Urgh.
Despite how nice it is having a hard copy, I can't justify spending money on anime on Blu-ray.
The only good thing about Crunchyroll/Funimation/Sony owning practically all the anime in the USA will be that I'll only need to pay for a single subscription for a single service. Which will still be cheaper than buying two or three BR discs a month and net me far more content, even if I gotta pay for a second subscription to another service for the one or two titles that they don't managed to grab.
The downside will be a website with an utterly horrible layout that is glitchy as all hell, with an even worse glutton-for-resources web player, voice acting for teenage characters by people in their forties and fifties and is also dull and lifeless because the execs want them to just read the lines and gtfo because they're paying by the hour, and subtitles that are mostly machine translated - probably by Google because its free.
And people wonder why fansub/scanslation groups and piracy are starting to see a comeback. Long live Mangadex - may they never shill out like Crunchyroll did.
Despite how nice it is having a hard copy, I can't justify spending money on anime on Blu-ray.
The only good thing about Crunchyroll/Funimation/Sony owning practically all the anime in the USA will be that I'll only need to pay for a single subscription for a single service. Which will still be cheaper than buying two or three BR discs a month and net me far more content, even if I gotta pay for a second subscription to another service for the one or two titles that they don't managed to grab.
The downside will be a website with an utterly horrible layout that is glitchy as all hell, with an even worse glutton-for-resources web player, voice acting for teenage characters by people in their forties and fifties and is also dull and lifeless because the execs want them to just read the lines and gtfo because they're paying by the hour, and subtitles that are mostly machine translated - probably by Google because its free.
And people wonder why fansub/scanslation groups and piracy are starting to see a comeback. Long live Mangadex - may they never shill out like Crunchyroll did.