How to fumble the ball when you’re basically the only real player. I miss Wakanim.
Hayase. Thats all im saying
I’m out of the loop, why are people hating on crunchyroll?
Where to start. They have so many issues that there is something in there for everyone:
- price hikes and end of the free tier
- declining quality of subs and the use of AI for subs
- activist localization slash “woke” changes to the subs when humans translate <— with the previous point, now both the pro-AI and anti-ai crowd are unhappy
- data breach (at least one, but I think they had two)
- Funimation customers got fucked since they lost access to purchased content after the merger with Crunchy
- monopolistic tendencies and general corporate greed and tactics
- comment sections got removed because people dared to be negative
And possibly a myriad others. I don’t think I’ve ever heard Crunchy mentioned in a positive way.
Comments sections made it feel different than flat out pirating.
Then they rating system was a pain.
activist localization slash “woke” changes to the subs when humans translate
This I don’t get. This hardly happens, if at all. I hear more complaints about it (particularly from the anti-woke crowd) than I see it happening
I would assume every time you hear complaints flare up again it’s because there has been a new case.
It’s not per se that I hear it flare up, I just hear about it every so often as a complaint in general with CR or when LLM translations get brought up, but rarely with any examples.
There’s a bunch of minor reasons when combined add up to “Crunchyroll is doing a worse job than free pirate sites despite having more resources.”.
It’s a shame there is no information on what caused profit falls… It would have been nice to know what’s the gross revenue compared to the previous year. Same for staff costs and other operating expenses. Notably, is AI the reason for decline in profit?
- stop using AI subtitles
- fix the platform problems
- become PCI compliant
- bring back comments
Crunchyroll is never going to solve the problem because Crunchyroll is the problem.
The open seas be a callin’ me ma8ty…yar!
Man the BitTorrent client, fire up the VPNs, load up Tor! There be torrents to download!
What anime is that? Pretty sure I’ve watched, but can not remember
Looks like Bodacious Space Pirates.
Fun fact - I visited Tokyo years ago when I had a friend living over there teaching English as part of the JET program. When I visited Ueno Park, there was a group of cosplayers in the park all in costumes from this show doing a photoshoot. I had no idea what show it was at the time, but figured it out years later when I came across a random image in a thread like this one and was able to piece it together.
Mouretsu Pirates, AKA Bodacious Space Pirates, I think.
Probably shouldn’t have sold out to Sony and sold my data like twice and then given away data in obviously avoidable breaches.
Shouldn’t have fucked your customer base then
That’s the fucked-up thing, though. Their subscriber count has almost doubled since 2024—yet they are hemorrhaging money like this. Smells like hookers and blow in here.
Don’t forget all the money wasted on the ai generated dubbing that’s even worse than early days funimation.
Wasn’t that Amazon Prime?
yes it was. crunchyroll did ai subs.
I take AI subs over activists rewriting character any day of the week.
100% agreed here. It’s their own fault for being too greedy.
Crunchyroll is a scourge on the Anime industry. The earlier it falls, better services can take its place.
If Sony doesnt buy that one too
I mean I stopped even checking because they pretty much just abandoned free accounts. Worst possible time given amazon has upped its anime offering big time.
I cancelled my subscription when they went to Israeli ai subbing tools. Sucks since I would like to watch lots of their shows
Those shows exist outside of crunchyfucks.
The link gives me a 404.
don’t see the article anywhere on the site
I guess it must’ve gotten taken down.
