The physical media selection at Sony's Crunchyroll is even worse than fans feared after store update: all books removed and Blu-ray lineup gutted
https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/anime-shows/the-physical-media-selection-at-sonys-crunchyroll-is-even-worse-than-fans-feared-after-store-update-all-books-removed-and-blu-ray-lineup-gutted/Open linkView original on lemmy.today
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Wild how Crunchyroll started as a piracy site, worked its way to becoming legal, and is now the very thing it was created as an opposition to.
If you can't beat them, buy them -Capitalists
If you can’t beat them, eat them -eat capitalists
give it a try
I’m not sure that narrative makes sense. There wasn‘t really a thing it was opposed to in most cases. Not that I‘m aware of. There simply wasn‘t a licensed platform for Anime other than the few shows on less than a hand full TV channels, mostly at night. Early anime fansub sites simply did what anime studios or TV networks didn‘t care to do: Localizing a wide variety of Anime in the first place.
You'll own nothing and like it!
Sea shanties intensify
I don't need physical media, a DRM-free download that I can save on my own will do.
Nyaa is the sound a cat makes.
Sony? Doing something awful? Who'd have thought it?
Out of spite I pirated the anime from the thumbnail
I enjoyed it, haven't watched the latest season.
OK, so I watched the first dozen episodes and its not bad. The animation style is a little wonky, the kids do not really look like kids, especially when close up
I've already found what I needed while sailing on my ship. Sony can get fucked.
Rightstuf died for this.
As did Madman in AU/NZ.