Let's talk about Crunchyroll.

Crunchyroll just removed their comment section, sparking yet another controversy in the anime community.
I only made this video because I care about Crunchyroll and hope they do better.
Crunchyroll (a company that started out as an anime-pirating website) now plays an important role in popularizing anime in the west. However, their business practices are less than acceptable. Translators are being paid unethical wages, despite the company seeing record profits every year. User info is being secretly sold to various companies. And the subscription fee remains the same, despite community features constantly being removed. The latest of which being the comment section.
I always found the Crunchyroll comments enjoyable to read after finishing an episode because I was curious to see how others reacted to it. And sometimes the comments would even point out hidden details or offer insights I hadn't considered. The spoiler/hate comments were few and far between until just recently, but this entire problem could be rectified if Crunchyroll (worth $1.75 billion) hires just a couple moderators to clean up their comment section. Instead, they opted to remove it entirely. I hope Crunchyroll reverses this decision, but I don't exactly have much faith in this company at this point.
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#crunchyroll #anime

[@Ikkimonogatari]

Bro just wanted excuse to watch BL

[@fan4every1lol89]

don't we all

[@Echidnut]

bro dont make me disable my own comment section 😂

[@voracities]

@@Echidnut😂

[@Roy-Arkad]

@@Echidnut 💀💀💀💀💀💀 damn Echidnut, dont be like Crunchyroll

[@thecrazypotato2474]

@@Echidnut *cough* *cough* i hear you need to watch vampire dairy because uh.... drama yeah for sure 100% for research purposes

[@DaniIhzaFarrosi]

"Piracy is a service problem, not a pricing problem" - Gaben

[@twign6378]

Like how Crunchyroll was the go to piracy site to begin with?

[@TheAIKnowledgeHub]

@@DaniIhzaFarrosi well to be fair it could be a price problem. Like it is simply too much. Even more in this time it could be the person doesn't have anymore to give.

[@TheSoulCrisis]

They don't normally make these services that expensive, but if they were gouging people it would become a price issue. At its core it's usually a service issue though, since if the media is accessible and affordably in an appealing way to general consumers they will go this route especially if added convenience and incentives are there. People will work their way around crappy platforms or shitty pricing models (or killing people with ads).

[@wolflink9000]

I'm not opposed to supporting the anime industry but in the current landscape I'ma pirate all day long. No way in hell am I going to pay subs for multiple companies just to get a worse service and not even access to all the shows I want to watch.

[@Updup]

@@wolflink9000 You shouldn't support the anime industry by subbing to sites like Crunchyroll regardless of price. Japanese anime is great because it's Japanese. You are hurting the industry by giving Western corporations leverage. Anime will be dead the day they start listening and catering to Western audience. If you want to support the industry, pirate everything and spend money on merchandise from a Japanese site like amiami.

[@ItsMicahDesu]

I used to read the comments that were from over 10 years ago. Crunch literally deleted history 😭

[@joenoodle6914]

we don't know if they've deleted those comments yet, all we know is that they've removed the comment section. they could still bring everything back like nothing happened if they're smart

[@bleblebleyou]

Nah, Real ones are deleted comments from gogoanime

[@connergalles7106]

Usually the same thing being relatable for other websites / manga sites / whatever other comics there are

[@assarlannerborn9342]

very good take. That was perhaps the one thing pirate sites can't compete with and they took it away🤦‍♂

[@ethanxtreme7018]

All the Naruto comments I used to read while watching it are gone now 😔

[@vizthex]

i fucking hate it when companies strip away basic social features. reading decade-old comments is half the fun of watching anything.

[@hitkid2456]

That applies to KZbin itself, when they got rid of PMs.

[@nestharus]

I love CR comments section, even if sometimes people had L takes

[@drakke125Channel]

@@nestharus I had one or two controversial forum topics for discussion. Those were the days when people could talk about literally anything for the sake of having a philosophical discussion. Things like culture or relationships or wincest. Controversial topics. Because Japanese anime presents culture that the West may not be used to or are even exposed to.

[@Sponch1]

I don't understand, the CR comment section contributed nothing most of the time. Just repeating the same "peak" or "bro really did ____" Just the same crap over and over, there is good reason no other major streaming site has comments.

[@Eviltwin1]

What sucks too is that Crunchyroll was the last legal stream anime site that still had comments, and now it doesnt even have that. So i canceled my sub clearly stating why on the survey that asks why you are leaving, in the small hope that maybe they might just change it back. Low chance but why not just try, in the mean time the high seas have my back!

[@JakubMon]

i did exactly the same

[@SimonWoodburyForget]

I don't think I would go back to Crunchyroll even if they added comments back again. The fact that they removed them is enough to not want to use the platforms to begin with and it's not like it'll magically become a good platform if they did it.

[@tristanpham6781]

9anime is legal and free (they tell you why on their homepage)

[@orangezest5618]

But where do you watch anime?

[@SimonWoodburyForget]

@@orangezest5618 torrents, obviously

[@naianetwork2609]

Fun Fact : Crunchyroll was an illegal streaming platform until 2009.

[@purplespectre]

I bet they were better back then (wouldn't know since I wasn't online at the time).

[@manjirosano8893]

Really woah i was like 1 years old 😭

[@wasabikemosabe1773]

You know what's funny? I tried going the paid route because it was much easier just to pay a monthly subscription fee to watch anime in hd rather than having to look for torrents with high seed counts. But since Crunchyroll (and even Netflix) keep making these dumbass decisions, I decided to go back to pirating.

[@Andr3y143]

Yep, It was all free back then and was soo much better than it is now. And so many animes. But now? They fkn removed the comment section lol. It's so boring now to watch on that site.

[@dabrams84]

​@@manjirosano8893It's like Napster where they became a legitimate business eventually. This is how our streaming infrastructure was created because of pirates.

[@christianmatthew]

Got to protect the community by removing the community. 😂

[@Echidnut]

Gotta promote a safe environment by removing the environment 😂

[@M1775100]

@@EchidnutI just canceled my subscription like they added money and removed features also what’s the pirating website you used called?

[@alicefromtheasylum]

@@M1775100 aniwave

[@CodeMarbles]

@@M1775100 9anime

[@loopsie_]

its called AniWave, I also use it its a good site, it tells you when the next ep comes out and all that just be cautious of all the ads lmao TvT if it open another tab, close it, sometimes its finicky tho Still a good pirate website tho, watched a lot more on there than Funimation or Crunchyroll-

[@animatt1881]

I got a crunchy roll ad before watching

[@saullopez1274]

Me too 😂

[@unguidedone]

why are you on the internet much less youtube without running multiple adblockers and noscript?

[@saullopez1274]

@@unguidedone idk

[@HeyyHeyyHeyy08]

My old adblocker doesnt seem to work on yt anymore. Which ones do you use? ​@@unguidedone

[@animatt1881]

@@unguidedone cause I'm not a stuck up

[@HeneryGabliess]

The real crime is exclusive rights. Allowing for the leader to buy all the content and kill any hope of competition, like with KZbin and copyright firms.

[@hazelcrisp]

A monopoly of streaming platforms is better than competition when it comes to stuff like IP. Like when everythign used to be on Netflix, but now if you want to legally support stuff you have to buy like 3 services. You just want the show not the entire thing. Heck it's even the same with gaming. It's an anti consumer practice called "tying".

[@SleepParty30]

Ever since they removed comments going onto that site is boring. Part of the fun was reading the comments after every episode, exchanging wisdom. Now that is gone. Crunchyroll is deleting their own community. Literal suicide.

[@SonnyHorrocks]

Any other streaming services that can compare anime planet is too rudimentary feelingand funimation has shut down

[@emhaihd3182]

Exactly! I was watching Demon Slayer with my best friend, and after that we looked at the comments. Some just are pure comedy, its worth gold.

[@SonnyHorrocks]

@@emhaihd3182 I have heard hidive is a good Crunchyroll replacement

[@Osunkemishabazz]

I just subscribed again and realized it was gone. It's BS.

[@travishudson9796]

The comments were my favorite part of CR. Every episode during the ED I'd read the comments, but now it just feels dead. How am I supposed to keep watching 1,000 more episodes of OP without hilarious 10yo comments to read?!

[@marcopisani1011]

I love how Crunchyroll makes it so 90 percent of series are locked behind a pay wall with tons of ads to get you to buy premium instead of marketing themselves as a regular streaming service

[@cassiacarrasquillo]

When I clicked on this video I got a crunchy roll ad💀

[@Monkes_N_Banans]

Deadass I did too💀

[@NightSide22]

Hell i did too that's insane ​@MaximumDaMonke

[@MegaTrevornant]

They also removed Written Reviews. Now its just star ratings.

[@MCArt25]

So now the homophobes can continue to review bomb without exposing that they're doing it out of homophobia.

[@rayecast]

Well, to be honest, I don't want to read a weeb's review anyways. They should just remove user reviews altogether.

[@PikaPenny17]

@@rayecast If you dont want to read a weeb's reviews, why would you even want to be on Crunchyroll or watch a video about it in the first place?

[@dabrams84]

Why would you do that? It's like a basic feature.

[@Peperehobbits01]

@@dabrams84 For money

[@boykitsune]

"I'm not gay I like boob's, women, and femboy's" is the greatest quote I've seen (clip is at like 5:01 or so)

[@TalesOfYourMum]

Considering putting it as on my discord soundboard for the lulz😂

[@Tomato_Destroyer]

He is just like me fr fr

[@ryepooh5052]

i saw that and was like, "wait a minute!" xD

[@bisco5178]

this is incredibly based ngl

[@WhiteD1N0]

Greatest quote that I can relate to

[@mozzapple]

Crunchyroll was also in charge of the recent USA Hatsune Miku concerts which featured a cheap LED screen for nearly all of the venues instead of the typical hologram screens the vast majority of Japanese concerts used. They also straight up lied by saying they would use the hologram screens

[@galactic_studio09]

While we're on the topic of Crunchyroll being stupid, I just need to rant about something that happened to me while I was watching anime. A few years ago, I was trying to watch Tropical Rouge Precure. I didn't have premium because I didn't want to pay for it. I was watching the peacfully and without issue until I got to one particular episode. The episode got to an ad break and during the ad break, it would play the same exact ads again and again until it eventually kicked me out of the episode. I tried to play the episode again, but since I had left off on an ad break, the glitch would just keep happening! It got to a point where I just couldn't watch the episode because the ads would kick me out. To make matters worse, the show was getting pay-walled AS EPISODE WERE RELEASED. The show was free to watch at first, but after a certain point, they all became payed for for some stupid reason. And since I was still stuck trying to watch the glitched episode and I didn't have premium, I ended up not being able to finish the series due to it becoming payed for. I feel like part of why I didn't like this series was because of this problem. Otherwise, I probably could have liked it a lot.

[@gilescorey6569]

How the FUCK does a corporation that takes 15$ per month from its EVERY user not have money to hire mods for its comment section while a literal pirate platform that only earns money on ads (given that everyone has adblock) somehow has one of the most responsive moderator teams

[@Echidnut]

They are worth $1.75 BILLION and are seeing record profits every year. Still can't pay their translators, or hire a single moderator

[@gilescorey6569]

@@Echidnut Also crunchyroll meatriders like to say that "Oh they don't have a lot of money because they pay the anime creators and if you want to support the creators you must use Crunchyroll" when in fact Crunchyroll doesn't do shit for the anime creators after they've paid for the streaming rights. I'd rather support the creators by owning a ton of original merch then give my money to a soulless corpo

[@rumfordc]

its a lot harder to get things done when you have to worry about following rules

[@Wandering_Weeb]

Because pirate sites are usually formed by anime fans. Meanwhile Chrunch is led by greedy people who treat us like their gold mines

[@TheRockerX]

​@@rumfordcI didn't know there are rules against paying your moderators and translators

[@MitchDJohn]

Fun fact: alot of the shows that Crunchy dropped got picked up by Hidive, which is starting to become a rather great alternative and solid competitor

[@dannytello25]

I hope both sides of your pillows are nice and cool tonight

[@hermitliveshere]

I found them a few weeks back and apart from a bug in their app that reverts my language choice to English dubs, the only thing I didn't like was that they didn't have a comment section like Crunchyroll. welp, there goes comments, so I guess CR now goes on my 'only subscribe for a season a year' list like a bunch of the others. I've had a continuous CR sub for a *really* long time.

[@anipl4y]

I wanted Hidive if it wasn't region locked

[@AverageCoolBacon]

i quitted crunchyroll because of the too much ads like 6 ADS EVERY 5-7 MINUTES? YOU CRAZY CRUNCHYROLL????

[@mikethepokemaster2012]

​@@AverageCoolBaconI mean you can pay 7.99 a month. Or just pirate

[@icantthinkofaname158]

it seems reasonable that every company should naturally hunger for money, however removing features and charging the same is not fair

[@SimonWoodburyForget]

I mean... Crunchyroll does not simply hunger "for money" so much as it hungers for world domination... it wants money, but it also wants every other competitor in it's space dead... and now that it managed to monopolize the market, it's removing features and degrading it's own platform to reduce expenses and risks, instead of striving to make a better product... soon enough they'll join with Netflix and offer a Premium tier so you don't have to see ads in the content you paid to watch.

[@kairosguillot9227]

About the "black screenshot" is a common issue caused by "Enable hardware acceleration" setting on your browser, which usually is turned on by default, just turn it off and you can screenshot, screenshare and everything.

[@robkoper841]

Thanks!

[@Kip450]

I was watching _Gintama_ when the comments were removed. They were there one day and then gone the next. Some of them were over a decade old. I don’t know why, but it makes me sad.

[@SriMJ54]

Same! Gintama is a fav, and sometimes the comments are equally funny. They even help me identify gags at times. I was shocked to find out that the comments and even the reviews entirely went missing. Such an obnoxious move. If they are really not paying their translators/interpreters, don’t have a set of moderators, and keep trimming their catalog, I wonder if I’m still supporting the anime industry or using that defense to help CR get even richer. (I should’ve moved on when it got bought out a few years ago by Sony.)

[@purplespectre]

@@SriMJ54 This is why piracy is better. If you want to support the anime industry (and you should if you're watching anime), you can do that by buying merch, BDs, figures, manga, VNs, anything like that. Save your money for that and watch anime for free. It's a win-win.

[@jase276]

@@SriMJ54 I don't believe Crunchyroll EVER supported the anime industry. They kept the profits for themselves. It's obvious Sony wants to kill off Crunchyroll because for some reason Sony is very anti-Japan since 2018

[@pikimikiii]

Same! It makes me sad because I was watching Kaiji and some comments were so funny but now they’re gone. RIP all the inside jokes

[@neauxmad1048]

I think when I started watching Gintama last year I began reading comments on every episode of every show I watched. It always adds to the experience just like KZbin. Then boom, I'm trying to see comments on Tower of God S2 EP 1 and there's nothing there anymore. I thought my app was broken or something.

[@MinscS2]

Crunchyroll protecting us from hateful speech by making sure we can't speak at all...

[@lukecarroll19]

Anti-hate speech end goal speedrun:

[@justtmw]

You just described the purpose of "protection from hate speech" without even understanding it, incredible

[@lukecarroll19]

@@justtmw yep

[@collenjets123]

I mean that is what the commies want after all. Your obedience. You don't need to speak, just consume their content and give them your money for a worse product than free pirate sites.

[@bradandrews777]

Remember the definition of "hate speech" is any speech they hate!

[@GREENISONEARTH]

Bro I’m watching re zero right now and I’m on season 2 and I want to read the comments on episode 15 so bad amazing episode

[@Echidnut]

Ah yes, the episode where Subaru finally became a man

[@TheJamation]

Been subbed for I don't even know how many years. I think I could've lived with the removal of comments - would've been angry for sure, but I didn't comment much but still enjoyed reading them. The thing that tipped me over the edge to unsub and never look back was the removal of reviews. The star system is trash that tells me nothing. I've found hidden gems thanks to a review writing a heartfelt love letter about the anime, and I've avoided countless hours of wasted time over animes that I knew I wouldn't like thanks to dedicated reviewers.

[@Echidnut]

Good point. A written review was actually what convinced me to watch my favorite anime, Re:ZERO which inspired me to make a KZbin channel

[@oscar22yt]

Crunchyroll is the perfect example of Anti-consumer

[@aajohnsoutube]

It is just a streaming service bro.

[@Roeclean]

Nah, I think he's onto something​@@aajohnsoutube

[@craymander2467]

@@aajohnsoutube that cares more about its profits than the experience of its consumers, so basically, anti-consumer

[@RevyaAeinsett]

​@@aajohnsoutubeA streaming service that is anti-consumer

[@saesang352]

How is Crunchyroll bad? They come out with so many good anime, so frequently, that it's actually insane. 10 years ago I had 1 or 2 shows in my weekly watchlist now I have like 20 lmao

[@bromek3666]

I love the fact that I knew this exact pirate site UI better than crunchyroll's. Won't change anytime soon.

[@Imadude1089]

Please tell me 👏😫

[@amazinglaughs]

What is the site so I can cancel my Crunchyroll subscription?! I wanna sail the high seas 😫😫

[@fockewulffw1908]

@@amazinglaughs "take me to the sea with you!" ahh comment

[@lokky9550]

It is definitely not 9*a*n*i*m*e. Definitely do not google with out the * s.

[@ether2788]

@@amazinglaughsaniwatch I think i just use it with a vpn so i dont get ads

[@nall1477]

As an aussie i miss animelab. Quote a few anime in australia are region locked or missing seasons or even the english dub due to licensing issues

[@AtomcsiKK]

I generally agree with you, but for the sake of fairness, let me point some things out: - It was Funimation who bought out Crunchyroll, not the other way around. But in the end, Funimation's owner Sony decided that they'll keep Crunchyroll as a stremaing service and migrate Funimation's streaming there. So if you want to hate a company, hate Sony. The OG Crunchyroll crew - if there is any left - are actual anime fans. - The ability to take screenshots was not a feature you paid for. Actually, you're not even supposed to do it, as it is copyrighted material. Every single frame is. They were probably inspired by Disney+, who also lock screenshots from the beginning. By the way, if you really want to take screenshots, you still can, by switching a certain browser setting. You can blame a lot of things on Sony / Crunchyroll, but not this. PS: Crunchyroll is still the cheapest of all streaming services. Surprisingly cheap, to be honest.

[@TheGovernorsJester]

I remember when Crunchyroll was free if you just watched ads, but for the premium accounts, there was no commercials and you got access to new anime earlier than the free accounts did.

[@kurisu999]

The good old times. Free accounts also only got 480p instead of 720/1080p the premium accounts had I watched my first couple shows like this back when you needed FlashPlayer to even watch something there :D

[@dabrams84]

They stopped that because they bought all of the competitors.

[@suppengroove]

the ad era was awful. especially around the time of season 1 dr. stone - NOTHING else 😭 each episode like six ads the same fuggn show

[@corbinwatling4699]

Now you gotta pay you watch like Netflix

[@xilj4002]

​@@suppengroove Last time I made the mistake of trying it I got 15 minutes of ads before the opening was over :D

[@SAK_-]

Coming from piracy, went to crunchyroll just to get back to piracy is something really odd. Steam completely convinced me to not pirate, yet crunchy could not archive it, and moved me back because the experience is better . LMAO

[@user-kk5ih9ne6t]

What piracy website do you use?

[@jase276]

No lie, cancelled crunchyroll subscription. Just going back to pirating, at least the fan subs are better

[@SAK_-]

@@user-kk5ih9ne6t you tell me, but there is a world waiting for you, an anime world, an "aniworld"? ;)

[@magicdude-y9t]

@@user-kk5ih9ne6t Just search online for each anime you're planning to watch and a bunch of them instantly show up. I usually check some of them for each anime and use the one with the most comments... because, y'know, that's literally half of the enjoyment...

[@Μ8̇]

Same happened to me Back to piracy Hated Crunchyroll since the beginning

[@davidknightx]

I'll make a deal with you Japan. You can pirate the hell out of our media if we can pirate your stuff. "Twister" (1996) just released in 4k! Go nuts! Let us exchange cultures on the high seas.

[@Zagirus]

2:53 I'm calling BS on this. There's an entire genre in anime called Yaoi and Yuri, and any backlash those sparked never led Crunchyroll to shut down the comment section. Clearly, they're just using this convenient uproar as the perfect excuse to silence comments they couldn't stand all along.

[@bommmmm415]

The comment section was the only reason i stayed, or else i would be sailing off Edit; I’d like to salute to our fallen brothern solar69

[@Prest0n97]

Just use aniwave. comments on there are no different than crunchyroll.

[@JohnIrwin]

Wouldn't say it was the only reason, but it was up there. Now I feel a lot less of a need to retain my account. If the price goes up or it's time to renew I'm basically gone.

[@sebasou2277]

Ye smoothjaw just get’in ship mattey, but ay got saillin’ the 7 seas since i’was in the womb and nnnnever put a damn wood foot on the shore! Welcome aboard!

[@PeedroJesus]

True shit, bro the comments i read on the crunchy is just pure gold.

[@Giliver]

Seems like a weird reason to stay considering so many pirate sites have comment sections. (And often far superior ones to CR)

[@Ez.bake_evan]

Don’t forget their worst crime of all, not giving Vinland Saga a single award

[@pepincuatro2865]

That's the only thing they did right

[@gin4339]

​@@pepincuatro2865better oil up I'm gonna be at 7

[@thecorndealer4122]

@@pepincuatro2865you must be on crack or something

[@Capodraste]

the fans voted, not the compagny it's not true what you saying

[@Arcaeau]

Bro likes steins gate

[@glassofwater1274]

"I'm not gay" "I like femboys"

[@SimonWoodburyForget]

I don't see anything wrong with that logic.

[@NaraiAI]

Bro it looks like crunchyroll took matters with their own hand RIP ANIWAVE (9ANIME)

[@AIEgg]

F

[@imperatorodaenathus9329]

Cancelled my subscription I've had since 2021. They literally just increased the price of the "Ultimate Fan Tier" by a dollar without adding anything to it - and then literally remove features? $15- actually $16 now for half the anime as before and fewer features. Insane. fuck crunchyroll 🖕

[@Echidnut]

Thank you bro, you're the best. And yeah Crunchyroll has no excuse. They're consistently getting worse despite seeing record numbers every year. Pirate sites are better in literally every way except ads

[@sumitsikderfilms]

Bro considered paying Echidnut over Chrunchyroll.

[@UnholyDeity4]

This comment deserves to get pinned

[@jannuJ]

​@@Echidnut Do you know a pirate site that has something that helps remind you abt new episodes like crunchyrolls watchlist. Cuz if you do I am probably gonna cancel my membership aswell

[@lokhir]

@@Echidnut And with an adblocker even that is not a problem

[@KamiCorp2953]

"Im not gay. I look boobs, woman and femboys" Ahh, a man of culture

[@unknownusrname]

Same here except for femboys I like futa

[@digestiveissue7710]

Modern culture

[@AgentRip3873]

ik I like those

[@GreatColors]

Made in Abyss is for pdf files and autistic people. God men are so gross. I was here for the video until he wanted a show made by a loud and proud 'lollee-con.' How about you all stop jerking it to child abuse and gore, you weirdos. It's not a deep show. It's degenerate and terrible. You're all awful people. Ew.

[@yassinetje4679]

Who doesnt like femboys be honest

[@Cloud-xr4cg]

I would cancel my subscription, but I watch anime with my dad, who is uncomfortable with piracy. So, for now, we're keeping our subscription. Fuck Crunchyroll. :')

[@ericv5435]

They had every right to make homophobic comments lol. Free speech.

[@SimonWoodburyForget]

You don't have free speech when using a moderated platform with specific social rules.

[@seda_11]

You joked about it but I actually have a lot of respect for you making this video. Crunchyroll has always been a big sponsor for anitubers so it’s hard for creators to say anything bad about them. This video is basically taking money out of your own pocket which is the exact opposite thing they are ever willing to do.

[@makisekurisu4674]

If Japan doesn't wanna sell me anime then piracy is the only option

[@CaptainOrdo-gm9fd]

Nice pfp bro

[@lifadysi9418]

@@CaptainOrdo-gm9fd Yes! I love the Tomoya with a kitty pic.

[@SlowV6Mustang]

the fact they got rid of every comment and review for every anime of their entire site cause 1 SHOW got review bombed is crazy. This is like nuking a continent because a terrorist happens to be living on it.

[@carlosk8103]

Yeah but this was a long time coming the BL was just the nail in the coffin.. Remember when they removed the dislike button a while back.. That's probably when this all started..

[@jun7452]

More like censoring speech of an entire continent because a Nazi may or may not talk about his ideas to other people

[@Lynn.-_-.]

I feel like that happened except it was countries....

[@purplespectre]

@@Lynn.-_-. You're not wrong, it has happened. It's happening right now, and it will happen again unfortunately.

[@marx919]

It wasn’t just that one anime though. There were a few more LGBT anime released within the past few months that got the same hateful treatment. People who don’t even watch the animes just wanted to show their hate, despite watching them being a choice.

[@SylveonTrapito]

The fact is people are so tired of woke culture, that they get super angry by seeing anything gay, woke or not.

[@user-hc7jy9km5h]

Bingo!

[@SparkySharky]

Isn’t the reason their shows disappear because the rights get bought by other streaming services? Evangelism for example was bought by Netflix.

[@Sh12pen]

Exactly, and bleach is on disney plus so they want us paying 69 different people an average of £10 a month, making the costs exponentially rise per new streaming service

[@user-rm5uz1ku5x]

Instead of getting rid of comments entirely, crunchyroll should've just gotten rid of commets for that one anime

[@coreywong6229]

Or you know hire moderators ,but that in itself a double edged sword.

[@reubendaniel5691]

Or maybe not allow negative reviews if you haven’t watched like 4 episodes start to finish

[@collenjets123]

@@reubendaniel5691 or they could just allow the damn comments.

[@reubendaniel5691]

@@collenjets123 I didn’t say they couldn’t do both bruh damn 😭

[@marx919]

It wasn’t just that one anime though. There were a few more LGBT anime released within the past few months that got the same hateful treatment. People who don’t even watch the animes just wanted to show their hate, despite watching them being a choice.

[@aniwack]

Regarding Bleach, Disney paid a lot of money to put it on their platform where anime goes to die. Crunchyroll is losing a bunch of series that authors and publishers that don't want their work on Crunchy. Buying out Funimation and that other service doesn't make things cost less it consolidates and raises prices. As much slack as HiDive gets, they did recently fix a lot of problems with their site.

[@damnyiffers]

Funimation used to have blue ray special content that crunchy doesn't. A large number of great ecchi anime was crushed when it turned over to CR

[@SliceyMcHackHack]

Fk I really wanted to finish bleach too.... I was watching funny enough One Piece... Guess I gotta ask Luffy about it...

[@deavinwarren1412]

​@@damnyiffersbro's mad he his masterbation material is gone

[@Sh12pen]

​@@deavinwarren1412 bro has a right to be

[@haganezuka7521]

They removed comments to "protect" the community and not lose money, yet the action will still result in the exact losing money thing that they tried to prevent. Smh

[@VaylantzYT]

Don't you love where it says most replayed 💀🗿

[@koldkid125]

Dude I got 14 minutes of ads in a single 21 minute episode of anime.

[@jo-ri-oh8950]

Wait, it's still possible to watch animes for "free" ?!? I thought it wasn't since so many shows became premium only right after their fusion with funimation

[@danknados]

Wtf? Just pirate it at that point.

[@mikethepokemaster2012]

​@@danknados Or just pay the 7.99 a month

[@danknados]

@@mikethepokemaster2012 or just pick the free option and pirate it, crunchyroll probably made that 7.99 back with the 14 minutes of ads they gave the guy.

[@MemesYknow]

@@mikethepokemaster2012 fuck no

[@PandaMane]

It's pretty crazy that the legally ambiguous free websites offer a better experience for their users than literally the largest anime streaming site in the west. I went the way of the seas years ago and have never gone back.

[@alexprus7953]

At this point it's more ethical to use the free sites 😅

[@heiwamjollier7434]

Goga ?

[@assarlannerborn9342]

@@alexprus7953 id rather just donate directly to production team and then go sailing.

[@Gamma753]

I too hope to find the one piece one day PandaMane

[@alexandermorgan4098]

I miss what kissanime used to be back in 2016 it was perfect.

[@Masita_45]

"How does Crunchyroll monopolize the entire industry and still don't have Made in Abyss" bro this is the first video i watch from your channel and i already like you

[@starrychairoikoguma]

One of the things that I havent seen people talk about is how at least 9/10 shows on crunchyroll are for premium users only. I literally remember not watching a show for about a week and coming back just to see that it's for premium users. I don't understand how crunchyroll expects me to pay a shit ton of money while constantly raising the prices just for a month's worth of content. Also, the ads for non-premium users are INSANE. All of the ads are bunched together and every single ad break is at least 5-10 ads.

[@tri-slosher]

Their decision to not renew the license for Re:Zero Season 1 anymore is so baffling to me. You're telling me that one of their biggest shows, for which they've spent huge amounts on advertising, no longer has its original airing available for streaming? I don't know why they didn't just drop the Director's Cut instead and license Memory Snow individually. It's funny, one of the biggest signs they had up at Anime Expo last week was for Re:Zero, and it had the words "Seasons 1 and 2 available on Crunchyroll!" Literal false advertising for their platform. Such a disappointment that they're what the anime community is stuck with.

[@Wisewolfholo4]

I hate crunchyroll because they made normies watch anime. Their awards are also cringe where they invite real celebs to talk about anime. I know their fans are all normies. And now the anime community is soft and very judgemental. f Censorroll

[@10100rsn]

Season 1 is still available on Crunchyroll but only as the directors cut. It is much easier to watch the directors cut with every episode being ~45min episodes and having fewer after credit scenes to worry about, and it also includes the EX Memory Snow OVA in that list. The original season 1 was also broken on Crunchyroll because one of the ~45min episodes from the directors cut was inserted into the original season 1 episode list and they listed them as Episode 1A and Episode 1B which confused a lot of people watching because then you are watching episode 1 and 2 twice! This probably turned a lot of people off of the series because the time loops you don't realize at first that you just watched ep1, ep1 and ep2 combined as directors cut and then watched ep2 again... The worst thing they could have done for new viewers of the series!

[@reylightrey1863]

@@Wisewolfholo4 ok weeb. Get a life

[@tri-slosher]

​@@10100rsn​​Again, this is why they should have licensed Season 1 and Memory Snow as separate entities. You want to talk about making things clearer for new viewers? Having the only option to view Season 1 be the misleadingly named "Director's Cut" and leaving one of the OVAs hidden as one of the episodes in said Director's Cut is just not how you get new viewers invested in a series. I won't even get into the fact that the original release of Season 1 was deliberately paced to have the credits played between episodes. As it currently stands, there's no legal way to watch Episode 18 ("From Zero") in its original format online, which is honestly just a huge shame. There is no reason for any of this to be an issue for a company with a billion-dollar valuation. It's not just that they're greedy, it's that they're incompetent in their greed.

[@madmantheepic7278]

Yarrr matey, ye cawn’t be stuck with something you never touched, sail the high seas today!

[@jules9094]

I’m in Australia and I recently found Crunchyroll was still charging me for my old anime lab subscription since 2021. Emailed them and had a lot of back and forth they refunded me 5 months out of the 20+ months they’d stolen, went to our tribunal and basically got told too bad

[@grimsley9989]

Uh oh, I might need to check what’s happened to mine. Still sucks what happened to Animelab. Was a genuinely fantastic site, that became Funimation which was a genuinely shit site

[@bigman94755]

I mean tbf if you have on recurrent billing and don't cancel for 3 years it's kinda on you. 5 months back seems pretty good.

[@hermitliveshere]

@@bigman94755 Not when they shut down the service years ago...

[@jules9094]

@@bigman94755 there was a bit more to it then that. Just kept it simple. I do agree though some fault does lay with me though, still dishonest business practice on their behalf

[@elementalt4nick]

I used to use anime lab Then I… joined the strawhats

[@stephenfoster1347]

If buying something doesn't mean you own it, then piracy isn't theft 👍

[@Loid-sd3vd]

The amount of stuff you people put up with when it comes to official streaming is mind boggling, like how does in a situation like this there isn't a mass unsubscribtion in protest is beyond me

[@Sam-nv5tl]

why tf did i get a crunchyroll ad on this video 💀

[@Zeshi7]

Me too

[@sub0mc49]

@@Zeshi7youtube sometimes gives ads related to the video depending on stuff

[@soulghost9718]

You know i get crunchy roll ad on anything It's litteraly begging me to download it 💀

[@SteveSkits]

Agreed before even watching fully

[@natsudragneel2019]

same

[@altrivotzck6565]

Agreed before even playing the video. There's only one opinion someone reasonable, who's making a youtube video about it, could have.

[@vikingsword3485]

Title is a win

[@keanuxu5435]

Same. Sometimes I just read the title and comments of a video to get the gist of it and leave if I don’t feel like watching the video, regardless of length.

[@TheBashful0ne]

Let's talk about the terrible delay with Crunchyroll when it comes to subtitles. The subtitles are super delayed and sometimes just don't even show up. I'm thinking about canceling my subscription because if i wanted to watch anime without subtitles, id just watch the dub or learn the language

[@jenevievepalmer9771]

the fact that not-so-legal anime sites are more willing to pay moderators and have the BASIC FUNCTIONS of a streaming app than crunchyroll is ridiculous

[@EverythingAnimated87]

I joined Crunchyroll back in 2012. They used to have message boards and they were one of the first sites to turn me on to Mikoto Shinkai when they released all of his anime on the site for a month. And who remembers when Crunchyroll had manga? I actually read a bunch when they had them. Now, Crunchyroll is just a shell of its former self.

[@ThePlayerOfGames]

Remember when you'd get up to 3× 48h premium passes to give to friends too? I think it's time to not renew

[@MidosujiSen]

The Crunchyroll forums were how I kept up with Weekly Shounen Jump rankings back in 2014. Its also where I saw what new series were starting, and why I was able to read Boku no Hero Academia's first chapter on the day it got translated. Didn't even realize the forums were gone, they were really fun back then and kept me up to speed on the magazine.

[@Majinken]

CR has always sucked - they do what I like to call "guilt marketing" by claiming that watching on CR supports the anime industry when in fact it doesn't have much of an effect and it doesn't even pay the actual animators that make the show

[@mafukun]

While I understand what you mean, it's the anime studio's duty to pay their animators, not a streaming service's responsibility.

[@Shikumada]

more pricely they take the money out of people that make content

[@youfoundAdoodle]

"im not gay" proceeds to say "i like femboys"

[@ohwenchildress732]

nah those comments are totally warranted

[@ohwenchildress732]

its not homophobic to say we dont wanna see that shit

[@BurnerJones]

@@ohwenchildress732 Even if it is, who cares? People are allowed to not like things.

[@Thebutterflydancer]

Lets not forget the miku expo 2024 situation. For those that dont know what im talking about. Miku expo is a tour all across the NA and EUROPE Featuring the crypotonloids( hatsune miku, MEIKO, KAITO. Luka Rin and Len) This year it was suported by crunchyroll and they cut A LOT OF CURNRES. Like not being enough lightsticks and them costing 40$ per lightstick. VIPS not getting her goodies bag and the worst of them all... Miku appearing on LED screen not the usual glass screen ( hologram) And they did not even announce it. Like people bought 60$ tickets hopeing for a hologram but they got a LED tv screen. And they did not even try to hide the fact that it is LED screen.(Like some other concerts) The screen is just in the middle of the stage.

[@Mutio86]

I bought a ticket for the one in Düsseldorf Germany. Two work colleagues plus one friend are going too. One colleague told me about this causing (understandably) mad fans in the US. Didn't know those idiots are behind this though.

[@ricksmithtahliasmith4121]

And also crunchyroll removing bleach

[@jase276]

I was so disappointed. I was going to go but as soon as I saw that LED screen at Coachella I said "Hell no". Like, I could just watch her MVs at home at that point, FOR FREE

[@dubbyplays]

​@@jase276 we must all agree capitalism is a hell of a drug 💀

[@dsigler96]

I think there is incredible irony in getting a Crunchyroll ad when clicking on this video

[@dobbi6083]

Ad blockers for the win

[@Heavnelydemon]

Made in Abyss is underrated

[@tiohippie]

I am from Argentina and they have raised the membership price by 1000 percent, yes, as you heard, in addition to the fact that most of the old anime are not subtitled in Spanish, it is preferable to use other free websites🏴‍☠ than pay for the crunchyroll monopoly

[@different6716]

finally someone actually speaking out against this stupid company

[@madmantheepic7278]

Bros been living under a rock, people have been shtting on CR for years

[@0netw0playz59]

People be going after CR since it came out bro

[@everydaydose7779]

CR BAD CR BAD *proceeds to consume shows from crunchyroll*

[@crayzee1726]

The comments on Crunchyroll is what made me love it so much. It was so cool to see people's opinions and discussions dating back to nearly a decade ago... now it just feels like every other money-grabbing streaming service with no personality.

[@johnsonof9]

Facts bro, especially those Cowboy bebop fans commenting their thoughts on it too. It's what makes the anime more interesting to watch.

[@mikethepokemaster2012]

To bad people being wads and homophobic in BL comments and possibly racist.

[@katherinebuchowiecki8449]

Remember, there is no shame in Pirating.

[@Mccheddah]

Aye🎉

[@user-0S1E]

Not my jaw actually droping when he said what animes they removed like violet evergarden was my whole child hood😭😭😭😭

[@phoenixilr]

"Bro its not gay if its a femboy! Its female enough!"

[@appleenjoyer8551]

Ngl people just like femboys because they are porn addicts

[@astreusastresus198]

Super senior Gojo moment

[@phoenixilr]

@@astreusastresus198 real

[@senko---san]

Bi person here. Liking femboys is inherently not gay

[@Ga_mma1]

@@astreusastresus198literally me

[@Sunpott]

Getting a crunchyroll ad on this video was crazy 💀

[@SemenN-oe4eq]

NAHHH 💀💀🤑

[@ANDORRA195]

SAME

[@Thunderclap117]

They're trying to win you back before you change your mind and leave

[@ThePinkyuu]

small and slightly insignificant issues i have with crunchyroll that i wont do anything about but want to rant about: 1) i have changed the default audio language to japanese on my account profile through the app settings, but its always english dub when i watch on tv, even while using the same account and profile. 2) some episodes dont have skip intro buttons. i thought this may be something that only happens during a first episode so the viewer can experience the intro for the first time, but no.. its all the time. sometimes it will reappear on some episodes and disappear on others. 3) ive made sure my account settings have the 'show mature content' switched off, but i still see many anime with the 'mature' rating show up when im browsing. even worse; mature content is recommended to me in the 'we think you may like' row. 4) sometimes the screen and audio would freeze for a second and then skip 10 seconds forward, but after rewinding 10 seconds, it would do the same thing again. this means i miss out on those 10 seconds, which isnt a big deal to me but its still an annoying glitch. 5) can we get a button to remove something from the 'continue watching' row? im sick of finding every episode of a series in my history and deleting them. like i said, these issues arent very significant. but when you compare crunchyroll to other streaming services, its not the same quality. crunchyroll is THE streaming service for anime, youd expect it to be a little better when it comes to bugs and stuff.

[@dylives7667]

Friendly Reminder: Crunchyroll back when My Hero Academia was the talk of the town, literally with The Adpocalypses around the corner, was sponsoring everyone and their grandma. Even H3H3.

[@dango6266]

Alright but this is happening to every streaming site ALL of them are getting worse. Netflix, Disney, Amazon, Crunchyroll. All of them.

[@Echidnut]

And yet the alternate sites are only getting better

[@Billy23456]

Netflix is monopolising on crunchy rolls downfall

[@ReaperTheFool]

@@Billy23456 Netflix be adding every anime that crunchyroll takes away xd

[@everydaydose7779]

This is kinda funny because the "Alternate Sites" doesnt let you stream episodes for free lmao Crunchyroll is "STILL" the best site for anime It has the best video quality Its usually Crunchyroll>Amazon>Disney>Netflix>Hulu Not to mention the "best" subtitles since its .ass not srt/sdh that are trash tier formats It still has the best/biggest catalogue anyways Cope commentors not realizing licensing also expires so they will pullout the older stuffs

[@NamelessDragon21]

@@ReaperTheFool nah they removed one punch man recently

[@JoanSlugXAkaJerkyBogard]

Comments deleted, Worst update ever. Now i can't write Papyrus jokes on Skeleton Knight In Another World.

[@JiJi_Art]

NOO damn nah, long live Papyrus hopefully he'll continue his legend in a better site

[@Saedris]

companies have the audacity to yell at us for pirating their stuff when they take it away at times and say "Well actually no one owns anything online"

[@AdrianGrave]

If paying for something isn't owning it, then finding it elsewhere isn't stealing..

[@ilywatermelon]

"if buying isnt owning then piracy isnt stealing"

[@jordanhall8739]

I agree they are missing way too much anime to be one of the few legal sites out now. They are also missing dubs for older anime that were available on other apps.

[@giygas9305]

Yeah like freaking Steins;Gate? They don’t have the dub for freaking Steins;Gate man

[@pablocasas5906]

Speaking about dubs, back when Funimation entered the Latin American market in 2021 they began dubbing some old shows that they used to block in the region, one of those was Black Butler and the Neutral Spanish dub they gave was pretty good, they only dubbed the first 2 seasons and the OVA though. When Sony, Funimation's parent company, bought Crunchyroll they let the latter took control of everything and they ended Funimation's practice of dubbing old shows, which was barely just starting and when they announced that they would dub the latest Black Butler season many people were hopeful they'd dub the third season and the movie before premiering the dub for the fourth season, but they didn't do it, they skipped directly to the fourth season, at least the voice cast from Funimation was kept intact

[@Drn10n]

Honestly, screw crunchyroll I have been a premium member for about a decade now, and the service is only getting worse. Here is a list of features they have taken away over the years while increasing the price (it used to be 7$ at some point): Episode countdown. Mark episode/series as watched/unwatched. Filter subs from dubs in the new episode page (the feature still exist but doesn't work). Screenshots. Report episode issues. Report comments/reviews. General series discussion thread (not just episode comments). Quality subs (some shows now have subs so bad it's not even funny) Episode comments. Written reviews. Edit, things I remembered they removed: Op/Ed translation. And that's just the things I can remember on top of my head. And let's not forget all the shows they dropped or censored to hell because they didn't match the tastes of investors. I'm honestly considering dropping crunchyroll and sailing the high seas at this point. They need to be reminded that their existence is hinged on them being more convenient than pirating shows. The only reason I haven't unsubbed yet is the few dimes from my money that actually reach the creators. What features do you remember they dropped and made you seriously consider unsubbing?

[@Subreon]

same. i want to support the creators too. but now that i think of it, merch has typically always been the best way to do that with all of media history. some shows exist specifically just to sell merch. mainly american kid's cartoons in the 2000s. but yeah. i think you can buy merch from the crunchy store without being a subscriber to the service. hmmmmm......

[@rubixmaster7532]

You're better off supporting the creators by buying merch. You can go ahead and drop this company.

[@leo-dq7qh]

Was literally reconsidering resubbing (decided to sail the high seas because of the price increase +3 euro/month) and then right after I saved up some money to have enough months to finish this season(not penniless if I wait a month first I only need to pay for 2 instead of 3) AND then I stumble on this guess I'm sailing the seas again

[@JordanBoe]

Anyone remember the forums and club features or am I just old? I was kinda pissed when they changed the format of the website and nuked my community page.

[@warsmith1294]

VPN Subscription > Crunchyroll subscription, sail the 7 seas with me brothers

[@Sheamu5]

This was my final straw, without any form of community it feels empty. Off to the high seas for me.

[@Dragonk116]

Same, unfortunately I have to use it for a while because I paid for a whole year.

[@thecorndealer4122]

What are some of the websites you use? And do they work on phone

[@kidluffy5634]

​@@thecorndealer4122 try "aniwave" or "gogoanime"

[@brittany2743]

@@thecorndealer4122 aniwave(.to) is a really good, and the one he was using in this video

[@sun_shard]

@@thecorndealer4122 hianime

[@mechashark5203]

the screenshot thing is weird because if you turn off graphics acceleration in your browser settings, it works. but on pirate sites you dont need to do that from what i remember

[@R.O.T.C._SEEM]

I think they do this as a way to prevent privacy. I believe it's activated by trying to screen record

[@mechashark5203]

@@R.O.T.C._SEEM yeah i just dont get why turning graphics acceleration off negates it

[@applejustice]

cool pfp

[@mechashark5203]

@@applejustice thanks

[@Burger_addict]

Hello omori fan

[@JeremyBX]

praying for the anime-goers. I'm only as deep into this hole as Cowboy Bebop but I know what it's like when a leading service starts treating their users like nothing more than numbers.

[@WhoKnowsZombie]

It’s because made in abyss is owned or contracted by HIDIVE its on their network

[@ProfessionalText]

I got a Crunchyroll ad when I clicked on this

[@_tenthshadow_1839]

They know what you’re clicking on and are trying to sway you to their side.

[@ProfessionalText]

@@_tenthshadow_1839 jokes on them, I don't even have Crunchyroll

[@purplespectre]

@@ProfessionalText Based

[@FlumphGaming]

Best part is that I had a cruchyroll ad before the vid

[@XtraCheezzy]

Same here 😂

[@daryncollins7640]

the fact that a lot of piracy sites allow comments on the anime episodes is so ironic PIRACY GIVES MORE FEATURES AND YET THESE PEOPLE ARE SHOCKED WHEN THEY DO IT

[@Smalldagamingchanel]

2:58 is crazy💀💀😭

[@meowsicalesdarkshadow5825]

no, don’t cry. Be happy what they’re saying is FAXS👍👍👍👍

[@Empire156]

They dont need to ban the people who wrote hateful comments off the website, they just need to remove their ability to write comments anymore and delete all the hateful comments, thats a win win situation

[@Wandering_Weeb]

That will cost them money and oh boy do they hate losing money

[@facE055]

or they could just let people say what they want, how have we gotten to a place where supporting degeneracy is ok but being against it isnt?

[@Empire156]

@@facE055 im talking not about just this case, but un general, there are some people who should have no right to comment anything

[@facE055]

@@Empire156 but banning "hateful" comments always means there's someone choosing what's hateful, it's never objective. banning everyone who makes threats to others or directly attacks others makes sense, but the whole "hate speech" thing doesn't.

[@dud324]

​@@facE055freedom of speech does not equal lack of consequences that's reality for ya sorry pal.

[@hikki537]

Let's stop going to street or driving cars because you can get robbed or crashed on the road Let's stop breathing because we can get sick Let's remove the comments because there can be hate comments

[@taco.9s]

while watching this, i got a crunchyroll ad

[@nilrothly3123]

Anyone else pausing/cancelling their Crunchyroll subscription?

[@Alpius241]

Dam I thought everyone was using free anime watching sites

[@SniperWolfKing77]

We are, but I wish there was a way to get more money in the pockets of the artists. I really want 2nd seasons and this age of free anime is already taking its toll.

[@PandaMane]

​@@SniperWolfKing77If you want to support the authors, buy the mangas and merch and stuff

[@scarz__]

Only reason i dont is i like watching anime on my tv laying down and it doesnt have the internet

[@PandaMane]

@@scarz__ time to get a tv with internet then lol, or a Roku box or something

[@qwerttz1033]

Because the targeted audience of many Anime are kids/teens. Which teen can afford these prizes?

[@OtakuNoruto]

Bro really came with pure facts. Being able to read the comments after an episode was like the best part of Crunchyroll & all they had to do was hire some moderators or at the very least add in a filter to stop certain words from being commented... but i gotta hand it to them, its very impressive how dedicated they are to consistently making their platform worse

[@Swag_lord69]

I don't think I've ever seen a Crunchyroll user get banned. During the great spoiling of Jujutsu Kaisen, NO ONE got banned for all that, some of the comments also had racist remarks lmao. Really shows how much these guys care about their userbase. Also love that I can't read any reviews on CR and now I have to go to MAL to get some decent reviews.

[@cubbybunnyx]

Its insane too how in just 4 years they use to let you watch some anime for free with ads now most of it is blocked by premium 🙄