| I've been an anime fan for quite sometime now.I always pirate anime whenever I want to watch it but now that I think about it I don't really deserve that title because I haven't even supported the creator of that show. How can I call myself an anime fan of I haven't supported to the creators of the show that I like? What about you guys? Do you consider yourself an anime fan even if you pirate animesb and do not support the creators? |
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| I pirate some and some I watch on Netflix, but it really doesn’t matter. It’s the same principal if you play a free game and don’t spend any money in it, the support is there no matter if it’s financial. |
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| There's no reason to force yourself to watch anime legally other than "it's moral". I would rather pirate anime on a website that has everything available rather than having to buy 10 different subscriptions for different streaming services. Illegal streaming is pretty much the best way to get into anime (for beginners especially), and they can often provide better service to people than legal sites funnily enough. You can support creators by word of mouth, which is quite easy and free to do. |
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| Well I guess to call yourself an anime fan you just have to like and watch anime. So you’re basically a fan but not a good fan. But pirating... it’s like going to restaurant and leave without paying. Restaurant might just close down if people continue doing that. Same goes for anime studios. Not enough sales might result in the anime getting cancelled. |
| Yeah. Pirating isn't moral and definitely wrong and so on and so forth, but at the end of the day, its practically impossible to watch every single anime and read every manga/novel I want to through legal means. I mean I could try if I wanted to... but I'm cheap, so I'll take my ticket to hell(I do eventually plan on giving back as much as I can later, when my bank balance isn't tending towards zero....which will happen....probably....I hope.). |
| I supported Oda, don't care about supporting streaming companies I can't stand. |
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| I support muse asia and ani-one Crunchyroll,funimation, and other streaming sites is available for my country So i can't or i won't support them I love watching anime, i don't consider myself as a big anime fan or something |
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| who cares about legal streaming, you can always donate to the original creators, they have their adresses made public, just look at how much money kyoani made after the fire incident (they gave it to the families but still). you can go to the studio's website and try to buy something original from them, some mangaka have pixiv accounts, you can donate there. legal streaming is a conspiracy from the youtubers, they get money from CR and the like to talk about it. you are an anime fan if you go straight to the source. |
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| You give your money to mere speculators. It doesn't help anime industry lot. Also, imagine that you have a friend and he owns a dvd which you are interested in. What would you do, go and buy another same dvd or just borrow it from your friend? My credo as a pirate is that pirate sites are my friends who borrow me their dvds :D |
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| Would you consider yourself a part of Jojo fandom if you were there only for memes? |
| Jolyne Kuujou + Steel Ball Run Universe = Billie Eillish |
| that's the evidence of being an anime fan |
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| I don't judge people for watching anime without paying for it. I judge people who spend money on bootlegs and illegal sites instead of paying for official releases. |
| i have and always will pirate anime cuz none of the anime streaming sites work in my country and crunchyroll is shit anyways, i do have a few manga of my fav anime |
| Only you know what you've seen, heard and felt, someone else's opinion is irrelevant. -Kurenai, Deca Dence |
| @Scordolo, yes I am an anime fan and so are you, don't buy into that moral high ground gatekeeping bullshit. Plenty of countries can't access legal streaming services and the selection they offer usually focuses on newer or most popular stuff. Not everybody wants to watch only those things. I want to pick whatever I want at the time off my list and know I have a way to watch it, rather than wondering if I can. Besides, Western streaming services basically give nothing back to the creators anyway. The harsh reality here is if you want to support anime, buy the merch. But collecting is, unfortunately a very expensive hobby, which also includes other investments like shelving, cleaning products and physically having the space to display what you have, so not everyone can afford it. No need to feel so bad, just watch anime, my dude (or lady). |
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| I think it's a problem of availability. If we had access to more DVDs or BLU-RAYs, some of us probably would buy them. I personally bought a lot of anime DVDs myself and would have bought more if I had the opportunity. |
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| You don't need to spend money on something to be considered a fan. |
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| Being a fan is being a fan. Support or no support. No offense to OP but you only think these kind of things when you have a bit of misplaced sense of morality. If it wasn't for the pirate sites, anime would never have grown this much. |
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| I didn't know being an anime fan was such a prestigious title to have, i've only watched pirated anime, I would watch legally if I could but i'm not in the best place financially currently |
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how else am i suppose to watch anime for free? |
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Mirai said: You don't need to spend money on something to be considered a fan. yes! as a fan of Manchester United I've never bought their merch or a match ticket... if I told you that pirates who "pirate" a lot also buy a lot (DVD, merch, manga, subscribing, LN)? maybe they buy more than "100% legallers"... although they weren't even the main target for the anime... the main butthurt comes from dubbing actors and western distributors xD |
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| I'm not rich and anime is quite expensive. I can't subscribe to 10 streaming sites and buy every anime or manga. But without "pirating" i wouldnt even watch anime because i couldn't and because of that i wouldn't pay for stuff i can and want to. For example i would never buy an Anime without knowing if it's worth my money. But i like to buy merch, anime and manga of things i really enjoyed. So even if it's not that much, i add something for the studios and creator. Without pirating, i wouldn't. |
Scordolo said: I've been an anime fan for quite sometime now.I always pirate anime whenever I want to watch it but now that I think about it I don't really deserve that title because I haven't even supported the creator of that show. How can I call myself an anime fan of I haven't supported to the creators of the show that I like? What about you guys? Do you consider yourself an anime fan even if you pirate animesb and do not support the creators? for me,,, sites like crnchyrll and fnmation isnt available and im too lazy to whip out a vpn everytime i want to watch something (not to mention internet is rlly slow when i use it) so i mainly support creators by buying official manga and official merhandise of the franchise i like |
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| All it takes to be a fan of something is to experience it so I would say yeah. I would call myself stingy thiugh most of my money goes to my college loans. |
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| Legal streaming sites are not available in my country (Crunchy has a few shows available but not many) but I do buy merch, so at least that's some money to that direction. |
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| I'm still a fan even if i pirate everything I just dont want to support Crunchyroll or Funimation ill support oda when i get the money |
| I pirate anime because no streaming site has the stuff I actually want to watch. Unless Crunchyroll somehow digs up a bunch of anime lost to time and exclusively put it on their service, I ain't paying them jack. Pirating also allows me to be more selective with what series I actually want to support financially. I'll torrent a show and then if I like it enough I'll probably get some merchandise of it at some point. I've amassed a pretty huge collection of stuff, so I'm probably contributing more to the industry than most people, ironically enough. |
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| Yes I would, I like to pirate my pirate animu of One Piece. |
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| As long as you watch anime you are an anime fan. I think that i'm still an anime fan even though I pirate anime sometimes if it's not on crunchyroll. But i've been thinking of bying some figures that can fill up my desk but not so sure about that. |
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| Legal watching doesn't really support the creators much more than pirating anyway. Pachinko, a form of gambling, brings more money into the anime industry than the entirety of the Western world. We are negligible no matter what we do, so you might as well just continue enjoying in the way that you want to. If you're a fan of anime then you're an anime fan, that's all there is to it. |
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| Just because you're watching anime illegal does that really mean I and we don't support the industry ? That's more how the question should be asked. When people is finding something they love a lot of people out there in the world buys figurens, starts playing their gacha game, starts buying the manga, starts buying mousepads, starts buying shirts with the characters etc. Thanks to illegal streaming site exist, people find things they love and a lot of people starts supporting them in one way or another in the end. If they truly love the serie. That's to Kissanime I'm no in posesion of of Figurens worth 350->450 USD each. 1.5k + volumes of manga. Playing 2x gacha games. I bough a huge amount of DvD's and games. I would never have bough this things if I was watching anime legally as the shows I love would be hard to find on the legally streaming site at the point of time when I become a fan of them. People that are saying illegal streaming site is bad for the community is re*arded |
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| Of course, the way you consume the medium doesn't affect if you love anime or not. It's same with every other hobby. It's more of if you support industry or not and if it's moral or not. People in some countries don't even have a choice in this matter because industry is nonexistent and some are even bound by the language barrier because not everyone speaks English so... yeah. |
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| If you ever feel like you need to support the creators directly you can always buy licensed merch/manga/blue-rays from official sites/stores. Legal streaming sites only give a tiny tiny fraction of their earnings back to Japan anyways. |
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| the anime industry is a joke. if you stream legally you are benefiting the studios, the publishers, the distributors, the streaming services. the people actually making the anime get shit pay either way. it is not on the consumer to fear for the wellbeing of the artists we care about. the fact that artists are mistreated, undervalued and underpaid in every industry has nothing to do with consumers, pirating, or sites that offer paid content for free. |
| The majority of my anime watching is done legally. This includes Hulu, Netflix, stuff borrowed from friends or the library, and sometimes YouTube. If I like something enough and the price is right, I'll buy the Blu-Ray or DVD. That said, if there's something I want to watch and it's not readily available by one of my usual means, I have no qualms about pirating it. In some cases it's something that's never been licensed in this country or is an older work that's out of print and isn't on any streaming service, and is not available by any practical means except by pirating. |
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| Yes of course you're still a fan. I pay for most of my anime but the ones that are not available on those subscriptions I will watch elsewhere. |
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| I mean, I buy manga of stuff I like when I can since I'm piss poor. I just watch however I want, I don't give a damn what would people call me for it. |
| i bought some JoJo figurines can i be an anime fan?Lmfao |
| If I didn't pirate then I wouldn't have seen Clannad which is my favourite anime and isn't on any streaming service in my country. But I'll buy manga and merch and watch whatever anime is on Netflix. |
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| I only turn to pirating if Muse Asia, Ani-One or Crunchyroll doesn't have what I'm looking for. Not a good excuse but between pirating and never watching at all I'll go with the former. For manga again I mostly read from official sources and buy whenever possible but I do pirate as well since at this point I don't have the money to buy each and every manga volume, once I get a well paying job I'll switch to buying whatever I want to read. And yes I consider myself as an anime fan. |
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| When all anime apps are ass-backwards its more convenient To use kissanime. It’s funny that illegal anime sites have better interface And load time than crunchyroll. I spent well over 30 minutes waiting for an AOT episode to load on my tv. I switched to kissanime and I was watching it in 5 minutes. |
| i try to watch everything legally when i can, but sometimes it's just not available on any streaming services. there's nothing i can do about it. being an anime fan isn't a title you pay for imo it just means you like to watch anime |
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