to a language that is not the original, often English. There is also Dual Audio files. These have both the original audio track and the dubbed track. They also often come with subtitles. You can select which track you wantto play and choose if you want to subtitles to be shown or not. The method todo this varies from player to player, but most commonly you simply right click and go under the appropriate menu (Audio/Video/Subtitles/Stream).

How do I download the files off of Megaupload? You can find the way I suggest to download form Megaupload HERE.

How do I play Files? I personally suggest the CombinedCoumminity Codec Pack. It has everything you need and many groups encode their work to be played using it. It will have 2 players with it, MPC which is more basic and Zoom which is more advanced. For people with slower computers that have problems with HD files you can get Core AVC, and or use KMPlayer. Both area bit more advanced in their setup and only suggested to more experienced users.

What anime should I watch next? I personally have 2 ways of going about finding new anime. The 1st is to go down a list of the most popular anime untilI find one that catches my eye. There are 2 popular places to do this, ANiDB and MAL. On ANiDB you may want to go on the right had side and select "hide synonyms" to cleanup the list. The 2nd way is to find an anime similar to another anime that you have liked. You can do this on Anime-Planet and MAL. On both of them, go to the page of the series that you liked. Anime Planet has Recommendations listed right bellow. For MAL you will need to click the recommendations tab at the top. 

Some other useful stuff on AniDB. Bellow the tag cloud of a series page and above the episode list you will see a box. The tabs here contain lots of useful information. 1st the groups tab will show you how much of the series has been subbed/ripped and who did it. the next tab of interest is the last one. TheRelated Anime tab will tell you which shows/movies are related to this one andhow. In the top right of that box there is a link to relation graph. This is very helpful for complicated series such as slayers. Much of this info can also be found on MAL, but I simply prefer AniDB.

When will anime x be out, or will anime y have a sequel? The best place to find news like this is Anime NewsNetwork (ANN). To find the latest news on a series all you have to do is search for that series on the main page. To find start dates for series I suggest this page here.

If you can think of anything that isn't mentioned please leave a comment. I want it to be as complete as possible before replacing the current FAQ pagewith it.