Topic: Anime & Manga (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

Wait they're doing it to their older series now too? Wow, screw them.

This is a bad year to be an animation fan in the streaming age. I started using Crunchyroll specifically BECAUSE Hulu had become unwatchable with its ads and slowly turned into a paid service only, so seeing Crunchyroll do the same is tragic.

I can't believe Bleach is back after years away at the same time as Chainsaw Man's debut, which is really like the current generation's Bleach. I'll take it though; I thought both episodes were excellent. It is a great time be a fan.

@kkslider5552000 Yup! I simply do not understand at all. Like, just a few months ago, I was streaming Gabriel Dropout on Discord for free, and now I gotta pay to watch it. Like, who's gonna watch Kemono Friends besides for me?????? I bet soon Crunchyroll will be a paid program, and I'll have to pirate the rest of my life. Screw Crunchyroll and the child labor laws. Oh yeah, Crunchyroll got rid of School-Live, so now I can't do my annual watching of horror anime. On the bright side, Hulu got the TOARU series and Steins;Gate, so I might make my mom watch Steins;Gate.

@kkslider5552000 Also, you didn't always have to pay for Hulu???? My mom's been paying for it since we had it.

@EllaTheKawaiiNeko, back in 2009/10 my brother watched InuYasha: the Final Act (& I think rewatched Tenchi Muyo!) on Hulu for free on the old family PC.

I had never viewed it as something akin to Netflix (which at the time I still think required a physical disc to act as a "key" to stream it's titles on consoles), because as far as I was aware it wasn't something you could get on TV (I saw it as more of a YouTube competitor).

I was surprised a few years later when it evolved into a paid, Netflix style streaming platform.

@RR529 It actually had quite a few actual tv shows tbh. That's how I got into Community, for example. The thing was that you could watch for free earlier episodes, while new episodes you had to wait for unless you paid for it. (IIRC)

@RR529 I was born in 2009. My brother was only 7. So we did not watch anime on anything really. My brother became a weeb at 16, and I became a weeb around 10 or 11. My first anime was a small chunk of SAO, and I watched Tonikawa when I was 11 and it's still my favorite anime. Also, I'm getting the feeling I'm the only 12 year old in this forum. Meh, I'll be 13 on November 6th.

Man, on top of Bleach and Chainsaw Man, I totally missed that MHA is back for their six season as well. It is absolute shounen bonanza, especially if you include Mob season 3 in there as well.

Watched the first two episodes of the new season of MHA and damn, what a hot start. Pretty much straight into the action, the animation is pretty top notch and Mirko is the Step on me Bunny Mommy I never knew I wanted. My new dream death is being killed by her special move, Luna Tijeras.

Crunchyroll has done it again. Now, me and my brother can't watch Grisaia, like, we're lower class, we can't afford your stupid premium, so why you gotta do this to us? What's even the point of premiuming the unpopular stuff, no-one but me is gonna watch Nyanko Days (Yes, they even premiumed that), so I don't understand at all. You got ALL of Funimations library and you're STILL fishing for money, you selfish, stupid company.

This has been a very bad year to be a fan of animation on a streaming platform in general. One of many things that have me think this year hates me specifically.

This is why it's morally correct to pirate anime.
Companies like crunchyroll don't offer a superior service to pirated ones and instead their way of subscribing is guilt tripping you cause they "support" the anime industry despite wasting all their money on their garbage original shows like High Guardian Spice.

You are under no obligation to subscribe to them, you can easily find better alternatives to their site/app for free.
I consistently use gogoanime and watch the latest episodes of the anime I"m watching in 1080p.

@iLikeUrAttitude Eeeeew, High Garudian Spice. Isn't that the so-called "Gender equality" anime? I'm a girl, and I don't think only hiring girls is gender equality, it's just stupid. The only good Crunchyroll original they have is Tonikawa, but that's it. That is literally it. And yes, pirating is moral. I've been doing it even before Crunchyroll started doing this. I'll pirate anything I can't afford, as I have no other choice unless I don't wanna watch a show until I'm old enough to get a job. Like, I can't afford all these anime services, I ccan't afford Crunchyroll, let alone Crunchyroll with 5 other streaming services. Like, ya'll used to have Lucky Star, but where is it now? Only availible by pirating ro buying a Blu-ray or DVD. Plus, they'll even premium new episodes of their originals for a week or so, that's why I now watch Tonikawa on pirating sites. AND they don't let you download anime unless you have premium, but guess who does let you download? You guessed right, PIRATING SITES. ANd I know it's in the rules not to praise pirating, but I don't think anyone here is gonna report me, and even if you do, I have 70 alternative accounts.

Man, I've missed Pop Team Epic. Nothing else is an experience in anime quite like it.

Arrivals I got in last weekend (a bit of a 90's fest).

Fatal Fury: the OVA Collection - the two 90's era Fatal Fury OVAs, obviously enough. Watched them back to back like a movie (about 2 hours long total). Every bit the cheesy martial arts flicks of the time, they're not particularly deep, but they are a fun time (only minor issue is that they changed a prominent character's hair color between the two). I enjoyed the corny faux "Arnie" German accents the big bads had, lol.

Outlaw Star - Still not even quite 10 episodes into it, but I'm already having an immensely fun time with it. It doesn't seem to have had the cultural staying power of an Evangelion or Cowboy Bebop, but it was just as much part of my childhood.

Bonus: Alternate box art under the slip cover for Fatal Fury: the OVA Collection

Anyone here know where I could watch the Ace Attorney anime? I've heard it's basically just an adaptation of the original trilogy's cases with a few new moments and an entirely new case thrown in for good measure and, with me being as big an AA nut as I am, I'd love to give it a watch sometime (the clips I've seen especially make it look hilarious at points).

I guess I may as well ask about where I could watch the Japanese live-action movie as well: that s*** looks utterly absurd and it's absolutely something I'd love to watch.

Oh and this is moreso for anyone who's played all the games: is the sequel trilogy referenced in any way? I don't want to be spoiled on stuff like Apollo Justice or the Investigations sub-series by watching the show

@Fizza I believe Crunchyroll has the anime on their website to watch for free. You might need to make an account, though. I have no idea about the live-action movie, but I also think it looks awesome and I want to watch it at some point. The anime only focuses on games 1 through 3, so you're good on spoilers for AJ and AAI.

Chainsaw Man is a fascinating series where I feel like I need to at least see the season through before I have thoughts on it. My initial thoughts beyond the incredible animation and art is that it feels like a bizarre halfway point between the "dumb and wacky on the service yet secretly brilliant" and the "obviously dark, violent and political" sides of shonen.

It is nice to have another anime this popular that understands that ecchi comedy isn't automatically bad, most other shonen anime are just kinda bad at it.

Honestly, as a shounen fan, I am eating well right now.

The Witch from Mercury is really fun, and gorgeously animated.

I feel like MHA has just been hitting it out of the park every week, this arc absolutely hit the ground running and the animation is excellent.

Bleach got off to a slow start this new arc, and I kinda hoped they would go harder with the animation given its the final arc, but now we are at the point where the war has properly begun, it is gonna be a great time I think for those who just enjoy massive battles between people with wacky powers.

I also recognise that some people are not happy with the CSM changes, but I think the gatekeeping from manga readers has become borderline aggressive and I personally think the adaptation is excellent. The art in the manga, especially early on, is very scruffy, with battles captured usually with minimal panels that are hard to follow. I guess it deviates from the "spirit" of the manga to expand on those battles and chuck in some cinematic visuals has just been a treat, I think the animation exists in a really nice sweet spot of keeping the intent of the manga, but making it work better for a medium of motion like this.

@Pizzamorg as a fan and someone who is waiting for chainsaw man to be available online in its entirety before subbing to any of the AWFUL anime focused services...did they ACTUALLY change things up or is it just the usual, dumb and obnoxious whining of nerds who can't handle their precious SOURCe material not being translated 101% to animation?

Cause just seeing snippets of the series online has me incredibly antsy to finally get to the anime myself lol

Ok, sometimes when the anime isn't even close to the source it gets annoying. Like in Tonikawa, the anime story goes in a different order than the manga. In the original 1992 run of Sailor Moon, it goes way off the manga story. But I understand ther eare people who get mad when the sub changes a quote just a little bit. But I'm one of the people who can and will complain when the subtitles aren't accurate to what they're saying. I speak just enough to Japanese to sometimes tell when the sbutitles are inaccurate. I was watching an anime one time and a character said "Your bento is so pathetic. How cute." but the subtitles only said "How cute."