Enlarge / Disney+ promotional art for The Fable, an anime series that triggered Animeflix takedown notices. (credit: Disney+) Thousands of anime fans were shocked Thursday when the popular piracy site Animeflix voluntarily shut down without explaining why, TorrentFreak reported. "It is with a heavy heart that we announce the closure of Animeflix," the site's operators told users in a Discord with 35,000 members.