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.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2026
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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.
You'll own nothing and like it!
Sea shanties intensify
I don't need physical media, a DRM-free download that I can save on my own will do.
Nyaa is the sound a cat makes.
Out of spite I pirated the anime from the thumbnail
I enjoyed it, haven't watched the latest season.
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
Sony? Doing something awful? Who'd have thought it?
I've already found what I needed while sailing on my ship. Sony can get fucked.
Rightstuf died for this.
As did Madman in AU/NZ.