ReluctantZen

Why do people still use Crunchy Roll or centralized media distribution/streaming sites?

Simple: it’s much easier and requires no effort on your end. Also, because people want to pay for media.

You can build a better library with a VPN, some good Torrent sites, and about 2 TB of storage.

This requires quite a bit more effort, especially if you just want to watch on your TV or phone.

Good torrent sites are pretty annoying to find tbh. There are online resources, but they’re harder to find compared to streaming, especially private trackers.

Storage is very expensive. A 2 TB NVME SSD is like 4-5 years worth of annual Crunchyroll subscriptions. About 2-3 years for HDDs.

2 TB might also not be enough if you want the quality Bluray rips.

You’ll have better quality

Only if you download the Bluray rips, sure, but these take up quite a bit of space and don’t exist yet when you’re wanting to watch the current season or previous 2 seasons. Those rips are at best the same quality as the streaming service. And if physical media will really stop, you’re own library will be the same quality or slightly worse than the streaming services, since the source of the better quality is gone. I have my own Jellyfin server (mostly for my own Bluray rips), but I still have a CR subscription for this reason.

won’t get ads

If you use an adblocker or pay for a subscription you won’t on streaming either.

WHY AM I NOT ALLOWED TO PUT SUBTITLES ON WITH THE ENGLISH AUDIO‽‽‽ IF YOU’RE NOT GOING TO PROVIDE CAPTIONS I NEED SOMETHING)

My guess: because the English subtitles will not match with the English dub. I can imagine that would be even more confusing/distracting.

I’ve never watched a single episode of Naruto, so I’m only going off your post here.

Yes, in-universe it is going against societal norms, but by going along with real-life societal norms. That matters. What is the message there?

Having your women be on equal footing with the men in terms of career path only to then have them follow real-life patriarchal standards as a way of “going against societal norms” seems… odd. It essentially reinforces real-life patriarchal standards in that way.

I don’t think you can always view a story purely in its own context. The mangaka created that universe in the context of the real word and his beliefs. He has control over what their universe looks like and how going against the norm looks like. Here it does sound based on less-than-stellar views on women (which was more common at the time).

You might want to keep watching then. At least in the manga (havent seen the anime yet):

I never bought directly from CR, because they don’t sell it here either and are the wrong region for my player, but they do a lot of releasing here through other sellers. But if they don’t sell through their own shop, I doubt they will through others…

That’s the wild thing, they actually get less money that way. There are like 4 cases:

1. You have both a CR subscription and buy the Blurays (that’s me).
2. You pirate the simulcasts and buy the Blurays.
3. You only stream.
4. You only pirate.

Cases 3 & 4 remain the same. Case 2 will not suddenly go to a subscription and case 1 already has a subscription. There is no extra money to be made.

Technically there is a case 5, where you only buy the Blurays, but that seems very much an edge case or only theoretical.

Considering Sony’s/CR’s near monopoly on both streaming and physical, this leaves me very somber for the future. I hope parties like MVM and AllTheAnime can license some of the titles to release physically…

Caught up since I put it on hold a while ago, but I’m afraid it’s still not doing it for me. It’s too messy in what it’s trying to convey.

The first arc was a pretty simple and focused premise and tbh mostly vibes, where 4 pages per chapter were more than fine. In this arc it’s trying to juggle multiple things and actually exploring some more complicated things, all in 4 pages per week.

If the chapters were longer, like this one, I feel like it’d be able to develop better.

Real progress on the best couple, I’m here for it

Inititially Code Geass in like 2013, but I stopped after the 1st episode. I think the style put me off. Haven’t given it a try since (but I should). Then to give anime another shot: SAO. It’s a cliché 1st anime but after that I was hooked.

Lots of anime tbh, but I’ve noticed KyoAni stuff is the best at it

K-On was devastating tbh. CGDCT anime are typically very happy-go-lucky, so any emotional moment hits pretty hard.

I’d like season 2 first… I’m reliant on the UK versions. We have 2 season 1 releases for some reason (1 by AllTheAnime and the other, years later, by CR), but none of the others.

So far, I’m only watching Clevatess S2. Its OP can’t be compared to S1’s.

The anime is still enjoyable, but unfortunately it does seem to fall into the stereotypical magic school tropes, as I was afraid of. A prestige magic school with a dark secret, social hierarchy decided by aptitude for magic, and pompeous rich twats that think they’re all that. The main characters and the wider setting make up for it though.

It’d be great if the article mentions what the controversy actually is. All it says is that there is controversy about some things related to Islam. Pretty useless article tbh.

But using AI actually drives up the quality by a mile.

Yikes.

I’m glad the publishers have that ban

Chainsmoker Cat* felt more depressing than funny at times. Addiction is no joke.

Yeah, I won’t continue with this anime because of that.

Not like intentionally crying sad, more like in a pitiful/pathetic way. Most comedic moments depend on jokes about actual addicts in frankly deplorable situations and some kind of substance abuse and that’s very uncomfortable to me.

I fully get it’s exaggerated and I’m probably looking too much into it, but it feels like the show is making fun of addicts. Not just smoking, but also drugs. So like, sad that they had to stoop to this level.

Yeah, not continuing this one. It’s like, actually sad

Isn’t it only divisive for people that watched the original? Those of us who watched the 1995 movie are very much biased here.

Oh shit. The manga is pretty wild, so definitely curious about the adaptation

I didn’t know there’d be a 2nd season. Here’s hoping they manage to reach the same heights as the first season.

You almost can’t get a more generic list tbh

Definitely some recency bias in here.

And nostalgia bias

Honestly, maybe one of my favourite shows of this season

Awesome

Is it possible to request a discussion through Rikka of one-shot episodes like bâan? It has an AL page and all.

I know of Ascendance of a Bookworm, but have others done this?

Oh, I’ve not come across that one before

What a wholesome family.