Catalog and playback

Content & availability policy

How titles are listed, how playback works, and how to report a concern.

Catalog listings

Every title on AniNest is in exactly one of these states, and the badge on the card says which:

• Playable, at least one episode has a source from a provider that is switched on and working. A play button on such an entry leads to a real player.
• Reference only, the entry is in the catalog for browsing and reading. No video is linked, so there is no play button, only the episode list.

The badge reflects enabled episode links and configured players. Remote availability can change; it is not a guarantee that every video is reachable from every region.

Individual episodes

An episode can be disabled on its own, and then it says so. The three states are playable, reference only, and unavailable, the last one carries a written note, because "unavailable" with no explanation is not useful to anyone.

Video players

AniNest does not store, serve or proxy episode video files. We store episode references and links to embedded players operated by third-party services. Video playback is delivered by those services, which control their players, settings and availability.

This describes how playback works; it does not establish permission to use a video or remove any responsibilities under applicable law. Rights holders can report concerns about links or listings on AniNest using the form below.

Rights concerns

If you believe something listed here should not be, use the report form and choose a rights concern. Say who you are and name the work.

Those reports are handled first. If a report is credible, the affected video is disabled while it is checked, and the entry stays visible as reference-only with a note saying why. Disabling is reversible: the mapping is kept, not deleted, so it can be restored if the report turns out to be mistaken.

What we do not do

• We do not bypass DRM, access controls, geographic restrictions or bot protection.
• We do not scrape a provider that disallows it in its robots.txt.
• We do not relay, re-host or transcode video through our own hosting account.
• We match title identity and episode number before attaching a source.

Metadata and images

Community reviews are written by members. Audience ratings are fetched from external anime catalogs. Titles, years, episode counts and studio credits are stated as plain facts. Posters and banners are referenced from public catalog metadata through an approved artwork CDN. Artwork belongs to its respective owners; AniNest does not claim ownership of anime images.