How We Verify Availability

An answer about where to watch legally is only useful if it’s true today. Streaming rights churn constantly. Shows leave Crunchyroll without announcement, catalogs move between services, and most sites never notice. Hozuna treats verification as the product.

The verification loop

Every week, an automated sweep re-checks the streaming availability of every anime we cover and compares it against what our pages claim. Links that are confirmed get a fresh verification date. Links that have disappeared are removed the same week. The change is recorded permanently in our availability history.

The page stamp reads “US availability: verified <date>”. It shows the oldestverification among that page’s streaming options. We deliberately don’t show the newest: if any link on the page is stale, the whole stamp ages honestly.

Availability is verified for the United States. Rights differ by country; where a title has no legal US stream at all, we say exactly that rather than hiding the page.

Where the data comes from

• anime-offline-database (ODbL license) provides the licensed catalog backbone, including titles, formats, seasons, and episode counts.
• AniList provides fresh metadata and streaming links, fetched on demand and re-checked weekly. We rewrite all prose ourselves; nothing is republished.
• Wikidata (CC0) is the public entity backbone that connects anime identifiers across databases.

We never scrape competitor sites, never use sources whose licenses forbid commercial use, and never host or link to pirated streams. Every fact on a Hozuna page traces to licensed data; every sentence of prose is original.

Who runs this

The editorial side covers reviews, guides, curation, and the judgment calls in the weekly sweep. It is run by Mika Tanabe, Hozuna’s editor. Facts are machine-checked, and she signs her opinions.

Corrections

If you spot a dead link or a wrong claim, tell us at [email protected] and we’ll fix it, usually within the week’s sweep and faster when it matters.