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Free anime on YouTube: official uploads, with English subtitles.

Studios and rights holders post full episodes on their own YouTube channels for free, but only in Japanese. WatchTranslate adds English subtitles while you watch.

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But it's cold this time of year, right?

でも寒いでしょ、この時期。

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Official channels

10 anime you can watch free on YouTube

Every one is on its official channel; a few are blocked in some countries. The one with a page here opens it; the rest go straight to the channel.

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Step 1

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Step 2

Open the official upload

A full episode, a trailer or a clip: it works on any video from the channel.

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Step 3

Click the WT icon in the player

English subtitles appear within seconds and keep going to the end of the episode.

Quality

In this scene, better than YouTube's auto-translate

Episode 1, minute 21. The line means "isn't this going rogue again?" YouTube's auto-translate turns it into bullets arriving first.

Six minutes later, YouTube reads the name Pao as "yurt" and sends someone "down to the yurt".
It translates with the dialogue's context, not line by line.
If a video has no subtitles at all, WatchTranslate listens to the audio.

For anime fans

Made for Japanese you can't follow

The whole episode

Subtitles from the opening to the ending.

Pick up where you left off

Jump to the middle of an episode and the subtitles start there.

English above, Japanese below

Keep the original line visible if you are learning Japanese.

But it's cold this time of year, right?でも寒いでしょ、この時期。

No waiting for subtitles

When a channel posts an episode, you can watch it in English right away.

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Questions

Free anime on YouTube: questions

Where can I watch anime free and legally on YouTube?

On official channels run by the studios and rights holders, like the ones on this page. Some post whole series, others the first episode.

Why don't these uploads have English subtitles?

Many official channels publish for viewers in Japan. If a show has an official English release, use it. If not, WatchTranslate subtitles the Japanese while you watch.

Are the subtitles perfect?

No. It is machine translation: it sometimes gets a name, a cut-off line or a very local expression wrong.

Does it work on a phone or TV?

On Android and iPhone, yes: the WatchTranslate app opens YouTube in its built-in browser with translated subtitles. On a TV, not yet — use a computer with Chrome or Edge.

Does it download the video?

No. You watch on YouTube, on the official channel, as usual.

WatchTranslate is not affiliated with any studio or rights holder. To watch, this page only links to official YouTube channels.

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