I'd never thought before of a piracy site being an archive, but it kind of is. There are a lot of older shows that you could probably never find anywhere except for a piracy website.
Same for games with expired soundtracks licenses. Torrent is a perfect example of truly horizontal organisation, an essence of peer-to-peer idea, an ode to freedom which was the basis of internet as a concept!
*Gabe Newell* (the President of Valve/Steam), 13 years ago: _There is a fundamental misconception about piracy; _*_piracy is a service problem._*_ If companies want to stop piracy, they have to _*_provide a better service than the pirates._*
I have never been able to search for "yaoi" on Crunchyroll. It's so difficult to find even a list of "isekai" Crunchyroll has a few categories. It's not enough.
This is why Valve is succeeding as a company..... I used to pirate all my games becuz it was easier, now with steam I will happily pay for them becuz of ease of access..... I have been an anime pirate my entire life, and nothing has improved when it comes to legal streaming sites.... If a threat that u will no longer have access to wat you pay for constantly looms over consumers then consumers will leave, simple as that
And at an acceptable price. I would note most old star wars games don't get pirated, why? Because you can buy them for a few dollars and I do mean 1-3. Or the entire set for 7.
He was right and wrong , there was a time in my teen years i couldn't afford games they where more expensive and i had to travel to a physical shop, while having low wage work in my teenage years. Back then i pirated.. Then i got a better paying job , Steam at some point came out , and was an cheaper alternative to the physical games. Although i have to admit i am a bit worried that i lose hundreds of games if Steam for whatever reason stops their service.
I wish there was like a Patreon for the animation studios so I could pay them directly instead of Crunchyroll while I keep pirating. I feel like they'd get more out of my money that way, and I remember that Studio TRIGGER actually had a Patreon.
99% of animation studios are significantly worse than these corporations you refuse to pay a 10 subscription for. Not to mention Crunchyroll was a pirating site bought out by anime studios.
@@tama47_ I watch like 3 or 4 animes a season. Crunchyroll has hundreds of anime. I could give 10 bucks to each studio per season and it'd do a lot more than the 0.0000x cents they'd get from my Crunchyroll subscription, or do you think that they get 100% of my money?
@@tama47_ it''s because I'd rather support the few series I actually care about than support a platform that brings pretty much no actual value. I'd rather my money go to the people who actually create anime than to people who use it to create exclusivity and regionlocks and licensing and DRMs. I don't care to pay for the boilerplate, it's useless anyway, just gimme the actual good shows, as a file, on my hard drive, so there's instant lookup and no buffering ever, even if the internet is down. they even mess up subtitles. it's 2025 and still the best way to enjoy a show is fansubs whenever they exist (e.g. HatSubs for One Piece) so no, streaming sites are not getting my money. I still prefer to support the shows I love by getting the box sets
Its gonna be hella expensive if you want to watch a bunch of seasonal shows. If a bunch of studiops came together to make their own streaming service that would be really cool.
Not really as you have to hope that all these ppl are actually willing to continue subbing as its not their job to. So if they just want to upload episodes unsubbed, then they can.
From pirate to privateer. They played the game hard and won. A shame the service still sucks. I respect the hustle, but they've never gotten a dime from me.
@zetsumeinaito it kinda sucks how they have like zero competition. And older stuff often disappear. And then theirs censorship and country locks and shit. I watch some china anime and often even though it's the anime makers service they won't let me pay watch from USA.
When Crunchyroll was purchased by Funimation they paid over 1 billion USD to get it. That much money is way beyond what CR is actually worth. I haven't found any information indicating CR was for sale at the time.The movie studios that purchased CR, didn't care how much it would cost just as long as they could control what fans could watch. (parent companies are Sony PicturesIntl UK + AT&T TV + one or two others at the time they bought it) wikipedia says Sony Japan, but that is flat out lie. ANd it probably doesn't say Universial Pictures first purchased funimation in 2005 either now. But looking up who bought funimation when it was still inSan Francisco Ca. Where info manipulation would be much much harder to modify, and why would they, since most believe whatever is written on Wikipedia. Since 2017 The movie studios have held a monopoly over the Anime industry. All the Anime streaming sercies in the world, the major online Anime media and retail merch websites. as well as at least 5% of multiple Anime and Manga publishers in Japan are all owned or control by the movie industry. They control the productions of over 90% of all new shows created. They began the planned takeover back in 2007 by first bankrupting 6 of the 8 US based Anime export/import companies. Leaving funimation and Sentai productions all the power needed to force any changes they desired in the wake of those 6 companies leaving the business. And they took advantage of it just as planned. Anime popularity has continued to increase ever since. But there hasn't been a single new competitor in the export/import trade of Anime. Nor has any of the 6 companies try to make a comeback. And yet the U.S. governemnt that monitors corporations in the U.S to ensure none gain a monopoly over an industry. Has had anything to say about the contol studios have over the Anime industry. They even gave them a green light to purchase funimation in 2017 and then CR in 2019? I think it was.
This. I don't watch pirated anime because I don't know where to go, LOL, but aside from that, there's a lot of stuff that isn't easily or generally available or they're just charging too much for it.
That too especially for anime's like PRECURE that will NEVER get another English dub EVER and I'll NEVER USE PAID websites to watch Precure when I can watch subbed versions on Pirated websites for free.
Case Closed/Detective Conan is unavailable to me due to licensing. Always has been and most likely always will be. I have been watching for 18 years. All the money I would have given them if they'd just given me the choice to pay for watching it.
Crunchyroll brought out funimation and said they were going to bring over the entire library of funimation but they didn't and some of the anime they did bring over don't even have the dub that funimation did have
I miss Funimation,99% English dub all of there anime, crunchyroll was always going to be cheap and have most of their titles subtitled..their site before Sony bought them…and still want you to pay monthly for a subtitled anime!! Don’t be cheap and pay for voice actors.. Crunchyroll!!
Or have the low quality video. For example Girls bravo on crunchy looks horrible, even my 20 year old dvds have better quality, and the original dub. Then there's the adv dub of eva gone except for pirates and owners of hard copies.
I would say it's not just the prices and more streaming platforms raising, but also the fact that if you pay the minimum you'll get ads, at least in Netflix and Prime Video. If you're getting ads for something you paid, it's not too different from illegal websites that also include ads. You also need to pay more if you want different devices using the same account.
I'm not from USA so there is no small fee with ads for Netflix only starts from basic with low quality SD. And for anime so many are in Japanese dub only while they play trailer in English yet English dub is region locked and not available.. I like to watch some anime at home while doing routine laptop based work so listening is easier while watch my more favourite ones in sub when I'm free. Netflix selection sucks too lots of stuff are only available pirated.
When I started watching crunchyroll, it was a pirate site too, and in the beginning, when it went legit, I paid for it. Then they got out of hand with the price. Made me feel like I was being taken advantage of. Not to mention how are all the pirate websites better then ones you pay for?
reason to not use Crunchyroll. 1.Bad translation 2.Bad voice acting 3.Smal library 4.Censorship 5.almost no old anime and only after THAT its be 5.Price 6. Quality etc
"We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. [...] If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable." - Gabe Newell
@@Tletnapricing is also a service issue imo. If its so expensive people cant afford it, it may as well be a nonexistent service because people cant afford it anyway. So you are bassically saying tomato tomato
@@Tletna People are fine with paying, but they're not fine with being inconvenienced. Having to purchase multiple subscriptions, just to make sure that a show or movie is available in at least one of them is an immense failure of service when pirating sites can offer at least the same quality for free. The issue why pirating is so popular tho, is bc it's not the same quality. They're better. You don't struggle with availability and you don't have to worry about subscribing to multiple services bc these sites just work. Somehow they're the "plug-and-play" experience. Their service is just better.
@@jismeraiverhoeven I love that the tomato tomato analogy doesn't work in text because it's the vocal inflection that matters, but here it actually works perfectly.
You have forgot two more reason: - everyone's streaming service website and app have a trash design that is horrible to navigate to find anything outsider of the front page - far to frequently they have low quality dubs and subs ( some language are far worse than other). Non legit website on the other hand are well made, easy to navigate, with proper categories, working searching filter, user ratings and good comment section and many times fan made subs are far better than official One.
Exactly it isn't about paying for the subscription it's about the paid product being worse than the free pirated product. Website organization wise and subtitles lacking on crunchyroll.
i agree even tho my family has a Netflix account i don't see the point of using it for anime pirate websites not only have more anime they also include all seasons and specials/ova/whatever else there is its way more convenient and simple you don't even need to make a account.
This without mentioning that you can’t even watch everything they have stored, merely based on your region… it sucks. Pirate websites definitely are the best, netflix and paid sites only want to rob us
Why the hell Crunchyroll don't want to make all their anime available in every country? I can pay subscription monthly but there are anime that is not available on Crunchyroll in our country
I have crunchyroll, D+, Amazon Prime, Netflix, and also use VPN. With all of that, I still can't find certain anime. How in the heck is that possible?!?! 🤦🏾♂️
Crunchyroll in a nutshell be like, buy subscription to watch 10% of the total animes. Whereas some piracy sites provide 80-90% of all the anime for free, some of which lets us use with just a couple of ads in the start, rest is completely ad free
AHEM!!! 100%, not 80-90%. there's only 1 very old show called "tottemo-luckyman" that i cant watch, but that's cuz its in japanese and there's no subtitles or dubbing for that show, except for on tv, and that show doesnt air anymore. its not really an anime. its actually a cartoon. What do i do? Im learning japanese so that i can watch the anime. fun right?
@yajurraghavan4193 there were also a couple of anime that i wanted to see, but i couldn't find them. I don't remember the names though. But its true that crunchyroll cannot be compared to this godly piracy site.
Pirating used to offer a much worse experiene which was a natural incentive to use the paid services, but now that pirating offers a superior experience, why would I pay for a worse service.
As for Disney, people simply give up on the company since they involve politics even into remakes of their own movies. People are tired about the idiocracy.
Streaming prices are going up while the amount of content is going down. We're paying more for less and hoenstly, I'm not gonna pay for 4 different streaming services just to be able to watch a few anime I really want to watch. Besides, I feel like these pirate sites are often better made than the legal sites, especially than Crunchyroll
The main reason people are ditching the mainstream sites is because in order to watch all your favorite shows you ofte have to sub to 5 different sites and that shit costs way to fucking much. This is not an issue just for anime.
Just to watch 1 show you need 3 sevices. Season 1 on apple tv season 2-3 on prime. And the last season on crunchyroll. For some series this is a real think in some countries.
2:27 This Compression is the Very Reason I Pirate and Watch even while having the Subscription of the OTT its available on I'd Netflix, Zee5, Prime Video to watch RRR but Some were Compressing the Bitrate and Some were Cropping the Ratio while the Movie was in Open Matte Ratio Officially
What's ironic, Crunchyroll started off as a piracy site. They're basically a monopoly for in the west for Anime. 😮💨 I only subscribe to them out of convenience of watching them on my TV vs my monitor.
When Crunchyroll got rid of comments to protect the 2 woke shows coming out at the time that were being dragged through the gutter, i knew that the days of streaming as we know them are done.
This is true - there were other sites like IMDB several years ago that got rid of their comments to protect woke BS and it's a really big loss. It would be a way for them to get people back - make it a community again where we can comment. Tough shit if someone don't like the comments, woke shit is mentally ill anyway. People are fed up with it.
If they identify it, do you think it will be still up? Someone would go after them to get them removed. By the way, I don't know either. But, wish them luck.
The only reason I subscribe to Crunchroll, instead of others, was because of the comments section for each video, once they killed that, it's value to me has plummeted. So many helpful comments all gone. So many series that I only tried watching because people defended them in the comments. No more...
Reason 1. No localized content on official services, while pirates provides the missing service. Reason 2. lack of content due to stupid regional issues. Reason 3. Yes - price as you have to select multiple official sources. Reason 4 : old content is gone...
I hate that this was report/ announced. Now well-funded companies are going to go after more pirate site. Like noone know how to keep their mouths shut 🙄 Super annoying
I really hope I see the day, in the not too distant future, where all the anime production companies realize that selling exclusive licensing rights is a terrible business decision for the anime industry. They should let any streaming service that pays them a fair share be able to show their animes. I'm sure quite a few pirating sites would LOVE to become legal streaming services if they could. I really hate exclusive licensing practices in the anime industry.
The only reason I use pirate sites is that no everything is available to me elsewhere. And/or anime in question is censored for no good reason. Unfortunately A LOT of anime falls in those two categories. Also I find these sites have pretty much exactly same quality than so called official sites, sometimes even better.
I think watching anime from "unofficial sources" and just buying the Blu-ray later when it's available is a good compromise. I think the anime studios should be paid for their work, so doing it this way makes sure they still get paid without giving money to a crappy streaming service. It's as the old saying says, piracy isn't a money problem, it's a service problem.
I got a Crunchyroll ad before the vid. Love the irony.❤ I'd rather spend that money on the dvd/Blu-ray and have it on hand than on the subscriptions that I'd barely use.
I haven't watched much anime recently but the major reason why people do itr is because of fragmentation. If I want to watch 3 different series officially, I need 3 different subscription. I think every anime fan would pay in a blink if all anime can come to one single platform in one subscription, because having 10 streaming suscriptions when 99% people don't need 99% of the content of many of these streaming platforms just doesn't makes sense.
The only problem is that that isn't always possible anymore. They simply don't make DVDs like they used to. And if they do, you're usually talking about $50 per 12 episodes. In something that has three seasons, you're spending upwards of $150 for maybe 36 eps.
@ And I’m talking collecting over time. Accumulative. Not all at once; that would be irresponsible. And not just blu-rays/dvds - I’m talking books, light novels and manga too.
I think the 2 main reasons are Price and even after you pay the ads. Nowadays where im from $100 worth of groceries can fit in one bag and an 8yr old would have no problem carrying it. Economy is terrible and then you have these sites that give 2 ads every 30sec forcing people to buy the premium to avoid ads. Thats why other sites are coming up and people are supporting them. Some people just dont like being forced to buy something.
Bro tbh its not even worth watching officially in my country India for example to watch AOT(officially) which is only available in prime video in which u literally first need to get a prime subscription then also get the anime times subscription which is a total robbery considering the Per capita income of my India
Regional catalogues are the reason why I haven’t subscribed to Crunchyroll….I don’t wanna pay 65 bucks (that’s how much much Crunchyroll’s highest plan costs yearly in my country) to watch a certain anime only to find out said series ain’t available in my country.
I could tell with the price increases on CrunchyRoll if they actually had a good catalog. Having to have 3 services to get access to properties Crunchy Roll claims to have is such a pain in the ass. Also them having dubs for season 1 or 2 and then only having subs for the rest of the seasons?
Netflix translation sucks. For some japanese text is just not translated and in others it just removed without replacing it with any thing. Making it so you just lose all content that it would have added. It happened in spy x family when twilight and nightfall is speaking in code it is written in Japanese what they are saying and anya is responding to that. In the Netflix version anya is responding to nothing.
The recent price increases from these anime streaming services made this outcome inevitable. We paid to support their work, but as soon as the community feels taken advantage of, it will bounce back.
It also costs money for the official websites to host the anime that you watch on their service as that is also a reason why some shows are just being removed from crunchroll
For some reason, got in the site to try it out while pressing the search bar, but took me to another site where an Apple pop-up comes up and says I’m hacked. Why? WTH?!
Looks like some one is new to pirating Let me help you son When you search something and another website pops up just close that tab and search again this may happen a few times but you just gotta repeat this process and that hack thing is total bs it doesn't mean shit don't click on it Stay safe ,keep pirating ❤❤
I will continue to pirate anime as long as the anime i want to watch is on disney if Japan don't want piracy they need to create their own streaming service for anime
What should i do if the Anime I wanna watch isn't available in my country? For example AOT Season 1 is not available in Germany so I have to watch it on illegal websites
I would rather pay a piracy site than these "official" streaming sits. They are the real criminals! I wish I could directly support the original creators of the anime
The problem is the legit sites have become too monopolistic and too anti consumer, so piracy is back. I think monopolistic is the wrong word, but I am not sure what the right word is? They are monopolizing rights to be the sole service that can provide a show is what i mean, and they are too expensive to have all of them. Then we have the issues that we saw with WB recently where they just removed all of their animated shows(and then released Velma and called it the highest rated animated show on the service which it was, but only because they removed everything else)
I wouldn't mind paying for anime if all of it was on one site. I shouldn't have to pay for Disney, Netflix & Crunchyroll because these big platforms don't contain every anime and only have anime for money making. Crunchyroll is the worst by promoting itself as an anime platform but doesn't have every show.
You guys have zero business sense at all. You know what it’s called when one company owns EVERYTHING? It’s called a monopoly, and that’s bad not good. You cry about the price as it is, if they had everything then the price would be far higher cause you’d have no choice but to pay it.
Too many streaming platforms. So its cable but on online. So the decline is pretty much the same reason people dont watch TV anymore. So in the end its tied to availablility i.e. convenience for the customer.
I own a bunch of DVDs and BluRays...but if digital physical media stops being produced, won't the actual blu-ray players also become obsolete? I'll keep my discs, but if my player fails and I can't buy a new one...
you got your answear....for two anime that the first site doesnt have, you need to pay extra two montly fees, cause u dont find any show you want on one site
For me it not about price, simply because they do not censor the format like paid services do! Tired of Crunchy Roll censorship and they avoid certain genre like Ecchi!
There’s no way to justify paying for a service when there is a better option, way much better for free. Try to apply that logic to any other service, car wash, barbershop, coffee shop, etc. Will you opt for the paying one?
the reason why we dont want to pay for subscription is because the content in there for a limited time and then jumps to the another platform and if i want to watch the show again, i need to buy another subscription
Crunchyroll lost the bid to stream a lot of these series. Im in Australia and lots of series that are available in other countries are not available here. Naruto is in Japanese or subtitles only in Australia yet it has an English version
The 'Official Sites' don't actually support the studios making the anime, not in any direct sense. They license the ability to show it other places, but none of the money we pay per month goes to the studios. The BEST option would be for Japan (since that's still where most of the anime is coming from) to create its own service that services the world. Everyone can then pay a monthly fee, have access to all anime, and for newer anime (say for 5 years or something like that) a portion of the subscription fee is given to the studios based on how many individual accounts watch an anime. Some Japanese only games will come with English subtitles as an option even if they aren't ever released outside of Japan. This could be done on their service as well, and for Dubs, then THEY can control who does the translation/localization and the dubbing, and make sure no wackos are changing things to fit some agenda. Hell, instead of cracking down on pirate websites, they could incorporate and/or partner with them, so that any anime that is older than 5 years goes to them automatically. Those sites could operate pretty much just as they do now, as an archive of sorts, but instead a portion of their revenue would go to the main service site. If it became an 'official' thing, I could even see people being willing to pay a subscription for both the Main site and the Archive site. Two subscriptions costing less than what we'd pay now to watch everything and it would directly support the studios that make the anime. Not to mention that if they were to do this, it would be pretty much 100% free of western bullshit. But this would mean that Japan as a whole would actually have to get over then xenophobic and racist mindset and realize the rest of the world exists.
Idk about DVDs... but Sony said they will stop making Blu-Ray discs a while back. I can't remember if it was just blanks, but, physical media is surely dying.
i wish i knew a website to replace youtube now. Im tired if the ads ruining the mood so frequently when im playing games, and then i have to take time from what im doing to mute the ads and wait to skip it before being able to go back to what i was doing. I should probably start downloading all the songs that i listen to and have my own library of music for always.
This is the problem with Crunchyroll (and other streaming sites) - you pay the sub only to discover that "sorry, this movie/show is unavailable in your country - come back later and MAYBE we will have it". Sorry, when I decide to watch something after some research as to what I want to watch now (and having enough time to binge the 12/24/50 episodes), I would like to see it when I have time, not keep on checking for the next year or two in hopes it comes back. 🤷♂
I’ve been considering to cancel Crunchyroll for the fact that dragon ball daima has at least 5 dub episodes, probably 9, and yes they refuse to release them.
Well the thing is that I used Crunchyroll bcs there aren’t any Corn ads popping in my face… but most anime’s or seasons don’t get casted on Crunchy anymore…
I'd never thought before of a piracy site being an archive, but it kind of is. There are a lot of older shows that you could probably never find anywhere except for a piracy website.
THIS is very true.
Same for games with expired soundtracks licenses. Torrent is a perfect example of truly horizontal organisation, an essence of peer-to-peer idea, an ode to freedom which was the basis of internet as a concept!
RIP 9anime... Bigger anime library ever.
Yeah my 2 favorite shows(legend of the galactic heroes and Berserk 1997) are only available by piracy
could always find the DVDs for older shows and then you can create your own archive.
*Gabe Newell* (the President of Valve/Steam), 13 years ago:
_There is a fundamental misconception about piracy; _*_piracy is a service problem._*_ If companies want to stop piracy, they have to _*_provide a better service than the pirates._*
Word! 👍
I have never been able to search for "yaoi" on Crunchyroll.
It's so difficult to find even a list of "isekai"
Crunchyroll has a few categories. It's not enough.
This is why Valve is succeeding as a company..... I used to pirate all my games becuz it was easier, now with steam I will happily pay for them becuz of ease of access..... I have been an anime pirate my entire life, and nothing has improved when it comes to legal streaming sites.... If a threat that u will no longer have access to wat you pay for constantly looms over consumers then consumers will leave, simple as that
And at an acceptable price. I would note most old star wars games don't get pirated, why? Because you can buy them for a few dollars and I do mean 1-3. Or the entire set for 7.
He was right and wrong , there was a time in my teen years i couldn't afford games they where more expensive and i had to travel to a physical shop, while having low wage work in my teenage years. Back then i pirated.. Then i got a better paying job , Steam at some point came out , and was an cheaper alternative to the physical games. Although i have to admit i am a bit worried that i lose hundreds of games if Steam for whatever reason stops their service.
I wish there was like a Patreon for the animation studios so I could pay them directly instead of Crunchyroll while I keep pirating. I feel like they'd get more out of my money that way, and I remember that Studio TRIGGER actually had a Patreon.
99% of animation studios are significantly worse than these corporations you refuse to pay a 10 subscription for. Not to mention Crunchyroll was a pirating site bought out by anime studios.
Not sure how you justify donating to every studios, but not one subscription that has most of the anime. But you do you.
@@tama47_ I watch like 3 or 4 animes a season. Crunchyroll has hundreds of anime. I could give 10 bucks to each studio per season and it'd do a lot more than the 0.0000x cents they'd get from my Crunchyroll subscription, or do you think that they get 100% of my money?
@@tama47_ it''s because I'd rather support the few series I actually care about than support a platform that brings pretty much no actual value.
I'd rather my money go to the people who actually create anime than to people who use it to create exclusivity and regionlocks and licensing and DRMs. I don't care to pay for the boilerplate, it's useless anyway, just gimme the actual good shows, as a file, on my hard drive, so there's instant lookup and no buffering ever, even if the internet is down.
they even mess up subtitles. it's 2025 and still the best way to enjoy a show is fansubs whenever they exist (e.g. HatSubs for One Piece)
so no, streaming sites are not getting my money. I still prefer to support the shows I love by getting the box sets
Its gonna be hella expensive if you want to watch a bunch of seasonal shows. If a bunch of studiops came together to make their own streaming service that would be really cool.
Piracy websites are getting to good there’s no reason to use the actual website anymore
I'll always support the official release as long as it's free.
What are those "illegal" websites!? :)
@@franciscozamudio1528 well... u can just google "a pirating website that surpassed crunchyroll" scroll down and ull see the name of the website
@@franciscozamudio1528 h!anime is the one being talked about
Not really as you have to hope that all these ppl are actually willing to continue subbing as its not their job to.
So if they just want to upload episodes unsubbed, then they can.
So many people forget Crunchyroll started as a pirate site who essentially blackmailed them into letting them become legit. CR is a pirate site.
From pirate to privateer. They played the game hard and won. A shame the service still sucks. I respect the hustle, but they've never gotten a dime from me.
@zetsumeinaito it kinda sucks how they have like zero competition. And older stuff often disappear. And then theirs censorship and country locks and shit. I watch some china anime and often even though it's the anime makers service they won't let me pay watch from USA.
When Crunchyroll was purchased by Funimation they paid over 1 billion USD to get it. That much money is way beyond what CR is actually worth. I haven't found any information indicating CR was for sale at the time.The movie studios that purchased CR, didn't care how much it would cost just as long as they could control what fans could watch. (parent companies are Sony PicturesIntl UK + AT&T TV + one or two others at the time they bought it) wikipedia says Sony Japan, but that is flat out lie. ANd it probably doesn't say Universial Pictures first purchased funimation in 2005 either now. But looking up who bought funimation when it was still inSan Francisco Ca. Where info manipulation would be much much harder to modify, and why would they, since most believe whatever is written on Wikipedia. Since 2017 The movie studios have held a monopoly over the Anime industry. All the Anime streaming sercies in the world, the major online Anime media and retail merch websites. as well as at least 5% of multiple Anime and Manga publishers in Japan are all owned or control by the movie industry. They control the productions of over 90% of all new shows created. They began the planned takeover back in 2007 by first bankrupting 6 of the 8 US based Anime export/import companies. Leaving funimation and Sentai productions all the power needed to force any changes they desired in the wake of those 6 companies leaving the business. And they took advantage of it just as planned. Anime popularity has continued to increase ever since. But there hasn't been a single new competitor in the export/import trade of Anime. Nor has any of the 6 companies try to make a comeback. And yet the U.S. governemnt that monitors corporations in the U.S to ensure none gain a monopoly over an industry. Has had anything to say about the contol studios have over the Anime industry. They even gave them a green light to purchase funimation in 2017 and then CR in 2019? I think it was.
I'd rather support the animators directly rather than the official sites....
yup. Ideally I would support the animators AND voice actors directly
@@Daesma999Then you shouldn't support the studios. 99% of the studios don't pay their workers a living wage or OT.
@@Daesma999I hope that you do.
yep!
Uniqlo merchandise is my way
The reasons why i watch on pirated websites is because I got no job and i highly doubt most anime aren't even available in my country.
same here
What sites tired of missing seasons on crunchyroll plus annoyed of some seasons having half dub and the rest sub
I only do that BECAUSE I'll NEVER USE must PAY TO USE Websites when you can use NOT so LEGAL ones IE Pirated websites instead.
true, rn watching Gunslinger Girl
dub watcher
@@crimsonninja3242 9anime
The reason I watch on pirated websites is because it’s impossible to watch some of the shows and movies legally due to licensing hell.
This. I don't watch pirated anime because I don't know where to go, LOL, but aside from that, there's a lot of stuff that isn't easily or generally available or they're just charging too much for it.
That too especially for anime's like PRECURE that will NEVER get another English dub EVER and I'll NEVER USE PAID websites to watch Precure when I can watch subbed versions on Pirated websites for free.
@@mehitablestorm8877those are The 2 I use
The Monogatari series is a real good example of that.
Case Closed/Detective Conan is unavailable to me due to licensing. Always has been and most likely always will be.
I have been watching for 18 years. All the money I would have given them if they'd just given me the choice to pay for watching it.
Crunchyroll brought out funimation and said they were going to bring over the entire library of funimation but they didn't and some of the anime they did bring over don't even have the dub that funimation did have
Other way round. Sony bought funimation. Then went after crunchyroll. Sony is the blame.
Does the piracy sites have all the different dubs and subs in all the languages crunchyroll has?
I miss Funimation,99% English dub all of there anime, crunchyroll was always going to be cheap and have most of their titles subtitled..their site before Sony bought them…and still want you to pay monthly for a subtitled anime!! Don’t be cheap and pay for voice actors.. Crunchyroll!!
@@Hansi999 yes
Or have the low quality video. For example Girls bravo on crunchy looks horrible, even my 20 year old dvds have better quality, and the original dub. Then there's the adv dub of eva gone except for pirates and owners of hard copies.
The piracy thing of people being more determined to watch feels like the ad-blocked thing TH-cam is trying to get rid of
I would say it's not just the prices and more streaming platforms raising, but also the fact that if you pay the minimum you'll get ads, at least in Netflix and Prime Video. If you're getting ads for something you paid, it's not too different from illegal websites that also include ads. You also need to pay more if you want different devices using the same account.
yeah true and you can use a ad block on the pirate sites and one of the big pirate anime sites has a seriously way better ui then netflix
well good news. there are pirate sites that don't have ads lol. also u could just download the torrent.
That's true. I have TH-cam Premium. If TH-cam tries that shit...
I'm not from USA so there is no small fee with ads for Netflix only starts from basic with low quality SD. And for anime so many are in Japanese dub only while they play trailer in English yet English dub is region locked and not available.. I like to watch some anime at home while doing routine laptop based work so listening is easier while watch my more favourite ones in sub when I'm free. Netflix selection sucks too lots of stuff are only available pirated.
@Void_Shark Most of the pirate websites have better UI than most of the streaming sites. CR and Hi-Dive make it so hard to find shows.
When CrunchyRoll took down their comments section, they killed a big reason people liked to visit the website. 🤷🏾♂️
When I started watching crunchyroll, it was a pirate site too, and in the beginning, when it went legit, I paid for it. Then they got out of hand with the price. Made me feel like I was being taken advantage of. Not to mention how are all the pirate websites better then ones you pay for?
reason to not use Crunchyroll.
1.Bad translation
2.Bad voice acting
3.Smal library
4.Censorship
5.almost no old anime
and only after THAT its be
5.Price
6. Quality etc
"We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. [...] If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable." - Gabe Newell
Nope, it is both service and pricing (among other reasons too), not just one or the other.
@@Tletnapricing is also a service issue imo. If its so expensive people cant afford it, it may as well be a nonexistent service because people cant afford it anyway. So you are bassically saying tomato tomato
@@Tletna People are fine with paying, but they're not fine with being inconvenienced. Having to purchase multiple subscriptions, just to make sure that a show or movie is available in at least one of them is an immense failure of service when pirating sites can offer at least the same quality for free. The issue why pirating is so popular tho, is bc it's not the same quality. They're better. You don't struggle with availability and you don't have to worry about subscribing to multiple services bc these sites just work. Somehow they're the "plug-and-play" experience.
Their service is just better.
@@jismeraiverhoeven I love that the tomato tomato analogy doesn't work in text because it's the vocal inflection that matters, but here it actually works perfectly.
You have forgot two more reason:
- everyone's streaming service website and app have a trash design that is horrible to navigate to find anything outsider of the front page
- far to frequently they have low quality dubs and subs ( some language are far worse than other).
Non legit website on the other hand are well made, easy to navigate, with proper categories, working searching filter, user ratings and good comment section and many times fan made subs are far better than official One.
Exactly it isn't about paying for the subscription it's about the paid product being worse than the free pirated product. Website organization wise and subtitles lacking on crunchyroll.
And on most pirate sites you have dubbed and subbed options whereas there is always a delay on most official sites
Comment section is great (except for spoilers) - I have discovered some good anime from comments on shows I was currently watching
As soon as Crunchyroll got rid of comments I got rid of Crunchyroll…
i agree even tho my family has a Netflix account i don't see the point of using it for anime pirate websites not only have more anime they also include all seasons and specials/ova/whatever else there is its way more convenient and simple you don't even need to make a account.
Netflix is so awful now so its not really a big loss.
This without mentioning that you can’t even watch everything they have stored, merely based on your region… it sucks. Pirate websites definitely are the best, netflix and paid sites only want to rob us
Why the hell Crunchyroll don't want to make all their anime available in every country? I can pay subscription monthly but there are anime that is not available on Crunchyroll in our country
Cause thats not how licensing works
I have crunchyroll, D+, Amazon Prime, Netflix, and also use VPN. With all of that, I still can't find certain anime. How in the heck is that possible?!?! 🤦🏾♂️
The irony of getting a Crunchyroll ad from YT for the start of this video
Why would I spend money to have a subscription where the price keeps going up AND I still have to see ads! Piracy is 100% the better option.
Crunchyroll in a nutshell be like, buy subscription to watch 10% of the total animes. Whereas some piracy sites provide 80-90% of all the anime for free, some of which lets us use with just a couple of ads in the start, rest is completely ad free
AHEM!!! 100%, not 80-90%.
there's only 1 very old show called "tottemo-luckyman" that i cant watch, but that's cuz its in japanese and there's no subtitles or dubbing for that show, except for on tv, and that show doesnt air anymore. its not really an anime. its actually a cartoon.
What do i do? Im learning japanese so that i can watch the anime. fun right?
@yajurraghavan4193 there were also a couple of anime that i wanted to see, but i couldn't find them. I don't remember the names though. But its true that crunchyroll cannot be compared to this godly piracy site.
You put on a nice ad-blocker you are set! lol
@aakarshkumar845 hi , can u tell me this site plz
Pirating used to offer a much worse experiene which was a natural incentive to use the paid services, but now that pirating offers a superior experience, why would I pay for a worse service.
As for Disney, people simply give up on the company since they involve politics even into remakes of their own movies. People are tired about the idiocracy.
Streaming prices are going up while the amount of content is going down. We're paying more for less and hoenstly, I'm not gonna pay for 4 different streaming services just to be able to watch a few anime I really want to watch. Besides, I feel like these pirate sites are often better made than the legal sites, especially than Crunchyroll
The main reason people are ditching the mainstream sites is because in order to watch all your favorite shows you ofte have to sub to 5 different sites and that shit costs way to fucking much. This is not an issue just for anime.
Just to watch 1 show you need 3 sevices. Season 1 on apple tv season 2-3 on prime. And the last season on crunchyroll. For some series this is a real think in some countries.
"You will own nothing and you will like it."
-Korporations
I don't like it 😡
I moved to piracy site after crunchy roll disabled comments
2:27 This Compression is the Very Reason
I Pirate and Watch even while having the Subscription of the OTT its available on
I'd Netflix, Zee5, Prime Video to watch RRR but Some were Compressing the Bitrate and Some were Cropping the Ratio while the Movie was in Open Matte Ratio Officially
Why do you randomly capitalize words?
What’s the website I wanna cancel my crunchy roll subscription
hianime
There’s like a 100 of them and all of them are much better than streaming sites but you need Adblocker
What's ironic, Crunchyroll started off as a piracy site. They're basically a monopoly for in the west for Anime. 😮💨 I only subscribe to them out of convenience of watching them on my TV vs my monitor.
When Crunchyroll got rid of comments to protect the 2 woke shows coming out at the time that were being dragged through the gutter, i knew that the days of streaming as we know them are done.
I hate woke liberals
They really sacrificed the voices of the rest of us for 2 shows that no one watches anymore. Thanks Crunchyroll staff 👍
This is true - there were other sites like IMDB several years ago that got rid of their comments to protect woke BS and it's a really big loss. It would be a way for them to get people back - make it a community again where we can comment. Tough shit if someone don't like the comments, woke shit is mentally ill anyway. People are fed up with it.
2? i know of one of HGS but what is the other one?
Woke shows dafuq
Crunchyroll X Funimation was the pinnacle of Crunchyroll’s success.
It all went to shit when Old Man Sony came-a-calling with his big fat wallet.
What’s the website?
Also wanna know
🤣🤣🤣 I was wondering if someone would post the site as well. Then again I just use my Plex server to watch everything
If they identify it, do you think it will be still up? Someone would go after them to get them removed. By the way, I don't know either. But, wish them luck.
It might be kickassanime
Probably aniwatch or 9anime
The only reason I subscribe to Crunchroll, instead of others, was because of the comments section for each video, once they killed that, it's value to me has plummeted. So many helpful comments all gone.
So many series that I only tried watching because people defended them in the comments. No more...
Same thing happened to IMDB years ago - they do it to protect woke shit.
Reason 1. No localized content on official services, while pirates provides the missing service. Reason 2. lack of content due to stupid regional issues. Reason 3. Yes - price as you have to select multiple official sources. Reason 4 : old content is gone...
I hate that this was report/ announced.
Now well-funded companies are going to go after more pirate site.
Like noone know how to keep their mouths shut 🙄
Super annoying
I really hope I see the day, in the not too distant future, where all the anime production companies realize that selling exclusive licensing rights is a terrible business decision for the anime industry.
They should let any streaming service that pays them a fair share be able to show their animes. I'm sure quite a few pirating sites would LOVE to become legal streaming services if they could.
I really hate exclusive licensing practices in the anime industry.
So what's the website 👀 ? For research of course!
Crunchy Roll use to be a piracy site.
The only reason I use pirate sites is that no everything is available to me elsewhere. And/or anime in question is censored for no good reason. Unfortunately A LOT of anime falls in those two categories. Also I find these sites have pretty much exactly same quality than so called official sites, sometimes even better.
I think watching anime from "unofficial sources" and just buying the Blu-ray later when it's available is a good compromise. I think the anime studios should be paid for their work, so doing it this way makes sure they still get paid without giving money to a crappy streaming service. It's as the old saying says, piracy isn't a money problem, it's a service problem.
My gripe is that the legal sites take down and hide content. If I do not have it on disk, well it just disappears. And region locks.
what’s the website …
you have fingers to type so get typing and searching, dont post it or it will get removed
I got a Crunchyroll ad before the vid. Love the irony.❤
I'd rather spend that money on the dvd/Blu-ray and have it on hand than on the subscriptions that I'd barely use.
Paying crunchyroll isnt reeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaly supporting the animation studios but rather the publishers....sadly
Duh.
Don't make videos on this bro more attention = more risk to piracy sites where shld we watch if they are blocked bro
Very true, but what website are we using these days? Asking for a friend
@eligeddes1808 hianime
@@eligeddes1808I use aniwatch most the time
I seem to hear that (all {the} manga dawg to) has a friend too.
This guy just threw us under the bus....... he's the FBI😂
I haven't watched much anime recently but the major reason why people do itr is because of fragmentation. If I want to watch 3 different series officially, I need 3 different subscription. I think every anime fan would pay in a blink if all anime can come to one single platform in one subscription, because having 10 streaming suscriptions when 99% people don't need 99% of the content of many of these streaming platforms just doesn't makes sense.
Like fr. I would so gladly pay! I love their shows and want to support but they make supporting so difficult 🫠
what’s the site?
Never put all your faith in digital media! ALWAYS buy physical copies of your favorite stories!!
The only problem is that that isn't always possible anymore. They simply don't make DVDs like they used to. And if they do, you're usually talking about $50 per 12 episodes. In something that has three seasons, you're spending upwards of $150 for maybe 36 eps.
@ And I’m talking collecting over time. Accumulative. Not all at once; that would be irresponsible. And not just blu-rays/dvds - I’m talking books, light novels and manga too.
@@skyguysreactions i cant buy Japanese content IN Japanese because I'm not in japan .
Who da fuq watches dubbed anime lmao.
@ Ew, a sub elitist.
@ dubs are trash. Put on your big boy pants and learn the language if you want to enjoy their content
Yeah I’m still waiting for darker than black the original series to show up somewhere.. cause like berserker buying it on disk is stupidly expensive
I think the 2 main reasons are
Price and even after you pay the ads.
Nowadays where im from $100 worth of groceries can fit in one bag and an 8yr old would have no problem carrying it. Economy is terrible and then you have these sites that give 2 ads every 30sec forcing people to buy the premium to avoid ads. Thats why other sites are coming up and people are supporting them. Some people just dont like being forced to buy something.
Bro tbh its not even worth watching officially in my country India for example to watch AOT(officially) which is only available in prime video in which u literally first need to get a prime subscription then also get the anime times subscription which is a total robbery considering the Per capita income of my India
The piracy website in question also provides full 1080p without much compression loss.
what's the site in question?
@@kurarisusa hianime
@@binamralamsal delete this shi
@@binamralamsal delete this right now ir we will no longer have it
Regional catalogues are the reason why I haven’t subscribed to Crunchyroll….I don’t wanna pay 65 bucks (that’s how much much Crunchyroll’s highest plan costs yearly in my country) to watch a certain anime only to find out said series ain’t available in my country.
I could tell with the price increases on CrunchyRoll if they actually had a good catalog. Having to have 3 services to get access to properties Crunchy Roll claims to have is such a pain in the ass. Also them having dubs for season 1 or 2 and then only having subs for the rest of the seasons?
I'm glad for the country where I'm living, I get to watch all of the anime on one of those unnamed site😂😂😂😂
Netflix translation sucks. For some japanese text is just not translated and in others it just removed without replacing it with any thing. Making it so you just lose all content that it would have added. It happened in spy x family when twilight and nightfall is speaking in code it is written in Japanese what they are saying and anya is responding to that. In the Netflix version anya is responding to nothing.
now I'm understanding enough to tell if they miss or mistranslate but not enough to process it without some subs.
The recent price increases from these anime streaming services made this outcome inevitable.
We paid to support their work, but as soon as the community feels taken advantage of, it will bounce back.
log horizon season 1 not available on netflix but season 2 is
I stopped my streaming site costs 2 years ago...prices kept going up and are worse now. I don't regret my choice.
It also costs money for the official websites to host the anime that you watch on their service as that is also a reason why some shows are just being removed from crunchroll
How are piracy websites able to host every anime when they aren't getting paid for it but the official websites can't when they are?
@bradprice8040 IDK I think either the API that gets the data from somewhere just do it's thing idk 😐 💁💁
What is that unknown website ? :) Looking for an old toon, Pirates of Dark Water... i have netflix acc, but my son its already tired of it
Google it 😅
Good luck. No one's gonna say.
hianime
@@Tmhjr_Baskarhianime
So... what's this big pirate website to watch anime? Can someone tell us?
its name is the same as a common two letter greeting with anime tacked onto it
@BronyumHexofloride that is the perfect description without saying the name!
Hianime?
@@BronyumHexofloride my god ur a genius man 😂🤣
@@BronyumHexofloride fk man just say it , I'm stupid
For some reason, got in the site to try it out while pressing the search bar, but took me to another site where an Apple pop-up comes up and says I’m hacked. Why? WTH?!
thats just the ads on the site. Just get ublock original and youre sweet
Looks like some one is new to pirating
Let me help you son
When you search something and another website pops up just close that tab and search again this may happen a few times but you just gotta repeat this process and that hack thing is total bs it doesn't mean shit don't click on it
Stay safe ,keep pirating ❤❤
@ Thank you for the info 😄. Live long and long live piracy.
get an ad blocker my bro
@ You got it 👍
Disney+ price doubled. Crunchyroll more than doubled. Ads have infested services that are paid for.
People wonder why?
Considering crunchy roll started as a piracy site. it comes full circle.
I will continue to pirate anime as long as the anime i want to watch is on disney if Japan don't want piracy they need to create their own streaming service for anime
What should i do if the Anime I wanna watch isn't available in my country?
For example AOT Season 1 is not available in Germany so I have to watch it on illegal websites
You could get a VPN
@@UltraPickleMan yeah but I wanna watch it in German Dub und VPN may be expensive though
@MalteZockt_Old theres free ones
And german dub should exist in other places of the world
I can't stop noticing that "animee" pronunciación every time lol
2:33 content / cun-tent 😂
What is the name of the site????
That’s what I’m trying to know
Crunchyroll’s catalog is extremely limited.
I would rather pay a piracy site than these "official" streaming sits. They are the real criminals! I wish I could directly support the original creators of the anime
I would argue price comes in third. People will justify the price if they get what they want.
The problem is the legit sites have become too monopolistic and too anti consumer, so piracy is back.
I think monopolistic is the wrong word, but I am not sure what the right word is? They are monopolizing rights to be the sole service that can provide a show is what i mean, and they are too expensive to have all of them. Then we have the issues that we saw with WB recently where they just removed all of their animated shows(and then released Velma and called it the highest rated animated show on the service which it was, but only because they removed everything else)
I wouldn't mind paying for anime if all of it was on one site. I shouldn't have to pay for Disney, Netflix & Crunchyroll because these big platforms don't contain every anime and only have anime for money making. Crunchyroll is the worst by promoting itself as an anime platform but doesn't have every show.
You guys have zero business sense at all. You know what it’s called when one company owns EVERYTHING? It’s called a monopoly, and that’s bad not good. You cry about the price as it is, if they had everything then the price would be far higher cause you’d have no choice but to pay it.
Too many streaming platforms. So its cable but on online. So the decline is pretty much the same reason people dont watch TV anymore. So in the end its tied to availablility i.e. convenience for the customer.
I own a bunch of DVDs and BluRays...but if digital physical media stops being produced, won't the actual blu-ray players also become obsolete? I'll keep my discs, but if my player fails and I can't buy a new one...
you got your answear....for two anime that the first site doesnt have, you need to pay extra two montly fees, cause u dont find any show you want on one site
A lot of people think pirates go "yargh!" but in actuality, they meow "nyaa..!" 😉
I think he is talking about normies with severe PBD. Thy don't nya the -si- sea.
For me it not about price, simply because they do not censor the format like paid services do! Tired of Crunchy Roll censorship and they avoid certain genre like Ecchi!
i love pirating!!!
in minecraft of course i love making pirate ships in minecraft
Me too! But games.... In GTA 5 of course, roleplaying...
There’s no way to justify paying for a service when there is a better option, way much better for free. Try to apply that logic to any other service, car wash, barbershop, coffee shop, etc. Will you opt for the paying one?
Charging $10 to $12 per site... at multiple sites... for a tiny subset of anime... drives people away.
What's the website???
No one is gonna say. We're not stupid
They destroyed themselves by having incomplete seasons, incomplete dubs, no subs on some crunchyroll became trash
physical media has always been a "Playing card" grade investment - to prevent the video being made unavailable.
the reason why we dont want to pay for subscription is because the content in there for a limited time and then jumps to the another platform and if i want to watch the show again, i need to buy another subscription
whasup with hardly any shows getting dubs lately, its been like 3 weeks since alot of shows have gotten new episodes, is that normal?
Crunchyroll lost the bid to stream a lot of these series. Im in Australia and lots of series that are available in other countries are not available here. Naruto is in Japanese or subtitles only in Australia yet it has an English version
What’s the website called? I wanna check it out.
what is the name of the piracy site?
The 'Official Sites' don't actually support the studios making the anime, not in any direct sense. They license the ability to show it other places, but none of the money we pay per month goes to the studios.
The BEST option would be for Japan (since that's still where most of the anime is coming from) to create its own service that services the world. Everyone can then pay a monthly fee, have access to all anime, and for newer anime (say for 5 years or something like that) a portion of the subscription fee is given to the studios based on how many individual accounts watch an anime.
Some Japanese only games will come with English subtitles as an option even if they aren't ever released outside of Japan. This could be done on their service as well, and for Dubs, then THEY can control who does the translation/localization and the dubbing, and make sure no wackos are changing things to fit some agenda.
Hell, instead of cracking down on pirate websites, they could incorporate and/or partner with them, so that any anime that is older than 5 years goes to them automatically. Those sites could operate pretty much just as they do now, as an archive of sorts, but instead a portion of their revenue would go to the main service site. If it became an 'official' thing, I could even see people being willing to pay a subscription for both the Main site and the Archive site. Two subscriptions costing less than what we'd pay now to watch everything and it would directly support the studios that make the anime.
Not to mention that if they were to do this, it would be pretty much 100% free of western bullshit.
But this would mean that Japan as a whole would actually have to get over then xenophobic and racist mindset and realize the rest of the world exists.
Idk about DVDs... but Sony said they will stop making Blu-Ray discs a while back. I can't remember if it was just blanks, but, physical media is surely dying.
i wish i knew a website to replace youtube now. Im tired if the ads ruining the mood so frequently when im playing games, and then i have to take time from what im doing to mute the ads and wait to skip it before being able to go back to what i was doing. I should probably start downloading all the songs that i listen to and have my own library of music for always.
This is the problem with Crunchyroll (and other streaming sites) - you pay the sub only to discover that "sorry, this movie/show is unavailable in your country - come back later and MAYBE we will have it".
Sorry, when I decide to watch something after some research as to what I want to watch now (and having enough time to binge the 12/24/50 episodes), I would like to see it when I have time, not keep on checking for the next year or two in hopes it comes back. 🤷♂
I’ve been considering to cancel Crunchyroll for the fact that dragon ball daima has at least 5 dub episodes, probably 9, and yes they refuse to release them.
Well the thing is that I used Crunchyroll bcs there aren’t any Corn ads popping in my face… but most anime’s or seasons don’t get casted on Crunchy anymore…
There are also countrys that are forgotten by the streaming platforms where some or multiple of them dont have contracts available