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 1 month 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 1 month ago
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 month 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 1 month ago
I’m planning to get a Jellyfin server running and filling it up using torrents
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
I think you two just said the same thing.
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 month ago
You have a point. The translator should know enough Japanese to be able to step in.
mo_lave@reddthat.com 1 month ago
The writing was on the wall when Tubi and Pluto appeared.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month 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 1 month ago
So I just need to make more free trial accounts then?
Mercuri@ani.social 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Its been less and less useful over the last few years anyway. Time to just bust out that eyepatch.
sj_zero 1 month ago
Seems like they've been getting less and less of the good anime every season.
Mercuri@ani.social 1 month ago
Not just seems like, they objectively are.
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 month 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.