"ANIWATCH
Nominated as aniwatch.to. Reportedly based in Vietnam but utilizes reverse proxy services to mask the location of
its hosting servers.
Aniwatch, which reportedly became one of the most popular pirate streaming sites in the
world this year, also is reportedly a rebrand of a previously popular site, zoro.to. In July 2023,
right holders and anti-piracy trade associations shut down zoro.to, which was run from Vietnam,
and thereafter the site apparently was rebranded as aniwatch.to. Stakeholders report that the
Aniwatch site provides pirated versions of popular movies and television, particularly anime."
If you can read all of the above, which was written in the USTR's 2023 review of notorious markets for counterfeiting and piracy, you will know why aniwatch will get banned, the reason the episodes are this laggy is cuz the devs aren't actually checking on the website as they might be in the hiding, the USTR isn't just focusing on banning the website but actually focusing on the devs. so we might never be able to watch anime again without any payment via Netflix or crunchyroll