After HiAnime and AnimeKai: The Anime Piracy Sites That Took Their Place

HiAnime and AnimeKai, two of the largest anime piracy sites, both went offline earlier this year. Their audience did not disappear with them.

OtakuDown looked at the top five anime streaming sites on EverythingMoe, an index of anime and manga sites, and checked how much traffic each one drew in September 2026. The results also point to a sixth site, outside EverythingMoe's top five, that is bigger than all of them.

The two giants that left

HiAnime operated at a scale few piracy sites reach. In August 2025 it received 244.2 million visits and ranked 159th among all websites globally, according to Similarweb data cited in the Motion Picture Association's 2025 submission to the US Trade Representative (USTR).

The site had been renamed several times. The USTR's 2025 list of notorious piracy markets, which included HiAnime, describes how zoro.to was shut down in July 2023, reappeared as Aniwatch, and was rebranded again as HiAnime in March 2024.

HiAnime went offline in March 2026. In July, authorities in Vietnam charged seven suspected operators, and according to the MPA's latest submission, the case is headed to trial.

AnimeKai, described by Digital Trends as one of the biggest pirated anime streaming sites, followed in May. A message on the site blamed recent problems, including a fire at a data center, and said it was time to move on.

How the sites were measured

As of October 12, EverythingMoe ranked Re:Anime, Anikoto, animepahe, Miruro and MKissa as its top five anime streaming sites. The traffic figures below are Similarweb estimates for September 2026, the same data provider the MPA cites in its filings. Where a site runs more than one domain, the known domains are added together.

The sites are listed by traffic, which gives a different order than EverythingMoe's ranking.

1. Miruro: about 68 million visits

Miruro, fourth on EverythingMoe, runs on several domains. Similarweb estimates 38.3 million visits for miruro.to, 25.8 million for miruro.tv and 3.6 million for miruro.bz in September. The Internet Archive's earliest capture of miruro.tv dates to April 2024.

Miruro is also the only one of the five named in a court filing this year. In August, the MPA, acting for members of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), asked a federal court in California for a DMCA subpoena requiring Cloudflare to identify the operators of 49 domains, including four Miruro domains, TorrentFreak reported. There has been no public word on what Cloudflare handed over.

2. Anikoto: about 61 million visits

Anikoto, second on EverythingMoe, drew an estimated 61.1 million visits on anikototv.to in September. The site has moved before: the Internet Archive first captured anikoto.to in October 2024 and anikototv.to in January 2026, and the old .to domain no longer resolves. A page presenting itself as Anikoto's official domain list names several more.

OtakuDown found no reports of legal action against Anikoto.

3. animepahe: about 45 million visits

animepahe, third on EverythingMoe, is the oldest of the group. The Internet Archive’s first capture of animepahe.com, from July 2014, shows a site offering small-size anime downloads. Later captures show the same name and focus, with streaming added by 2018, although they do not show if ownership was changed. Today most of its traffic goes to animepahe.pw, with an estimated 44.1 million visits in September, down 19.7% from August.

The site has been on rightsholders' radar for years. In 2021, a lawyer filed DMCA subpoena applications naming animepahe.com, which already drew more than 20 million monthly visits at the time, according to TorrentFreak.

This month, the MPA's 2026 submission to the USTR listed the animepahe sites among its additional notorious streaming sites. The MPA says animepahe.pw received 54.88 million visits from 5.07 million unique visitors in August, attributes the site to India, and notes that it uses Cloudflare.

4. Re:Anime: about 41 million visits

Re:Anime tops EverythingMoe's list but ranks fourth by traffic, with an estimated 41.2 million visits on reanime.to in September, up 9.1% from August.

The site is new. The Internet Archive's earliest capture of reanime.to is from May 9, 2026, two months after HiAnime went offline and around the time AnimeKai did. Who runs it is not public, and OtakuDown found no reports of legal action.

5. MKissa: about 7 million visits

MKissa, fifth on EverythingMoe, is the smallest of the five. Similarweb estimates 6.6 million visits for mkissa.to in September and another 1.6 million for allmanga.to, one of the site’s older domains.

The name is new, but the site is not. MKissa was formerly known as AllAnime and AllManga, according to EverythingMoe. The Internet Archive first captured allanime.site in October 2020, while mkissa.to dates to June 2026.

OtakuDown found no reports of legal action against the site under any of its names.

The biggest one is not in the top five

Aniwaves, ninth on EverythingMoe, outdraws all five. Similarweb estimates 99.6 million visits for aniwaves.ru in September, down 13.1% from August.

The MPA's 2026 submission also names Aniwaves. According to the MPA, the site had 114.5 million visits from 9.8 million unique visitors in August and ranked 323rd globally. Like animepahe, the MPA attributes it to India and says it uses Cloudflare.

The name echoes Aniwave, the site formerly known as 9Anime, which shut down in August 2024 after action involving Vietnamese police and ACE. OtakuDown found no evidence that the two are connected.

What the sites have in common

All six sites draw their largest audience from the United States, according to Similarweb. Several spread their traffic across multiple domains.

All six also use Cloudflare. Their current domains are registered with Cloudflare nameservers and resolve to Cloudflare IP addresses, according to DNS and registry records checked by OtakuDown on October 13. Cloudflare’s service hides the address of the server behind a site, which is why rightsholders such as ACE have asked courts for subpoenas directed at Cloudflare.