Doc Brown Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 (edited) It looks pretty bad. https://www.funimation.com/subscribe/ Edited December 15, 2020 by Doc Brown Quote Link to comment
Ridley Prime Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 And the anime industry wonders why it has a pirating problem unlike none other. Simply awful. alienboyva and Doc Brown 2 Quote Link to comment
alienboyva Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 (edited) 13 minutes ago, Ridley Prime said: And the anime industry wonders why it has a pirating problem unlike none other. Simply awful. Having a free with ads option like CR had would help prevent people from pirating. Especially, since Funi now owns their only competition. Edited December 15, 2020 by alienboyva Doc Brown 1 Quote Link to comment
Doc Brown Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 25 minutes ago, Ridley Prime said: And the anime industry wonders why it has a pirating problem unlike none other. Simply awful. Exactly. Quote Link to comment
Doc Brown Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 15 minutes ago, alienboyva said: Having a free with ads option like CR had would help prevent people from pirating. Especially, since Funi now owns their only competition. Yep. CR, all its issues aside, at least has a genuine free option. Quote Link to comment
Tyranogre Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 If anyone hasn’t seen Toradora yet, now’s the perfect time. The emotional climax takes place on Christmas. Quote Link to comment
April Posted December 16, 2020 Author Share Posted December 16, 2020 Are we really in here hand wringing over 6 bucks a month? Y'all wanna go back a few years when streaming anime was split on like 4 different services so there was no way anybody could reasonably keep up with more than a couple things without unofficial sites? Crunchyroll always had a messy site, mediocre rushed subs that never got corrected, and a barely functional player. Not grieving over it in the slightest. Quote Link to comment
Ridley Prime Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 Sure CR had its problems, but its video player wasn't really one of them for me, though you know what was also shit before? Funimation's app, so why should I give this new one the benefit of a doubt? It's cute to assume that they'll do a much better job, but I digress. Quote Link to comment
Spring Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 i don't think its hand wringing to complain about a merger that helps literally no consumers its an annoying event, AND its annoying to complain about other people finding fault with it imo 'it was worse before!' is not a genuine opposition point and acting like commenting on the monetary value is absurd is in bad taste and complaining about sub quality is not something the average consumer even cares abt but thats just my 2c; ive been using cr for a few years and i watch a decent amount of anime and ive honestly never had any issue with it now netflix subs on the other hand... Ridley Prime and Doc Brown 2 Quote Link to comment
Tyranogre Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 I’ll do whatever it takes to make sure that the English dub actors get paid, so they can continue to make guest appearances at conventions. Quote Link to comment
Ridley Prime Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 As always I'll just stick to buying the DVD's or whatnot when it comes to supporting an anime series I really like. Never bought into the whole "support the anime industry by subscribing to us" tout. Quote Link to comment
April Posted December 16, 2020 Author Share Posted December 16, 2020 (edited) 8 hours ago, winterberry said: i don't think its hand wringing to complain about a merger that helps literally no consumers its an annoying event, AND its annoying to complain about other people finding fault with it imo yeah sorry there was no reason to come at people so aggressively. i do that without thinking way too much when it comes to opinionated topics i had lots of troubles with their player freezing and not letting you go back all the way and just like... basic stuff that even no-name youtube alternatives have no problem with i remember at some point people raised a stink about it and they switched to an html5 player and i stopped using it at that point. but my friend was complaining about it to me when that happened because it made the videos even worse at first? i'd assume it got worked through at this point but given they only fixed the other problems after a lot of public pressure i don't have a lot of faith by default. regarding the price, it's slightly cheaper than the crunchyroll sub was i'm pretty sure?? that's why i felt like complaints were unreasonable. imagine me just actually just stating that but i guess if they don't have ad-supported free viewing it's not much help for people who can't pay. piracy is just all around a better user experience unfortunately if you put any time into learning what you're doing and the idea that ad viewing genuinely supports the industry in some way rather than just letting people feeling better about streaming seems dubious to me. even the subscriptions supporting anime studios feels dubious although in this case it's going to the company doing most of the dubbing at least so it clearly supports that. i honestly just forget that people gun for those free options when i by default see them as just like part of the advertising lol but yeah licensing is fucking awful and the stupid region shit is everywhere and japan loves to propagate it too Edited December 16, 2020 by Pichi Spring, alienboyva and Ridley Prime 3 Quote Link to comment
alienboyva Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 As for me, I don't watch a ton of anime to actually justify getting a sub for Funi and that's why I loved that CR had a Free ad-supported option on basically their entire library. Doc Brown 1 Quote Link to comment
Ridley Prime Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Oh, I tend to watch anime in dubbed when I can, though if I like a show enough, I'll watch it either/or or in both (I usually steer clear of the sub vs dub wars between fans). To Crunchyroll's credit, they did do a fair amount of dubbing themselves, of anime that had just then come out or slightly older ones, some of which I really enjoyed as a free user. With Funimation though everything comes with a price ("It's just $6" isn't the problem, so is Disney+ but I'm not giving money to every paid streaming service out there), and they've got a monopoly now which I'm never big on. alienboyva and Doc Brown 2 Quote Link to comment
April Posted December 17, 2020 Author Share Posted December 17, 2020 (edited) in this case competition isn't necessarily good for the end user experience here because only 1 streaming service had the rights at a time for each show it's okay with like 2, but a few years ago there was like crunchyroll, funimation, amazon strike, and netflix (and hulu i guess idr) all vying for anime streaming and the result was that you pretty much paid for the one that actually had a few anime you wanted and then had to go to torrent sites/kissanime for the others anyway Edited December 17, 2020 by Pichi alienboyva and Ridley Prime 2 Quote Link to comment
Tyranogre Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 It's actually fucking happening. Quote Link to comment
April Posted December 26, 2020 Author Share Posted December 26, 2020 damn never thought i'd see the day Quote Link to comment
Stephen 776 Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 (edited) Are there any anime out there like Laputa or Last Exile? I'm not counting the Last Exile sequel, since I heard that was kind of bad. I'm in the mood for steampunk-ish anime about airships and the like and yes, this 100% due to me playing Trails series. Edited December 28, 2020 by Zora no Kiseki Quote Link to comment
blcdude1 Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 It has admittedly been awhile sine I've last seen Laputa or Last Exile (of which, I have not watched the sequel), but in terms of steampunk, Steamboy remains one of the most steampunky anime out there. Stephen 776 1 Quote Link to comment
bel Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 2 hours ago, Zora no Kiseki said: Are there any anime out there like Laputa or Last Exile? I'm not counting the Last Exile sequel, since I heard that was kind of bad. I'm in the mood for steampunk-ish anime about airships and the like and yes, this 100% due to me playing Trails series. Nadia maybe? Stephen 776 1 Quote Link to comment
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