• scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
    4 days

    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.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 days

      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.

  • deathbird@mander.xyzEnglish
    4 days

    I don’t need physical media, a DRM-free download that I can save on my own will do.

      • MaggiWuerze@feddit.orgEnglish
        3 days

        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

  • Washedupcynic@lemmy.caEnglish
    4 days

    I’ve already found what I needed while sailing on my ship. Sony can get fucked.