I’ll buy figures, I’ll buy plushies, I’ll buy T-shirts, I’ll buy DVDs, and I’ll buy all sorts of anime merch. But I’ll never pay for a streaming service that functions worse and acts scummier than a pirate site!
@ArkKage2 ай бұрын
This comment here needs more visibility
@heroesatwar8472 ай бұрын
I like fansub more than streaming service sub
@Hana811102 ай бұрын
i have to watch anime on pirated sites because cruncyroll always goes offiline when new release drop.
@TheMaskedNinja_2 ай бұрын
For real, back when I was spamming Crunchyroll and HiDive? Idk the name anymore on my 940mbps wifi I could hardly get 720p quality
@tempoaccla40412 ай бұрын
this is the way buy merch, not subscriptions
@flatmarssociety57072 ай бұрын
aniwave was literally better than every paid site and has features that crunchyroll needs
@Natediggetydog2 ай бұрын
Other than being redirected to porn sites every time I clicked on anything, I agree with you 100%
@Bt-cq6te2 ай бұрын
@@Natediggetydog ive nvr had that problem, since i used ad block. I mean cmon bro, if ur gonna pirate, u may as well use an ad blocker as well rit
@Gummy_Pop.2 ай бұрын
True facts...
@Natediggetydog2 ай бұрын
@@Bt-cq6te you can’t ad block on mobile. I have the popup blockers on but they don’t do shit
@Suckerofkebabs2 ай бұрын
@@Natediggetydog even better, but use a ad block
@Dr.SwagPHDinDrip2 ай бұрын
the reason piracy is so rampent, is because of lack of access. Anime are never all available in one place, and if they are, subscriptions are getting more and more expensive, and multi-tier subscription plans are really an ass pain, why do i have to pay money to watch ads. Making anime openly accessable, such as making good subscription deals, making anime not regionally blocked, making services user friendly, etc. Just doing these things will help, and I know that the reality of some of what this is, is trying to adjust to economic situations, but i personally feel that its kind of dumb. Lower prices means more users in my limited knowledge of business.
@linusgustafsson2629Ай бұрын
I have Netflix for anime. But it is sometimes annoying when I find that they have Teasing master but only season 2 and not season 1. I think the real issue is with the people selling licenses however. It should always be the whole thing or nothing. Just selling season 2 of something is ridiculous.
@jeanpitre5789Ай бұрын
This is just a problem with streaming in general. People HATED cable, but at the end of the day during the on-demand era, cable was ONE price and everything was included. Love sports are in a WORSE position than anime and are more heavily pirated because frankly with all the exclusive broadcasting deals and how difficult it can be to watch certain games, even if you still owned cable, you'd still be missing a massive amount of live sports that you'd need specific subscriptions for. ESPN+, KZbin TV, Tubi, NFL Network, MLB Extra Innings, SEC Network, oh and you can't forget that ONE game that Amazon Prime has the exclusive rights to broadcast. It's fucking STUPID These broadcasts and shows DESERVE to be pirated because the companies that distribute them make it virtually impossible to watch legally, or affordably, so fuck them.
@Phyzm1Ай бұрын
@@linusgustafsson2629 I have Netflix for anime is like saying i buy bananas for the peels.
@sf936Ай бұрын
Not just anime, overall content when it comes to franchises doesn’t always get localized, or it takes an insane amount of time, which is why I find this to be useless
@sf936Ай бұрын
@@linusgustafsson2629oh yeah, and season 3 and the movie aren’t even available anywhere other than Blu Ray afaik, so no legal means to watch it unless you’ve got plenty to spend
@danielferrieri74342 ай бұрын
If Streaming Services hate Pirate Sites, why not make the streaming platform actually good?
@ihauok2 ай бұрын
too expensive for them ig(i have no idea why)
@adrian-gh5lf2 ай бұрын
And stop price hiking
@euoluma2 ай бұрын
@@ihauokit’s not that, they’re just so lazy
@revolutionarydragon11232 ай бұрын
@ihauok subscription model doesn't really make these companies a lot of money outside of Disney+ and Netflix. Everyone else subscription service is not profitable and probably takes a decade to get there if they don't scap it and merge with someone else
@WorldsGreatestRingAnnouncer2 ай бұрын
Streaming Services likely will drop no-ads or require higher amount to pay. Most streaming services are barely profitable as is. Viacom is merging with another company because it cannot support the stream service. Max is partnering with Disney for similar reasons. You have to be a hegemony or have a parent corp to subsidize full the platform like a Disney, Amazon or Netflix.
@aytgh2 ай бұрын
If they made anime available uncensored affordably, piracy would not be such an issue. But NO, they demand censorship.
@goldenangel1582 ай бұрын
I agree
@kameronjones71392 ай бұрын
Anyone got a site that hasn't been shut down because I agree with you
@bunnyconcubus84682 ай бұрын
9anime is a good one that hasn't been shut down.@@kameronjones7139
@AKDUGI2 ай бұрын
@@kameronjones7139you have to find it yourself cause if you post names online it will get targeted sorry bro
@AKDUGI2 ай бұрын
@@kameronjones7139guys like you cause these sites to get clapped
@jaylennash50582 ай бұрын
I understand that piracy is wrong right? But what the fuck do you want me to do when an anime that I watched five years ago cannot be found on any legal streaming Avenue anymore, which is pretty fucking often. What do you want People to do when licenses run out and or fall through.
@Shiniri2 ай бұрын
Exactly this was in my region a really big issue hence anime wasnt popular at all and is still an issue to this day just not nearly as bad as it was back then. I mean sure if it isnt that old often I could buy the blueray instead or even dvd but as soon as those shows get older and arent tripple A to the point old episodes are still produced on bluray it really sucks. Prices get inflated while blurays are expensive anyway. I mean a 12 Episode Anime costs like 80€ which is arround 7% of my monthly income and like 10 times more than crunchyroll which can be used on nearly every device and everywhere. And if the prices inflates this only get worse to the point of sailing the high seas is really the only reasonable way. Best example for me at the moment is the 2013 Deadpool Game on PC it got pulled from storefronts a few years ago and PCs nowadays dont even have a discdrive. The only way to obtain a legal copy on PC is to buy a key and those get less and less and thats why I can only legally obtain it for Steam for a price starting at 560€ which nearly translates to a monthly rent for living in a flat lol
@sneugler2 ай бұрын
Availability of shows is comically spotty when you go back. I watch a lot of 80's-90's OVAs and the vast majority never get licensed on official sites. They're practically useless to me
@jaylennash50582 ай бұрын
@@Shiniri were completely correct in every aspect. Once anime gets older. It just becomes impossible to find anymore unless it’s super popular and remains so like darker than black you can’t find that anime anywhere anymore. For some reason what are we supposed to do when we literally cannot find a show that we want to watch the show anymore?not to mention the problem with licensing. It’s so difficult for these companies to even gain the licensing for these shows that can literally be canceled for any reason at all.
@jaylennash50582 ай бұрын
@@sneugler that really suck… we have no choice
@HUEHUEUHEPony2 ай бұрын
Piracy is not wrong, is a moral duty
@brianjanssens80202 ай бұрын
Let me list the reasons for why you SHOULD pirate and skip official streaming platforms: 1. Its free, duh 2. Its accesible 3. Its easy to use 4. Its optimized 5. Fast uploads 6. Way bigger content library 7. Uncensored content available 8. Official streaming services can actually leak your data, but pirate platforms don't even require an account in the first place. 9. Quality of life features (skip intro or ending button, heck for One Piece it skips to the title card so it can also skip recaps) 10. More interactive community and comment section.
@alexjackyperson1012 ай бұрын
Must of these features can be found in one of the 9anime website, there literally hundreds of them, so have ad blocker on and go to one
@waytogo_roblox2 ай бұрын
Get this man an award 👏🏻🏆
@wildannandawicaksana50042 ай бұрын
👍
@npcimknot9582 ай бұрын
It’s better organized.. every pierat site is so simple to navigate
@09ALPHAROGUE2 ай бұрын
"Imagine having a comment section in 2024, couldn't be us" - crunchyroll probably
@kidd6842 ай бұрын
Lets not forget Crunchyroll use to be a pirate site… good ole days 😭🏴☠️
@The_BlOb2 ай бұрын
Right? Lmfao 😭
@Aman_Mondal2 ай бұрын
Exactly absolute hypocrites also sites like Mangarock too
@anonisnoone61252 ай бұрын
With how its website is today, I doubt it was ever better than Aniwave.
@Aman_Mondal2 ай бұрын
@@anonisnoone6125 It was way worse back then
@a.b.s.anonymousbastardofso94592 ай бұрын
You either die the hero or live long enough to become the villain.
@jdedrington2 ай бұрын
"How can we staunch piracy?" "Timely distribution, reliable translations, and user-friendly platforms that encourage fan discussions?" "Johnson, you're fired."
@ysfsim2 ай бұрын
and comment sections
@riegen.2 ай бұрын
@@ysfsim "you're fired as well"
@elsina79Ай бұрын
But, that doesn't make money. Each of these features are going to be at a different price point.
@asiangaming8409Ай бұрын
@@elsina79so does subscriptions, it only works for huge streaming platforms like Disney and Netflix
@linusgustafsson2629Ай бұрын
All I want is Japan to run a service where everyone can watch anime with some subtitles in English, with a lot of ads for things like figures, manga, dakimakura etc. Because anime itself doesn't need to turn a profit, as long as it can work as ads to sell other things. But they could always have a paid service as well as long as the price is right. Not like I wouldn't pay to give Japanese anime creators money. I just don't want to pay activists and toxic foreigners who dunk on anime.
@jonson8562 ай бұрын
Reasons for people to pirate: 1) Service issue: availability, bad subs, bad dubs, bad quality, censorship 2) Price: too expensive for some 3) Principle: They do it just because And I think it is in this order of significance.
@OstravaSunBorn2 ай бұрын
it's prices mostly I think cuz private sites are always worse in video quality so why wouldn't more people buy subscriptions if they were made according to what the people in a specific country can afford rather than the limited mind thinking of setting a static price for all regions
@AkaneKumo072 ай бұрын
@@OstravaSunBorni wouldn't mind paying if one service could provide me with 12.3k anime like aniwave with the features of it, but sadly not a single site has more than a couple hundred
@darku60302 ай бұрын
@@OstravaSunBorn not sure about the video quality. i watch anime from 2 specific sites and both are very high quality. can even download the episodes which at times provides even higher quality options service issue is definitely the most important problem imo. there's like 5 different or more services that have anime legally. licenses are constantly a mess and sometimes license holders change. meanwhile piracy allows you to watch everything from 1 place, and there's not even any ads if you're using a solid ad blocker. If companies provided good, solid service and had a bunch of these series in 1 place, it would've been a much better experience for the user.
@Lassila962 ай бұрын
@@OstravaSunBornit is also availability, not necessarily a money issue. For example, there is literally no service that has all the anime in its library. I have crunchyroll but it doesn’t have everything. There are no other option to use in my country, other than Netflix which hosts maybe one seasonal anime in a year. I’m missing tons of old shows and seasonal shows if there are no alternatives to crunchyroll. That’s not how it should be.
@anonisnoone61252 ай бұрын
@OstravaSunBorn Nah Aniwave and many of these pirate sites had high quality videos for most of their anime. A good example of Gurrwn Laggan. CR has it at 480p whilst pirate sites had it actual HD.
@jaykayjk12 ай бұрын
This gave me PTSD of when KissAnime shut down 😭
@sleepyzgaming99722 ай бұрын
They still alive I believe
@nekobitan83132 ай бұрын
@@sleepyzgaming9972 nah it is a copycat
@raydough8742 ай бұрын
@@nekobitan8313 is it worse? i use it sometimes
@onesmileybaldy83032 ай бұрын
The moment Aniwave started going offline for ours multiple times a week I already knew something was up. It’s always the same alerts,site down,player malfunctioning and sometimes even new bugs,Aniwave had all of them before dying.
@kenkaneki22022 ай бұрын
Same
@derpymule79772 ай бұрын
The annoying thing is you know how much effort and resources went into these takedowns, and you also know they aren’t going to do squat. Nobody on the entire planet is going to look at the takedown and say “oh well, time to switch to paid streaming services.” It’s a colossal waste of time and money that serves zero purpose besides sending a message that we’ve all been ignoring for decades. It’s just posturing and diplomacy that tosses a huge amount of people under the bus just because not wanting to use crunchyroll’s nonsense marks them as acceptable casualties.
@scottjs52072 ай бұрын
Just like fighting add blockers...
@linusgustafsson2629Ай бұрын
@@scottjs5207 I'd stop using adblockers if I knew I'd get ads I want. KZbin always just gave me car ads and carbonated water ads. Two things I buy about every 10th year.
@Foogi9000Ай бұрын
Every day i'm reminded of how far down the dystopian hellhole we've fallen.
@end_of_eternityАй бұрын
@@Foogi9000 So real
@Pyovali2 ай бұрын
Why would I go to a streaming service which A: Doesn't even have licenses for *my country*. B: Doesn't even sub in my language C: Has platform specific censorship It's a service issue. Why would I pay for a service which doesn't even offer the basic things I need or offer inferior experience?
@tigeruntamed60362 ай бұрын
Not only that it doesn't even offer the shows or movies I want to watch
@WinterzPlayz2 ай бұрын
I'm a grown ass man and almost cried. Aniwave. Previously 9 anime has been in my life for a decade. Got me through middle and highschool. This is truly a moment I don't even watch as much as I used to cause I work a 9-5 now but seeing something you've feared would happen for years is truly something. I guarantee there will be new ones and there are many other ways to pirate anime but damn man. It really happened...
@CleanUpNick2 ай бұрын
man bro i actually cried, i'm the same here, got me through middle and high school and a LOT of horrible depressive episodes, seeing this happen is a smack to the face
@ag3ntgt2 ай бұрын
That literally saved my life, man…
@xuan32362 ай бұрын
need kissanime back.
@_Minos2 ай бұрын
I just regret of not dowloading an anime in dub from aniwave. They had the only dub for it there, no other site has it 😢
@Nabee_H2 ай бұрын
Same dude, same...
@RikuHino2 ай бұрын
I cancel my Crunchyroll subscription after they absorbed Funimation. Cause alot of the anime just aint there abd there are less dubs and they dont translate the on screen Japanese text. I had to delete my credit card information from the site because they wouldn't even let me cancel my subscription...
@Blueartsz2 ай бұрын
W!!
@itsmeyuu17292 ай бұрын
If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing
@imu1st2 ай бұрын
and how is buying not owning?
@snintendog2 ай бұрын
@@imu1st they can revoke Ownership. Never buy Digital.
@itsyouuu31522 ай бұрын
@@imu1st look at FUNimation people who bought stuff digitally there lost their stuff why buy something if you don't own it
@vibinmikegothyped32702 ай бұрын
@@imu1st well, I don't blame you for not reading that ToS sh*t, but you should
@didott52 ай бұрын
Well said
@assh93332 ай бұрын
still ain't gonna stop me...
@MarvyG232 ай бұрын
Not stopping nobody 😂
@KhanMann662 ай бұрын
Never have and never will. Most anime fans pirate anyway.
@protagadditc84342 ай бұрын
Same here brother I'll stand by the fellow Pirates till I die
@tomfooleryamongfriends93612 ай бұрын
until we get something like steam for jp media its not gonna stop
@be63862 ай бұрын
@@protagadditc8434true dat!!! They gives crap and expect us to take it
@Volnas972 ай бұрын
It has an impact, because with those sites, there were comment sections going years back, that just disappeared. All those discussions about newest episodes, that hype about what's next, arguments about best girl or just general shitposting is gone and that's one thing you can't replace.
@Christopher._M2 ай бұрын
I had 6k worth of comments on hundreds of anime. It hurt my soul to know that they are basically for nothing now
@Volnas97Ай бұрын
@@Christopher._M Yeah, I'm gonna miss seeing Yu Ishigami under everything I watched
@Sterl500Ай бұрын
If you were apart of aniwave, you can find the disqus comments you've already posted in and still comment on them. So in that respect they're still there and you can still carry on conversations on them, but you can't get any new people into them.
@regret.9322 ай бұрын
Whitebeard: You may try to destroy their spirit, but you will never extinguish their flame. So it has been and so it shall continue to be from now till the very end of time. And one day in the future, when we’re all dead and gone. Someone will arise carrying generations upon generations of our history on his shoulders and he’ll throw down the gauntlet in front of the entire world.
@santiagoo2752 ай бұрын
"Japan , you guys in the anime industry all fear the inmense piracy wave engulfing the whole world that will eventually come...i dont care myself but as soon as someone finds another free anime website your entire world will be turned upside down. and someone *will* find it. that day will definetly come sooner or later"
@arlogpro84042 ай бұрын
PIRACY IS REALLLLLL
@Plasmarx2 ай бұрын
Can we get much higher
@senpai_masutashi2 ай бұрын
@@Plasmarx so high
@blackcatpirates81342 ай бұрын
YEAHHHHH, WE WILL BE PIRATES FOREVER
@goldenangel1582 ай бұрын
I will never stop sailing the high seas until we get uncensored versions of animes instead of waiting for the blue ray that takes a long time to release and we get translators that do not force their political believes in the subs and dubs in anime
@Tafrara-idir2 ай бұрын
Political believes in subs and dubs ?
@Tafrara-idir2 ай бұрын
I am sorry if I sound ignorant but when does that happen I am just curious not doubting you ?
@gamerguy69902 ай бұрын
@@Tafrara-idir Kobayashi Dragon Maid was altered to be more political alongside My First Gf Is A Gal.
@zerogrey37982 ай бұрын
@@Tafrara-idir There have been several shows that have had their translations altered enough to basically be wrong translations. It's actually happened enough that several anime studios have pulled their shows from western streaming services like Crunchroll due to bad faith in the translations. You could probably google it for more info, just ignore the fact that certain people are calling Japanese racists for demanding accurate translations and read the actual news stories.
@hulmhochberg81292 ай бұрын
@@Tafrara-idirit happens. Japan does not share the same views as the west (be that as it may), but especially not the views of modern woke feminism. And certain characters words have been drastically altered in the translation because of that. Miss Kobayashi's dragon maid is a prime example were one very busty women who likes showing off her figure, suddenly talks about "the male gaze" and "objectivication" even tho the reason she dressed conservatively that time was something completely different in the og Japanese.
@DutchDread2 ай бұрын
If they made a legal site as good as aniwave I might actually pay for it
@MVXXll2 ай бұрын
Oh, 100%, but it would be hard
@tomykong2915Ай бұрын
@@MVXXll no, it wouldn't, not for the multi-billion dollar corporation
@MVXXllАй бұрын
@@tomykong2915 yeah
@talanking9Ай бұрын
@@tomykong2915I would like them to just restore the site for like 10.99 a month
@TheFellHeartАй бұрын
@@tomykong2915 yes it would
@Nevwermore2 ай бұрын
This is sad news. Some of these deleted sites has much higher quality than official payd counterparts.
@LimSandy692 ай бұрын
Ikr anix /aniwave had such a good layout, watching there was so streamlined for me
@anonisnoone61252 ай бұрын
@LimSandy69 Aniwave was my home for anime. Best layout, big community and a huge library.
@reverseshin2 ай бұрын
Yeah Official Only Gives you 540p, that looks like 1080p.
@wildannandawicaksana50042 ай бұрын
@@LimSandy69 I love aniwave too because the UI and the library of animes 😢
@spencer32 ай бұрын
Aniwave was the only one I found with BluRay releases and pre-movie OVAs. Not sure I'll be able to find those again
@reekocarson2 ай бұрын
Aniwave being shut down is tragic smh
@dynamo472 ай бұрын
Yeah, it had the best layout and UI
@Nero_PR2 ай бұрын
@@dynamo47By far.
@MahoganyBlack2 ай бұрын
I just learned about it like 5 days ago haha
@ronel78362 ай бұрын
There is another one out there that's just like aniwave, but I can't mention it oof
@UsoppFan4442 ай бұрын
I was LITERALLY boutta continue Re:ZERO on AniWave and then I see this . ___ .
@Nightdreaux226472 ай бұрын
Japan: ""We don't really speak foreign language. Heck we are not even forcing Japanese people to learn how to speak ENGLISH. It's not mandatory."" Foreigners: Then how are you going to market your product?? We want to see it too, you know??? Japan: I don't know. You guys figure it out yourself. Foreigners: Okay then!! if you all Japanese folks cannot provide us with a place to watch your anime and manga, then we will do "PIRACY". Japan: HOW DARE YOU !!!!??
@Souma_Ditya2 ай бұрын
😡🤬💢💢
@edwardfletcher7790Ай бұрын
BINGO 👍
@E12345EАй бұрын
crunchyroll is western tho
@RJF-ez8feАй бұрын
Crunchyroll ain't Japanese 😑 bruh...
@michaelatlas2341Ай бұрын
How does Japan not marketing anime to the West allow you to pirate them? 😂 That's exactly like saying, "You don't advertise cars in our country, so we have the right to steal them." F* me, you tourists need to go home. Why did you write "Heck, we aren't even forcing Japanese to learn English"? Why are you openly saying that Japanese need to be forced to learn English? By your suggestion, they need to be forced by corporations/studios in Japan itself. Who gave you the right to make those insinuations? Imagine how f* entitled you must be to demand that Japanese learn English and market anime to westerners, who openly hate anime, mock it, and want to censor it. Your entire comment doesn't make a lick of sense. Just how much do you hate Japan exactly?
@Nero_PR2 ай бұрын
A head of the Hydra is cut. Another two takes its place. This will not end pirate sites as long as the streaming alternative keeps being shit.
@alaa341g2 ай бұрын
man piracy will never stop periode , even if we have the best servises ever , ppl will still pirate , but it would be just ppl who either can't afford the subscription cuz living is 3rd world countries and few $ is a week salary , or some ppl who just find it easier to deal with ( subscribing , countries limited shows ect .... )
@J.Crime1232 ай бұрын
@@alaa341g its also important that they never stop. Imagine they do everything right, and all the sites go away. They now have full power to become even worse than they were before and the high sea sites need to build themself back up from the ground up again.
@alaa341g2 ай бұрын
@@J.Crime123 good reflexion , 100% there need to be always another option to make them scared of becoming tyrants xD
@notshockwavedemon75432 ай бұрын
Yeah They can cut it down all they want It'll regrow
@ChronicSensei2 ай бұрын
Remember the war on drugs? I do. The drugs are still flowing like a river. Remember the war on terrorism? I do. The terrorists are flowing like a river into all countries. Remember the war on crime? I do...
@JTVega2 ай бұрын
This is why I don't mention a websites on youtube because that would lead to putting them into trouble. I only share it with friends.
@MrWescottX2 ай бұрын
Indeed
@vbrawny_zuelong53002 ай бұрын
reading all the comments they really snitched what they use. luckily none of them mentioned the one i use.
@OldSchoolMinded2 ай бұрын
Imagine thinking million dollar, even billion dollar companies like Disney not hiring a firm capable of finding these sites. I pirate but the amount of people who think these companies are dumb is wild, they're not incapable of googling like rest of us. These pirate sites are easy as hell to find.
@jsostick2 ай бұрын
@@vbrawny_zuelong5300 you'd like me to snitch for you?
@byronbarrientos84712 ай бұрын
But your friends can share it with other people who'll share it with others who'll share it with others.. etc.
@yevaud62 ай бұрын
thumbnails are still on Anix. It's library went back all the way to the 1900's. Most complete list of anime's history I've seen. Going through year by year and noting what I haven't watched before it's completely shut down so I can hopefully track it down somewhere else on the internet. One of these days the internet has to stop and consider when it's destroying what can be seen as an archive of it's history. Piracy seems like the only thing trying to preserve the past sometimes...
@Sandwich-5-sand2 ай бұрын
This is especially true with Nintendo. Piracy is literally the ONLY method that can preserve their older titles, the 3ds and the wii are consoles that have been given life once again because of modding. Yet they do everything in their power to burn it.
@dagrumblers2 ай бұрын
Like you said effectively impossible to destroy digital piracy, and even with these sites down another dozen will take each of their places. It's like a hydra.
@marcelocapeljunior35792 ай бұрын
Hail Hydra.
@Grudder12 ай бұрын
We are legion
@ATigerShark2 ай бұрын
Just hope they continue the tradition of providing a better service than Crappyroll.
@KiryuZer02 ай бұрын
But what if instead of going after the site they go after the users and suddenly you have a 50k fine for stealing in your mail. And go to jail at worst. It's not impossible.
@anonisnoone61252 ай бұрын
I hope Aniwave comes back rebranded at some point.
@SavantPete2 ай бұрын
I'm still King of the Pirates 🏴☠️
@DovahTank2 ай бұрын
Ok King where do I go now?
@sinposts1212 ай бұрын
@@DovahTank that is is tge question guess start looking for alternatives again on the dark web
@YetanotherAccount-fw8mw2 ай бұрын
9anime
@anutane7992 ай бұрын
@@DovahTank aniwatch or hiANIME IF ONE WILL GO DOWN 1000 WILL RISE
@CrimsonGold-pq8xy2 ай бұрын
I want to be like Luffy but i can't take to the seas this century... so this is the next best thing
@CommanderSlayersАй бұрын
From what I've heard through their discord not even the workers/admins of the website knew about the shutdown. They're trying to work things out with the owner. But I personally propose they branch off another website to start anew considering their relationship with the owner is close to non-existent.
@TheWhiteMamba30002 ай бұрын
Piracy is actually profitable for companies in the long run by creating fans who then buy merchandise and physical copies of mangas and anime. Advertising via word of mouth is such a powerful thing. Premium sites keep removing features while increasing the price then use politics to say your criticism is unjustified.
@npcimknot9582 ай бұрын
This
@mango-float2 ай бұрын
problem is investors want numbers rising up immediately and constantly
@person98462 ай бұрын
Especially for shows, which barely make money on selling streaming rights anyway
@thermotesticles24532 ай бұрын
i mean nothing they can do will convince me to pay for one of "their" streaming platforms. simply put i don't want to pay for a streaming platform that doesn't even have the anime i want to watch.
@sectionya2 ай бұрын
As the old saying says, Piracy is a service issue. You whack a site down 10 others show up and people are really fed up with all the subscriptions 💀
@handleloverkira2 ай бұрын
This time they whacked like 10 sites at least does this mean 100 pirate sites??
@markjhun95542 ай бұрын
@@handleloverkirabro chill its just a saying... But i could happen
@professorhaystacks66062 ай бұрын
Before Crunchyroll (and by extension Funimation) started paywalling everything plenty of people used their ad-supported tier. But when you're on a tight budget and the dubs that you're theoretically paying for aren't very good (and sometimes the subtitles are poor translations...), then well... the options become don't watch at all or go to sketchy sites.
@namedless2 ай бұрын
Its like trying to kill a hydra lol
@Natediggetydog2 ай бұрын
@@handleloverkirathe same 10 will come back with different names, like aniwave did when 9anime got whacked. The owners have everything backed up offline and clearly don’t care about the laws they’re breaking
@123asap62 ай бұрын
The damn ads. I dont mind having ads in my anime session if they cut in at moments where TV commercials are supposed to happen like live broadcats but if you are going to put like 5,6,7 freaking ads in a single episode in going to literally and figuratively lose my shit to the point I just watch the pirate sites and their ads to support the actual pirate site simply because they only have ads in 2 places, before the episode starts, and either a commercial cut or just before end credits.
@darkrose-chan2 ай бұрын
Piracy will never stop no matter how many sites they shut down. For underprivileged countries like mine, we would've never watched anime without pirated websites
@wildannandawicaksana50042 ай бұрын
Same me too. I can't watch the anime without pirate the anime too
@npcimknot9582 ай бұрын
And anime wouldn’t become as big as it did without pieracy Japan actually owes piracy alot
@AtrieTheWorldTroublesolver2 ай бұрын
Pretty much, buying a streaming subscription is like half a month's worth of food. And you tellin me, not all animes are available on one site? Whaaaat?! Ofc I'd pirate!
@JoshuaVaughan-pi1sn2 ай бұрын
Don't forget even if you don't have it in your country so many titles are just not available on them entirely and the service is just down right cruddy I will gladly sail the seven seas if paying means I'm being forced to down grade honestly this is starting to look like the death of anime all together
@rps2152 ай бұрын
Like Gaben said, piracy is a service issue. Besides, they cannot hope to erase piracy altogether, you remove one site and 3 other sites will take its place.
@BitTrip2 ай бұрын
If japan decides to kill all piracy for anime, they should create services that provide anime with accurate localization for foreign users. I'll never again pay for Crunchyroll, eat shit.
@benjaminmedrano44932 ай бұрын
This. There's no way to legally stream a Studio Ghibli movie in Spanish for example.
@silent_stalker36872 ай бұрын
Or have a simple site for abandoned stuff? Like Beatless is impossible to find on any services despite paying for it. And the services that we do have to pay for censor and slander anime- or manipulate the translations.
@AbyssalSoda2 ай бұрын
Studios and Corporations in Japan are beginning to embrace DEI due to Black Rock investments, it's not even a joke or fear mongering, they have released official statements. So they aren't going to do something like provide accurate localization
@larion23362 ай бұрын
@@AbyssalSoda Japan is one of the few places the J haven't completely ruined already, I really hope their people get their act together and stop that crap in its tracks. They have ample warning... just look at literally any western nation to see how this turns out...
@Ravenleaf1822 ай бұрын
I think you're confusing that Japan cares about its global audience. They are regressing to more and more xenophobic practices mainly due to streamers and foreigners really messing with their culture and way of life. I think they'd have no qualms due to losing foreign reach.
@MrShubham372 ай бұрын
"Culture isn't only for those who could afford it." Anime wouldn't be this popular without piracy websites .
@natoriousthehopeful27862 ай бұрын
And the war has begun, Chibi: it's a shame that streaming services would rather go after "competition" instead of fixing their platforms😢
@ikarosms2 ай бұрын
no need to fix anything if there is no competition. 4head move
@zeromagnum28112 ай бұрын
woke activist companies like crunchyroll dont fix things. they intentionally break and censor them.
@yunfanji2 ай бұрын
These "services" are so unprofitable they are never going to win against piracy. It is like online gaming and hacks except that's a real problem to us.
@mryellow6918Ай бұрын
@@yunfanjibut I like cheating anime piracy is litterly victimless. Like bro I ain't gonna be able to watch it if I don't so yall still ain't gonna get my money.
@TheFLAMEXD2 ай бұрын
This is terrible news. Not everyone can afford streaming services and it's just going to make anime community more fractured.
@ronel78362 ай бұрын
I dont even think it's a price issue, It's a service issue if there was a legal site that had the availability and large library of anime that aniwave ( and another im not gonna mention) on top of functionality for 4 dollars a month, people will easily pay
@HoldenWitherow2 ай бұрын
For every site taken down two more pop up those who need to use the sites will find alternatives easily
@seldogrif97322 ай бұрын
@@ronel7836 that is why instead of paying 5-10$ for a streaming service, I use it to pay for a VPN, take a sail into deep see and hook it up with Jellyfin. Way better investment than using their service. Hell I am ok to pay for a fine service, I would not even mind a subscription system for a site that would legally allow me to download media. But until I find something like that, noble sailing it is.
@BakuMadarameTheGambler2 ай бұрын
Bro I was using 4 of these sits bro wtf
@whatdoicare20022 ай бұрын
@@ronel7836 can you point me in a direction to look for the site as good as aniwave :( i loved there interface and how big there libary was i got about 300 animes on waiting list to be gathered :(
@moobochiАй бұрын
I know there are a lot of other sites, but man… AniWave had such a good design. The colors, the images, the chapters on the side. It was beautiful! Better than official sites even. I haven’t found another site with a really good design yet, just those ugly ones 😔
@crimsonmoon78482 ай бұрын
To many companies want a piece of the streaming pie, and now as a result none of them get any pie
@dinopirate29102 ай бұрын
as someone pointed out, all of these sites were owned by the same creator, so it makes sense those all got taken down on the same day
@vanrick182 ай бұрын
bro aniwave made me sad, they even put See You Again in the end 😭
@KaKa-by1rr2 ай бұрын
I am forced to pirate because i live in Bangladesh and crunchyroll is not available in my region. We have huge anime community yet still we can't subscribe to the site but Indians can.
@sam_57022 ай бұрын
Yeah but HiDive is not available in India...and also cruncyroll is supposedly the cheapest in India😂only 79 rupees per month and yearly 999...
@The_BlOb2 ай бұрын
@@sam_5702 And then we have shows like Bleach that are neither available on Disney Plus, nor Hulu here in India, and the only way to watch it is by using a VPN and buying a subscription to TV Tokyo, or just... y'know pirating it.
@zanvee2 ай бұрын
ase to bangladesh e crunchyroll
@cherrabenoussama35092 ай бұрын
Here in algeria sites like funimation are not available in my country,like without piracy i couldn't watch my favourite anime we suffer from true poverty why bother paying a site that doesn't care about us,so piracy is the unsung hero
@ElegantNoise_2 ай бұрын
When I went on Aniwave and saw that goodbye message, my heart shattered... It was literally one of, if not THE best anime streaming site. Farewell Aniwave.
@mariokarter132 ай бұрын
I somehow caught the exact moment. I refreshed the page, it was still up, opened a new tab and I got the goodbye message.
@tetsuoshima23142 ай бұрын
The only tab on my browser that never closed... is now closed :(
@StupidityInANutshell2 ай бұрын
My buddy was looking for a site to watch anime (he's at that stage were he's not quite a weeb but also not a normie) and i recommended aniwave to him. Few hours later i go to watch something on aniwave and i get the farewell message.
@imashoe10292 ай бұрын
Actual heartbreak
@Bt-cq6te2 ай бұрын
Yesterday was such a sad day, i still havent fully comprehended the fact that it is gone
@hmmmmmm_34292 ай бұрын
funny thing is pirate sites offer all the wanted features that you dont get when you pay for those streaming sites. pirate sites have all anime from everywhere at one place, subs are good, dubs are good, quality you get is max and plus there are no region restrictions.
@markuscederberg20812 ай бұрын
They didn't stop us when KissAnime got taken and they won't stop us now either
@RGC_animation2 ай бұрын
KissAnime has been back for a while now, and all these other pirate sites, including the ones that were banned today, will be back in less than a week. The codes for the sites still exists and the host of the files are still there too, so there is nothing to worry about.
@ArpTakaoTTV2 ай бұрын
@@RGC_animation those are just fake site and not the real one and can steal your info the real kissanime been dead for a while but fake one are still up and can give u vrius/malware and other stuff
@JuanStrip2 ай бұрын
@@RGC_animationthere’s some copycat site, not a real one
@tripleaces6592 ай бұрын
@@RGC_animationReally? Man, I grew up with KissAnime, and I so broke down when I found out KissAnime got down. I do have backups now, but not as good as KissAnime back in the day and I really hope those sites will come back 😭
@comyuse91032 ай бұрын
when kissanime died, _better_ sites rose up to fill the void. it'll happen again, and again, and again. these sites didn't even host the content, all of it is still out there ripe for the picking!
@HaruhiDream53392 ай бұрын
That really is the biggest thing. There is no platform dedicated to anime that actually has everything. If you want access to all the shows then you need to pay for 5 different subscriptions that all the shows are split between.
@IllusorySpectre2 ай бұрын
Nothing can be done about that because it costs money to get the rights to shows. It is realistically impossible for a legal site to get the rights to every anime and be able to stream them due to the legality involved in obtaining the rights to stream said anime. Also, if a site were to somehow obtain that, it would be taken down due to monopolization. People need to realize the creators of the anime themselves are the ones selling the rights to stream these animes to various companies in order to make money. Or these companies are providing those studios with the funds to animate said projects. People can complain all they want and try to make excuses to justify why they pirate and they could all be logical and valid but it does not change the reality that it is an impossibility to legally stream every anime on a single site.
@deathlyrose79112 ай бұрын
@@IllusorySpectre VRV was a great option but the Assholes who started it shut it down in 2021
@spookyturbo16182 ай бұрын
@@IllusorySpectreIt's not monopolization unless you have exclusivity deals with the shows. Multiple sites can have rights to the same shows, thus allowing competition.
@HollowPhntm2 ай бұрын
If I’m remembering correctly, for a brief time, Netflix was a haven for that, at least before the “streaming wars” began…
@solanaceous2 ай бұрын
yeah there really is no way to fix this. the best we can do is to stock pile it onto crunchy roll and hope it becomes the new netflix. the problem is that i dont like crunchy roll. id much rather have a service that i can actually interact with the community and have extended features for $14 a month.
@ironwolf36992 ай бұрын
Honestly they just forced me into my second phase of piracy... paying 5 dollars a month for a vpn and start to torrent every single anime I could ever want.
@goob1in6062 ай бұрын
what VPN is this? i'm asking for myself and you know exactly why?
@ironwolf36992 ай бұрын
@@goob1in606 oh I decided to use mullvad
@BuffdaddyJamal2 ай бұрын
You don't need a VPN to torrent anime, not in the US anyway. US ISPs only care about hollywood movies and high profile video games.
@VersoTai2 ай бұрын
@@BuffdaddyJamalAfter 16 years I got a letter from my ISP regarding pirating and I only pirate anime, got myself a VPN too lol Edit: Yes I live in the states
@ANIk3Ай бұрын
Suggest me some good torrents mirrors for multi-language.
@andreisg40662 ай бұрын
Anime companies, game companies, or any type of company should have a talk with the Ultrakill developer. For those who don't know, Ultrakill is an indie game made by 1 person, saw a pic of someone pirating his game and quote tweeted the fact he is okay with piracy cuz without piracy. "As creator of said game: You should support indies if you can, but culture shouldn't exist only for those who can afford it. ULTRAKILL wouldn't exist if hadn't had easy access to movies music and games growing up. If you don't have money, you can support via word of mouth."
@Joe-lu8og2 ай бұрын
What an absolute Chad🗿
@RadiaUmbra2 ай бұрын
wtf i love ultrakill now
@luce32 ай бұрын
Same with the people who made The witcher 3. They said: “we love that people want to play our games so much that they go out of their way to make ti free, cuz in most cases if thay really like it they would also buy it as well”.
@seafatt2 ай бұрын
Sadly for anime industries is based in Japan. A country that is famous for their old school business practice and continue to be behind in term of methods of service. They continue to view the world through a Japanese lens. 😅
@picklepie7812 ай бұрын
So they poll they made a few days ago about wanting people to rat out pirated sites worked?
@ronel78362 ай бұрын
No it didint
@marcelocapeljunior35792 ай бұрын
It was for manga, not anime.
@KiryuZer02 ай бұрын
let's be honest finding those sites either for manga or anime isn't hard, and finding out which one gets used the most isn't that hard either that poll was really stupid if you ask me... just google "read manga" or "watch anime "maybe at a free...
@_Lumiere_2 ай бұрын
Bruh, do you really think that they were previously unaware of these massive sites with hundreds of millions of visitors every month? This has been in the works for a while, they even pressured the countries that host these sites.
@konradbawan85812 ай бұрын
Japan don't want to admit it but Piracy made the anime worldwide popular, and 4kids thought us a historic lesson how scummy the censorship/greed can destroy anime. For example in Yugioh characters did die a lot, but the cesores chenge it to idiotic shadow realm. For example in Yugioh characters did die a lot, but the censores change it to idiotic shadow realm.
@MeloncholiacАй бұрын
For example in Yugioh characters did die a lot, but the censores change it to idiotic shadow realm.
@gaijinkuri6842 ай бұрын
Give me one service that gives me all the anime with options for raw,sub,dub, uncensored where episodes release the same day they air on Japanese TV and I'l happily pay for it. I can't get that now and I live in Japan, THAT is why piracy is as big as it is.
@tazatomАй бұрын
With a good UI, skip intro/ending/recaps. Also, stable and no lag.
@DarkVain-o1s29 күн бұрын
@@tazatomin don’t forget about the comments to
@dandog14182 ай бұрын
Im not entirely sure, but i feel that the Netflix leaks were a nail in the coffin for these sites. I can only speak for Anix as i know they had Re-Zero Season 3 and Dandadan on there. It just gave the companies a much larger resolve to remove these websites, which is sadge
@theduffman98342 ай бұрын
Honestly those leaks were pretty fucked up ngl.. And probobly ruined it for a lot of sites
@xylathoth2 ай бұрын
I agree, I think those leaks really pushed these companies to take some immediate action
@Raderade1-pt3om2 ай бұрын
Any way to check them out
@alaa341g2 ай бұрын
personally anix still work for me , so i don't know why they are saying its shutting off
@-Bill.2 ай бұрын
@@alaa341g Anix goes to a shutdown page if you try to actually watch anything. I'm not sure how they managed to kill them all simultaneously. I have legit subs but just used it for smaller releases.
@YourAnimeOtaku2 ай бұрын
pirate anime sites do better than official legal sites
@Brabbs2 ай бұрын
Wasnt crunchyroll caught using a piracy site once?
@blitz66362 ай бұрын
Yep
@hasturxix2 ай бұрын
Ive already got back ups. Until legal services stop censoring and localizing anime, I have no intention of supporting THEM. I'll supprt the original creators and animators by buying their merch. I already use Buyee to purchase figures directly from Japan. That supports the creators WAY more than a subscription to an American anime company ever could.
@GoatLover-jq8vf2 ай бұрын
What sites do you use 😭 animesuge was the only one I used
@JoJoboiWav2 ай бұрын
fax
@AnimeRush7392 ай бұрын
As the biggest anime fan and japan in general EVER. I will never stop piracy
@Quwucuqin2 ай бұрын
Insert homelander's mental break down meme :
@waytogo_roblox2 ай бұрын
😞
@UnownDepth2 ай бұрын
It's hard to find old anime. The seas are my ex lover. That come back time to time
@marcodragneel80352 ай бұрын
Exactly, like ova's with good quality especially the dub ones are hard to come by
@redslateАй бұрын
Probably the single most significant reason Anime caught-on here in the west is _Piracy_ . Fan dubs were distributed via VHS. When the internet was in its infancy, entire forums/chatboards evolved around the sole task of managing the logistics behind bootleg Anime distribution. Once broadband became available/common, downloading pirate Anime became practical, followed by streaming. Western Anime is forever tied to the practice of Piracy. Others have already pointed out the ironic hypocrisy of Crunchyroll, one of the largest "legitimate" Anime streaming sites, which originated as a pirate Anime streaming site.
@pesak1252 ай бұрын
I must not be cultured enough because I have no idea what site he's alluding to at 12:16. Losing Aniwave is tough but I guess it's time to sail the high seas once more.
@josefkadhem28892 ай бұрын
Thats what im tryna figure out
@Hunterchuck2 ай бұрын
A mystery to me as well. Not familiar with many sites to begin with.
@stephenmorris3412 ай бұрын
Nyaa
@masterbait72512 ай бұрын
@@stephenmorris341 thank you, holy one! I besiege you
@nukjohnson1512 ай бұрын
What's the sause? @@masterbait7251
@agentofsocialmediachaos67122 ай бұрын
The issue with the subscription streaming serices is that they censor anime, they dileberately mistranslate anime to push an agenda, and they charge you even if you canceled. The sites of the Straw Hat kind do not
@taylorindustries2 ай бұрын
i prefer fan translations 100x more than "official translations"
@snintendog2 ай бұрын
@@taylorindustries shikanoko EP1 PTSD. Official Translations are WORSE than joke subs.
@IdkwhttoputlmAo2 ай бұрын
Ik abt the censorship but what anime have been mistranslated
@agentofsocialmediachaos67122 ай бұрын
@@IdkwhttoputlmAo Dragon Maid, We Never Learn, To Love Ru, Prison School, and Bofuri just to name 5 right off the top of my head
@snintendog2 ай бұрын
@@agentofsocialmediachaos6712 the bot is spamming the Comment section. Don't bother answering it.
@Kingminos092 ай бұрын
NOOOOOOOO!!!! I might be fine buying one streaming service, but this is still massive for all the anime spread out across other services. This definitely hurts the growth of anime and the young people that can't buy it the most though. My friend is gonna freak about this, he has no disposable income.
@Blueartsz2 ай бұрын
Nah 9anime is still working tho
@TeaBurn2 ай бұрын
I still remember when Netflix first started (around the time they used to send physical discs to stomp out Blockbuster), piracy for the first time actually went _down_ because it was more convenient than pirating or paying for expensive cable. Nowadays, subscription streaming services cost just as much as cable, and it's easier to pirate than subscribe to all the services that also hate their customers and show it by intentionally gloating about changing the source material or through censorship.
@theonev21592 ай бұрын
Going to the cinema and buying a ticket is is less then subscribing now so... Yeah people just returned in may of this year to cinemas. And Netflix , Max And Disney+ are crying becouse of it. 😂 People watched everything in 3 years. There's nothing new more on those sites.
@annabelconstantine12412 ай бұрын
Facts if u gloat in ppl face after disrespecting them that’s gonna leave a bad taste in the mouth
@protagadditc84342 ай бұрын
Remember the words of gabe Piracy is a service issue And if companies can't understand that then its on them
@edwardfletcher7790Ай бұрын
Japanese Anime companies incompetence at selling their products to a western audience dates back 30yrs..... SIGH
@CharlieStoddern-bh5rl2 ай бұрын
I pay for Crunchyroll and the amount of times I have switched over to a pirate website because they don’t have the dubs / anime is mental, if you want us to pay for a service make it good…
@HamguyBacon2 ай бұрын
you are the problem.
@CharlieStoddern-bh5rl2 ай бұрын
@@HamguyBacon how so ?
@HamguyBacon2 ай бұрын
@@CharlieStoddern-bh5rl paying for crunchyshit, they don't care as long as they are getting paid. you need to protest with your wallet.
@-ClerzZ-Ай бұрын
@@HamguyBacon You are.
@Amunny2 ай бұрын
PIRATE FURUDO ERIKA IN THE THUMBNAIL!?
@raulojeda85672 ай бұрын
Where is that image from I can't find it
@Amunny2 ай бұрын
@@raulojeda8567 I'm sure you can find it if you google "Furudo Erika pirate" or something like that. It is a character sprite used in the Umineko visual novel so it shouldn't be too hard to find.
@freestylejake2 ай бұрын
@@raulojeda8567 its from umineko
@Mewseeker2 ай бұрын
"...... Let it be known that this comment has no point..."
@raulojeda85672 ай бұрын
@@freestylejakeI mean the website
@katface5906Ай бұрын
An interesting point adjacent to this is within the scanlation community, where many groups don't like their work on aggregation sites and would prefer you bookmark/read/download from the group's website/discord/etc. The reason why so many don't is because of the ease-of-use of large aggregators - everything's right there. Similar service issue (that you brought up) with how to watch everything I'd want to, I'd need 3-5 or more subscriptions 😵💫 and I'm not even guaranteed to get the BD (or, dating my self here, Christmas specials when they were a thing). Just an observation on the mirroring of the two I had 🤔
@CentralIntelligence_Agency2 ай бұрын
>"Hey what piracy sites do you use?" >Two days later Looks like that questionnaire was well worth it!!
@JoseLopez-gi9sf2 ай бұрын
Someone was telling me they would never use that info to shut it down. And I laughed and look what happened.
@Mrshoujo2 ай бұрын
Never answer questionnaires about anime websites.
@ReyManta72 ай бұрын
Can guarantee it was the covid tourists that did the rest of us in
@dcscruz29702 ай бұрын
@@ReyManta7tell that to cons. Many say cons now are awful
@XX-br5bn2 ай бұрын
Gate keeping watching anime thats a new one. Stupid @@ReyManta7
@anonisnoone61252 ай бұрын
Seeing Aniwave gone has genuinely made me sad. Not only was the site beautiful, but I loved the community on there. I'm gonna miss seeing the people I used to see on there. This is a sad day for anime.
@shadowmeister54322 ай бұрын
She still lives in our hearts lad. Now go out remembering her like she lived. Head held high and hat fancy. Yo ho
@anonisnoone61252 ай бұрын
@@shadowmeister5432Aniwave to me what kissanime was to many people. I finally understand everyone else's pain.
@Marty_YouTuberАй бұрын
@@shadowmeister5432 I'll keep my head held high. You sir have a nice day.
@ryukireii2 ай бұрын
Who snitched? "He could be any one of us! He could be in this very room! He could be you. He could be me! He could even be-"
@EpicXcakeАй бұрын
Woah woah woah What? It was obvious hes the red spy
@melonelon75902 ай бұрын
Piracy is a service problem not a pricing problem - Gabe Newell
@marcodragneel80352 ай бұрын
GOAT GABE!!!!
@RealZerenaFan2 ай бұрын
You forgot the second half of the quote
@johnlucas66832 ай бұрын
This is true.
@Zekrel2 ай бұрын
This was the first day in a long long time where I was genuinely terrified. I had multiple tabs open with anime I was currently watching, and then when I woke up… BAM! They were gone
@Grudder12 ай бұрын
I have to replace tabs that were aniwave with something else now. I had over 1000 tabs of anime I planned to watch. Now I have to go through them and replace the site
@tokusatsukeyblade797Ай бұрын
And like every other crackdown on piracy, this accomplishes nothing, since several new pirate sites will just come in and fill the vacuum left behind. If they want piracy to actually stop, then they need to focus more on improving their own services, since that lack of good service is what’s driving people to pirate their shows to begin with.
@gmomarck25422 ай бұрын
Crunchyroll used to be a piracy app before they became a legal one
@jonathanwessner3456Ай бұрын
they also used to be a decent app before they messed up their entire site
@gwynimpostor2 ай бұрын
"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem"
@Lucky_Fluffy2 ай бұрын
If Crunchyroll didn't employ Translators who blatantly boast about making Incorrect Translations and Pushing a "Agenda" i would watch anime on Cruchyroll, But they don't So i Pirate.
@GrillerGT2 ай бұрын
You know what drives me to the high seas? Paying to be able to watch an anime I like, but then only having the language options between Japanese and German >_< Or not having any legal way to watch Re: Creators... Hidive not available in the country I live...
@adventuresteamstudios2422 ай бұрын
Congratulations Sony/Crunchyroll, you just lost a very valuable customer, closing my wallet for good, hope both of Crunchyroll and Sony files for bankruptcy.
@Bobbybats42952 ай бұрын
like one customer is going to make a difference. They aren't to blame here,
@adventuresteamstudios2422 ай бұрын
@@Bobbybats4295 Yes they are, I've found out that one of the copyright requests to take down Aniwave, was ordered by Crunchyroll. And I don't care if I'm the only person, there will be others like me.
@Bobbybats42952 ай бұрын
@adventuresteamstudios242 ok so it's just greed. I pray that these corporations never have their way with us ✊️
@adventuresteamstudios2422 ай бұрын
@@Bobbybats4295 Agreed
@ATigerShark2 ай бұрын
@@Bobbybats4295 Not even that. They're just lazy. If they offered a better service than what the pirates offer for free, then more people would be willing to pay for it. But noooooo. Better to spend the money on legal action.
@wildtrickster41352 ай бұрын
I used that site for 2 reasons: 1. Better subtitles and font. Netflix's subtitle translations are HORRENDOUS, i can understand like 30% japanese, and i've found a lot of the times the subtitles are literally not what was being said. 2. The comment section, sometimes i wanna say something or read something others have said. I love reading people who give extra info that read from manga and light novels, other people theories, coming up my own theories and predictions. I've said quite a few funny things and people liking it like months from when i said it puts a smile on my face and also reminds me of the anime. No other legal site provides these services, even if there's comment sections it's not as free as the open seas, usually censored and restricted. Watching anime on Netflix feels depressing asf, 0 interaction, no community whatsoever. Aniwave felt soo alive and lived in.
@ItsKagiVids2 ай бұрын
The timing with the Manga Plus survey definitely isn't sus at all lol.
@burningice152 ай бұрын
Exactly what I was thinking… damn snitches
@thatwackycardgame56552 ай бұрын
It is sus, but moreso I think it has to do with these sites uploading the big leaks. Like Rezero and the full series of Dandandan. Caused them to be found easily
@anonisnoone61252 ай бұрын
@@thatwackycardgame5655Yh I don't know y they would do that. It isn't that hard to just ignore those leaks.
@gatorwarrior75572 ай бұрын
Someone snitched
@reverseshin2 ай бұрын
Who Snitched.
@SqBGhost2 ай бұрын
Yep, 100% agree with it being a service issue. Funimation was horrible, Crunchyroll is abyssmal, I refuse to get Disney+ because Disney is a disgusting, morally corrupt and evil company and no matter which one you go to, they can't seem to remember your settings, or they're buffering constantly or have some other issue. And then they demand a premium price for their shitty, barely functioning service. I'd rather sail off-shore and then import merch, so there's an actual chance my money goes to people who actually give a shit about the medium, instead of paying the bills for Localizer A, B or C who despises me because of my skincolor or any other arbitrary reason they might hate me for. Hell, PC game piracy was rampant, until Steam came along and (after some growing pains) made PC gaming so much more convenient.
@thomasffrench36392 ай бұрын
Well Steam might end up being coming up into a monopoly, and might end up doing unfair practices, but we will see.
@deathlyrose79112 ай бұрын
@@thomasffrench3639 NOT gonna happen since Steam also has a Competitor in known as Epic games and GOG is also still around so not gonna happen
@ryaz47042 ай бұрын
@@thomasffrench3639Are you talking about the bias against anime games that the Steam moderators has?
@annabelconstantine12412 ай бұрын
U are me entirely. Disney is too corrupt to fund and also my identity should not be hated that much
@festinalente24132 ай бұрын
Steam Is a "Monopoly" of good service. There are literally no good competitors in the market, EVEN including consoles. I Guess thats what happens when you dont make your company public and dont play by the system: you're actually allowed to make your business sustainable.
@RudiTheMan2 ай бұрын
For seasoned pirates, it's nothing new, the only mysteries that keep haunting us is, why does a pirate site can do so much for free but a paid site can't even do the same decently, The only effect I can think of is the number of titles that might be available on future pirate site may shrink, the same way it did years ago, like when realitylapse died, kiss anime just had half of what was on realitylapse, and when kiss anime died, aniwave had just half of what kiss anime had, so, I expect thinner list for future sites, older titles will just lost in time,
@dhdxbbehedhb11362 ай бұрын
It sadly makes more anime become lost media
@isakwolff54912 ай бұрын
License holders must realize that if they want to "stop" piracy, they must make it legally available globally. I put it in " because we all know that piracy is like a hydra," as you said. But it would garner those who only go to piracy sites because they have no legal measures to support it. I collect manga and anime as best as I can because I want to support the product. Heck, I even pay a monthly subscription to Mangaplus. Hell, I downright had a Hive Dive account a while back, only for them to say, "Sorry, but we are ditching your region." How am I supposed to legally support those shows when the one legal streaming service, for whatever reason, stopped being a thing? There are manga adaptations of games that I adore that never leave Japan, which I only got the chance to read because of fan translation on a "piracy site."...... I would buy copies of it on day one if they were released in English. As much as I love the anime and manga industry, even though they have become a lot better in terms of being "easily available," they still have a long way to go.
@Sellsor2 ай бұрын
Preaching to the choir man. Absolutely agree, wish companies would understand and just make a good service. Aniwave had a better ui than all the paid sites and also had a larger catalog that invluded old stuff and OVAs
@DaBaseBallZ2 ай бұрын
I just opened one of these sites and that site is still working,Companies are just wasting resources that could've been used in improving their services on "shutting down" piracy sites at this point
@Rezurgence2 ай бұрын
Yo who snitched?!
@IN-tm8mw2 ай бұрын
LOL i said the same thing. Who answered that poll?!?
@huntress012 ай бұрын
Idiots that post the names of the sites instead of researching the places they can go watch/read the series. Even if people tell them not to post the sites names.
@AKDUGI2 ай бұрын
The dumb people who keep on promoting the site on twitter I swear they are brainless like yesterday I saw a guy promoting aniwave under one of crunchy roll post
@pasaniucdaniel41122 ай бұрын
it's not about snitching, I think even asking Chat GPT would yield some valid responses, it was more about the capacity and willingness to act imo
@lilywoodrow78812 ай бұрын
@@pasaniucdaniel4112Yeah I think shutting down pirate sites was just super low on their list of priorities lol (and there's tons of sites) A Google search can turn up any site you want, it's not some big secret
@sparkrock91342 ай бұрын
Didn't crunchyroll get exposed for using the money they get from the subs to make shitty anime projects that nobody liked and blamed the audience/subcribers for their poor performance?
@ChronicSensei2 ай бұрын
I know they got sued for 16 million last year. I think it was for leaking users data.
@KeyboardGrudge2 ай бұрын
They did make shitty gatcha games that went EoS too lol
@Zardy_OG2 ай бұрын
Privacy is the only reason for anime to be this popular. I tried using legal platforms only to be disappointed by garbage service.
@ZeeengMicro2 ай бұрын
Oh no... now I have to decide which other pirate site among millions I should pick
@neerajoshi54732 ай бұрын
One thing these sites have that others don’t is common sections, and they say they remove the comment section because of toxicity let me tell you that only these official streaming sites have toxicity when I saw the comments sections of these websites they were never toxicity. People were just talking about the episode. Toxic comments only exist in official streaming service never in the pirate website.
@jeremyhall27272 ай бұрын
A lot of there's sites have anime you can't find anywhere else. Some old tenchi in Tokyo laserdisc ova I never heard of. I was shocked when I saw it. These so many that never came over to the West & never will
@davidmcmillon9132 ай бұрын
Piracy is at its core a distribution problem, follow steams example. If a streaming service had "all" anime it would be used and paid for by those that can but I'm someone who will not buy 3-4 streaming services to get all the seasonal anime just to stop watching half of them because they are not to my taste
@deathlyrose79112 ай бұрын
i can not agree more Manga as well because i know if i wanted to Legally read many of the manga i like i would be paying for literally DOZENS of different sites and then Paying again to read each new chapter
@Nabee_H2 ай бұрын
Yes but that would be a monopoly. Which steam has. Of course it would be better for us though. Hot take but Streaming services, in my opinion, should be a public service.
@gagagegegigigogogugu2 ай бұрын
@@Nabee_H Being the market leader is not the same as being a monopoly, Steam does not restrict its competitors in any way it's simply the better service.
@Hurricane0472 ай бұрын
I was a paying customer for CR for 3 years until a few months ago they decided to 12x the price on my country out of the blue, price was a bit outdated because of regional pricing and inflation but it was too much all at once so I cancelled it
@NajeeSlays2 ай бұрын
great video as always, and i totally agree with just about everything here, especially the fact that most of the issues fall under a "service issue".
@WorldsGreatestRingAnnouncer2 ай бұрын
Sad story. I was trying to catch up on some dounghua and now I have to watch them with ads on KZbin.
@deeznutsguy2 ай бұрын
same lol
@Grudder12 ай бұрын
Ad block
@KhanMann662 ай бұрын
Get ublock if you don’t have safari.
@deeznutsguy2 ай бұрын
i know a place to watch but i can"t say it here
@truerandomchannel2 ай бұрын
Ublock
@zFrizzi2 ай бұрын
Bro the aniwave shutdown genuinely hurt me, I was gonna watch an episode of dungeon meshi last night a they just hit me with a goodbye message.
@theslickking-majura57992 ай бұрын
You have earned a subscriber for speaking out everything that I feel and I believe every avid anime fan feels too, I mean today I decided to see if a site like crunchyroll has detective Conan and guess what? ZERO!!!! I'm damn pissed and they expect me to pay them for not having everything? I couldn't even find Ninja Kamui, I don't know if it's because of the country I'm in, but this is so annoying and frustrating!
@Quwucuqin2 ай бұрын
I am willing to pay but the amount of service the pirate site offers is no where close to crunchyroll
@erykando2 ай бұрын
Its not worth paying them
@Razor48842 ай бұрын
Plus, pirate sites let me download episodes in file format, so even if service stops I can still watch the anime I like. I can't say the same for subscription services.
@JR-wf5kg2 ай бұрын
I don't watch enough animals or TV to justify streaming prices nowadays.
@cherrabenoussama35092 ай бұрын
Yeah piracy is better than crunchyroll that makes videos private,and not available in the country