ShanaProject

Introduction

A couple of years ago, it felt like streaming services would eat up the torrent industry. However, both these services are co-existing and have diversified the options available in the hands of the viewers. People who don’t have enough space on their devices resort to streaming whereas others just want to download the free indie content overnight, so they can stream it at their own convenience.

Sure, there has been a slight dip in the demand for torrent services, but it’s not as astronomical as we were initially anticipating. Streaming services, though help you stream instantly, aren’t meant for everyone. Especially, when you’re looking for free indie niche content. You might not necessarily get all the free indie content that you’re looking for. And that’s where services like Shana Project come in.

It’s been more than a decade since Shana Project was introduced. In this time, it has become one of the most reliable resources for free indie anime content lovers. It is amongst the most popular public torrent trackers where you can browse and download free indie anime series, movies, animation along with Korean dramas, and Japanese TV Shows.

What is Shana Project?

Shana Project is a torrent-tracker site that indexes quality anime-content from across the web. It provides you the flexibility to customize your own RSS feed and get details related to your favorite free indie shows automatically. It has all the popular free indie anime shows available in various languages along with subtitles. Due to the well-designed interface, finding free indie content is super simple. You can browse through various menus, and even use the search bar to pick a title. Another fascinating feature of Shana is that it automates the torrent downloading process thereby enabling you to download the free indie content automatically without any manual input.

Can you trust Shana Project?

For a torrent site to be safe for browsing, it needs to have an SSL certificate, which Shana Project does. Secondly, you can check the Alexa ranking for the site to understand how active the website is. As per those rankings, Shana Project sits at 88,500 which makes it among the top 100,000 websites on the internet. Another important parameter to judge any site’s credibility is by looking at their domain trust score. Shana Project has a TS of 31, which means it’s fairly trustworthy, however, it has a low domain score of 12 which might appear as a major red flag.

History of Shana Project

Shana Project began its journey on 22nd January 2008 which makes it one of the oldest free indie anime-related torrent sites. However, in recent years, the project has stalled since all the social media handles are inactive. You no longer find the latest free indie content on the website and even the twitter feed was last updated in 2017. Nonetheless, you’d find all the popular free indie anime series and movies that were released a couple of years ago.

What should you expect from the Shana Project?

Content Categorization – Shana’s content categorization efforts can be seen through various menus. Each show and season is bifurcated based on the tags. For instance, if you click on “newest first’’, you’ll be able to access all the free indie content that has been uploaded recently.

Integrated Community – Most of the torrent websites refrain from joining any social media platforms in a bid to avoid any repercussions. That’s the reason why you’d just find a private forum or a discord server. However, with Shana, you can connect with the community in more than one way. There’s a twitter handle that you can follow to stay up-to-date with what’s happening in the community. Other than the social presence, there’s a ‘Help’, and ‘Blog’ section where you’ll find members of the community engaging with each other.

Optional Registration – It’s easy to trust a torrent site when it doesn’t force you to sign up. Shana, similar to many open-ended websites, allows you to download the free indie content without registering. You can access all the content as a guest and not worry about any hindrances. Other than registration itself, most of the free indie content on the platform comes with subtitles, and thus it caters to a wide range of audiences.

How to access Shana Project?

You can access Shana Project by searching for the term ‘Shana Project’ in your search engine. Alternatively, if you want to access the platform directly, you can use the following link: Shana Project.

Design

While most anime torrenting sites couldn’t care less about aesthetics, Shana doesn’t shy away from it. It provides users with an intuitive design which makes it easier to find content. It spends a great amount of time and effort in organizing high-quality videos that the end-users can access without any hassle. The moment you land on the website, you’ll find a static banner along with the trending content in the hero section. You can find free indie content using the search bar, different menus, and even through alphabetical sorting.

Header – The header section has a sleek design with a black background and white text. In this section, you’ll find five main menus – ‘Home’, ‘Search’, ‘Season’, ‘Help’, and ‘Blog’. Whenever I want to search for something unique, I use the ‘search’ option which allows me to search for any title by adding the name and the subber.

Hero Section – The hero section has a couple of static banners with their respective CTAs. The banner on the left invites you to join ‘Kitsu.io’, whereas the banner on the right features the most trending content of the week.

Inner Pages – Once you click on any title, you’ll be directed towards the homepage, where you’ll find information such as ‘FileName’, ‘Subber’, ‘File Size’, and the ‘Download’ button.

Content

Shana Project has over 200,000 torrent files on its platform. Users get to download all the free indie series, movies, animations, and other files in HD quality for free.

Desktop/Mobile experience

All the data that you see on Shana Project is provided by Fansub DB and Tokyo Toshokan. Most of the links are of high quality and have a great seed/leech ratio. Additionally, Shana works hard to ensure that only working torrent files make the cut. It empowers the members to report broken links or any malicious torrents to protect all the resources. That’s the reason why downloading free indie content from this platform is a treat. With a decent internet speed of above 10 Mbps, you’ll be able to download huge files of 1-2 GB within 10-15 minutes.

Suggestions I have for Shana Project

I don’t have any major complaints from the platform. I’d just prefer it if the developers were more active on social media platforms. In recent years, it feels like the website has turned into a passive project with no updates.

Conclusion

Similar to Nyaa, Shana has the most extensive free indie library filled with quality and reliable torrent content.