Nyaa Torrents – Mirrors & Alternatives for the Best Anime Content

Nyaa is a torrent site that specializes in providing users with anime content. For fans of Eastern animation content, there’s no better anime hub than Nyaa. The site—and its many proxies and mirrors—is filled to the brim with the latest and greatest anime content in the world. It also offers the best library of old and obscure anime TV series and movies.

One unique aspect of the anime industry is that some serious gems often fail to attract sizable audiences, thus gaining a minimal footing in the worldwide market. These little-known anime movies and TV series typically don’t make it to YouTube or other mainstream streaming sites, and they often get left out of torrenting sites as well.

However, Nyaa is home to some of the market’s best and most obscure gems. On Nyaa, these films and TV series can build up a niche audience which, in turn, can raise the interest in the rest of the community on online forums and community platforms like Reddit.

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If you’re an anime fan then Nyaa is full of anime torrents

The most notable benefit of Nyaa is that it’s completely free. You don’t have to pay the service a single dime to download anything. You don’t even have to register to download anything to get started on Nyaa. However, if you want to give something back to the community, Nyaa requires you to create an account and start uploading.

In this guide, we’ll share more about how Nyaa works, best-practices for safe and secure torrenting, and the best Nyaa mirrors, proxies and alternative sites you can use.

DISCLAIMER:

Security Gladiators in no way encourages or condones any kind of copyright violation or circumvention of restrictions. That includes torrenting or downloading illegal content. Torrenting is a great way to access and share all kinds of content on the internet and there are plenty of opportunities there to engage in legal and safe online torrenting. You need to do your own research to see if these services and torrents are legal in your own country. We suggest to always use a VPN while torrenting.

Is Nyaa Safe To Use?

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Many governments, internet copyright trolls, and ISPs have blocked NYAA

For the most part, yes, Nyaa is a safe website. But as with anything else, whether or not Nyaa is safe for you will depend more on you and less on the site itself. Generally speaking, though, Nyaa is a safe and reliable torrent site.

In the online world, you should always be on guard for potential privacy and security threats. Hackers and other malicious entities could be using the site to prey on users that don’t have security systems in place. So, there are a couple of things you should keep in mind as you download Nyaa torrents. We’ll cover this more in the next section.

How To Use Nyaa Torrents Safely and Privately

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Nyaa opened on an Apple iMac

First, before you go about clicking any links or downloading anything from Nyaa or any other torrent sites, you need to read the users’ comments. This is a great feature of the Nyaa torrents site, enabling users to comment on the torrent that they download or upload. Of course, the Nyaa torrents site has its own systems in place to remove malicious and spammy torrents and links.

But having the comments section at your disposal means that you have some insight into the source of the torrent file before downloading it. If you see that one particular file has negative reviews from other users, avoid clicking any links associated with it.

Pro Tip:

Expedite all your Torrenting activities using a SeedBox.

Secondly, always have a good antivirus product on your system and keep it updated with the latest version of the software. While an antivirus program is useful for any online activity, it’s especially essential while you’re doing anything related to torrenting.

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That way, even if you download a malicious torrent file from a torrenting website, your antivirus will try its best to ensure that it doesn’t corrupt your entire system.

Fortunately, top-of-the-line antivirus products are typically very affordable or even free. Although, the paid options always present more complete protection.

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Thirdly, you should use a VPN before you download anything from sites that offer torrents like Nyaa. A VPN (or Virtual Private Network) will not only hide your IP address and give you a new one, but it will also unblock everything on Nyaa that you may not have access to without a VPN.

Furthermore, it comes in handy if your internet service provider is throttling your connection to prevent you from downloading a truckload of torrents on sites like Nyaa. With a VPN, your ISP cannot throttle your connection because they can’t see what you’re doing online.

To find a VPN service that fits your needs, see our guide to the best VPNs for torrenting.

Finally, consider using a torrent client that offers advanced security features, such as IP binding. If you have IP binding enabled on your torrent client, then it won’t work with any other IP address that you have defined. So, what you need to do is sign up for a VPN, get a new IP address (use a site like ipleak.net to find your new VPN-enabled IP address), and then input that IP address in the field that your torrent client has for IP binding.

The Best Nyaa Mirror Sites (Nyaa Proxy)

Like any torrent site, there are plenty of Nyaa mirror and proxy sites that contain all the content of the main site before it forked.

Here are the most popular Nyaa mirror and Nyaa proxy sites:

Best Nyaa Anime Alternatives

Kickass Torrents

You can’t really go wrong with Kickass Torrents. Though it is not an anime-specific website like Nyaa, it does host a lot of anime content. The only difference between Kickass Torrents and anime-specific torrent sites is that it doesn’t have some of the more obscure anime titles.

But Kickass Torrents tries to make up for that shortcoming by offering you content from many other categories such as games, movies, documentaries and TV series.

1337x

1337x is another simple, authentic and popular torrent site. It does get blocked from time to time, but you can always use a VPN to access the site and its mirrors. As for the content, you can expect the same quantity and quality as Kickass Torrents, though some would argue that 1337x has fewer torrents than its competitors.

The Pirate Bay

The king of torrent sites, The Pirate Bay is the best there is—when it is working, at least. As one of the most popular torrent sites in history, The Pirate Bay has all the latest movies and TV shows, as well as some classics. If you can’t find something there, you likely can’t find it on other sites (except Nyaa).

Demonoid

Perhaps the most underrated torrent site out there is Demonoid. Sometimes it doesn’t have the latest movies, games and TV shows. But when it does, the content is authentic and of decent quality.

Demonoid is certainly not what it used to be, but it still packs a punch. Don’t expect its content library to be as comprehensive as The Pirate Bay or Kickass Torrents, though. In the anime category, we admit that it can’t match Nyaa. But we believe that this alternative website is close to the next best thing.

FAQ

Is Nyaa Legal?
Nyaa’s legality depends on the copyright status of its content. Any anime that you download or stream from any site that does not have the endorsement of the creators of that anime is illegal in most countries.

Content on YouTube lies in a grey area since the content creators are free to have their content taken down from the site. If they don’t (and many don’t), then they probably want to see the reception they get if they make their content free for a while. But this is just a generalization. Legally, the only reliable places for all sorts of anime are Hive, Crunchyroll and Funimation.

So, be careful downloading anime from Nyaa.SE or any of its alternatives. Copyright laws also vary from country to country, so it depends on your government’s stance on P2P file-sharing and torrenting. To be safe, avoid downloading copyrighted content from torrent sites.

What Happened to Nyaa?
The original Nyaa torrent website shut down in 2017. Reportedly, the owner of Nyaa took down the website on their own without any legal coercion. There are some popular forks, though, such as Nyaa si and Nyaa se. We listed a few of them in our mirror/proxy section. You can always try out an alternative to find other types of content as well.

Conclusion

All you need to do to get started is to follow the links and instructions we’ve provided above, or you can go to Nyaa directly and download torrents. Again, we always recommend using a VPN service and antivirus software if you do this.

Feel free to share your experience in the comments section below.

Zohair A. Zohair is currently a content crafter at Security Gladiators and has been involved in the technology industry for more than a decade. He is an engineer by training and, naturally, likes to help people solve their tech related problems. When he is not writing, he can usually be found practicing his free-kicks in the ground beside his house.

2 thoughts on “Nyaa Torrents – Mirrors & Alternatives for the Best Anime Content”

    • Hi Yoni Arousement.
      Thanks for the comment.
      That isn’t something to be bothered about.
      Sometimes website administrators are slow on getting their licenses and security certificates updated on time and because of that web browsers mark their sites as not secure.

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