Comments on: Experiment: Crunchyroll Subscription, Sample Platter

By: reversethieves

reversethieves — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:13:27 +0000

@gia
Yeah a subscription is also worth the money if you HAVE to have it now. I love Hayate but I can wait a week. If you are doing a single episode review blog or hate going on forums and getting spoiled then you will probably not regret the subscription as well.

If my two choices were subscription or nothing I would be much more tempted to get a subscription. What am I saying. Actually to legitimately watch Hayate I would pay. But as long as I have the option to wait a week and watch commercials I will take that instead.

- Hisui

By: gia

gia — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:32:04 +0000

I bought my Crunchyroll membership on a 6-month basis, and I’ve definitely been getting my value out of it– but the immediacy is a big deal for me. I mostly follow Skip Beat! (okay, followED) and Shugo Chara!, but it’s great to have all the other stuff available for random watching which I do on occasion with friends, and it’s also been great having access to so many of the new shows.

By: reversethieves

reversethieves — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:39:43 +0000

@Kairu Ishimaru
Well if you wait a week you can watch most of the simulcast shows. I am currently waiting for Hayate, Ristorante Paradiso, and Saki (to a lesser degree) episode 2. I don’t think that a week is a horrible amount of time to wait but that is me.

@Anon
Cool. I am going check out Shangri-la later this week.

- Hisui

By: Kairu Ishimaru

Kairu Ishimaru — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:18:21 +0000

It would have been better if CR just went back to their free sevice of Anime videos. They sucks for now, cause I cant get a subscription. XD

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:06:48 +0000

I’m watching Saki and Shangri-la right now. Seems reasonable for the price.

By: Shameful Otaku Secret! » Going legit aka doing it how they want you to do it, part 1: iTunes

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:46:14 +0000

[...] Problem is, it still ain’t perfect. Each channel and method has its own downfalls and drawbacks, so I intend to swallow a couple bucks to provide a reasonable practical guide. I had planned to co-write this series with Riex for Oi, Hayaku! quite some time ago, but of course we didn’t quite get to that, and now I’ve been beaten to the punch by Reverse Thieves and their very well-done analysis of Crunchyroll’s anime membership. [...]

By: reversethieves

reversethieves — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:52:48 +0000

@Rockfest
You are certainly correct that ANN went in there looking to draw as much blood as possible but that interview did not really help their image in my mind. I also assume that was the point of ANN doing the interview. I just assume that almost all interviews are going to be conducted with some deal of basis but that might be a bad choice on my part.

- Hisui

By: Rockfest

Rockfest — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:40:43 +0000

@reversethieves: No matter how you look at it, the interview with ANN was biased. I understand that there were questions that had to be asked, but the way that the interviewer approached it was off.

By: reversethieves

reversethieves — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:40:20 +0000

@ omo & Rockfest
Wow you guys are quick. I am glad that you both wrote in to answer Phatbhuda’s question. I had totally forgotten the fact that Crunchyroll got that huge amount of venture capital did little to warm people to them.

@otou-san
Yeah Hayate will also not play subtitles at work which ticks me off. I mean watching Hayate at work on my lunch break would make Fridays a good more tolerable. I also think Gonzo goes out of it’s way to make it’s streaming versions much less quality than their downloadable versions so you buy the downloadable version. I noticed that on the original episodes of Druaga I got.

Oh Funimation will also soon have up all of Harlock if you need your instant Leiji Matsumoto fix with no subscription.

- Hisui

By: reversethieves

reversethieves — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:23:43 +0000

@omo
I like that line about the subscription be worth it if you are going to watch 2 or more shows. I am going to steal it and give you credit. (In fact I just did.)

Quite a few people mentioned they subscribe or are thinking of subscribing due to the fact that it gives you access to higher resolutions. I have a rather bare bones setup so I don’t really notice a big difference. I am also not much of a videophile so that means I don’t notice as much as other people. Still the difference in the streams is worth pointing out. Thanks for that heads up.

I think the discount on pay-to-download is a call perk for anyone who would use such a service and unimportant to everyone else. I think it’s just an interesting idea.

@phatbhuda
People mainly hate Crunchyroll becuase they used to have a good deal of fansubs on their site of licensed and unlicensed shows but did not have the permission from the people who fans subbed those shows, the people who held the license in the US, or the original companies who made the anime. And then they had a system that if you wanted anything more the low quality you had to pay or a subscription. Profiting on fansubs is just one of the biggest taboos in anime fandom. Even your your normal level crazy fansub defenders will go after someone who profits through fansubs.

So they had shows they had no license for and were accused of stealing other people’s fan subs and making a profit from it. Now in Crunchyroll’s defense they did not personally post the fansubs. Users uploaded them at their own discretion and as far as I know CrunchyRoll as a company did not upload anything without the fansubbers permission.

In the haters defense the whole site was set up for users to upload fansubs and for Crunchyroll to make a profit from it. So they knew that people would be putting up other people’s work and making a buck off it. Just becuase you did not do it yourself does not make you innocent.

Also if you look at the interview that they did with Anime News Network and some other people who did research of them they come off as sort of shady.

- Hisui