I was a casual viewer of anime and only did normie non-hipster stuff. My list is like, AoT, Death Note, FMA & Brotherhood, Trigun, Berserk ('97 ofc), Samurai Champloo, Dragon Ball, DBZ & recently Super. Anyway, I know it must be different for a truer fan or an outright better person than me, but personally I've never paid to watch anime. Free services are always a brief search away and if I could not find it for free I would do something else with my time.
Society is so decadent, I am so spoiled, I waste my life and that is my investment. Everything is begging me to spend my time on it. Not even my money, but me myself. We are the product, that is reality and the current stage in the societal arms race. So I'm gonna go ahead and slide into my leverage as a data object, and it's the interest of any active collector of me to adapt against that in turn. Which is to say Crunchyroll gets to "fuck off and deal with it" just like I get to "fuck off and deal with it" when I don't like something that is none of my business and also impossible to stop anyhow.
So anyway lol. I don't think charging for the service and also censoring it makes much sense.
I love me some anime and I love for them to be successful, but realistically paying for crunchyroll has most of that go to shitty localizers and the like. Only a small small portion goes to the actual anime studios and producers.
If you ever feel the desire to go the extra mile to support something, buy the source material the show is based on if there is one, or buy the BD's for the show. Really don't feel bad though. This shit gets shown on TV for free over there. And if you need subtitles, there are plenty of groups that make fansubs for free so no need to feel bad about not supporting shitty localizers.
Fansubs are dying out. Most of what gets release now is people just ripping the subs from CrunchyRoll, so money going to CrunchyRoll is actually actively degrading the quality of what we can access.
Its certainly nowhere near as vibrant of a community as it was ten years ago when every series had multiple decent groups unless it was complete dogshit that no one cared about.
I was a casual viewer of anime and only did normie non-hipster stuff. My list is like, AoT, Death Note, FMA & Brotherhood, Trigun, Berserk ('97 ofc), Samurai Champloo, Dragon Ball, DBZ & recently Super. Anyway, I know it must be different for a truer fan or an outright better person than me, but personally I've never paid to watch anime. Free services are always a brief search away and if I could not find it for free I would do something else with my time.
Society is so decadent, I am so spoiled, I waste my life and that is my investment. Everything is begging me to spend my time on it. Not even my money, but me myself. We are the product, that is reality and the current stage in the societal arms race. So I'm gonna go ahead and slide into my leverage as a data object, and it's the interest of any active collector of me to adapt against that in turn. Which is to say Crunchyroll gets to "fuck off and deal with it" just like I get to "fuck off and deal with it" when I don't like something that is none of my business and also impossible to stop anyhow.
So anyway lol. I don't think charging for the service and also censoring it makes much sense.
I love me some anime and I love for them to be successful, but realistically paying for crunchyroll has most of that go to shitty localizers and the like. Only a small small portion goes to the actual anime studios and producers.
If you ever feel the desire to go the extra mile to support something, buy the source material the show is based on if there is one, or buy the BD's for the show. Really don't feel bad though. This shit gets shown on TV for free over there. And if you need subtitles, there are plenty of groups that make fansubs for free so no need to feel bad about not supporting shitty localizers.
Fansubs are dying out. Most of what gets release now is people just ripping the subs from CrunchyRoll, so money going to CrunchyRoll is actually actively degrading the quality of what we can access.
Its certainly nowhere near as vibrant of a community as it was ten years ago when every series had multiple decent groups unless it was complete dogshit that no one cared about.
And woke productions like High Guardian Spice