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pcj
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So Crunchyroll has 3.14 times the number of subscribers as the population of Japan....
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Hoppy800
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I think you mean Otaku, as Japan has over 100 million people and if you combine Otaku and normal fans you have at least a few million people who watch anime. |
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Soaringfalcon
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I really hope the number of subscribers keep increasing
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My8th
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Infinite Otakus, it's just infinite of them haven't been born yet. We will rule the world!!
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Ermat_46
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So why is it that their Fall simulcasts aren't as competent as before?
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Mr. sickVisionz
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You sure you know what "competent" means? I'd love to know what makes the fall ones less competent. |
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HeavenTD
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You'd think they'd have better quality control and translators with that amount of money.
Until they improve that, I won't be paying to get an inferior service. Edit: Yup, Muphry's law working wonders. Last edited by HeavenTD on Mon Nov 24, 2014 2:03 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Minami-Asakura
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Its amazing what -once- "filthy pirates" can accomplish if you join them and you give other pirates and -non pirates- alike more or less what they needed instead of trying to criminalize them and get them behind bars.
Now if this was the case for manga too, CR aint cutting it as far as manga goes, leave them to anime, try to do the same with one of the biggest manga sites and it will probably lead to the same sucess in no time. |
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Agent355
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I think Crunchyroll doing fine with manga, they just don't have any of the really big titles besides Attack on Titan.
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enurtsol
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A lot of people thought they would fail when they were flipping
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Tylerr
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Can't see myself ever paying for crunchyroll when fansubbers put out a superior version for free.
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John Thacker
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Eh, at $6.95/month at most, if I have to spend even an extra half-hour of my time a month dealing with finding everything on fansub, downloading it, making sure it is accessible on every device I own (including easy to watch on every TV in the house) and when I travel to a friend or relative's house or a hotel, and so on, watching fansubs is more expensive. It's a nice hobby to help you learn about the technical or translation ends of things, but it doesn't really save you money. (Also, while I certainly will agree that sometimes based on our Japanese knowledge my wife and I prefer a different translation than what Crunchyroll does, for the same reason it doesn't bother us too much to see someone else's translation approach.) If the servers are up and working well, the price is extremely reasonable, especially if you either want to watch something as soon as it airs or you want to find something quite a bit older that they have in their back catalog. Server issues, or having to subscribe to several of these services to get everything (just like with non-anime streaming service) are complaints that have a bit more relevance IMO. |
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John Thacker
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By way of comparison, the WOWOW satellite TV service has 2.7 million subscribers in Japan. (Also interesting to see WOWOW's enormous bump in subscribers in September 2014, thanks to Kei Nishikori making the US Open final, and WOWOW being the Japanese broadcasters.) 400,000 is a decent number in the context of people looking for fairly non-mainstream content.
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Neo Paradigm
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I feel the same way. I think it's awesome how far crunchyroll has come compared to when they were nothing more than a site providing illegally hosted content. It's great that they provide a legal and easy to use service so that way, even if it's just a little bit, I can actually support the anime industry. |
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Ermat_46
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Last Fall, CR has simulcast to almost all, save for 4 (Yozakura, Freezing, Tokyo Ravens, and Blaz Blue) plus some shorts or kiddie shows no one would care. This fall, CR failed to snag 10 titles and they also fail to get Amagi, Seven Deadly Sins. I think it will get worse by 2015.
Thank God that fansubbing is already dying. Back in the day, fansubbers doesn't just slap CR/FUNi subs w/ memes on "high quality" TV rips. By 2015, your only options would be either memesubs or eye cancerous FUNi rips. Enjoy!
Compared to FUNi's streaming pile of turd (eye-cancerous encodes, uses hardsubs, and have "Just like a plan"-tier translations), CR is way superior to FUNi. At this season, only CR and FUNi are the active source of simulcasts. Other alternatives are much more horrible. TAN (which is thankfully dead) uses yellow subs. Daisuki have inferior video quality to CR. Netflix "simulcasts" are a season late so they shouldn't be even considered. So yeah, out of 5 companies who attempted to enter the simulcasting business only CR got it right. CR might be mediocre but the others aren't even trying. Can you blame CR for that? OR I think you just want to justify piracy. Nothing would stop you from pirating but please for the love of God just keep your pirating to yourself and don't encourage others to do that, mmkay. |
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