Long post but my view and opinion

tl;dr Personally I think it is very worth it.

I love being able to pick any device at my house and pretty much be able to watch any anime in their catalog without many issues. I can't blame them for not having every anime series ($$money$$) since competition is a good thing and I also don't blame them for sometimes releasing an anime a day or 2 after the episodes have aired in Japan. Not every fansub group can do that especially for series that are not as popular.

One sad part is sometimes they lose the rights to stream a series and they have to remove it. They currently don't have the first 13 episodes of Attack on Titan which I am guessing is because of the bluray release that came out recently. The episodes are on Netflix and Hulu so I don't see why Crunchyroll also doesn't have them. But that is something we have to deal with in these type of streaming websites the same thing goes for Netflix.

Another bad thing is they get the tv releases so if you go and watch something lout for a while like Madoka Magica or Fate Zero right now you won't be getting the bluray version but those 2 are bad examples since they are also available on Netflix (not sure if bluray version but they are in dual audio so I am guessing they are) so I would probably watch them there. the point I was trying to make is some series change certain stuff on the bluray release so unless you are watching a series that has recently been released then you could be watching the bluray version instead.

And more recently they have started getting into the manga business with their digital license releases (doesn't come with the standard anime membership tho). The crunchyroll manga app on both iOS and Android are just amazing (I don't really read manga on a browser) and I love being guaranteed a chapter (at least for now...who knows what licensing issues will come up later) and not having to worry about the scanlators falling behind or other issues like a series being dropped. I mean sure some few series come out ~5 days earlier than the official release but those are just the very popular series that are scanned and translated before they are even released in Japan. There are so many series that don't get official releases or fan translations and I hope Crunchyroll picks up some other good series.

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So I do think it is worth it but it definitely has downsides and it isn't for everyone especially if you live in a country where there is only a limited selection of series available. But for me it is more than worth it even if I don't watch every series on Crunchyroll and sometimes download them from fansubs (and I can transfer the episodes to my phone or stream them from my computer to a mobile device if I wanted to). Oh and before I forget I really dislike Crunchyroll's browser player since it isn't as good as the iOS app and freezes often for me even with a good connection and sometimes I have to lower it to 480p and even then I sometimes have problems.

This post was edited by LyZeR on Jul 1 2014 10:18pm

Yah!

Here's Crunchyroll quality btw if you were curious:



Well worth the $7 to not have it look like the low quality free streams...

"ever use gogoanime, animeplus, or any other anime sites? free or paid, doesnt matter"... it clearly does!

took 2mins and 15secs to download it for phree
people should learn to use this (pm's about questions are welcome)

CR not needed.







This post was edited by Mokuton on Jul 3 2014 05:26pm

Underwater Subs, known for either copying subs or being horrible at it.

Yuck, I'll pass.

Also not sure how people even stomach the Animeplus quality.

http://horriblesubs.info/about-us/
that should settle that
unless you just wanted to bait me into getting a warn for linking to a p2p site, which you can definately do, just pm fate he hates me enough to ban me for anything i'm sure.



since i've already decided to cross the line with posting outside links here ya go
horriblesubs is a middleman that just repacks shit and occasionally if your looking for the fastest release go to nyaa.eu the site is programmed to pick up uploads from all the major subbers. so they get them instantly rather than waiting for repacks
or you can hop on myanimelist.net scroll down to where it shows the fansubbing groups working on a show and grab them directly from the group, maybe even show some support (unheard of right?)


anyway horriblesubs call themseelvs that because they arent a real fansubbing group. they dont care about quality, fans, or even the shows they release. they are just trolling corporations by ripping their translations and releasing them for free in HD because its easy. they're true pirates, not fans

This post was edited by Ideophobe on Jul 3 2014 08:44pm

I'm referring to fansubbers releasing faster than CR.

Yes?

Do you even know what you're talking about anymore?
I know more than enough about where to get my downloads from.

What I want you to tell me is which fansubbing groups are faster than CR, when it comes to shows that CR are actually doing.

e/ I don't even remember why I am discussing this with you, I don't even use CR myself.

This post was edited by Tricon on Jul 4 2014 07:47am

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