Yo hi there...
I am pretty sure this is a very common question or poll on forums but i wanted to see for myself sooooooo here you go :
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(don't worry it is an anonymous poll the FBI is "not" waiting outside your house right now ψ(`∇´)ψ )
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
Yeeea, the both of them have done plenty of shit to warrant me not supporting them And i have my doubts as to how much of my cash actually makes it back to the creators.
The whole watch it within hours of release speedsubbing thing has been detrimental to translation quality too.
The speedsubbing seems a bit inaccurate compared to what we called speedsubbing back in the day. Legal sources get the video quite a while before they are aired so they can properly sub them (which also led to the inconsistencies while YoI aired, because that production schedule was royally fucked).
Yea it has def gotten better but it is still not exactly what i would call "quality" especially compared to even the most rudimentary of fansubs.
Eh, I would consider CR subs a whole lot better than most if not all speedsubs. Most fansubs now are also heavily based on official translations from either the physical releases or streaming releases. CR subbers are mostly ex-fansubbers anyway.
Like, I don't disagree, CR subs aren't the greatest. But during the season their set of subs is often the only one available, whether you sail the Seven Seas or not. And even after the season has concluded, most sets of subs you'll see attached to newer releases are still heavily based on CR.
Apart from outliers like PAS (to name an actually positive outlier), fansubbing has been heavily reliant on official releases for a while now so it feels weird for me to put "even the most rudimentary of fansubs" over it, as those are quite literally based on CR.
Yea when i said fansubs i meant for stuff that didnt have an official release. I was attempting to allude to the fact that what CR does isn't all that special. Especially their inability to stay true to the source (if you are gonna localize it then call it a localization ffs), and apparently they can't hire someone to check basic grammar.
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.
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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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.
The first half of your comment I can wholly relate to, but the second is pretty wrong. Judging from your username you are also from germany and our prices here (40€/year for CR) aren't high at all, especially compared to other countries when you consider price relative to average income. And regionlocks are like super easy to bypass. All it takes is one browser extension and you're set.
Like I can totally understand not paying for a service that doesn't provide you with the shows you want to watch, but regionlocks and prices aren't an issue.
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.
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 :)
ooooo cool thanks man.. <( ̄︶ ̄)>
Fair warning, free Crunchyroll also tends to do ads and on some horror stories, they get overly long. Then again, there's a simple way to circumvent that only takes a Google Chrome browser app, but i'd rather not mention it since I dunno if the mods here aprove of it.
tell meeeee what is the chrome extension for it plssss
Gonna risk it then.
It's any ad-blocking extension. Adblock Plus and Ublock Origin are the ones i'm more familiar with. Be responsible with any of them you choose and always consider to whitelist (aka, not blocking a site of ads) any site that isn't annoying on ads and/or don't really deserve to be ad-blocked.
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.
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)