How many people actually watch anime legally?

Sure it is, first-day-on-anilist-kun

Personally, I avoid legal anime like the plague. I am very unsatisfied with how funimation and crunchyroll do things.

Watching seven deadly sins on netflix wasn't half bad thou

I'm subscribed to Crunchyroll but only use their service for seasonals and nothing else. I value quality first and foremost, whether money goes to every production I watch is of tertiary concern. That and most of the things I watch aren't legally available anyway, sometimes even requiring access to private trackers.

The pittance that is generated by me watching something legally barely makes a difference (Sub is 40€/year, half of that goes to everything I watch). Me buying one Blu-Ray and merch article basically outweighs my yearly contribution per legal consumption. That way I can also more actively choose what productions I value and want to give money to.

Not that I'm under any illusion that any of that money actually arrives where I'd want it to, as it just goes to production committees and not the actual staff apart from like a handful studios.

Mixture. I have a CR and netflix account. Rarely use those for anime now but I do the odd time.

Reasons for illegal are usually availability in my country, fansub choice, dual audio convenience so I can test both easily and go with what I want.

I'll buy a blu-ray if its a show I liked and it's uk licensed or a cheaper us license. The prices on the Japanese blu-rays are extortionate.

You mean to tell me you can actually watch anime in the west legally ??

I've got a a lot of reasons to pirate, but the biggest one is that a huge amount of the shows I watch aren't available in my country legally.

I have access to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Funimation, Crunchyroll, HiDive and VRV (which matters bc HiDive's app is missing most of its anime but they're all on VRV), but I only pay for 3 of them because my friends and I share logins.

Watching anime legally is the easiest way to do it. I open the app on my Apple TV, select what I want to watch with my remote, and hit play. Cool. I subscribed to HiDive ages ago so I wouldn't have to manually start the next episode every time I watched anything.

I put on my eye patch and peg leg if I can't watch an anime under the exact conditions I just described. Whatever is easiest for me.

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In my country there are many sources for anime.
But the problem is we don't get nearly as much on CR than in CR North America...
I need to afford 30-50 bucks in my country and still can't watch every show and also the quality of subs which mentioned some people isn't that great.

I think I've watched shaman king and naruto on tv but thats as legals as it gets for me...

I don't, for several reasons. I mostly watch older/no so popular anime and most of them aren't available on streaming platforms. Many streaming platforms also have region locks and buying them is out of question because no sane person would pay the prices they ask for in my country.

I don't want to have to subscribe to multiple services to watch everything I want to watch. It's more convenient to find a site that has everything I want. Paying for multiple subscriptions is too much hassle for me.

Despite this, I probably spend more money on merch than the yearly subscription costs anyway, so I don't feel too bad for embracing life on the waves.

So here's the thing. I actually pay and subscribe to "legale streaming sites" but I don't watch it there. It's probably not legal in terms of law but I feel good with myself. So I pay for it, but then I download anime from different sources.

Well, in my country the only thing that might be illegal is seeding torrents of copyrighted work. Downloading or watching it on some fishy website is legal.

Ok, i'm not saint (i think for series no one watches it's not so bad), but without account on CR you can watch for free (idk if there's limitations to that, sure there must be quota) many shows (Jojo, Gintama, some Gundams - just checked). I have no idea if it works in US or Japan, but it works for me :)

Only streaming service I use is Netflix (which I don't pay as I'm in a shared account) and do indeed watch whatever anime they have that catches my interest. Otherwise, I gotta say, i'm not a legal person when it comes to watching anime, mostly indeed because of availability in my country and also partly cause I haven't started to truly work and make my own living. If I could, I would try another service that has anime and it's in my country.

I buy physical when I can. My internet farts a lot so streaming isn't that good for me. One minute I can watch 1080p, next minute the internet farts and I'm at 240p. Its very immersion breaking when bitrates change.

Never tried watching Anime legally for the simple reason of not wanting to spend any money. Why do that when there is another 'free' option :o

It's a mixed bag for me, I use CR but I just get free passes and haven't bothered to pay since the price increase. I also use Netflix but, in Canada, the selection is rather lacking. Illegally streaming really helps to fill in the gaps for when I don't have premium or want to watch a show not available on either of the services I currently have.

I don't, because the only services that offer anime legally and subbed into my language is crunchyroll and Netflix, but also most of crunchyroll anime that exist in English subs does not exist in arabic subs (my original language).

So, until I get good at English, or they offer all anime I want in arabic subs, I will not use them.

Depends on the series and options. When I watched this Souten no Ken
I HAD to watch it " illegally " as I can't get it anywhere on DVD except for that god damned region 2 specific crap.

barely anything

pokémon uncensored (aka the japanese version) isn't official available anywhere in the west, just that localised trash from america.
for streaming sites: most shows i wanna watch are not available at all or not licensed in my country. crunchyroll germany COULD be worth money, but not when i need to go extra steps to unlock the better stuff, or they're spread over way too many services and i don't wanna pay money for 3+ streaming sites
and the stuff that i could watch on tv: well, pro7 maxx has some good anime like db kai, gintama or is this a zombie?; conan, one piece or inuyasha is also still on air there. but either the dub is ass or i just don't wanna watch them dubbed ...god, the kai dub is despised here! :D

just look at the like/dislike ratio (upload is from kazé, the offical publisher here)