| Should I pay for animus? ↓ Am I a moralist?→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→ ↓ ↓ Yes. No. ↓ ↓ ↓ Hoist your colors high, matey. Pay for animus. |
| Do you live in the US? Also look through their library to see what shows you haven't seen yet but would like to watch. Also consider the current seasonals coming out because they come out on curnchyroll before horrible subs can rip them. |
 Anime is good, fucking deal with it. |
SFBADaulP said: I'm considering joining Crunchyroll's premium service? Any suggestions (good or bad)? Should I do it? Are they a reputable organization? Do it. They're reputable. The manga in their manga section are all really good. I enjoy 90% of them. The anime is high quality too. TBH, I still download all my anime since I hate dealing with buffering video, but the quality's high and the community is really nice. I do it, because I want to feel like I'm an active member of consuming anime. It feels wrong to consume all these anime that just rip the sub off of crunchyroll's hardworking translators anyway. In the end, we're not really supporting the anime scene by that much but every person helps so I highly recommend it. |
| Outside of not living in America, I seriously cannot name a single con to subscribing to CrunchyRoll. I mean, it's what 7 USD a month? That's nothing. |
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| I can't see of any pros. I mean, from a personal finance perspective. (Because there are free sources). |
| Be thankful for the wisdom granted to you. |
| I think it depends on how you plan on using it. I'm willing to drop that 7 dollars a month (which really isn't much in the first place) to be able to stream Crunchyroll on my PS4. If I was just planning on sitting at my computer to watch anime I wouldn't see much of a use for it. But Crunchyroll does provide really high quality and has a great selection of things to watch. I don't usually have many issues with buffering and the wifi at my college absolutely blows. And supporting the industry is rather self-fulfilling |
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| cr is definitely worth it although the definition isnt actually highest quality when it comes to Androids (goes without saying) and the US doesnt have Barakamon :I |
 Freddy Nicholas said: have control, be yourself, god is dead |
| I have a Crunchyroll subscription and I'd say its worth it. They've got hundreds of shows there, as well as the largest collection of this season's shows. One of the less mentioned perks is that members typically get $5-6 off on most of their merchandise. I've bought a few and the discounts are sweet. |
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| If you live in the US, yes. Anywhere else, look for other sites or watch it from your hard drive. |
| You shouldn't You should just register on kissanime.com and then never go back to Crunchytroll |
 Nico- said: Conversations with people pinging/quoting me to argue about some old post I wrote years ago will not be entertained@Comic_Sans oh no y arnt ppl dieing i need more ppl dieing rly gud plot avansement jus liek tokyo ghoul if erbudy dies amirite |
| I enjoy it. Sure it doesn't have every single anime I want to watch, but I do like it. I just started to like manga recently, and it has tons of manga that I want to read as well. |
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GFBHVN said: SFBADaulP said: I'm considering joining Crunchyroll's premium service? Any suggestions (good or bad)? Should I do it? Are they a reputable organization? up to you they only put on overhyped anime "attack on titan, one punch man, sailor moon so if you like crap anime then buy there premium if you like good anime then NO Not even remotely true... Sonnets said: Import all the stuff you care for instead of inadvertently supporting stuff you would never care for through streaming services. Cruncyroll's player is terrible and now they have unstoppable popups telling me not to use adblock. Unstoppable, my ass. Lrn. To. Internet |
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| Pros: 1. You can watch ongoing anime when in airs and shitpost with everybody. 2. No need to download stuff, you can use your phone to watch it in a subway or whrever, whatver you want to watch is just three taps away. Cons: 1. Bad video quality. 2. Bad translation quality and edit because fastsub. 3. Incomplete series because you will not get any additional episodes from blu-rays. |
| Bad video quality/terrible player? I've had a very positive experience with the player and the video quality looks fine. Though there was a stretch (2-3 days) last November that it was wonky for me. Curious, is there a streaming service or site that provides recognizably higher quality? |
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| if you can afford it, you live in an area with a satisfactory selection available, and you're okay with the general audio/video/subtitle quality (as seen via HorribleSubs rips), I'd say it's worth it. For my part, I stick to watching the occasional series with ads, as the subbing quality isn't always up to par imo. Nagirah said: Claims of concerns over exploited workers are transparently phony when you turn around and exploit those same workers yourself.How about you join the pirate crew that has the access to free unlimited all anime in the world instead of supporting slave industry? That's what I would suggest. |
Zalis said: No matter how many Big Macs you buy at McDoland's, the cashier is still gonna be paid the sameNagirah said: Claims of concerns over exploited workers are transparently phony when you turn around and exploit those same workers yourself.How about you join the pirate crew that has the access to free unlimited all anime in the world instead of supporting slave industry? That's what I would suggest. |
Nico- said: Conversations with people pinging/quoting me to argue about some old post I wrote years ago will not be entertained@Comic_Sans oh no y arnt ppl dieing i need more ppl dieing rly gud plot avansement jus liek tokyo ghoul if erbudy dies amirite |
| I think it's worth it if you don't want to be the pirate king. |
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Comic_Sans said: And what happens to that cashier's job when everybody eats all the Big Macs they want without paying, which is the equivalent of what you and Nagirah are advocating? Actual principled boycotts of industries with questionable labor practices involve... not consuming that industry's products, unless one has only transparently phony concern for the workers in question.Zalis said: No matter how many Big Macs you buy at McDoland's, the cashier is still gonna be paid the sameClaims of concerns over exploited workers are transparently phony when you turn around and exploit those same workers yourself. |
Zalis said: I want proof of the anime industry (and McDonald's) being an anarchistic corporation where there are no bosses who decide what to pay their employees and there is no corruption whatsoeverAnd what happens to that cashier's job when everybody eats all the Big Macs they want without paying, which is the equivalent of what you and Nagirah are advocating? Actual principled boycotts of industries with questionable labor practices involve... not consuming that industry's products, unless one has only transparently phony concern for the workers in question. If everybody boycotted the industry it would go bankrupt, which would result in the workers being released from their burden and eventually a new anime industry with less greedy capitalist bosses, no slavery wages and less corporation tyranny corruption than before would be bornSimilar things have happened before so it's not an impossibility that it might happen again |
Comic_SansApr 8, 2016 5:07 AM
Nico- said: Conversations with people pinging/quoting me to argue about some old post I wrote years ago will not be entertained@Comic_Sans oh no y arnt ppl dieing i need more ppl dieing rly gud plot avansement jus liek tokyo ghoul if erbudy dies amirite |
SamirMalik said: Yeah, because it's not like the employees have bosses who decide their salaries or anythingComic_Sans said: No matter how many Big Macs you buy at McDoland's, the cashier is still gonna be paid the same In the short run. Smart people think about the long run. Don't be selfish. Oh w8 |
Nico- said: Conversations with people pinging/quoting me to argue about some old post I wrote years ago will not be entertained@Comic_Sans oh no y arnt ppl dieing i need more ppl dieing rly gud plot avansement jus liek tokyo ghoul if erbudy dies amirite |
It will get worse if you just pirate. Less money. Less income. So simple yet people act like it's rocket science Lol, you think the bosses don't pay themselves or at least earn a shit ton of money?At the end of the day it's still the bosses who have the last say That's an objective fact |
Nico- said: Conversations with people pinging/quoting me to argue about some old post I wrote years ago will not be entertained@Comic_Sans oh no y arnt ppl dieing i need more ppl dieing rly gud plot avansement jus liek tokyo ghoul if erbudy dies amirite |
Comic_Sans said: The bosses won't have shit to give if the company keeps losing money. THAT'S the objective fact.Lol, you think the bosses don't pay themselves or at least earn a shit ton of money? At the end of the day it's still the bosses who have the last say That's an objective fact The bosses will have money to give until the company has gone bankrupt |
Nico- said: Conversations with people pinging/quoting me to argue about some old post I wrote years ago will not be entertained@Comic_Sans oh no y arnt ppl dieing i need more ppl dieing rly gud plot avansement jus liek tokyo ghoul if erbudy dies amirite |
| If you live in the US and want to law-abide, go for it. Other than that, I see no reason to. |
| Sure there's CrunchyRoll's free option but its quality is terrible than Kissanime total Free Option. It may not cost a lot of money to get CrunchyRoll Premium subscriptions, however its not like they do uncensored episodes when they're available you still have to buy expensive BD's for that. It may be the TV Version of Harem Anime but if its free to watch why should I pay for that? Censorship sucks and its a Rip off to pay for it too doesn't matter about price there. Small selection of Anime(getting ever smaller by the day), free members have to deal with ads(some can last as long as 2 minutes. it may not seem like much until you have to deal with it 5 time per episode then its just straight up annoying) But its nice to see legal means of watching Anime even if Kiss,Anilinkz,etc have a much bigger selection and Kiss has Manga as well(free unlike CrunchyRoll where you have to pay to read Manga.) Also Mobile Quality is really bad either way man. I use my laptop so I don't really have a use for CrunchyRoll anyway. And my PS4 is for gaming, music and movies(that I pay for) |
| I play video games. You should play a video game because you read my signature. |
| You'd just be paying money for something you can get in equal or better quality through fansubs. I appreciate what Crunchyroll is trying to do, but they need to better compete with the free option if they want more people to join on. For now, I don't see it as worth it. You're doing more to support the industry if you pick up a few DVDs or manga volumes every now and then anyway. If you live outside the US, it's definitely not worth it. |
SFBADaulP said: I'll lend you access to my Crunchyroll account for a one time fee of $20.I'm considering joining Crunchyroll's premium service? Any suggestions (good or bad)? Should I do it? Are they a reputable organization? |
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SamirMalik said: TheHatredDMC said: Sure there's CrunchyRoll's free option but its quality is terrible than Kissanime total Free Option. It may not cost a lot of money to get CrunchyRoll Premium subscriptions, however its not like they do uncensored episodes when they're available you still have to buy expensive BD's for that. It may be the TV Version of Harem Anime but if its free to watch why should I pay for that? Censorship sucks and its a Rip off to pay for it too doesn't matter about price there. Small selection of Anime(getting ever smaller by the day), free members have to deal with ads(some can last as long as 2 minutes. it may not seem like much until you have to deal with it 5 time per episode then its just straight up annoying) But its nice to see legal means of watching Anime even if Kiss,Anilinkz,etc have a much bigger selection and Kiss has Manga as well(free unlike CrunchyRoll where you have to pay to read Manga.) Also Mobile Quality is really bad either way man. I use my laptop so I don't really have a use for CrunchyRoll anyway. And my PS4 is for gaming, music and movies(that I pay for) anime is so stylized by default that the resolution never gets in the way. it's not like you're watching Kung Fu Panda or something. I've seen 720p stuff on Daisuki, a free legal micro streaming site, and the difference between that and standard really isn't too noticeable. also I think you should have saw that coming when they said 1 hour after Japan's release. besides there's plenty of minors here as well, which is the whole reason why they are censored to begin with in Japan. that would cause a lot of problems if they would start uncensoring. Crunchyroll is a public site with apps linking to the videos. my big problem with sites like Kissanime is that they steal all the stuff from the people who work hard to get it made and localized. this isn't like some sort of Fansub of something that we will never see here in the west granting public permission. this is the company that directly supports the anime industry getting robbed for self profit. that's why I REALLY do not like them. I get what you're saying but Fansubs aren't anymore legal than KissAnime because neither are from official translators. Sure I don't like it (it sounds bad)but the offer is so juicy it's hard to turn down. I thought Japan censored stuff on purpose to guilt Otaku into buying super expensive BDs. Daisuki? Aren't they region locked in places? Most legal sites don't offer the means to watch long running Anime from the first episode unless you pay (assuming they even have the option). Either way it's better to just buy the localized BDS and a couple of Manga every now and then. It's shows more support than paying for streams. |
| I play video games. You should play a video game because you read my signature. |
| You can just watch anime illegally and support the industry in your own way. There are a lot of manga that are licensed but not scanlated meaning that you need to buy them to read them, which is a good way to put some money back into the industry. Figures, pillows, cosplay shit, and other merchandise can also work. If we're using $7/month as the standard rate then you could just spend $84/year on whatever anime stuff you want. That's about the price of an average anime DVD, around eight volumes of manga, or a mid-range figure. This way you also get physical stuff that you can look at and show to people. |
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| Pros: Legal Cons: Inferior to almost every other option on the internet. |
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| If the offer is good enough for you, why not? But I would rather use the free option on a PC if it is only intended for simultaneous broadcast. A week of wait is nothing and there are ad pauses in Japan too, yet no animation watcher manifests in the streets there. In my case, I use the free option of the three services available in France. I was at first interested in the paid download service on one of those sites, but owning TV files instead of the real DVDs was not appealing when it costed more than or as much as a regular DVD set (1€ per episode / 10-24€ a box). So only did it for a 26eps series with a 59€ box XD In the end, you should pay those services only for shows you won't later buy "for real". And first compare your different streaming services available. (not talking about things like kiss...): GFBHVN said: SFBADaulP said: I'm considering joining Crunchyroll's premium service? Any suggestions (good or bad)? Should I do it? Are they a reputable organization? up to you they only put on overhyped anime "attack on titan, one punch man, sailor moon so if you like crap anime then buy there premium if you like good anime then NO I fail to see how they can have a so large offer of anime if they only buy "overhyped" licenses. eterne_ said: You'd just be paying money for something you can get in equal or better quality through fansubs. When you are watching a "fansub" of a show simultaneously shown on Crunchyroll, Daisuki, Funimation, Kaze, ADN, Wakanim ... (don't every country's providers) you are actually watching a stolen file produced by those companies and translated by them. + I don't always like some language adaptations but when comparing their old series with the fansubs of that time, there is a contrast in the translation level. Quality does not lie only in the definition. |
Rei_IIIApr 8, 2016 10:45 PM
losing money, bankruptcy...the two are so close to each other that they might as well be synonymous. so that renders your argument indifferent to what I was saying. So now you're changing the definitions of the dictionary in an attempt to twist my argument and make it look like you're rightIf I have a company and 30 000$ and I one day lose 10 000 $ then I've lost money but I haven't gone bankrupt It's first when I've lost ALL of the 30 000 that I can truly say I've gone bankrupt No they aren't synonymous and your argument is bullshit and what I'm saying is that piracy eats away the money that should have gone to the hard workers instead of people making a profit off of rips from their site. You mean it goes to their bosses who save a big chunk of it for themselves and THEN give the rest of the money to the workers |
Nico- said: Conversations with people pinging/quoting me to argue about some old post I wrote years ago will not be entertained@Comic_Sans oh no y arnt ppl dieing i need more ppl dieing rly gud plot avansement jus liek tokyo ghoul if erbudy dies amirite |
Rei366 said: eterne_ said: You'd just be paying money for something you can get in equal or better quality through fansubs. When you are watching a "fansub" of a show simultaneously shown on Crunchyroll, Daisuki, Funimation, Kaze, ADN, Wakanim ... (don't every country's providers) you are actually watching a stolen file produced by those companies and translated by them. + I don't always like some language adaptations but when comparing their old series with the fansubs of that time, there is a contrast in the translation level. Quality does not lie only in the definition. I think you should read this to understand what I'm talking about. https://shittastes.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/crunchyroll-and-why-i-refuse-to-pay-for-it/#more-260 |
| Yeah, I'd go for it. It seems like a pretty good option if you live in the US, and want to legally support anime. Go for it! >:) |
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