Are there any other anime platforms? Some of the free streaming services have older anime which I love but I was looking to get a pure anime service.
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Ay, ay, Cap'n!
hoist the colours!
I've been watching a few series here: https://9anime.win/
Generally, searching for "watch nameoftheseries online free" on your search engine of choice is a good way to find these sites.
i think part of the issue with crunchyroll is not much of the money is even making its way back to japan
its paying for a bunch of woke retards to do what is essentially a cultural "man in the middle" attack on the translations and shit animation original projects that go nowhere
Dang! That sucks to hear. I a thought anime pushed back against that sort of thing.
Anime itself its generally doing a lot better fending off those sort of things than other mediums. Some parts are arguably gradually being infected but largely it remains fine. It's the western localizers that are a problem.
I figured they would be the ones to mess it up.
Ok that definitely screams western influence
I thought he was going to link to the Dragon Maid crunchyroll-made dub of "I got tired of the cis-hetero-normative male gaze on me" scene, or the Prison School crunchyroll-made-dub of "are you one of those Gamergate freakshows?". I completely forgot High Guardian Spice existed!
the western made show was not the main problem, they took the membership money they promised to pay japanese contents to fund that trash fire.
Wow! Did real anime fans push back?
nothing drastic, just the usual complaints and canceling membership, the show had low viewership
No. They're woke. Just use Nyaa.si.
BBT and AB are also useful for old and obscure titles, but BBT seems like it's dying, and AB likes to keep the door closed.
Thanks. I’ve decided not to subscribe. I’ll get one of the sites mentioned here and like I mentioned free streaming sites like Tubi and crackle have older anime and there is a lot of anime on YouTube
Nyaa.si and plex. Otherwise crunchy roll is under hbomax and funimation has a lot of content under Hulu . However paying for either is going directly into “western” anime using their god awful art style. I have an old laptop I use as a plex server and get regular updated torrents on Nyaa faster than either streamer. Also found Monster on Nyaa which is probably the most underrated anime in existence
This will be gone by Q3 2023.
That's when the funimation deals with Hulu end.
Crunchy on HBO max ends as well due to the purchase and merger by Sony.
I know Sony owns crackle. Maybe they will move some stuff over there
Thanks!
Use Emby or Jellyfin, not Plex. Plex is pushing too hard into ad-based content, and also relies more heavily on internet access. Emby and Jellyfin can exist entirely on your LAN with local accounts if you want, and have no need to phone home.
Seconding this. Jellyfin is harder to set up, but worth the investment of learning to avoid Plex pushing it's ecosystem on you, and having greater control over the behaviour of servers that you own and should have the right to do whatever you want with.
I have hbo max. So I don’t need to get crunchy roll? Thanks! Tubi and crackle have a good amount of older anime and Hulu has some as well. Thanks!
I’m not sure if content is 1:1 but hbomax has crunchy roll and studio ghibli tabs and a good amount of content from scrolling. Hulu usually gets funimation content a week after release and currently has the Bleach: thousand years blood war which I highly recommend
Cool. I’ll check that out.
The one time I tried adding anime to Plex it turned into a disorganized jumble. Maybe I didn’t name them right for the server to recognize the shows or something. I couldn’t even find metadata matches manually.
I recommend combining it with Sonarr, which can handle all of the renaming and organization for Plex (or Emby or Jellyfin) by itself, along with automated downloading.
I have it set up with Nyaa and a tag for my preferred seasonal release group, so only really have to find stuff manually when I'm grabbing older stuff, or BD versions of a show I already have. And even then it'll still handle all of the renaming for me.
There's some decent docker compose files you can search for that include plex, sonarr, the rest of the *rr family, and often a torrent client/vpn container as well.
Sail the high seas. If you really love a series and want to support it, buy the original works (manga, light novels, etc). In Japanese if possible (even if you can't read it they look lovely on a shelf).
Cool. I do plan on buying manga next year
Judge for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZSOGZFfSDk
Ugh. You could play buzzword bingo to that video. “Modern reflection”
No. Between the woke garbage they insert into the original works, then force japanese artists to use them as a gateway to western markets, not one bloody cent should be given to their kind.
Censored and translations are pozzed.
Don't fund the enemy.
Animetosho.org Thank me later.
I’ll thank you now. Lol
They improved the UI from the mess it used to be to tolerable but the main issue that happened before the Crunchyroll Funimation merger was the Crunchyroll originals
They were either full shit (High Guardian spice) or had a great set up but they rushed the story so became mediocre (God of High-school)
When money isn't going more to Japanese studios but to these originals, it's leaves a bad taste. After the Sony acquisition, they dropped Funimation and merged it all under Crunchyroll (which surprised many but I predicted it as Crunchyroll less tainted due to Vic drama). They ported over all of Funimations library but lost streaming rights to a few.
Out of the 'legal' options, they have the bigger library and are better at releasing shit than Netflix and Disney but to watch everything you'll need to sail the high seas a bit. It's a shame because Sony have the perfect opportunity to dominate if they did a discount for PS+ members, had an adult section where you just need a seperate password for uncensored anime and maybe link directly to studio's merchandise to make it more worth to be with them. Right now they are resting on having the bigger library.
I would just stream thing for free. If you feel bad about if, or if you like something a lot, you can always look into supporting the studio or franchise directly. Paying crunchyroll to "support anime creators" is like paying Apple to "support software creators" or paying Netflix to "support IP owners".
On the production end these companies leech off of and suppress whatever industry they "serve", expanding endlessly off of revenue signed away over the holy auspice of x platform owning server equipment that has already paid off. The maintenance of that equipment being a LUXURIOUSLY scaled expense, too, that even lower class paycheck-to-paycheck hobbyists can handle at their own scale despite struggling to exploit it and despite getting NO volume discounting or sweetheart service rates EVER.
You'd be paying for Netflix/Crunchyroll/Amazon etc to hire more HR, DIE, ESG people while they squeeze out creators by hiring streeties to produce garbage standing on the last leg of whatever franchises and intellectual properties they can hooover up.
Platforms are just middlemen blackmailing/exploiting the people who create what you want to consume. They are the trolls that got a job standing at a bridge someone ELSE built, demanding money from people crossing either way, complaining about how heckin expensive it is to stand at a bridge, and reinvesting every gold coin into paying more trolls to stand at more bridges (and charge more per bridge whenever possible).
Any time they spend big money it is NOT on platform/equiptment upgrades but on competing against creators in PRODUCTION efforts. Any normal business would be reinvesting to expand the function of their business so they can offer it at the most competitive possible price to as many clients as possible. By contrast, these platforms reinvest outside of the scope of providing or improving their platform service, spending it with the intent to consume and replace their own clients and business partners. Like a cancer.
Tldr crunchyroll is cancer
If you're not interested in downloading, these are also free streaming alternatives, such as 9anime.
Thanks!
Virtually all mainstream western translation/localization is totally pozzed, just 🏴☠️ everything and if you like it import some manga/merch to support the creator directly.
Nah, for the reasons others have stated, but also because I only pay for physical media.
Most older titles are already free on Crunchyroll / Funimation.
Not sure if Sentai still has a paid streaming service. I don't recall them having any of the issues Crunchyroll / Funimation had.
As far as supporting Japanese creators, remember what Yogurt said, "Merchandising! Where the real money from the movie is made!"
Yea I know I need to buy manga to support them.