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INTEREST: Kemono Friends Producer Asks Fans Not to Watch Anime Illegally

Flash isn't nearly as dangerous these days as it used to be...

Crunchyroll currently has a Beta HTML5 player. It's an option under the video bar.

Kemono Friends on Crunchyroll...

(goes there and checks...)

oh darn, it's not available for my country (Philippines)..guess my only choice is buy the DVDs in Japan.

This is why I hate crunchyroll..and it's even promoting itself to our country but not have the same anime lineup as of those in North America due to licensing issues..

If it makes you feel better, their entire library isn't available in any one single country. That's just how licensing works. But they will still advertise things they have, naturally.

Every time I hear the industry complain about all the money they're losing out to illegal streaming sites, I think about how much money they're losing from not selling all that production artwork that is usually burned/trashed in Japan. Instead, they're allowing people (and companies like Mandarake) to sell these items instead. Ever seen how much some of the complete cel set-ups from Totoro go for on Mandarake? 25K, if you're lucky. There are several resellers on Yahoo Japan that sell smuggled and dumpster dived artwork as a third party source, and I'm sure that even once the reseller takes their cut, the person who smuggles that artwork out makes a good chunk of change. Yet, instead, let's go after the streaming sites. Even though that hasn't stopped people from watching in the decade or so that sites like Crunchyroll have legally been around, I'm sure it'll eventually work for them

wastrel wrote:

I will be more than happy to subscribe to Crunchyroll once they stop requiring me to infect my computer with Flash. Every once in a while I'll go to their site and try to find a statement, an FAQ, a forum comment, anything, that says they no longer require Flash to see anime and manga on my computer from them. I am still waiting.

They have a beta HTML5 player for their Premium+ customers. They also have almost their entire catalog on their sister service VRV, which has an HTML5 player for everyone - though the service is currently still region-locked to the US.
CR also has a Windows 10 UWP app.

Flash isn't nearly as dangerous these days as it used to be, as all current versions of popular browser block the plug-in on all websites unless specifically whitelisted. Unless you think Crunchyroll themselves would infect your PC, if you just whitelist their site, there's no risk in you installing Flash.

Legal streaming services need to put in more effort to combat the piracy. Asking nicely won't fix the low bitrates, stuttering, buffering, framerate, and sometimes even colour range issues

This doesn't even get into the fact that the illegal sites also tend to have shows not available any way else. If you want to watch an older classic like Record of Lodoss Wars, you can either shell out a few hundred dollars for the out-of-print discs on Ebay, or you can stream it illegally.

Every time I hear the industry complain about all the money they're losing out to illegal streaming sites, I think about how much money they're losing from not selling all that production artwork that is usually burned/trashed in Japan. Instead, they're allowing people (and companies like Mandarake) to sell these items instead.

I suspect that when sites like Crunchyroll provide their lineup to every country who wants to watch the content they have, there will be less pirating via either torrents or streaming sites.