RgShows

The RgShows design

The archived rgshows.me of July 2024 carried its whole style sheet inline, and it is a model of restraint. Everything hangs on a handful of variables. In the dark scheme the page is #141414, cards and inputs are a step lighter at #1A1A1A, borders are #232323, chips have a #373737 outline and the footer drops to #0F0F0F. Text is an off-white #FAFAFA, and the single accent is a strong red, #E12323. Corners are rounded at eight pixels, the layout stops at eighty-five rem, and the typeface is Open Sans in just two weights, a light 300 for reading and a 500 for anything that needs to stand out.

The original also switched to a light scheme when a device asked for one, with a pale #F7F3F3 page and a brighter #EE2020 red. RgShows today keeps the dark scheme that most visitors saw, so every page has one carefully tested palette. Red that appears as small text on the dark page is lifted slightly, to #FF6B6B, so links stay comfortable to read.

A slim header

The header is eighty pixels tall and stays fixed at the top, separated from the page by a one-pixel line. On the left sits the logo: a red rounded square with a white play triangle, then Rg in white and Shows in red, echoing the original brand where the accent word carried the red. On the right, the menu links sit in small rounded pills: Home, Movies, TV Shows, Anime, Genres, A-Z, My List and Help. Point at a link and its pill fills with a dark grey; the page you are on keeps its pill filled.

The search bar is a rounded dark field that brightens when you hover or type. Results appear under it as you type, and Enter opens the full search page. On a phone the links fold into a menu button with three bars, and the search moves into the panel it opens.

The rounded carousel

The home page opens with the feature that defined RgShows: a wide backdrop carousel with rounded corners, filling most of the first screen. Each slide fades into a soft vignette at the bottom, where the title, a short description and two buttons sit: a red Watch now and a dark More info with a thin border. A row of small dots along the bottom edge shows which slide you are on, with the active dot in red.

The slides are the titles people most want to see right now, so a visit might open with Sinners, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End or Project Hail Mary. Swipe, scroll or tap a dot to move between them. Underneath, a welcome box carries the page heading and four buttons for New movies, TV Shows, Anime and Top rated.

The labelled areas

Below the carousel, the home page is built from what the original style sheet called areas: boxes with a thin grey border and rounded corners, each with a red label pill that sits across the top edge like a tab on a folder. It is a simple idea that makes a busy page easy to scan. The labels on RgShows today are Trending, New movies, TV Shows, Anime, Studio Ghibli, Top rated and Genres, and each area has a View all link on its top edge that opens the full shelf.

Inside each area, cards sit six across on a wide screen, four on a tablet and two on a phone. The spacing is the original's: ten pixels between cards, twenty pixels of padding around the area and a generous gap between one area and the next.

The cards

RgShows cards are small panels in their own right. Each has a dark background, a thin border and ten pixels of padding around the poster, so the artwork sits in a neat frame. Two grey chips sit on the poster's top corners: on the left, the type, reading Movie, TV or Anime; on the right, on series, the number of seasons. Below the poster come the title and a footer line with five small stars, the score and the year.

Point at a card and its panel brightens a shade, while a dim wash covers the poster and a red play button appears in the middle. It is the same gentle hover the original used, quick and quiet. A glance tells you everything: Attack on Titan shows Anime and its season count, Better Call Saul shows TV, and Dune: Part Two shows Movie with a strong row of red stars.

How to use RgShows?

Halfway down the home page, an area labelled How to use RgShows? holds a single line and a red button. The original asked the same question in a pop-up that greeted every visitor and pointed to a guide. The box on RgShows today opens the quick guide, which explains Watch now in four short steps.

The Genres area

The last area on the home page is a wall of genre tiles, another feature carried straight over from the original. Each tile is a dark rounded panel with the shelf name on the left and the number of titles on the right, and it brightens when you point at it. The tiles cover every shelf on RgShows: new movies, the 2022 to 2024 films, modern classics, series, anime series and films, Studio Ghibli, Marvel, top rated and the genre shelves from action to horror.

The footer bar

The footer is a slim, dark bar, true to the original's four-rem strip. It carries the logo, a short credit for the posters and data, and a row of links in small rounded pills: Movies, TV Shows, Anime, A-Z, Help, Privacy, About and Back to top.

A title page

Each title page opens with the backdrop and poster, then the title, year, running time, genres and score. The story and the cast follow, and the Watch now panel sits below with its country picker. Series and anime pages add every season and episode with titles, air dates and summaries, and every page closes with a row of related titles. Open SPY x FAMILY and you will find each season laid out in order, ready for you to tick off the episodes one by one.

RgShows on a phone

The original RgShows was built for phones as much as for desktops, and the rebuild keeps that spirit. On a narrow screen, the header shrinks to the logo and a menu button, the carousel fills the width with a shorter image and a bold title, and the labelled areas stack neatly with two cards per row. The red label pills, the chips and the stars all stay in place, so the page reads the same way at any size.

Tap targets are generous, the menu opens as a full panel with the search bar at the top, and every page loads quickly on mobile data. Add RgShows to your home screen and it opens full-screen like an app, which is how many visitors used the original.

Rows worth scrolling

Each area on the home page tells a small story. Trending shows the films with the most attention right now, New movies shows the latest releases first, TV Shows and Anime sort their series by current popularity, Studio Ghibli collects the studio's films, and Top rated orders the best-scoring titles from the top down. Together they give a quick picture of what is worth watching this week, whether you prefer The Batman or Haikyu!!.

New movies

The New movies shelf starts in 2025 and runs to the newest releases, sorted newest first. The 2026 slate is packed with big names. Project Hail Mary adapts Andy Weir's novel about a teacher who wakes up on a spaceship far from home, with Ryan Gosling in the lead. Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey retells Homer on a vast scale, and Disclosure Day marks Steven Spielberg's return to science fiction.

Family audiences have Toy Story 5, Hoppers and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, while superhero fans have Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Supergirl and The Punisher: One Last Kill. The Mandalorian and Grogu brings Star Wars back to cinemas, Michael tells the story of Michael Jackson, and The Devil Wears Prada 2 returns to the fashion world. For thrills, there are Scream 7, Evil Dead Burn, Lee Cronin's The Mummy and Mortal Kombat II.

The 2025 films are here too: Sinners, Weapons, Superman, The Fantastic 4: First Steps, F1, Jurassic World Rebirth, A Minecraft Movie, Lilo & Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon, Zootopia 2, KPop Demon Hunters and Avatar: Fire and Ash. The new movies guide keeps a quick list, and New movies holds the full shelf.

The 2022-2024 movies

The years from 2022 to 2024 gave cinema a real lift. Top Gun: Maverick flew higher than anyone expected, Avatar: The Way of Water took Pandora underwater, and The Batman reimagined Gotham as a dark detective story. In 2023, Oppenheimer and Barbie opened on the same weekend and turned a trip to the cinema into an event, and Oppenheimer went on to win Best Picture.

Dune: Part Two completed Denis Villeneuve's desert epic in 2024. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse pushed animation into new territory, Everything Everywhere All at Once became an Oscar-sweeping surprise, and Killers of the Flower Moon gave Martin Scorsese one of his finest films. Action came from John Wick: Chapter 4, The Beekeeper and Fast X, and families had The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Inside Out 2, Moana 2, The Wild Robot and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. Open 2022-2024 movies.

Modern classics

The Modern classics shelf holds the much-loved films of 2008 to 2021, the ones that keep turning up on every best-of list. Christopher Nolan leads the way with The Dark Knight, Inception and Interstellar. Marvel's first great run is here in Iron Man 2, The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.

The shelf also has Mad Max: Fury Road, Blade Runner 2049, Joker, Django Unchained, The Imitation Game, Avatar, Dune and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1. Pixar's Inside Out and Coco and Illumination's Despicable Me bring the family favourites. Open Modern classics.

Top rated

Top rated collects every title scoring eight or more from well over a thousand TMDB voters, and on RgShows it is a remarkable mix of Hollywood, television and anime. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Spirited Away, Attack on Titan and Hunter x Hunter sit near the top alongside Better Call Saul, The Dark Knight, Interstellar and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.

It is the best shelf for anyone who wants a guaranteed good evening, and a great way to try anime for the first time through its most celebrated titles. Open Top rated, sorted by score.

Anime on RgShows

Anime was one of the four pillars of the original RgShows, with its own icon in the header, and it has a big place on the site today. The Anime series shelf holds nearly thirty series, every season and episode listed, and the Anime movies shelf gathers the best films from Japan. The anime guide gives a quick start; the sections below go deeper.

The series everyone is watching

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End begins where most fantasy stories end: the hero's party has already defeated the Demon King, and the long-lived elf mage Frieren sets out on a new journey to understand the friends she took for granted. It is gentle, funny and deeply moving, and has become one of the best-rated anime ever made. The Apothecary Diaries follows a sharp-witted young pharmacist solving mysteries in an imperial palace.

SPY x FAMILY pairs a spy, an assassin and a telepathic little girl in a fake family that becomes a real one. JUJUTSU KAISEN follows Yuji Itadori into a world of curses and sorcerers, Solo Leveling turns the weakest hunter into the strongest, and BLUE LOCK turns football training into a battle royale. Kaiju No. 8, Mob Psycho 100 and One-Punch Man add superpowered action with a big sense of humour.

The great classics

Some anime are essential viewing. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood follows two brothers searching for the Philosopher's Stone after a terrible alchemy accident, and many fans rank it the best anime of all. Attack on Titan turned a story of humanity walled in against giants into a sweeping war epic. Death Note is a battle of wits between a student with a deadly notebook and a brilliant detective.

Hunter x Hunter follows young Gon in search of his father, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion tells the story of an exiled prince leading a rebellion, and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure follows generations of the Joestar family through gloriously strange battles. For long adventures, Naruto Shippūden, Black Clover and Dragon Ball DAIMA carry hundreds of episodes between them.

Sports, school and other worlds

Sports anime are some of the most exciting to watch. Haikyu!! turns high-school volleyball into pure drama, and Kuroko's Basketball gives its players near-superhuman skills. Kaguya-sama: Love Is War is a romantic comedy about two student leaders too proud to confess, and Tokyo Revengers sends its hero back in time to save his friends.

Isekai stories, where heroes wake up in another world, are well represented too: Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Sword Art Online, Overlord and The Misfit of Demon King Academy. Classroom of the Elite takes a sharper look at school life, where students compete for points in an elite academy. Open Anime series.

Anime films

Makoto Shinkai has three of the most beautiful films on the shelf: Your Name., a body-swap romance that became a worldwide hit, Weathering with You and Suzume. A Silent Voice: The Movie is a tender story of bullying and forgiveness. The Demon Slayer films, from Mugen Train to the first Infinity Castle film, broke box-office records in Japan and around the world.

The shelf also has My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, The Last: Naruto the Movie and Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F', each a feature-length treat for fans of the series. Open Anime movies.

The big shōnen adventures

Shōnen anime, written for a teenage audience but loved by everyone, is the heart of the Anime series shelf. These stories follow determined young heroes who train, fight, fail and rise again, surrounded by friends and rivals. Naruto Shippūden follows Naruto Uzumaki's long road to becoming Hokage, and The Last: Naruto the Movie adds a romantic chapter to the saga. Black Clover follows Asta, a determined orphan with a rare anti-magic power, on his way to becoming Wizard King.

My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising shows Deku and Class 1-A defending an island on their own, Dragon Ball DAIMA shrinks Goku and friends into children for a brand-new adventure, and Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' brings back Frieza for a rematch. The Demon Slayer films complete the picture, with Tanjiro and his friends facing the most dangerous demons of all. These series reward patience with some of the most thrilling battles in animation.

Where anime meets Hollywood

The line between anime and Hollywood keeps getting thinner. KPop Demon Hunters, an American animated film inspired by Korean pop and East Asian mythology, became one of the most-watched films in Netflix history in 2025. Avatar: The Last Airbender, based on an American series drawn in an anime-inspired style, came to Netflix as a live-action show, and Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender continues the story in animation in 2026.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse borrows the energy of anime in its action, and The Boy and the Heron reached American audiences with an English dub led by Christian Bale and Robert Pattinson. For anyone who loves both worlds, RgShows puts them side by side on the same shelves.

The anime year

Anime runs to a calendar. New series usually premiere in January, April, July and October, and each season brings a fresh batch of shows alongside returning favourites. Many series run for twelve or thirteen episodes, some for two cours of about twenty-four, and the biggest hits return for more seasons a year or two later. Popular films arrive in Japanese cinemas first and reach other countries in the following months, before appearing on streaming services.

That rhythm makes planning easy. Start a new series when it premieres and watch week by week with everyone else, or wait until the season ends and watch it all at once. Either way, the Anime series shelf on RgShows shows every season and episode, and My List keeps your place.

Studio Ghibli

Studio Ghibli has its own area on the RgShows home page, and it is one of the loveliest shelves on the site. Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away follows ten-year-old Chihiro into a bathhouse for spirits, and won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. Howl's Moving Castle sends a young hatter, cursed into old age, into the walking home of a vain and kind-hearted wizard. Ponyo retells The Little Mermaid as a story about a goldfish who wants to be human.

The Boy and the Heron, Miyazaki's most personal film, won the Oscar in 2024. The studio's other directors made Arrietty, about a family of tiny people living under the floorboards, The Cat Returns, a playful fantasy about a kingdom of cats, and When Marnie Was There, a quiet story of friendship by the sea. In the United States the films stream on HBO Max, and in many other countries on Netflix. The Ghibli guide has more, and Studio Ghibli holds the shelf.

Marvel

The Marvel shelf runs from the early days to 2026. Start with Iron Man 2 and The Avengers, move through Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, then into the newer chapters: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts* and The Fantastic 4: First Steps.

The 2026 films Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Punisher: One Last Kill carry the story on, and the TV side has Loki and Marvel's The Punisher. Open Marvel.

TV shows

The Series shelf on RgShows holds nearly fifty English-language shows, each with every season and episode. It leans towards the series that keep people coming back week after week, and the season chip on each card shows how long a journey you are signing up for. The TV shows guide picks highlights.

Drama series

Better Call Saul is a slow-burning masterpiece about how a small-time lawyer becomes Saul Goodman. True Detective reinvents itself with a new case and cast each season, with the first, starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, still one of television's finest. Fargo does the same with snowy crime stories, and Yellowstone follows the Dutton family's fight for their Montana ranch.

The Crown traces Queen Elizabeth II's reign across six seasons, How to Get Away with Murder follows a law professor and her students through twisting cases, and Mr. Robot follows a hacker drawn into a revolution. This Is Us follows the Pearson family through decades of joy and heartbreak.

Big worlds on TV

Stranger Things turned a small Indiana town into a legend, Wednesday gave the Addams family daughter her own school mystery at Nevermore Academy, and The Mandalorian made Grogu a star. The Witcher follows Geralt of Rivia through a monster-filled continent, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power explores Middle-earth's Second Age, and The 100 sends a hundred young people down to a changed Earth.

Silo imagines a community living deep underground, FROM traps travellers in a mysterious town, and The Expanse, Star Trek: Discovery and The Orville head into space. Avatar: The Last Airbender brings the classic animated story to live action.

Procedurals and heroes

For easy, rewarding viewing, the procedurals are ideal. Chicago P.D., Chicago Med, 9-1-1, Station 19, The Rookie, S.W.A.T. and SEAL Team each deliver a complete story in every episode with characters you grow to love. The Good Doctor, The Resident and Blindspot add medical and mystery twists, and Lucifer and Scorpion bring a playful streak.

The heroes shelf on TV includes The Flash, Supergirl, Superman & Lois, DC's Legends of Tomorrow and Gotham, the story of a young James Gordon in the city before Batman. Reacher, Lioness and The Night Agent cover the action side.

Comfort viewing

Some evenings call for something warm and easy. Ted Lasso is pure kindness in football boots, Young Sheldon is a gentle family comedy set in 1980s Texas, and This Is Us is a heartfelt family saga. On the anime side, SPY x FAMILY mixes spy action with a family that is easy to love, Haikyu!! is all friendship and effort, and Frieren: Beyond Journey's End moves at the calm pace of a long walk through the countryside.

For films, Ponyo, The Cat Returns, Coco and The Wild Robot are perfect with a blanket and a cup of tea. Save a few of them to My List for the next rainy day.

The genre shelves

Seven genre shelves sit alongside the era, anime and studio shelves. Action gathers John Wick: Chapter 4, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Beekeeper and the series Reacher. Sci-Fi and fantasy has Dune: Part Two, Interstellar, Blade Runner 2049, Project Hail Mary and a large share of the anime, from Frieren: Beyond Journey's End to Attack on Titan.

Comedy brings Barbie, A Minecraft Movie, Ted Lasso, Young Sheldon and Kaguya-sama: Love Is War. Crime has The Batman, Killers of the Flower Moon, Better Call Saul, True Detective and Death Note. Drama is the widest shelf, from Oppenheimer to A Silent Voice: The Movie.

Family and animation combines Pixar, Disney, DreamWorks, Illumination and anime films such as Ponyo and Your Name., and Horror and thriller has Sinners, Weapons, 28 Years Later, Fall and the series FROM. Every shelf appears as a tile in the Genres area, and the genres page lists every genre in the catalogue.

Choosing what to watch

With movies, series and anime side by side, a few questions narrow things down. How much time do you have? A two-hour film, a twelve-episode anime season and a ten-season drama are very different plans. Would you like something familiar or something new? If anime is new to you, Your Name. or Spirited Away is a perfect first step. And who is watching? The type chip on each card helps you spot the right kind of title at a glance.

The stars on each card are a useful hint too. Four or more filled stars means a title a large audience loved, and the Top rated area collects them. For a series, the season chip shows how many seasons lie ahead.

A first taste of anime

New to anime? Start with a film. Spirited Away is the classic introduction, rich and magical, and Your Name. is a romantic, gorgeous story with a twist. Then try a short, complete series: Death Note runs to a single tight season of thirty-seven episodes, and Mob Psycho 100 mixes big action with a warm heart across three seasons.

From there, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, SPY x FAMILY and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood are easy to love. Most anime on the official services offers both subtitles and an English dub, so you can pick whichever feels comfortable. The subtitles and dubs page explains how.

Filmmakers and creators

Hayao Miyazaki leads the anime side with Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Ponyo and The Boy and the Heron. Makoto Shinkai directed Your Name., Weathering with You and Suzume, and Naoko Yamada directed A Silent Voice: The Movie. On the Hollywood side, Christopher Nolan made The Dark Knight, Inception, Interstellar, Oppenheimer and The Odyssey, and Denis Villeneuve made Blade Runner 2049, Dune and Dune: Part Two.

Ryan Coogler directed Sinners, Greta Gerwig directed Barbie, Quentin Tarantino made Django Unchained, and George Miller made Mad Max: Fury Road. On television, Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould created Better Call Saul, the Duffer Brothers created Stranger Things, and Taylor Sheridan created Yellowstone and Lioness.

Award winners

The shelves are full of Oscar winners. Spirited Away and The Boy and the Heron both won Best Animated Feature, and so did Coco and Inside Out. Oppenheimer and Everything Everywhere All at Once won Best Picture, Joker won Joaquin Phoenix Best Actor, and Django Unchained won Christoph Waltz Best Supporting Actor. Mad Max: Fury Road won six Oscars for its craft.

How Watch now works

Every title page on RgShows has a Watch now panel with a country picker. The list starts with the United States, India, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, then covers the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, South Africa, Germany, Brazil and Mexico. Choose yours, press Watch now, and RgShows opens the title's JustWatch page for that country.

JustWatch lists the official services that carry the title there, in four groups: subscription, rental, purchase and free with ads. Tap one and the film, series or anime opens in that service's own app or site. RgShows remembers your country for next time.

Where movies, shows and anime stream

For films and series, the big services carry most of the catalogue: Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max, Apple TV and Paramount+, with Hulu and Peacock in the United States and JioHotstar in India. Disney+ is the home of Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars, HBO Max carries the Warner Bros and DC films, and Netflix carries Stranger Things, Wednesday and KPop Demon Hunters.

For anime, Crunchyroll has the largest library in the world, with most new series streaming within hours of their Japanese broadcast. Netflix carries many popular series and films, Prime Video and HIDIVE carry others, and Studio Ghibli streams on HBO Max in the United States and on Netflix in many other countries. The other ways to watch page sums it up.

Simulcasts and new episodes

One of the joys of anime today is the simulcast: new episodes of the season's series appear on the official services soon after they air in Japan, subtitled and often dubbed a few weeks later. Anime runs in seasons of around twelve episodes, grouped into winter, spring, summer and autumn, so there is always something new starting. Tick episodes in My List as you go and RgShows keeps your place.

The RgShows app

RgShows works as a web app on every phone. In Chrome on Android, open the menu and choose Add to Home screen; in Safari on an iPhone, tap Share and then Add to Home Screen. A red RgShows icon appears with your other apps and opens the site full-screen, with your country and My List ready.

The titles themselves play in the official apps of each service, from Netflix to Crunchyroll, installed from Google Play or the App Store where they stay secure and up to date. The apps and devices page covers each platform.

On the television

The same official apps run on Fire TV, Google TV and Android TV, Roku, Apple TV, PlayStation, Xbox and smart TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, TCL and Hisense. Crunchyroll, Netflix and Prime Video are available on almost all of them. Signing in once keeps your profile, progress and watchlist in sync between phone and TV.

Casting bridges the two. Start a title in the service's phone app, tap the cast icon and choose a Chromecast or Google TV, or use AirPlay from an iPhone to an Apple TV or AirPlay-ready television.

Picture and sound

The official services stream in HD as standard, usually at 1080p. Recent blockbusters such as Dune: Part Two, Oppenheimer, Avatar: Fire and Ash and Top Gun: Maverick often stream in 4K with HDR and Dolby Atmos, and many new anime series stream in crisp 1080p. For smooth HD, around five megabits per second is plenty; for 4K, aim for about twenty-five.

Set each service's quality to High or Auto, and try your TV's Filmmaker or Movie mode for natural colour. A wired connection or a router close to the TV keeps the picture steady. The video quality page has more.

Subtitles and dubs

Subtitles are available on every major service from the speech-bubble icon in the player. Anime fans can usually choose between the original Japanese audio with subtitles and a dub in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi or other languages. Closed captions describe sounds as well as speech, and audio description narrates the action for blind and partially sighted viewers.

Free and legal viewing

Plenty of great viewing is free. Tubi, Pluto TV, The Roku Channel and Plex stream films and series with adverts, and Tubi and Pluto TV include dedicated anime channels. Public libraries often provide Kanopy and Hoopla with a library card, and official anime channels on YouTube share selected series free in some regions. When a title on RgShows has a free option in your country, it appears in the Watch now list alongside the paid choices.

Trials help too. Several services begin with a free trial, time enough to watch a complete anime such as Death Note or a short series like True Detective's first season. The free viewing page lists the main options.

My List

My List is RgShows' built-in watchlist. Press Add to My List on any title page, and the title is saved in your browser, private to you. Open My List from the menu to see everything in one place, and remove titles as you finish them.

For series and anime, tick each episode as you watch and RgShows remembers your place, which is a real help in long runs like Naruto Shippūden, Black Clover, Chicago P.D. or 9-1-1. Export saves your list to a small file and Import restores it on another phone or computer. The My List page explains more.

Search and A-Z

The header search bar shows matching cards after a couple of letters and matches English titles along with many original and alternative ones, so a half-remembered name usually finds its film. Press Enter for the full search page, with filters for type, genre, year, language and score and a sort menu for popularity, year, score or title. Filters stay in the page address, so a favourite search can be bookmarked.

The A-Z list shows every movie, show and anime alphabetically, and the page on finding a title collects every route.

Watching together

Most services support several profiles per account, so each person keeps their own recommendations and progress, and kids profiles keep younger viewers to suitable titles. For a shared evening, the Family and animation shelf is a good place to start, with Coco, The Wild Robot, Inside Out 2, Ponyo and Zootopia 2.

Ideas for a movie night

For a Ghibli evening, pair Spirited Away with Howl's Moving Castle. For a Shinkai double bill, watch Your Name. and then Suzume. For action, line up John Wick: Chapter 4 and Mad Max: Fury Road. For a Nolan night, Inception and Interstellar make a memorable pair, and for something spooky, Weapons and 28 Years Later will keep the lights on.

Binge plans

Anime seasons are short, so a weekend is enough for a lot. One season of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End runs to twenty-eight episodes, perfect for two long evenings. Solo Leveling and The Apothecary Diaries each fit neatly into a weekend season by season. For TV, a season of True Detective or Fargo is around eight to ten episodes, and a season of Wednesday fits into a couple of nights.

Reading the stars

The five small stars on each card turn the TMDB score out of ten into a quick picture: a score of eight fills four stars, and a score of seven fills three and a half. The exact score sits beside the stars, and the vote count appears on the title page. A score from tens of thousands of voters, like the one for Interstellar, is a steady guide, while a new release may move as more people watch.

Recognising RgShows

RgShows has a clear look: a dark page, a slim header with a red play square and RgShows in white and red, menu links in small rounded pills, a big rounded carousel with dot indicators, and bordered areas topped with red label pills. Cards carry grey type and season chips and rows of small red stars.

Bookmark the home page and add it to your home screen, and RgShows is always one tap away. The official site page covers the details, and the site status page helps when a page loads slowly.

Safe streaming

A few habits keep streaming safe. Install apps only from Google Play, the App Store or your television's own store. Keep your phone, browser and TV updated, use a strong and different password for each service, and turn on two-step sign-in wherever it is offered. Before you pay or sign in anywhere, check the address bar for the service's real name. RgShows links to JustWatch, and JustWatch links to the official services, so every step stays trustworthy. The safety page has a checklist.

Privacy

RgShows keeps your data in your own browser. My List, ticked episodes and your chosen country stay on your device, ready to clear at any time or move with Export and Import. Posters, stories, cast and episodes come from TMDB, the community film and TV database, and the viewing options come from JustWatch.

From cinema and Japan to your screen

New films usually arrive for digital rental a few weeks after their cinema run, then join a subscription service some months later. New anime episodes follow a faster path, often streaming the same day they air in Japan. The latest releases page explains the pattern, and Watch now always shows where a title is right now.

How the catalogue is chosen

The catalogue mirrors the original's three pillars. Movies focus on the films of 2022 to 2026, with a shelf of modern classics from 2008 onward; TV shows focus on the popular English-language series people follow season after season; and anime brings together the most-loved series since 2006 and the best anime films. Every title is chosen from the largest audiences on TMDB and checked by hand, with a poster, a story and a score.

A short history of RgShows

RgShows appeared in 2023 as a content search and watch website covering movies, TV shows, anime and live TV, and moved to rgshows.me in 2024. Its archived July 2024 home page shows the design this site keeps: the dark palette, the red accent, the rounded carousel, the labelled areas, the chip-covered cards and the genre tiles. Along the way it greeted visitors with pop-ups pointing to its guide, its community channel and its change of address.

RgShows today keeps the tidy, app-like design and the three pillars of movies, TV and anime, and sends every title to the official services, in HD, with subtitles and dubs, on every device.

A first visit

On a first visit, let the carousel suggest something, then scroll through the Trending, New movies, TV Shows and Anime areas. Open a card, read the story, and press Watch now to see where it plays in your country. Save a few titles to My List, try the Studio Ghibli area, and add RgShows to your home screen. In a few minutes, your watchlist for the week is ready.

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