The new bill in Texas is so vaguely worded that its going to make a lot of anime illegal. According to the way the bill is worded, even things like Naruto would be illegal because of Naruto's sexy no jutsu . Even Dragon Ball would get hit because of teen Bulma flashing herself. And Uzuki Chan will be illegal too because "anything that looks like a minor" is also out and we know these people kept going on about how "Uzuki looks like a minor" . Disgaea (not an anime but a pretty popular and great game) is out too because of Etna.
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Looks to me like they're just upset because anime and manga sell better than pedowood slop and demoralization TV.
Western anime distributors are more likely to just censor the product to conform rather than fight it out in courts.
While I believe they deserve to burn, this would be the dumbest way for it to happen.
The problem with this entire conversation is that we have the substantive, abstract arguments revolving around morals, art, culture, and personal responsibility, and then we have dipshit boomer politicians not understanding fucking anything, going in half cocked, and making a mess of everything like they always do.
I still haven't forgiven either parent for a childhood filled with this. Both boomers.
An outlet for people to consume that let's them opt out of the propaganda wing of the Woke Elite that they are using to engineer social change?
Yep, this is totally about protecting children. Not at all just a random cause to let them finally ban Japanese media entirely under "think of the children" moralization.
I would be fine with crunchyroll dying, no matter what the cause. That fucking cancer deserves to burn.
Crunchyroll's Myspace ripoff was probably responsible for more underaged kids getting groomed and probably raped than all their shows combined, including the overtly sexual lolishits.
But they've very successfully buried that little piece of their history from most people knowing it existed.
What the hell is this site?
Its the biggest, almost only, English anime site. With contracts with the Japanese companies to do simultaneous subs for releasing episodes instantly as their air in Japan and having a legal backlog of basically everything.
But, it got its start as any other pirated anime site for people to upload their own subbed episodes to. Pretty bad quality, but they clearly had decent infrastructure because even then they had everything, which is what allowed them to grow and go legit some years later.
But at that time, they basically let you have a social media profile with your account that was literally just Myspace (this was pre-Facebook going big). So you had a lot of young, antisocial weebs all gathered in one place on a social media just for them. I know, I was there. And, much like discord is now, it was filled with grooming, sexual stuff, and all kinds of degeneracy.
Oh, thought you were talking about them having made a different social media site, not their message boards.
IMO, I’m not sure how this would’ve been avoided with the legalization of porn plus the advent of the internet
It wasn't a message board, it was a full scale social media clone.
And it wouldn't have been avoided by anything really, but its a case of glass houses with Crunchyroll themselves throwing a lot of stones.
So are Sentai Filmworks (formerly ADV) and Sound Cadence.
The latter is run by Amber Lee Connors, DBZA's Android 18, and did the excellent Gunbuster dub.
How difficult is it to move servers? Honest question as I’ve no idea.
I think he confused Crunchyroll with Funimation, the latter's headquarters are in Texas.
Isn't Crunchyroll part of Funimation now?
Crunchyroll LLC is just rebranded Funimation, the actual Crunchyroll is headquartered in San Fran.
Not anymore it aint. That office was costing them an arm and a leg and they sold it a few years ago. I just looked it up, and the listed headquarters for Crunchyroll, LLC is Coppell, TX (part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metro).
Crunchyroll LLC is just rebranded Funimation, as I said in another comment.
Crunchyroll (no LLC) is the original, and their HQ is still listed as in San Fran.
I thought it had all become one entity now, but if that is true I will take your word for it. I did see they still have offices in San Fran at least, just not the fancy custom one they liked to brag about that was costing them a fortune.
Im confused, whats the difference between Crunchyroll LLC and Crunchyroll?
Crunchyroll LLC is Funimation, they just changed their name like a year or two ago or so, presumably on Sony's orders.
Crunchyroll (no LLC) is the original one.
but Funimation owns Crunchyroll so it would still get hit wouldn't it?
Crunchy owns funi
Indirectly it could, yes.
They should be fine. Other states have similar laws, often using "electronic representation" in their language, and those states have anime conventions all the time. The spirit of the law seems to go after pornography (so Hentai/Ecchi), not anime.
so according to you , Naruto's sexy no Jutsu isn't pornography, Bulma flashing herself so the audience can see her panties and nude ass, isn't pornography and 100% naked Goku in Dragon ball isn't pornography ? No they would not be fine under the wording of the bill, and if they were then it would just be people being selective hypocrites based on what show they happen to like or not and not on what the bill actually says. . You agree with the bill so you are trying to pretend it isn't unreasonable.