The Ban on Illegal Downloading Will Take Effect on January 1, 2021 In general, the social media sentiment was to thank KissAnime and KissManga for their service, with the Twittersphere uploading their favorite quotes and moments to the platform. Kissanime was there when no one else was /CW61IdnoXl On Saturday morning, one Twitter user wrote, “kissanime just got taken down wtf is this i’m not gna resort to crunchyroll.” On Twitter, some users have written that without KissAnime and KissManga, they may be forced to turn to Crunchyroll– which has left some users upset. Other options to consume anime content include Funimation and Netflix, according to Geek Culture. Why was Crunchyroll trending on Twitter if KissAnime and KissManga were the websites taken down?Ĭrunchyroll is a website that requires a subscription in order to watch anime. While this is not the first time that Japan’s piracy laws have forced popular sites to be taken down, KissAnime and KissManga’s are arguably the most popular sites that have been removed. Thank you for your supports… Thank you to those years.”īoth sites had been online for nearly a decade. KissManga and KissAnime will be closed forever. We will make more announcement after we have the decision.”įour hours later, the message was updated to read, “All files are taken down by copyright owners. According to ANI Radio Plus, KissAnime’s Support announced read, “Our beta server have been taken down, this could lead to the closure of the website. KissAnime, which is a popular piracy website that is used to “illegally stream anime shows,” in the words of Mothership, was taken down around 6 a.m. According to Kyodo News, a June article showed that the Japanese parliament had “endorsed a revised anti-online piracy law for copyright control, banning illicit downloading of manga, magazines, and academic texts, in addition to music and videos that were already covered by the existing legislation.” On Saturday morning, the popular websites KissAnime and KissManga were permanently taken down following reports that Japan would be implementing stricter copyright laws. KissAnime and KissManga have been taken down permanently.
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