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Feb 5, 2018 12:21 PM

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We really don't need to necro thread from 2014 to know the answer.
Feb 5, 2018 12:22 PM
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Crunchyroll tends to be better and give me less headaches.
Feb 5, 2018 12:24 PM
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Quality of the visuals is better on Crunchyroll. Quality of the actual series available and variety is far better on free sites.
Feb 5, 2018 12:24 PM
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CR has bad subs sometimes and not a great selection. Unfortunately free streaming sites or other 'illegal' sources are always going to be better because of that.
Feb 5, 2018 12:35 PM

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i love how the right answer was posted 2 minutes after the thread was but here we are 4 years later....
Feb 5, 2018 12:39 PM

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I've always relied on Kissanime tbh, even though they have had a fucked up system in the past year with more ads than before
However they have good subs and they have a quality of 720p (Wish it was still in 1080p)
Feb 5, 2018 12:51 PM
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I prefer free streaming sites, i'm Spanish so they are free, without ads, faster (they have a lot of servers/fansubers) and always 1080p/720p (except the old ones)
Honestly, i almost never use Crunchyroll
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Feb 5, 2018 10:06 PM
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Masteranime is great. Mobile Adblock doesn’t get rid of those hideous clickbait ads on Gogo & 9anime, so I’ve been using Masteranime lately. Not only is their interface better, and their site design, they also don’t have any godawful clickbait garbage.
Jan 2, 2022 5:31 AM
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both are just same , i would say that crunchyroll is the legal verson of kissanime
Jan 2, 2022 10:59 AM
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We have to pay $3 for just three or four mainstream anime that I actually finished long ago . and they don't care about us. Unfortunately free website ✊
Jan 2, 2022 1:49 PM

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In terms of actual video quality, CR and other legal streaming sites are objectively better, since illegal sites primarily take videos ripped 1:1 from legal sites, and re-encode them at lower quality to hardcode the (same officially-translated) subtitles and maybe add watermarks and such. In terms of selection, yeah, illegal sites are going to have more, but that's a case of "only better because they cheat" -- they don't have to pay for licensing fees, or for the subtitles and dubs they use, because they steal them from the legal sites. It's like calling a fat guy on a motorcycle a better athlete than competitive cyclists in the Tour de France, just because his vehicle allows him to get from Point A to Point B faster.

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