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This is becoming even more widespread despite immense negative feedback from fans and it is really concerning. Companies like Crunchyroll carry around a laundry
by subjectsigma 4y ago
This is becoming even more widespread despite immense negative feedback from fans and it is really concerning. Companies like Crunchyroll carry around a laundry list of translation (as well as other) controversies but for most American anime fans there is no alternative, you either watch on Crunchy or you don't watch at all.
- tarentel 4y agoOr you steal it. It's really weird how some of the companies mentioned in this thread are run. I like this stuff, have the money, and I am more than willing to pay, but as others pointed out the quality is usually much worse than the same thing posted online for free. Whether fixing these quality issues would lead to less piracy overall I don't know but they'd have at least one more customer in me. Also, wrt to physical manga, availability is often time an issue. I don't want to read everything on a screen.
- dragontamer 4y agoI can think of at least 3 major groups doing anime in the USA: 1. Crunchyroll (aka: merged with Funimation) 2. Netflix 3. Hidive (aka: Sentai Filmworks) Amazon Prime tried to do a thing (and still holds some licenses), but I don't think they have done any recent anime. (Especially with the stupid "double-paywall", requiring both Amazon Prime + an anime-specific subscription to get access... it was doomed from the start by bad business decisions)
- astrange 4y agoBtw, HiDive/Sentai are owned by AMC now. There's also Retrocrush and Discotek.