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- on [Episode] Though I Am an Inept Villainess • Futsutsuka na Akujo de wa Gozaimasu ga: Suuguu Chouso Torikae Den - Episode 7 discussion in c/anime@ani.social · 24 Aug 2026
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on [Episode] You and I Are Polar Opposites Season 2 • Seihantai na Kimi to Boku 2nd Season - Episode 8 discussion in c/anime@ani.social · 23 Aug 2026
It feels like it’s skipping a lot of things this episode… Like, a whole friend group got added off screen and they kept talking about off screen events
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on 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 in c/anime@ani.social · 22 Aug 2026
Why do people still use Crunchy Roll or centralized media distribution/streaming sites?
Simple: it’s much easier and requires no effort on your end. Also, because people want to pay for media.
You can build a better library with a VPN, some good Torrent sites, and about 2 TB of storage.
This requires quite a bit more effort, especially if you just want to watch on your TV or phone.
Good torrent sites are pretty annoying to find tbh. There are online resources, but they’re harder to find compared to streaming, especially private trackers.
Storage is very expensive. A 2 TB NVME SSD is like 4-5 years worth of annual Crunchyroll subscriptions. About 2-3 years for HDDs.
2 TB might also not be enough if you want the quality Bluray rips.
You’ll have better quality
Only if you download the Bluray rips, sure, but these take up quite a bit of space and don’t exist yet when you’re wanting to watch the current season or previous 2 seasons. Those rips are at best the same quality as the streaming service. I have my own Jellyfin server (mostly for my own Bluray rips), but I still have a CR subscription for this reason. And if physical media will really stop, you’re own library will be the same quality or slightly worse than the streaming services, since the source of the better quality is gone.
won’t get ads
If you use an adblocker or pay for a subscription you won’t on streaming either.
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on Crunchyroll the Former Pirate Site Guts Online Store Just As Anime Fans Feared in c/anime@ani.social · 21 Aug 2026
WHY AM I NOT ALLOWED TO PUT SUBTITLES ON WITH THE ENGLISH AUDIO‽‽‽ IF YOU’RE NOT GOING TO PROVIDE CAPTIONS I NEED SOMETHING)
My guess: because the English subtitles will not match with the English dub. I can imagine that would be even more confusing/distracting.
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on The Naruto sexism Discourse we've had is directed at the wrong places. in c/anime@ani.social · 19 Aug 2026
I’ve never watched a single episode of Naruto, so I’m only going off your post here.
Yes, in-universe it is going against societal norms, but by going along with real-life societal norms. That matters. What is the message there?
Having your women be on equal footing with the men in terms of career path only to then have them follow real-life patriarchal standards as a way of “going against societal norms” seems… odd. It essentially reinforces real-life patriarchal standards in that way.
I don’t think you can always view a story purely in its own context. The mangaka created that universe in the context of the real word and his beliefs. He has control over what their universe looks like and how going against the norm looks like. Here it does sound based on less-than-stellar views on women (which was more common at the time).
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on Education, power, and feminist pedagogy in Witch Hat Atelier in c/anime@ani.social · 19 Aug 2026
You might want to keep watching then. At least in the manga (havent seen the anime yet):
spoiler for general themes as it goes on
The ethical implications of the witches keeping magic to themselves is addressed more and more as we see what keeping it locked away from the general populace means, including their hypocrisy in using forbidden magic to make people forget things. It has become quite central to Coco’s motivations. The witches are not shown to be the paramount of good, including Qifrey.
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on Crunchyroll the Former Pirate Site Guts Online Store Just As Anime Fans Feared in c/anime@ani.social · 19 Aug 2026
I never bought directly from CR, because they don’t sell it here either and are the wrong region for my player, but they do a lot of releasing here through other sellers. But if they don’t sell through their own shop, I doubt they will through others…
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on Crunchyroll the Former Pirate Site Guts Online Store Just As Anime Fans Feared in c/anime@ani.social · 19 Aug 2026
That’s the wild thing, they actually get less money that way. There are like 4 cases:
- You have both a CR subscription and buy the Blurays (that’s me).
- You pirate the simulcasts and buy the Blurays.
- You only stream.
- You only pirate.
Cases 3 & 4 remain the same. Case 2 will not suddenly go to a subscription and case 1 already has a subscription. So cases 1 & 2 simply become cases 3 & 4. There is no extra money to be made, only less.
Technically there is a case 5, where you only buy the Blurays, but that seems very much an edge case or only theoretical.
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on 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 in c/anime@ani.social · 19 Aug 2026
Considering Sony’s/CR’s near monopoly on both streaming and physical anime, this leaves me very somber for the future. I hope parties like MVM and AllTheAnime can license some of the titles to release physically…
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on [Episode] You and I Are Polar Opposites Season 2 • Seihantai na Kimi to Boku 2nd Season - Episode 6 discussion in c/anime@ani.social · 10 Aug 2026
Real progress on the best couple, I’m here for it
I think it’s not the Kin clan in the same way it likely wasn’t the Kin clan that made Leelee do what she did with no one knowing Gayou. The 2nd one coming from Shu, makes me suspect the 1st one also came from her and also that she’s Gayou, or someone under her.
I think she’s quite a bit more ruthless than she looks.