Trying to combat piracy in any capacity is a fool's errand because the more you bring attention to it then the more likely it is that someone will do it out of spite, really the best thing to do is just ignore the whole thing entirely and hope that your product is considered good enough that people are willing to financially support it.
-or it could be because some of the more vocal faggots shilling it via video essay spam or slipping mentions of it into their videos had pitched it as a "supernatural psychological horror" anime. Then when actually watching it, was something completely different. Couldn't get into it but it seems decent enough. It seems to be one of those anime that attracts pseudointellectuals like flies by simple virtue of not being slice of life garbage like most anime have been aggressively more in that genre over the last decade and a half.
It seems more like the standard astroturfing of the season over yet another forgettable cast of anime girls and their autistic screeching at anything that moves than anything decent. A few years ago it was Franxx and some number of forgettable shows and years later its still this same forced meme shit.
Here's the thing, if I like what I watch I'll buy it on disc. Same with manga. Been my policy for years. Only thing Crunchyroll has going for it is that it's easy to put on a TV. Otherwise they're a horrible company that underpays everyone.
If you're autistic enough (and have the space for it) hosting a plex server for both anime, movies, and tv shows mogs the shit out of CR and is on every platform, so it doesn't even have that going for it.
Generally I find it best to always buy the BD of the shows you like if you're able to afford them and if that isn't possible then buying merch like figures, posters and the like direct from the source is the next best alternative.
Unfortunately I'm not lol. I am autistic enough to like BD's however. Which is a pretty direct way to send money to the creators. That and it's nice if you're having internet issues or a TV is located in a bad part of the house, the disc doesn't need wifi to run.
There is an actual case for manga piracy specifically.
Possibly. The Japanese actually arrest people over there for piracy, and it definitely is impacting the bottom line. If they want to fight it they have to be competitive, and no doubt the companies are talking to eachother.
Pretty much this. Here is an example, when it was coming out I was watching that slime tamer isekai (I watch every isekai each season, you find some real gems whether intentional or not), and I noticed it was on Hulu which I had at the time. After resetting my password, waiting for it a day late because they didn’t release it and dealing with worse buffering than I ever had on kiss I still couldn’t watch it since subtitles were broken on Hulu.
Even on KF I am pretty sure that people buy their games. Its a completely different culture and I think Gabe did that.
Man that sucks for you. I'm also rather annoyed that Amazon JP is recently cheapening the hell out in carboard and just throw the mangas like vulgar trash, inside some kind of large paper bag, and I was surprised the books weren't further damaged beyond a bunch of torn up decorative pamphlets. I might as well just go back to CDJapan, even if their order process takes a bit longer, and Mandarake for out-of-print goods. No choice but to use DHL shipping regardless however.
while series like Ponkotsu Ponko or Tonari no Seiki-kun don't have them present, in spite of aiming for a teen audience too.
I'm not the slightest shocked as every english company is doing this shit in regard of translating japanese entertainment, be videogames and else.
I'm curious, give me an example of a gem (preferably one with actual plot and tolerable MC)
While I admittedly watch a lot less anime than I used to, I gave the "isekai" tag a brief glance to see what I know of and would recommend...and struggled to think of anything that I'd recommend to anyone who isn't a preteen. Even with the stuff that I could potentially recommend the thoughts "the manga is better" or "read the light novel instead" kept resurfacing. And that's not counting the various shows that, as much as it pains me to say, the fanfiction communities did it better. In the end, the list basically boiled down to Kumo desu ga, Nanika? even if for a lot of the show you're waiting for the boring humans to go away so you can get back to the spider hijinks and maybe Youjo Senki even though they butchered the art style.
So it's just Crunchyroll being run by a bunch of fuck-ups as usual. Amazing.
Mushoku Tensei and Re:Zero are honestly pretty great starters for their series. Re:Zero's season two less so, but that was a separate issue with editing and cuts.
The anime doesn't do a whole lot with the plot, it almost feels more like a slice of life anime to me, but KonoSuba's Kazuma is pretty great. He's the only 'harem' protagonist I can think of where people complain when he's excluded from fan art lol. Haven't read the manga but I'm about halfway through the LNs and the plot moves along a lot better there. It's been a minute since I saw the movie but I think its plot moves along fine as well, which makes sense since it just adapts a single volume (5) into 90 minutes. Unfortunately it skipped the scene I was most looking forward to (When they go into the bunker to try and find something to kill Sylvia with they find another diary from the guy who built Mobile Fortress Destroyer and I really love how the anime handles those diaries)
I thought Crunchy would stick to the "girly" translation rather than being generalize about change, since how this show is supposed to be so trans. Or is it because this show is so lolicon unapologetic that they rather be distant instead.
