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They say whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but that’s not the case for the world’s weakest hunter Sung Jinwoo. After being brutally…

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AniWave: anime and donghua online, sub and dub, every episode dated

The name people still type for anime, rebuilt. Recently Updated shows the newest episodes the day they air, with the Sub, Dub, Chinese, Trending and Random tabs above it; every series has every season and every episode dated; the Chinese donghua have a shelf of their own; and Watch now opens each title on the services carrying it in your country, subbed or dubbed. My List keeps your place right here in your browser.

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AniWave: anime and Chinese donghua online, sub and dub, every episode dated, with a Watch now button for your country

AniWave is the name that 9anime became in 2023, and for a year it was where a very large part of the world went to find anime. The site closed in August 2024; the name did not stop being typed. This is what it leads to now: the page measured from the last capture before the closure, the near-black background, the violet Play now pill, the split spotlight with the title on the left and the picture on the right, Recently Updated with the All, Sub, Dub, Chinese, Trending and Random tabs above it, and every card carrying its episode strip in the lower corner. Under that surface, everything is rebuilt. Every series has every season and every episode dated. Every title has a Watch now button that opens it on the licensed services carrying it in the country you choose, subbed or dubbed.

The shelves are the ones the name was known for. This season's simulcasts, Solo Leveling, Frieren, Jujutsu Kaisen and The Summer Hikaru Died; the long runs, One Piece, Bleach, Naruto Shippūden and REBORN!; the Chinese donghua the old Chinese tab held, Renegade Immortal and Perfect World first; and the films, Infinity Castle and Reze Arc this year. My List keeps your place without the sign-in the old site asked for.

From 9anime to AniWave, and after

The name has a short and well-known history, and people still search every part of it: "what happened to aniwave", "did aniwave shut down", "is aniwave back", "will aniwave come back", "aniwave 9anime". In 2023 the site that had spent years as 9anime renamed itself AniWave. The layout stayed, the visitors stayed, and for a year the new name sat among the most visited anime addresses anywhere. On 27 August 2024 it closed, after action involving Vietnamese authorities and the anti-piracy coalition ACE, and the address went dark with it. Within days, copies appeared under a long list of suffixes, some of them still up, none of them the site.

This address is the answer to "is aniwave back" that keeps being true. It uses the design people remember, measured from the last capture before the closure, and rebuilds everything the design sat on: a catalogue with every episode dated, a list that remembers your place without an account, and a Watch now button that opens every title on the services licensed to show it where you are. The what happened guide tells the story in full, and the alternatives guide answers the question people asked the week the site closed.

The front page, measured from July 2024

The front page follows the aniwave.to home page as it stood on 31 July 2024, four weeks before the closure. The page is near-black and the header a shade lighter. The wordmark is lowercase, "ani" in violet and "Wave" in white. Violet marks the things you press: the Play now pill, the active tab, the button at the top right. The type is Nunito. The spotlight splits across the top: the title, its HD and type boxes, the date and a line of story on the left over the violet PLAY NOW button and a row of dots, and a large rounded picture on the right. Under it, Recently Updated, with its row of tabs, and then the grid, every card a poster with the title beneath it and the episode strip in the lower corner.

After that grid come the shelves the old page had further down, in the same spirit: Trending now; Recently aired beside a ranked Top anime list; Top airing; New releases; Anime movies; then the collections, the genres, the years and the A-Z strip, and this article at the bottom. The page is laid out for a phone first, two posters across and the menu behind the ≡ button, because that is where most of the name's visitors are standing.

The spotlight

The spotlight at the top carries one title at a time, this week Solo Leveling, then Frieren, Jujutsu Kaisen, Infinity Castle and The Summer Hikaru Died, with its HD and type boxes, its score and date, a line of synopsis and the violet PLAY NOW button, which opens the title page and its Watch now for your country. The dots beneath step through the others in the spotlight. On a phone the picture sits on top and the text follows beneath it.

All, Sub, Dub, Chinese, Trending, Random

The tab row above Recently Updated is the old one, and every tab still goes somewhere. All is the full Recently Updated list, newest dated episodes first. Sub opens the ongoing shelf, the series airing now with their subtitled simulcasts. Dub opens the sub and dub guide, because the dub lives in the audio menu of the service you open rather than in a separate list. Chinese opens the donghua shelf. Trending opens the week's most watched. Random opens a title picked from the middle of the popularity list each time the site is built, which is how the old tab surprised people, and which is a good way to find the series nobody has recommended to you yet.

Reading a card

Each card carries the poster, the title beneath it and two marks on the artwork. In the lower left, the strip: SUB, and for a series the count of dated episodes, the way the old cards showed their sub, dub and total counts. In the lower right, TV or MOVIE. The year and the score sit under the title where there are enough votes for the score to mean something. That is enough to tell a twelve-episode cour from a six-hundred-episode donghua before opening anything, which on a shelf that holds both is the first thing worth knowing.

This season

The current shelf is what the Recently Updated grid is full of on any given week. Solo Leveling and Frieren are the two most opened; Kaiju No. 8, The Apothecary Diaries, Gachiakuta, The Summer Hikaru Died, Anne Shirley and the new Ranma1/2 sit around them. The 2025 and 2026 shelf gathers fifty-two arrivals of the last two years, and the ongoing shelf the hundred and five series still returning. The status chip on each title page, Ongoing or Completed, is the first thing to read before starting: one is a weekly habit, the other a weekend.

Recently Updated and Recently aired

Recently Updated was the heart of the old front page and is the heart of this one: the series with the newest dated episodes, newest first. A simulcast appears there the day it airs in Japan, with its episode count one higher than the day before, and a donghua appears the day its weekly episode lands. The full page lists the episodes themselves, series, season, number and date, each linked to its row. Recently aired lays the same information out as a two-week calendar, one block per day, newest first; it looks backwards at what actually aired rather than guessing a schedule, and the services carry most simulcasts within hours. Between them they answer "what came out today" and "what did I miss this week".

Top anime

The Top anime list beside Recently aired is the ten highest scored titles with at least five hundred votes behind them, and the full list runs to fifty. The scores are TMDB audience ratings with their vote counts, and the vote floor is why a new series with a few dozen enthusiastic votes waits its turn. Frieren, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Hunter x Hunter, Monster and March Comes In Like a Lion sit near the top most weeks. The top rated series shelf uses the same rule across the whole catalogue.

The donghua shelf

AniWave gave Chinese animation a tab of its own, which is part of why the name still matters to people who watch it, and the donghua shelf keeps that: a hundred and sixteen series and films in Mandarin. The popular ones are cultivation stories, Renegade Immortal, Perfect World, A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, Fights Break Sphere, Swallowed Star, Shrouding the Heavens and A Will Eternal; beside them sit Soul Land and its sequel, The Daily Life of the Immortal King for comedy, and My Senior Brother Is Too Steady. Original audio is Mandarin; the English subtitles are on the service, and the larger titles carry an English dub.

The films are there too, and they include the biggest animated film of recent years anywhere, Ne Zha 2, alongside Big Fish & Begonia. The donghua guide says where to start.

Cultivation stories

Most donghua on the shelf share a shape, and knowing it helps. A young hero, often underestimated, begins to cultivate: to train body and spirit through a ladder of named realms, each with its own powers and its own enemies. The seasons follow the realms, and the episode counts run continuously for years, weekly short episodes that add up: The God of War Dominates passes six hundred and ninety, Supreme God Emperor six hundred and forty, Tales of Demons and Gods four hundred and fifty. The episodes are shorter than a Japanese series, often fifteen to twenty minutes, so the counts look larger than the hours they take. A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality is the one most recommended first, because its hero is ordinary and the story takes its time; Renegade Immortal is the one most watched this year.

The long runs

The long runs shelf holds the thirty-one series past a hundred and fifty dated episodes, and it mixes the two traditions the old site mixed. From Japan: One Piece at 1,179, Naruto Shippūden at 500, Bleach at 414, Inazuma Eleven at 268, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters at 224, Naruto at 220, REBORN! at 203 and JoJo at 192. From China: the cultivation series above, several of them longer than One Piece in episode count if not in hours. A run watched across a year on two devices is otherwise a run where the same episode is watched twice; Reached this episode on the row you finished is the whole fix.

Bleach, Naruto and REBORN!

Three long shonen of the 2000s were among the old site's most watched, and each is laid out for the way people watch it now. Bleach has its original run and the Thousand-Year Blood War that returned years later on their own season pages, with the films, The DiamondDust Rebellion and Hell Verse among them, on the movies shelf. Naruto and Shippūden run together to seven hundred and twenty episodes, fillers dated in place, and The Last sits between the final arcs. REBORN!, two hundred and three episodes, is the one people rediscover: a mafia comedy that turns into a tournament shonen halfway through, and a surprise to anyone who only knows the first cour.

JoJo, Hunter x Hunter and Brotherhood

The top rated end of the shonen shelf is where people start when they want the best rather than the newest. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure runs in parts, each a new hero in a new decade, and the season pages follow the parts. Hunter x Hunter is here twice, the 2011 series most people mean and the 1999 series, an older adaptation with its own admirers. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is sixty-four episodes, finished, and the one most often recommended as a first long series, with The Sacred Star of Milos as a side story on the movies shelf.

Isekai

The isekai shelf holds fifty-one titles, and the most opened title on the whole site belongs to it: Mushoku Tensei. Beside it sit Re:ZERO and its Memory Snow film, Slime, Sword Art Online, Overlord, The Eminence in Shadow and Ascendance of a Bookworm. The shelf runs from knockabout comedy to something much darker, and the first line of each synopsis says which.

Romance and quiet series

The romance shelf holds the gentler side of the catalogue: Fruits Basket, The Apothecary Diaries, The Ancient Magus' Bride, Natsume's Book of Friends, Monogatari, Rent-a-Girlfriend and Ranma1/2. Laid-Back Camp is the one to put on when nothing else fits. Natsume is the long quiet one, a boy who can see spirits, one story an episode, and among the most rewatched titles on the shelf.

Sports

The sports shelf holds Haikyu!!, BLUE LOCK, Ahiru no Sora, Initial D, Fighting Spirit, Inazuma Eleven and March Comes In Like a Lion, which is about shogi and about grief, and which people who do not watch sports anime love anyway. Matches run across several episodes, and the season tables show where each tournament begins.

Mystery and dark fantasy

The mystery and dark fantasy shelf holds Monster, Death Note, Tokyo Ghoul, Hell's Paradise, Bungo Stray Dogs, Classroom of the Elite and The Summer Hikaru Died, the horror story of this year, about a boy who comes back from the mountain as something else. This is the shelf where the age guidance on the service matters, and where skipping the one-line summaries is worth it if you want to guess along.

Comedy

The comedy shelf is the one to dip into: SPY x FAMILY and its CODE: White film, Mob Psycho 100, One-Punch Man, REBORN!'s first half, Ranma1/2 and Laid-Back Camp. Most episodes stand alone, which makes the shelf the safest thing to start with a room that has not agreed on anything.

The films

Two hundred and ninety-five films are on the movies shelf. This year's two, Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle and Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc, are the ones searched with the name. Beside them: Attack on Titan: The Last Attack, the Jujutsu Kaisen films, Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon, One Piece Film Red, and the standalone films, Your Name, Suzume, Spirited Away, Akira and Perfect Blue. The films are the part of the catalogue that rewards a large screen and a 4K plan, because they were finished for the cinema.

Films in order

Where a film continues a series, the year on the card says where it goes, and the watch order guide takes the common cases. Mugen Train follows Demon Slayer's first season and Infinity Castle follows the Hashira Training arc. Reze Arc follows Chainsaw Man's first season. The Last Attack gathers Attack on Titan's final chapters into one sitting. The Jujutsu Kaisen films, Hidden Inventory and Execution, retell and continue the second season. For anything else, search the franchise and read the years down the results.

The classics

The classics shelf holds the sixty-six titles from before 2006: One Piece's early arcs, Initial D, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, Fighting Spirit, Monster, and the films Akira, Perfect Blue and Spirited Away. These were made for the televisions and cinemas of their day, and the services carry the best master that exists; the free tiers carry a good share of the shelf.

Reading an anime page

An anime page opens with the poster, the original title under the English one, and a row of chips: TV or Movie, the year, Ongoing or Completed, the number of dated episodes and the first three genres. Then the story, then the violet Watch now and Add to My List. Under the story sits the Where to watch panel with the country menu; then the facts, the original title, the first air date, the language, the country, the studio, the TMDB rating with its vote count, and the other names the title goes by, every one of them searchable; then the voice cast and creators, each a search away from their other work; a You may also like row built from the genre; and the season links, each opening a table of every episode.

Reading a season table

A season page is one table. Each row carries the episode number, the title, the day it aired, the running time, a one-line summary and a Reached this episode button. The row you marked last is highlighted when you open the page. Above the table sit the season's first air date, its episode count and links to the seasons either side, so a long run is walked one page at a time. A row with no summary yet is an episode announced and dated but not yet described, which is how next week's simulcast appears before it airs.

My List without the sign-in

The old site asked people to sign in to keep a watch list, and "aniwave sign in" is still searched. Here nothing needs one. Add to My List sits beside Watch now on every page; the list itself is the heart at the end of the category row; a card on it carries the poster, the year and, for a series, the place you reached, set by pressing Reached this episode on the season table. Press a later row and the place moves. The list lives in the browser and goes nowhere else. Export writes the titles and the marks to a small file and Import merges such a file with the later mark winning, which is how a list moves from a phone to a tablet to a television's browser, and how it survives a browser's data being cleared if the export was taken first. The viewing country is kept beside it.

Watch now and your country

Watch now, the violet Play now in the spotlight, is the button under every title. Press it and the title opens on the services carrying it in the country you chose: the anime specialists that carry the simulcasts within hours of Japan, the global subscriptions that hold the franchise films, the services that carry the donghua, the free ad-supported services marked as free, and the stores that sell a season. Choose one and the title plays there in HD with its audio menu, on every device the service supports, with its own download button. AniWave stays where you were, ready for the next title.

Twelve countries are covered, and the country changes the answer more than anything else: a series on three services in one country can be on one in the next, a simulcast reaches some countries a week later, and the donghua are licensed very differently from place to place. Choose the country you are in and change it on purpose when you travel. Every service on the list holds a licence for the country you selected, which is what makes the viewing legal where you are, and a referral fee from some of them, at their ordinary price, is how the site pays its way. The country page lists the twelve.

Sub, dub, Hindi and Mandarin

The old Sub and Dub tabs sorted lists by track; here the tracks live in the audio menu of the service you open. The Japanese original with subtitles arrives with the simulcast. The English dub follows a few weeks behind for a current season and is there from the start for an older one; "aniwave dub" and "aniwave english dub" are answered by that menu. The Hindi track, which "aniwave in hindi" is looking for, is on the Indian services for the large shonen. The donghua are in Mandarin with English subtitles, and the larger titles carry an English dub. Set the country once and the Watch now list shows the services that carry the tracks you want. The sub and dub guide covers subtitles that will not show.

Watching together

The old site's shared rooms, which people still search for as "aniwave watch2gether", were how groups of friends watched a simulcast together. The same evening works now. In one room, cast from one phone to the television. In different homes, each person opens the same service from their own Watch now list and the group starts the episode together on a call; several services have a watch-party or group-viewing feature of their own, and a general watch-together browser extension works with most of the rest. Each person's My List keeps their own place, and the season table settles which episode you are on in a second. The watching together guide has the details.

Free

Everything on the site costs nothing: search, the tabs, every title and season page, My List and the app, with no account. When you press Watch now, the list includes the free ad-supported services, marked as free, beside the subscriptions, and free carries a good deal: whole runs of the long shonen, the older seasons of current series, many donghua and a good share of the classic films. The current simulcasts sit on the subscriptions first and move to the free tiers over time. The free anime guide says how to tell which is which from the list.

HD, buffering and data

Television anime and most donghua are produced at 1080p, so the HD stream is the real one and 4K adds little except for the theatrical films. "why does aniwave keep buffering" was a question about the old site's own video servers; here the video plays on the service you open, and dropping one tier in its player settles a slow connection. 480p is the data-saver tier on a phone: a twelve-episode season is about six gigabytes in HD and two at 480p. The quality guide has the numbers.

The app, APK and Lite

"aniwave apk download", "aniwave apk latest version", "aniwave app", "aniwave lite" and "aniwave app ios" come up wherever the name was used. The app installs from the browser: Add to Home screen in Chrome on Android, share then Add to Home Screen in Safari on iPhone, two taps, the violet icon, full-screen with your list, your country and your episode marks inside it, updating itself every time it opens. There is no APK, no mod, no Lite version and no old version to find; the site itself is built light, so it loads quickly on mobile data the way the old Lite copy promised. The app guide covers Android TV and the rest.

Downloads

"aniwave download", "aniwave downloader" and "aniwave to video downloader" are searched every month. The download button lives on the service you open with Watch now: seasons come down to a phone or tablet with the audio track you chose and stay for weeks. Take a long run or a long donghua an arc at a time over Wi-Fi the night before. A browser extension calling itself an AniWave downloader is somebody else's software. The installed app opens without a connection and shows My List and the marks. The downloads guide covers space and tracks.

On a television

Find the title on the phone, press Watch now, pick the service, and press the cast icon inside that service's player: Chromecast from Android, AirPlay from an iPhone, the built-in cast on Samsung and LG sets. The stream goes to the television in HD with the same audio menu, and the phone stays free as the remote with My List open on it. Android TV, Google TV and Fire TV's browser open the site directly, and the tabs and the spotlight work with the remote; Watch now opens the title in the service's TV app when it is installed. "aniwave apk for tv" has the same answer. The devices guide takes each screen in turn.

to, lv, ro, uk, se and the address to keep

Type the name and the suggestions trail a list of suffixes: aniwave to, lv, ro, uk, at, id, io, pl, fun, vc, se, dk, uno, eu, de, ch, club, com and tv. aniwave.to was the site until August 2024, and its last capture is what the design here is measured from; the rest were mirrors, copies and namesakes, before and after the closure, and "is aniwave se safe" and "is aniwave dk safe" are questions people asked about them. "aniwave discord" was the community server; "proxy", "unblocked" and "mirror" are the questions of a filtered network. This address is the one to keep; save it to the home screen and the question never comes up again. The addresses guide lists every suffix and says how to recognise the real site.

When it will not load

"is aniwave down", "aniwave down today" and "aniwave not working" mostly come from the old address and its copies. If this address will not load, switch the phone between Wi-Fi and mobile data first, because a filtering network is the usual cause. If the dark page is missing and the text runs edge to edge, the stylesheet did not arrive: reload once. If search stops at Loading results, scripts are blocked; allow them or use the A-Z list. If videos will not load, that belongs to the service you opened; reload its player or pick the next service on the list, and change the country menu if the list is empty. The not working guide goes through each case.

Safe, legal and the 18+ flag

"is aniwave safe", "aniwave virus", "is aniwave legit", "is aniwave legal" and "is aniwave banned" were questions about the old site, its advertising and its legal footing. This one installs nothing beyond the home-screen shortcut, creates no account and offers no file; it keeps your list, your viewing country and your episode marks in your own browser, listed on the privacy page. No page asks for a card and no player asks for a plug-in. Every title plays on the service you pick from the Watch now list, and every service on that list holds a licence for the country you selected. The old cards carried an 18+ flag on some titles; those titles are not on this shelf, and the age guidance on each service is the one to follow. The safe and legal guide has both answers in full.

Alternatives, Reddit and aniwatch

"aniwave alternatives", "sites like aniwave", "what replaced aniwave", "r/aniwave" and "aniwatch vs aniwave" filled the week of the closure and have not stopped since. Four things decide whether an anime site is worth keeping: whether the catalogue is deep, the donghua included; whether sub and dub are both reachable; whether every episode is dated so a place can be kept; and whether it works on a phone. On all four this is the AniWave people remember. The alternatives guide takes each in turn; the Reddit threads are worth reading for the mood, and for a title you will rewatch, the services on the Watch now list are the better second place.

Planning a season, a run, a donghua

The count in each card's strip turns a shelf into a plan. A single cour of twelve episodes is a weekend: Chainsaw Man, The Summer Hikaru Died. Two cours, Solo Leveling or Kaiju No. 8, are a fortnight of evenings. A finished series of fifty to ninety, Brotherhood or Attack on Titan, is a month or two. A long shonen is a year. A cultivation donghua of five or six hundred short episodes is a year too, a little less, because the episodes are shorter. The status chip is the other half: Ongoing means a weekly habit and the count keeps rising, Completed means a checklist.

Voice casts and studios

Every page lists its voice cast and its creators, and every name runs a search. The Japanese casts recur across the shelf, so following one voice from series to series is how most people find the next thing; the donghua have their own studios, and following one leads through its cultivation series in order. Type MAPPA and Jujutsu Kaisen sits beside Chainsaw Man and the final seasons of Attack on Titan; type ufotable and the Demon Slayer entries line up; type Madhouse and the 2011 Hunter x Hunter sits beside Monster and Death Note; type Bones and Brotherhood appears with Mob Psycho 100. The results show the cards with their strips, so a studio's work is a shelf of its own.

Genres, years and the A-Z list

The genre pages list every genre in the catalogue with its count; the collections add the words the genre system does not carry, shounen, isekai, donghua. The years page is a row of years; pick 2023 and Frieren, The Apothecary Diaries, Hell's Paradise, Renegade Immortal and Shrouding the Heavens sit together, which is how a season is remembered by the people who watched it live. The A-Z list is the whole catalogue as one alphabet, English titles with the original names searchable behind them, and the fastest answer to whether a title is here at all.

On a phone

The site is laid out for a phone first: the spotlight takes the width with its synopsis and its violet button, the tabs wrap into a row a thumb can reach, two posters sit across with their strips, the season tables fill the screen with the Reached this episode button at the end of each row, and the country menu and Watch now sit under the poster on every title page. The installed app opens on the front page with the tabs ready and My List one tap away. On mobile data, choose 480p in the service's player.

Why the rename mattered

When 9anime became AniWave, people who had typed one name for years had to learn another, and many searched both for months; "aniwave 9anime" and "9 aniwave" are still typed. The rename changed nothing a visitor could see beyond the wordmark, which is why the design here can be measured from a single capture and still look right to both groups. What people lost in August 2024 was not the look but the habit: the tab they kept open, the list they had signed in to keep, the place in a series they had stopped halfway through. Those are the things this site rebuilds first, the list without a sign-in and the place kept on every row, because they are what made a site like this worth returning to.

One Piece and the arcs

One Piece is the longest Japanese table on the site, 1,179 dated episodes, and it is laid out by its arcs, so East Blue, Alabasta, Water 7, Marineford and Wano are each a page with a beginning and an end. The numbering is continuous, as fans count it, so episode 1100 is episode 1100. The films sit on the movies shelf, Film Red the one searched most, and each is a side story best watched once you know the crew. New episodes appear on Recently Updated the day they air, and the season page shows next week's before it does.

Fillers, recaps and the story

The long shonen were broadcast weekly while their manga was still being written, so they carry episodes the manga never had: fillers written to let the manga get ahead, recaps, and specials. The season tables list every one in broadcast order with its date, because that is how the services number them, and the one-line summaries are usually enough to tell a filler from a story episode. Naruto Shippūden and Bleach carry the most. Skip what you like; Reached this episode records a place, not a count, so skipping twenty episodes costs nothing and the next row you mark is simply further down the table.

Ne Zha and the Chinese films

The donghua shelf is not only long series. Ne Zha and Ne Zha 2 are the films that took Chinese animation to cinemas around the world, the second among the most watched animated films ever made, and both sit on the movies shelf with their years. Big Fish & Begonia is the quieter one, a fable about a girl and a fish that people who do not watch donghua find by accident and recommend for years. Original audio is Mandarin, and the larger films carry English dubs on the services that carry them.

The Summer Hikaru Died

The Summer Hikaru Died is this year's horror, twelve episodes, and it was in the spotlight for a reason: a boy's best friend comes back from the mountain as something that is not quite him, and the boy decides to keep him anyway. It is slow, strange and tender, and it is the title on the shelf most likely to be recommended by someone who does not usually watch anime. It sits on the mystery and dark fantasy shelf, and the age guidance on the service is worth reading first.

One television, several lists

In a shared home, one television can serve a sibling on a cultivation donghua, another on Solo Leveling and a parent on Frieren. Each phone keeps its own list and its own marks, so the simplest arrangement is one phone per person, casting to the television in turn; the television's browser can keep a list of its own for the films everyone watches together. When two phones disagree about where a series stopped, the season page settles it: every episode with its date and a one-line summary. Export from My List moves a list between devices, and the later mark wins when two lists merge.

A first anime from this shelf

People new to anime ask where to start, and the answer depends on the evening. For something short and complete, The Summer Hikaru Died or Chainsaw Man. For the series everyone is recommending this year, Frieren. For a finished long series that rewards it, Brotherhood. For laughter, SPY x FAMILY. For a first donghua, A Record of a Mortal's Journey. For one evening, Your Name. Each page says how long the commitment is before you press anything.

Rewatching

Many visits under this name are rewatches: the series people were halfway through in August 2024. The season tables let you jump straight to the arc you remember; the one-line summaries find the episode you half remember; a separate list on another browser keeps a rewatch from overwriting a first watch. The free services carry many of the older runs whole, which suits a rewatch, and the Watch now list marks them.

Questions

What is AniWave?

AniWave is the name 9anime took in 2023, rebuilt: anime and Chinese donghua with every season and every episode dated, Recently Updated with the Sub, Dub, Chinese, Trending and Random tabs, and a Watch now button that opens each title on the services carrying it in your country, subbed or dubbed.

What happened to AniWave?

The site that had been 9anime renamed itself AniWave in 2023 and closed on 27 August 2024 after action involving Vietnamese authorities and the anti-piracy coalition ACE. The name is still typed every day, and this address is what it leads to now, with the design measured from the last capture before the closure.

Is AniWave back?

This address is up and stays up, and it points every title at the licensed services carrying it in your country. The suffix sites that appeared after the closure, lv, ro, uk, se and the rest, were copies and namesakes; the addresses page lists them.

What are the best AniWave alternatives?

The four things to compare are catalogue depth including the donghua, sub and dub, dated episodes so a place can be kept, and whether it works on a phone. On all four this is the AniWave people remember; for a title you will rewatch, the services on the Watch now list are the better second place.

Does AniWave have an app or APK?

The app installs from the browser in two taps: Add to Home screen in Chrome on Android, or share and Add to Home Screen in Safari on iPhone. It opens full-screen with your list and country inside and updates itself, so there is no APK, no Lite version and no old version to find.

Is AniWave safe?

It installs nothing beyond the home-screen shortcut, creates no account and offers no file. Your list, your viewing country and your episode marks are the only things kept, in your own browser. Every title plays on the licensed service you pick from the Watch now list for your country.

Where are the Chinese donghua?

On the donghua shelf, a hundred and sixteen titles: Renegade Immortal, Perfect World, A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, Fights Break Sphere, Swallowed Star, Soul Land and more, every episode dated. The Chinese tab above Recently Updated opens it.

Is there an English dub?

Yes, in the audio menu of the service you open with Watch now. The English dub follows the Japanese simulcast by a few weeks for a current season and is there from the start for an older one; the Hindi dub is on the Indian services for the large shonen.

Can I watch with friends like Watch2gether?

In one room, cast from one phone to the television. In different homes, open the same service from each Watch now list and start together; several services have a watch-party feature of their own. Each person's My List keeps their own place.

Can I download episodes?

On the service you open with Watch now: seasons come down to a phone or tablet with the audio track you chose and stay for weeks. A twelve-episode season is about six gigabytes in HD and two at 480p.

Is AniWave down?

If this address will not load, switch the phone between Wi-Fi and mobile data first, because a filtering network is the usual cause. Most down searches come from the old address and its copies. If videos will not load, reload the service's player or pick the next service.

What is in the catalogue?

Six hundred and seven titles at the September 2026 update: three hundred and twelve series and two hundred and ninety-five films, 491 Japanese and 116 Chinese, with 658 seasons and 20,184 dated episodes.