The best Miruro alternative in 2026
Miruro is still running on several mirror domains. In August 2026 four of them were named in a DMCA subpoena the MPA sent to Cloudflare on behalf of ACE.
By the Rotten Brains team · Updated 23 September 2026 · 3 min read
The short answer
Miruro still works. It is spread over five mirror domains, its own status page marks some video servers as broken, and four of its domains were named in an August 2026 subpoena. If you want a backup that stays at one address, Rotten Brains is free, needs no account, and has anime with sub and dub where both exist.
What's going on with Miruro?
Miruro's front-end code lives in a public GitHub repository started in November 2022, under a custom non-commercial licence. FMHY, a popular community index of free sites, listed miruro.com on 7 August 2024 and gave it a star on 20 September 2024. The Wotaku anime index describes it as a scraper: it pulls video from other hosts rather than storing its own.
Its main address has moved back and forth. FMHY switched the link to miruro.tv on 12 October 2024 and back to miruro.com on 30 March 2025. On 24 April 2026 it listed five domains plus a status page, and on 11 May 2026 miruro.online was swapped for miruro.ru. Since 9 July 2026 FMHY notes that Miruro offers soft subtitles as well as hard ones.
On 30 August 2026 TorrentFreak reported a DMCA subpoena the MPA sent to Cloudflare on behalf of ACE. It covered 49 domains, among them miruro.to, miruro.tv, miruro.ru and miruro.bz, and sought the operators' identities. TorrentFreak cited Similarweb figures of 45 million monthly visits for the .to domain and 37 million for .tv. CBR covered the same subpoena on 1 September, naming Miruro and Aniworld as the anime sites in it. No takedown had been reported by 23 September 2026.
On that date Miruro's own status page showed all five mirrors up, but its description still read "Currently broken servers kiwi - pewe". A GitHub issue from August 2026 also reports that numerous shows are labelled as English dub with no dub available.
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What people like about Miruro, and what Rotten Brains does
Miruro offering both hard and soft subtitles on the same show
On Rotten Brains: subtitles in dozens of languages →Auto-next on Miruro carrying you into the following episode
On Rotten Brains: every season and episode, with up next →Miruro's AniList sync keeping your list up to date
On Rotten Brains: pick up where you left off →
Miruro vs Rotten Brains
Status
Miruro: Running; named in an August 2026 subpoena
✓Rotten Brains: Online and updated every day
Address
Miruro: Five mirror domains; miruro.online swapped for miruro.ru in May 2026
✓Rotten Brains: One address: rotten-brains.com
When a server fails
Miruro: Its status page lists the kiwi and pewe servers as broken
✓Rotten Brains: Switches source by itself
Subtitles
Miruro: Hard and soft subtitles (FMHY)
✓Rotten Brains: Many languages, several versions each
Anime
Miruro: Sub and dub; some shows labelled dub have none (GitHub issue, August 2026)
✓Rotten Brains: Sub and dub where both exist
| Miruro today | Rotten Brains | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Running; named in an August 2026 subpoena | ✓Online and updated every day |
| Address | Five mirror domains; miruro.online swapped for miruro.ru in May 2026 | ✓One address: rotten-brains.com |
| When a server fails | Its status page lists the kiwi and pewe servers as broken | ✓Switches source by itself |
| Subtitles | Hard and soft subtitles (FMHY) | ✓Many languages, several versions each |
| Anime | Sub and dub; some shows labelled dub have none (GitHub issue, August 2026) | ✓Sub and dub where both exist |
A look around Rotten Brains
Real screenshots from the site, in the order that matters most to someone coming from Miruro.
01
Subtitles in dozens of languages
Subtitles come from more than one source, so most titles have several versions per language. If the first one is out of sync with the video, the next one usually is not.
Many get lined up with the dialogue automatically when you pick them, and there is a delay slider for the rest.
02
Every season and episode, with Up Next
Shows open on a watch page with every season beside the player. The episode you are on is marked, and Up Next sits right above the list, so finishing an episode is one tap from the next.
Anime is here too, with sub and dub where both exist.
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03
Pick up where you left off
With a free account, every movie and episode remembers the second you stopped, on every device. Continue Watching sits at the top of the home page, next to what is new in the shows you follow.
You never need the account to watch. It only adds the memory.
04
The player finds a working source by itself
Every title is checked against several sources before you press play, and the player starts on the one that answers first.
If a source stalls, the player tries the next one and picks up where you were. You can still pick one yourself from the settings menu, with a note on which ones carry extra audio languages or subtitles.
05
Watch parties with friends anywhere
Start a party from any movie or episode and send the link. Everyone who opens it watches the same second of the same video, with a chat alongside, and the player keeps them in sync.
Any free account can start one. Friends can join and watch without an account at all.
06
Built for your phone too
The site works the same on a phone as on a laptop: the player pins to the top, the episode list scrolls underneath, and the controls are sized for thumbs.
Add it to your home screen and it opens full screen, like an app, with no store and no install.
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Questions
Is Miruro shutting down?
It has not announced anything like that. Four of its domains were named in an MPA subpoena to Cloudflare in August 2026, which asks for information about who runs them, but no takedown had been reported by 23 September 2026.
Which Miruro domains are real?
FMHY lists miruro.com, miruro.tv, miruro.to, miruro.bz and miruro.ru. It dropped miruro.online in May 2026. Miruro also runs a status page that tracks all five mirrors.
Why do some Miruro servers not play?
Miruro pulls video from other hosts, and its status page lists the kiwi and pewe servers as broken. On Rotten Brains every title is checked against several sources, and the player moves to another one by itself when the first fails.