Back in March, I wrote about Anime on Demand, a program built on the .NET framework that allowed you to watch streaming fansubs outside a browser. I didn’t particularly use it much after writing that post except for saving my ass once during an anime club showing. (Never screw up Ouran when there are fangirls. Ever.)

Anyway, lunarising89 left a comment yesterday saying that none of the streams worked anymore and I checked myself to find that to be pretty much true save for a handful of titles like Battle Programmer Shirase. For most, a drawing of a ball-and-chain prisoner with a message of removal appeared for about 10 seconds. So I e-mailed the developer and webmaster Rathlar this afternoon to find out what was going on. His reply is after the jump.

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I don’t exactly remember how I came upon their site but Anime On Demand offers streaming fansubs outside a web browser and it works pretty smoothly. How does it work? Well, you first have to download a program from their website and then you should be good to go, provided you have a Windows 98 or newer system, .NET Framework 2.0 (the installer should include this if you don’t already have it), and Windows Media Player 9. If everything has gone to plan, it should look like this.

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