🐾 The ultimate torrent-based anime player — lightweight, powerful, and paws-itively fast 🐾

📚 Wiki • ✨ Features • ❓ FAQ • 🔧 Building & Development • ⬇️ Download

Shiru is a fork of Miru v5.5.10 that enhances the anime streaming experience with a feature-rich environment and full mobile support. It blends the power of BitTorrent streaming with the convenience of traditional streaming platforms.

Shiru allows you to stream anime in real-time with no waiting for downloads, combining the advantages of high-speed torrents, great video quality, and fast releases — all without ads or tracking.

• 🪄 Anime integration with AniList & MyAnimeList
• 💬 Full subtitle support with softcoded and external files
• ⏩ Seamless video controls and keyboard shortcuts
• 🌐 Torrent streaming in real-time

• 🪄 Full AniList & MyAnimeList Integration:

  • Filter by name, genre, season, year, format, and status.
  • Manage your watching & planning lists easily.
  • Automatically mark episodes as completed after watching.
  • Watch trailers and previews.
  • Rate and score anime.
  • Explore related anime.

• 🌐 Torrents:

  • Auto-find torrents for episodes.
  • Recognize torrents by anime.
  • Support for custom RSS feeds and resolution settings.
  • Stream in real-time with no wait.
  • Selectable downloads' folder.
  • Support for custom extensions.
  • Support for most popular BEP's.
  • Custom download/upload speeds.

• 🔔 Dub & Sub Notifications:

  • Schedules and tracking for both dub and sub releases.
  • Instant notifications on new episodes!

• 💬 Full Subtitle Support:

  • Softcoded and external subtitles (VTT, SSA, ASS, SUB, TXT).
  • Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode for multitasking.

• 🎮 Keybindings:

  • S: Skip opening (seek forward 90s).
  • R: Seek backwards 90s.
  • →: seek forwards 2 seconds.
  • ←: seek backwards 2 seconds.
  • ↑: increase volume.
  • ↓: decrease volume.
  • M: Mute volume.
  • C: Cycle through subtitle tracks.
  • F: toggle fullscreen.
  • P: toggle picture in picture.
  • N/B: Next/previous episode.
  • O: View anime details.
  • V: Toggle volume limit increase.
  • [: Increase playback speed.
  • ]: Decrease playback speed.
  • \: reset playback speed to 1.
  • I: Show video stats.
  • `: Open keybinds UI (edit keybinds by drag and dropping any key).

• 👏 Other Features:

  • Miniplayer and media session support.
  • Pausing when window focus is lost.
  • Autoplaying the next episode.
  • Switching between multiple audios.
  • Discord Rich Presence integration.
  • Preview thumbnails and autoplay next episodes.
  • Torrent download progress visible on the seek bar.

paru -S shiru

Or if you use yay:

yay -S shiru

1. 🔗 Download the linux-Shiru-version.deb from the releases page.

2. 📦 Install using the package manager:

   apt install linux-Shiru-*.deb

For Windows 10 1809 or later, or Windows 11:

winget install shiru

1. 🔗 Download from the releases page:
   • Installer: win-Shiru-vx.x.x-installer.exe
   • Portable: win-Shiru-vx.x.x-portable.exe (No installation required, just run it)

Credit to Migu for doing the legwork on this.

• PNPM (or any package manager)
• NodeJS 20+
• Docker (with WSL on Windows)
• ADB & Android Studio (SDK 34)
• Java 21 (JDK)

1. Navigate to the Electron directory:

   cd electron

2. Install dependencies:

   pnpm install

3. Start development:

   pnpm start

4. Build for release:

   pnpm build

1. Navigate to the Capacitor directory:

   cd capacitor

2. Install dependencies:

   pnpm install

3. Run the doctor to check for missing dependencies:

   pnpm exec cap doctor

4. (First time only) Build native code:
   • Windows:

     pnpm build:native-win

   • Linux:

     pnpm build:native

5. (Optional) Generate assets:

   pnpm build:assets

6. Open the Android project:

   pnpm exec cap open android

7. Connect your device with ADB and start development:

   pnpm dev:start

8. Build the app for release (APK will not be signed):

   pnpm build:app

This project follows the GPLv3 License.