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tygerchickchibi
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No, supporting illegal content, in ways that DON'T support anime. That's why I had made that comment. It's okay, I'm not worried about that anymore, though. |
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kokuryu
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It was very funny, but it sucked as the first ep for a new series. If ep 2 is not any better, im not going to watch this one anymore...
On the other hand... Blassreiter is AWESOME!!!! |
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Josh7289
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Wait, so paying for a legal download is in some way supporting illegal content? |
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Jedi General
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Seriously? Blassreiter's first episode was incredibly weak. The CG didn't look all that great, and the overuse of it certainly didn't help. Not to mention the boring characters, groan-inducing dialogue and predictable storyline. The next episode doesn't look too promising either, but I think I'll give the series at least an episode or two to get better. I really would like to finish the majority of the titles I start this season. Druaga's first episode, though, was quite the pleasant surprise. Man, I may have laughed a little TOO much. I hope the rest of the series is as funny as the first episode. |
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tygerchickchibi
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*Yawn.* No. And don't press into it anymore, this was a response to someone else's post back a page before hand, and I just didn't feel like bringing it back up. Stop misunderstanding it and shove it under the rug, I just didn't feel like repeating or explaining myself any further, since the thread kept moving with other posts. |
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Josh7289
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Er...OK, then. Whatever you say.
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BenBrown
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TLDR?: I'm going to shoot somebody if I have to read another sentence over at crunchyroll with a ~ at the end of it while I try to find out how they're splitting their "donations."
So far I've been incredibly disappointed with everything other than the youtube version of the stream. It expands to fill my window and the control bar is very unobtrusive. Quality sucked though. The stream player over at crunchy roll doesn't expand to fill your entire screen, it just doubles in size, so no way to make it not look stupid watching in a browser on my TV. The stream player was not much better over at Bost TV, it actually filled the screen... except that the controls don't autohide when you're not moving your mouse around, and THEY'RE FREAKING HUGE. Also they split the stream into six parts, it auto-advanced to the next section but it didn't look like it was buffering that section, so their overworked servers couldn't keep up 
Download over at Bost was easy to do, and their first free samples were easy to get to, the quality was iPod video at best so that part wasn't very nice. Download at Crunchyroll was a pain in the ass for me to get to, I wasn't able to get paypal to work, it kept saying that I was "avoiding proper site flow" when I tried to check out with paypal from the order screen. Also I tried to do the 0.00 (just 0 apparently isn't a good enough number) just to see if I could get it for free, or a "donation" of nothing if you will. I wasn't able to check out at all until I went up to 2.00, others have been successful at 0.00 so I don't know what I was doing wrong. At least the quality seems to be pretty good, but the 60k that I was getting downstream from crunchyroll sucks compared to the usual 200k that I get on torrents. So pretty satisfying that they actually got it done, but big fail on the technical implementation all around in my opinion. Does anyone have any information on how crunchyroll is divvying up the "donations" that they're getting? How much of this is actually going back to Gonzo? And does anyone know how Gonzo contracted the deal with them? People keep saying they "donated" to help out Gonzo, I really hope they money is actually going back there, that would be a nice kick in the balls when crunchyroll comes out and says they've been keeping all of it and Gonzo gets the shaft like they do from Japanese networks. |
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Unearthly
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Right click on video, 'Full Screen'. |
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Sven Viking
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Just for reference, though the PayPal link still won't work for me on CrunchyRoll, the normal checkout via credit card did (this is from Australia).
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russ869
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If you add &fmt=18 to the end of the Youtube URL you'll get better quality. Trust me it works. Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vgQ6WJ8zhQ&fmt=18 |
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CruzMissile
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LOL that made no sense at all but it was funny as hell
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Hidari-san
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They're showing their support. Like a thumbs up to support this method of being able to watch anime legally and in a timely manner. I doubt if teenagers can afford to give $30 for one episode even if they are dumb enough or unpredictable enough as you seem to think. |
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BenBrown
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Ah, nice. Sneaky flash players |
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reanimator
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It can't be helped. You know that good animators are stretched thin in Japan. At least it's nice to see Hiroyuki Imaishi part on that show. Yeah, I'm not sure if his animation can save the whole show. It's like one of those B-grade movie with big name star in it. It feels like Gonzo always end up getting second rate artists and writers. I'm not a Gonzo fan, but at least I can give them credit for doing something new for their business. |
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