Are there any torrents with tons of different anime in them? Preferably with lots of seeders so I can download faster. I'm downloading some of my favorite specific shows from nyaa.si right now, but I'm interested in megapacks with, say, a terabyte of various anime.
I'm fine with a variety of genres, but I tend to prefer shorter anime with cute girls over lengthy shonen action anime. I also prefer subs over dubs

>>1529592 (OP)
>Are there any torrents with tons of different anime in them? Preferably with lots of seeders so I can download faster.
No. That is how torrents die. Nobody will download and seed the entire collection, they'll pick out the shows they want. Some show will drop down to zero seeds/peers. Eventually that show being missing will cause adjacent shows to slip 1-2 blocks on either. Then those adjacent shows will die, as peers notice they're non-compete. They will take out more shows, and now with multiple filesets just being broken, peers will be more picky even starting random downloads so many more shows will die.
Nobody will know what portions of the torrent are or aren't seeded, and it'll just make a giant mess. So your desired time saver, won't save time, it'll consume 100x more time as peers try to sort out the cluster fuck
Well made torrents only include the files people want. If there's anything else there, good chance your downloaders will delete the useless content. I can think of an example right now, check out this porn thread >>>/t/1323794
It's a collection of PDF files, everyone downloading wants the PDFs. The torrent creator thought it would be a good idea to include a text file explaining something something. Nobody cared about that text file, now the torrent is broken. It's still being used, because it's still mostly useful. But the more complicated you make a torrent the worse

>>1529602
Thanks for the knowledge. I’ll be honest, I’m new to torrenting, so I didn't think about that.

>>1529606
Not him but it's important to remember that torrents are file-sharing in its truest sense. You're downloading from other people, not a server. This is both a strength and a weakness. The other weakness you have to consider, aside from the one he mentioned, is that torrenting exposes you to risk from copyright enforcement hounds. Because of the way torrenting works every peer connected to a swarm exposes his IP address to every other peer. This makes it very easy for somebody interested in documenting copyright infringement to connect to the torrent themselves, then simply copy down every IP address they see in the swarm, then simply look up those IP addresses to figure out which ISP they belong to, and then send notices to those ISPs, who in turn send you a warning or worse, depending on how enforcement is handled where you live.

Now, maybe you live in a place where ISPs do not care about copyright enforcement. Lucky you. But if they do care then you have to be careful about what you torrent. Generally speaking, in America, ISPs do not care about torrenting anime. I was a Comcast customer for almost 16 years and torrented terabytes of anime and never heard a peep from them. I torrented one episode of Game of Thrones and they sent me a sternly worded email the next day warning that further infringement would be a strike against my account. And if American ISPs don't care, I doubt any other country does.

But if you are American and do plan on torrenting stuff besides anime, it's worth considering a VPN subscription. Free VPNs are garbage, you need a commercial one. Fortunately they are very cheap. Far, far cheaper than any streaming service subscription, in fact. If you get a multi-year plan it works out to something like $3/mo. And with that you can torrent movies, video games, TV shows, anime, music, software, etc. As much as you like, without any worry at all. Cancel all your other subscriptions cause you can torrent everything.

>>1529592 (OP)
If you sort on nyaa by size there's a seeded collection of A to S from crunchyroll at 9.1 TiB. Doesn't even seem complete in that range but is still a pointlessly big collection.
You'd still just be better off picking series and finding BD versions. Even if I disagree with a lot of it Anilist has a "cute girls doing cute things" tag that would be better to use than just getting everything. The shitness of the list at least gives variety.

>>1529592 (OP)
>>1529602
>Nobody will know what portions of the torrent are or aren't seeded, and it'll just make a giant mess
What the fuck are you talking about, anyone can see the availability of the torrent and the files within it in the General and Content tabs in qbit.
>it'll consume 100x more time as peers try to sort out the cluster fuck
The Bittorrent protocol was made for this, it won't take literally any time. If anything, its far easier to exchange information with people already in the same torrent as you than to have 1000 different torrents that each have their own metadata and swarms.
>If there's anything else there, good chance your downloaders will delete the useless content. I can think of an example right now, check out this porn thread
No, newfag, the usual reason some torrents get "broken" at 99% with .txt files is because the creator/only seeder changes the .txt file or uses some software that automatically changes it, like metadata/subtitle files for media, forgetting that it won't be able to be seeded now, given that the hash of it has changed.
>text file explaining something something. Nobody cared about that text file, now the torrent is broken
This is not a problem anymore with V2 the protocol which everyone should be using when creating torrents.

There is nothing wrong with collection/megapack torrents where you are meant to select what to download because again, it's easier to find people within the same torrent swarm who dont actually care about all files but still seed them all because they want to have the whole collection and help seeding similar files, this wont happen on separate torrents, because its harder for those people to go out of their way to find them and seed them.

Regardless of all of this, the main thing to remember is to seed forever and share the magnet everywhere online with the people you think will be interested in the data, and also keeping the torrent alive.

>>1529718 (cont)
>>1529592 (OP)
But there is also no reason as to why you need to go out of your way to only download collections/megapacks, just find any torrents that you like and seed them. Find lists online of similar things and find and seed them.