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Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update (fandomwire.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/54821262

Recent reports have announced that Crunchyroll, the largest anime streaming service, will be replacing Aegisub with Israeli Software, OOONA, to produce subtitles more efficiently. Anime fans across the world are disappointed with this collaboration due to Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians (via a report by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry).

Crunchyroll is also ignoring the needs of groups who require Closed Captions to understand the scenes better. They are isolating a large chunk of their audience in favor of AI-based subtitling, which defeats the point of a streaming service. Overall, this hasn’t been a great year for Crunchyroll, and this won’t be the end of it.

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[–] big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

i mean, there's a little nuance to find: current ecchi anime (most of them being absolute wish fulfillment garbage and "waifu" slop) are pretty tame compared with 80's anime in showing naked girls, but it's always about navigating the sea of crappy isekais, ecchi slop to find good stuff with decent plot (and i mean narrative plot, not "that other plot")