And i officially ended my subscription a long time ago
Crunchyroll is Officially Ending Its Free Ad-Supported Streaming Service on December 31, 2025
Submitted 3 weeks ago by alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to anime@ani.social
https://www.cbr.com/crunchyroll-ad-free-streaming-end/
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TheMightyCat@ani.social 3 weeks ago
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Honestly, I have been considering cancelling. The price is going up and the quality is going down. Any 2-bit translator can crank out what they are putting out with raws, screenshots, and voice to text. With the resources they are gleaning, this shit should sparkle.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’m planning to get a Jellyfin server running and filling it up using torrents
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Honestly, I’d prefer not to steal. I WANT the anime industry to have something for my appreciation.
To have it simultaneously decrease in quality AND go up in price is a slap in the face.
Anime was made popular by nerds sharing VHS tapes. A friend of a friend of a friend would get some episodes, another friend would add on to it, and it would end up a whole season on one tape that was a copy of a copy of a copy. The first time I saw the correct opening scene of the original Ranma 1/2 I was surprised by how the music didn’t actually warble from being copied. Digital piracy takes away from that because nobody is buying tapes.
Guess I could still buy merch.
Unboxious@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Any 2-bit translator can crank out what they are putting out with raws, screenshots, and voice to text
Have you tried? These tools might not be up to the standard you think. Not even Youtube’s autotranslate stuff is actually any good.
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Correct.
The new Crunchyroll subs are not good. I think my favorite example of terrible translations so far was the latest season of Dr. Stone changing the main character’s catchphrase “this is exhilarating” to “this is tempting.”
The multi-million dollar corporation just doesn’t care.
remotelove@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I think you two just said the same thing.
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 3 weeks ago
You have a point. The translator should know enough Japanese to be able to step in.
mo_lave@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
The writing was on the wall when Tubi and Pluto appeared.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
This is why I haven’t subscribed for years. Most of what was on it was already on most other services, and the stuff only on Crunchyroll wasn’t anything I was intetested in.
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So I just need to make more free trial accounts then?
Mercuri@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Now you have to pay to get ads! Because paid tier gets ads anyway for Crunchyroll products with no way to turn that crap off. Huzzah!
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Oh, I legitimately wasn’t aware there was a free tier. I dropped them right around when the Funimation shuffle happened.
flameleaf@ani.social 3 weeks ago
There was a time when Crunchyroll worked with yt-dlp. I miss those days.
Somehow their RSS feeds are still up, but you have to watch the shows using their shitty site. They’ve become just as bad as their competitors.
remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
but you have to watch the shows using their shitty site
Most of the anime I torrent is ripped from CR, so no you don’t!
flameleaf@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Yeah you can always sail the seas. I was just reminiscing about a time where CR let you watch it however you want, before it got enshittificated to its current state.
ellieficent@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Its been less and less useful over the last few years anyway. Time to just bust out that eyepatch.
sj_zero 3 weeks ago
Seems like they've been getting less and less of the good anime every season.
Mercuri@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Not just seems like, they objectively are.
HubertManne@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
yeah its like they have had these things like mmo holiday special events with free access but they don’t allow people to search for free ad based anime so most times its pointless to even look around if anything is available. It sorta got better last year but never as good as it was with funimation which at least had a more predictable thing. Even that was not great though. Amazon actually has been upping its anime offerings and it appears to be something its going to continue to be expanding.