I remember the days of high quality fansubs by people who were just doing it for free because they loved it.

Those still exist and still give you a better consumer experience than these fucking dogshit streaming services.

Just let us buy the files DRM free. Why is that so hard? The music industry did it. The games industry did it. Why won't TV or Film?

And capitalism continues to ruin everything

I think they need to step back a little and address their quality control before they try to embrace the AI bandwagon on captions/subtitles.

If they could figure a way to make you pay without providing any service at all they absolutely would.

They can want me to pay for it all they want, Crunchyroll has never and will never see a penny from my ass.

Shit, the last time fucking Funimation saw a penny from me was back when the DBZ orange box sets were on shelves, motherfuck Crunchroll lmao

If anyone trusted Crunchyroll after they removed comments and reviews, it's honestly kind of their fault, as much as I hate victim blaming. They have shown who they are time and time again, it's not hard to believe them.

Though, I think anyone in this community very likely already knows exactly who they are.

I don't watch anime but I do dislike greedy companies. I have a couple hundred gigabytes to spare, how can I help?

I was already bitter about patrasche being translated/localized(?) as patlash in re:zero but things are getting even shittier I guess. For those not in the know Dog of Flanders is a story nearly every japanese person will know at least to some degree, and has been referenced infinitely in anime and manga.

And similarly so many weird fucking names you could search the katakana online and find 30 different game wikis that reveal it was just akward katakana for a common non-japanese name, but no it has to to be different in this anime or that manga and we are going to make up some aneurysm romanization for it.

or incorrect subject assumtion because japanese is vague on that and if it's ai translated it actually makes sense with the lack of context awareness, and the list could go on for days

As much as people hate on dubs, this one reason I’m glad I tend to focus on them. The ADR team does a great job of translating and localization. Is it word for word the same as Japanese? No, if you want that, use AI. This keeps the spirit while making sure it’s more culturally understandable.

Crunchyroll used to be a pirate site