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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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.