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Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?

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Re: Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?

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Post by kbolino »

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #6
PebblesHD wrote: post #4

I’ve posted before about my half-in half-out life between Japan and Australia, and the media I consume is a product of this. Anime, while not a massive part of my watching habit, is certainly a weekly thing at least, and over the past few years it’s been getting harder and harder to support legal services outside of Japan. In Australia, AnimeLab used to be the gold standard. It had a polished app and dedicated team,…

Corporate consolidation ruins products left and right. I wish we had a functioning regulatory body.

I'd rather have one good streaming service with everything on it than the dozens of crappy streaming services with their ever-shifting patchwork of available licensed content we have now. Rightsholders seem like a bigger problem than licensees to me.

Re: Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?

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Post by axpy906 »

echelon wrote: post #7
PebblesHD wrote: post #4

I’ve posted before about my half-in half-out life between Japan and Australia, and the media I consume is a product of this. Anime, while not a massive part of my watching habit, is certainly a weekly thing at least, and over the past few years it’s been getting harder and harder to support legal services outside of Japan. In Australia, AnimeLab used to be the gold standard. It had a polished app and dedicated team,…

It might take a few more decades, but Google will ultimately win the streaming wars. I'll be shocked if anime isn't available on YouTube. You can also interpret that as I'll be shocked if AI doesn't result in every mangaka becoming their own small studio and distributing via YouTube.

> I'll be shocked if anime isn't available on YouTube.

In 2002 it was and I really liked it then.

Re: Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?

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Post by PebblesHD »

kbolino wrote: post #11
ToucanLoucan wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Corporate consolidation ruins products left and right. I wish we had a functioning regulatory body.

I'd rather have one good streaming service with everything on it than the dozens of crappy streaming services with their ever-shifting patchwork of available licensed content we have now. Rightsholders seem like a bigger problem than licensees to me.

Challenge is we ended up with one really bad streaming service but lots of capital slurping up all the licenses. In my ideal world, the regulator would prevent using exclusivity as a moat to prevent smaller operations competing.

Australia is a tiny market but before the big american companies bought them out, our local AnimeLab offering was one of the worlds best. If a new similarly oriented offering could launch and compete I’d love to see it, but sadly only pirate operations can do so, and are doing so effectively.

Re: Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?

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Post by mkozlows »

kbolino wrote: post #11
ToucanLoucan wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Corporate consolidation ruins products left and right. I wish we had a functioning regulatory body.

I'd rather have one good streaming service with everything on it than the dozens of crappy streaming services with their ever-shifting patchwork of available licensed content we have now. Rightsholders seem like a bigger problem than licensees to me.

And what makes the one streaming service stay good, with no competitors?

Re: Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?

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Post by an0malous »

monkaiju wrote: post #8
egypturnash wrote: post #3

Crunchyroll’s major layoff just two months ago, during which most of their operations team was unceremoniously let go, included some of the longest-serving Crunchyrollers, adding up to a combined total of around 100 years of service to the company by my calculations. Is a new subcontractor and/or service the replacement? It seems that way to me. And there's your answer. Bet they're replacing most of their artisinal s…

Enshitification just being further turbo-fed by AI

once AI enshitifies PE we’ll accelerate towards the enshitularity

Re: Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?

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Post by charcircuit »

>see it as a cost-cutting measure to stop doing it.

If only. I wish they would stop localizing it. Just give me the raw episodes. It seems like every site outside of Japan insists on ruing it by putting English on top of it. Unfortunately the economics of the situation means that sites will server the interests of tourists instead of otaku, so it's unlikely to ever change.

Re: Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?

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Post by zdw »

PebblesHD wrote: post #4

I’ve posted before about my half-in half-out life between Japan and Australia, and the media I consume is a product of this. Anime, while not a massive part of my watching habit, is certainly a weekly thing at least, and over the past few years it’s been getting harder and harder to support legal services outside of Japan. In Australia, AnimeLab used to be the gold standard. It had a polished app and dedicated team,…

The funny thing about this narrative is that Crunchyroll also started out as an "informal distribution" pirate site, and had all the good things you mentioned beat out of them by successive acquisitions and corporate ownership.

Re: Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?

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Post by anigbrowl »

echelon wrote: post #7
PebblesHD wrote: post #4

I’ve posted before about my half-in half-out life between Japan and Australia, and the media I consume is a product of this. Anime, while not a massive part of my watching habit, is certainly a weekly thing at least, and over the past few years it’s been getting harder and harder to support legal services outside of Japan. In Australia, AnimeLab used to be the gold standard. It had a polished app and dedicated team,…

It might take a few more decades, but Google will ultimately win the streaming wars. I'll be shocked if anime isn't available on YouTube. You can also interpret that as I'll be shocked if AI doesn't result in every mangaka becoming their own small studio and distributing via YouTube.

I'll be shocked if they're able to get noticed above the tide of slop and industrially automated bogus copyright claims.

Re: Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?

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Post by zdw »

axpy906 wrote: post #12
echelon wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might take a few more decades, but Google will ultimately win the streaming wars. I'll be shocked if anime isn't available on YouTube. You can also interpret that as I'll be shocked if AI doesn't result in every mangaka becoming their own small studio and distributing via YouTube.

> I'll be shocked if anime isn't available on YouTube. In 2002 it was and I really liked it then.

YouTube was founded in 2005, is this a typo?
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