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hitarth-gg/zenshin
🔖 Web & Electron based Anime Streaming App for 🐈s
Zenshin is an Electron desktop app for streaming anime, built on top of third-party sources like AnimePahe, Nyaa, and tosho. It integrates with AniList for list management and uses WebTorrent for torrent-based playback. It's for anime watchers who want a native desktop experience instead of browser tabs.
AniList OAuth integration is a real differentiator — you get your actual watch list synced rather than managing a separate one. The extension architecture (animepahe lives under /extensions with its own hooks, pages, and utils) shows some structural thinking for supporting multiple sources. Discord Rich Presence integration is a nice touch that the target audience will actually care about. Building on electron-vite keeps the dev setup reasonable for a hobby project of this scope.
Subtitle support is openly admitted as missing — you're shunted to VLC for anything with embedded subs, which defeats half the point of a standalone app. The tosho dependency has already broken once (branch swap mid-development), and AnimePahe requires Cloudflare cookie handling via Puppeteer, so the sourcing layer is fragile by design. There are leftover files everywhere — `index copy.js`, `Home copy.jsx`, `AnimeCard copy.jsx`, `test.json` — suggesting no cleanup discipline, which makes the codebase harder to trust. The web version is abandoned and archived in-tree, adding noise without value.