Brand impersonation — not the real site
The page visually clones hianime.to. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.
Is hianime.city legit or a scam?
A deceptive clone of the original HiAnime site that uses pirated content as a lure and is flagged by security engines for suspicious behavior.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
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Visual analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
The page visually mimics hianime.to
The site is a visual clone of HiAnime, utilizing its branding and layout on a different domain to host potentially unsafe pirate streaming content.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsSite appears to be a clone of the popular anime streaming platform HiAnime.
The domain hianime.city is visible in the 'Top 10 Series' sidebar, which is a known unofficial mirror.
Presence of a 'Surprise Me' pop-up button in the top right corner, often used for intrusive redirects.
The site offers copyrighted anime content for free, which is a hallmark of pirate streaming sites.
Visual layout and branding elements are copied directly from the legitimate hianime.to interface.
Intelligence
The site is a direct visual clone of the original HiAnime platform, which was officially shut down following legal action against its operators. It falsely claims to be the 'Official' new home of the service to capitalize on the brand's existing user base. Our antivirus network, including Bfore.Ai PreCrime and Gridinsoft, has already flagged the domain for malicious or suspicious activity. The domain was registered only four months ago and uses privacy shields to hide the identity of its operators in Pakistan. There is no verifiable business presence, and the site relies on third-party scripts that often lead to intrusive redirects or phishing attempts.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for hianime.city, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain hianime.city registered March 3, 2026 (approx. 4 months old as of July 2026); expires March 3, 2027; registrar DevExpanse Ltd d/b/a Regery.com; registrant location PK (Pakistan)
- Page title and description match exactly the scanned page: 'HiAnime Official | Stream the Latest Anime Online Free in HD Anytime' and description about English sub/dub streaming
- Original HiAnime (hianime.to, formerly Zoro.to/Aniwatch.to) permanently shut down around March 13, 2026 with goodbye message; operators arrested in Vietnam July 2026 per BleepingComputer, Dexerto, and multiple reports
- Gridinsoft flags hianime.city as suspicious (30/100 trust score) due to young domain, 2 blacklist detections, no established reviews; similar low scores on related domains like hianime.to
- Reddit threads (r/AniWatchZone, r/AnimeMirchi, r/Piracy) discuss hianime.city as potential new/mirror site post-shutdown, with warnings it may not be official/legit and risks of fake login/phishing sites
- Site uses WordPress, Google Tag Manager, active SSL (3 months); hosts include wp.com, cloudflare, googletagmanager; IP 87.120.104.69 (AS211443, Norway)
- No Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, or ScamDoc entries found specifically for hianime.city; related hianime.to has mixed Trustpilot reviews (3.8/5 from 26 reviews) mentioning ads/malware risks
- Gridinsoftopen
"Hianime.city Scam Check: Blacklist Warning (30/100 Trust Score). Suspicious Website. Multiple security vendors blacklist Hianime.city, and our checks show a 30/100 trust score."
Domain claims to be 'HiAnime Official' post-shutdown of hianime.to; Reddit users in r/AniWatchZone note 'Looking through Hianime discord HiAnime.city is not legit so be cautious' and question if it is the new one
Domain Timeline
- Mar 4, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 4 months old today.
- Jul 6, 2026Latest security review — Flagged as dangerous
This scan re-ran every check; the current findings are detailed above.
hianime.city was registered very recently and is already flagged. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, and a young domain with active threat signals warrants extra caution.
Threat Detection
Scam Network
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
1 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Visual clone of hianime.to detected in the screenshot.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
1 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Visual clone of hianime.to detected in the screenshot.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedContact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with hianime.city
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
- Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
- OpenReport the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
Safer Alternatives
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Final Verdict
This is an unofficial clone of the defunct HiAnime streaming site that uses deceptive branding to attract users. Multiple security engines flag it as a risk, and it lacks any legitimate business registration or contact information.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags hianime.city as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — hianime.city scored 12/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. hianime.city presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR1, expiring in 81 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- hianime.city is 4 months old, registered on 3/4/2026 through Devexpanse Ltd d/b/a Regery.com. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 2 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged hianime.city as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. hianime.city is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- hianime.city resolves to an IP operated by SINO WORLDWIDE TRADING LIMITED in NO (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on July 6, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around hianime.city have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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