Summary
- The major pirate website GoGo Anime suddenly crashed, affecting other pirate anime websites.
- YugenAnime, a “proxy” of GoGo Anime, has closed due to financial difficulties and personal problems.
- Anti-piracy operations in various countries, including Brazil and South Korea, are impacting pirate websites.
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Recent anti-piracy operations around the world
- GoGo Anime/Anitaku and the Dramacool chain
A few days ago, an important pirate site, GoGo Animesuddenly stopped adding new content. Some GoGo-related pages are apparently closed, but users say they are still able to access the website, so it appears it is still active. However, as previously reported, many unrelated pirate anime websites actually mirror content from GoGo Anime (also known as Anitaku), so the sudden block affected several other websites, where many other people watch anime like One piece.
Many of these websites have reported that they are working on a different way to add new content, since GoGo Anime/Anitaku apparently remains frozen to this day. Most pirated anime streaming websites today delete content from other pirated websites or delete it directly from legal platforms.

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But this week, The operators of YugenAnime, one of GoGo Anime's largest “proxy” websites, have announced they will cease operations. In a suicide note, they say that “increasing difficulties in managing and maintaining a website of this scale, financial challenges and personal issues” are behind the decision. They also add that YugenAnime was “just a hobby for us to expand our skills and experiment”, and that it “should never have received so much attention and publicity”.
In short, they don't claim to have received any kind of legal notification, but it appears that GoGo's freezing was a major blow to their operations. Additionally, with numerous anti-piracy operations, they may have become reluctant to find new ways to keep the service running. Without any warning from the operators of GoGo Anime/Anitkau, it seems likely that the website will also be shut down at this point.
See the full note:
Recent anti-piracy operations around the world
This has been a tough year for pirate websites. Many anti-piracy operations have taken place in Brazil, Indonesia and the Philippines. In the case of Brazil, Operation 404, the country's largest anti-piracy operation so far, has been ongoing since 2019, and this year the police launched a phase of this operation focused on illegal anime streaming websites.
The South Korean government has also been tougher on pirated content, as k-content is now reaching wider audiences through international and legal platforms. Interpol special agent Hong Seong-jin, who worked with the government to take down websites, recently said that piracy could “lead to the collapse of the Korean wave.”
In Japan several companies have joined together in a coalition to fight piracy, creating CODA (Content Overseas Distribution Association). Today, CODA includes major companies such as Shueisha, Aniplex, Avex, Kadokawa, Cygames, Shogakukan, Toei, Ghibli and TV Tokyo. They act locally and internationally (for example, the Brazilian operation was aided by CODA).
Rights holders say piracy costs them billions of dollars a year, but it's a bit difficult to measure, because these numbers usually take into account how much more they would earn if everyone watching illegally went to legal platforms, which is not how things work when pirate websites are shut down. A part of the audience moves to legal platforms, but another part simply searches for other pirated services. Piracy is a multi-faceted problem involving socioeconomic, political and even educational factors (many people may not even know they are consuming pirated content, especially younger and older audiences).
GoGo Anime/Anitaku and the Dramacool chain
In the case of GoGo Anime/Anitaku, although it is not yet clear what happened (no coalition has so far claimed to be involved in blocking the site and the operators have remained silent), they have been linked to Dramacool, an Asian anime piracy chain entertainment which is experiencing copyright pressure and shutting down many websites. They may follow the path of FMovies, whose chain of websites included 9anime/AniWave: Earlier this year, FMovies suddenly stopped adding content and subsequently shut everything down.
While not officially related to GoGo Anime, YugenAnime content has actually been deleted from GoGo (according to Everything.moe), so the ban was likely a blow to the site's operators.
Source: YugenAnime