i never payed for crunchyroll because A: i'm poor (primary reason) and B: they don't deserve my money

I don't understand why translators fear European names

Is there something that Crunchyroll does that torrenting doesn't?

Isn't piracy (anymore)

That's it

I think somewhere along the line studios earn cash from the money CR makes

I just buy the dvd

(It's better quality anyway)

they sit on the highest high horse i've ever seen because they got rights to stream anime legally and claim they "support the industry"

while realistically, the amount of money that actually gets to the industry couldn't even feed an african village for a week

I occasionally buy DVDs and Blurays as gifts but I don't want to have any discs myself.

@Grenade123 sorry on my way to a baseball game. But yeah I actually have a friend like that. He says pretty much the same thing, you aren't the only one I guess

I should note that as much as piracy is trumpeted, there are people who simply won't watch anything unless they have a legit source to watch it.

step 1: pirate inferno cop, step 2: donate to trigger's patreon, now you're supporting the industry

Step 3: bribe Sunrise to can Code Geass pt 3

please actually do

Not every company has a patreon. Which leaves the only other alternatives to be to buy a series.

i love code goose i'm very worried about the big can of paint they're about to throw onto the finished painting

Like imagine if they took Evangelion and then years after it finished decided to dig it up to conti... Oh wait

I do support that man in his crusade against his own fans though

to be fair evangelion was basically the most budget-restricted anime ever

And also terrorism restricted

Iirc that guy finally died like this last year

Didnt they run out of both time & money when they got near the ending of NGE?

yes

Yes but also because their last episode got cancelled for being too close to a real terror attack

They got 9/11'd before it was cool

Which terrorist attack?

Sarin attack, Tokyo '95

the last 2 episodes of eva were almost exclusively made of stock shots because they literally didn't have the budget or the time to animate anything whatsoever

the whole reason they made the movie was because they finally got enough money to make the ending

which kudos to them for not taking the money and running tbh

Oh, yeah, the attack by Aum Shinrikyo, which was basically "What if a cartoon evil organization was real?"

"What if a cartoon evil organization was real?" Is also the plot of 20th Century Boys

It all comes together

I should aslo note that this was their leader:

Best way of supporting anime industry is pirating anime and buying merch from Japan. 😉

He was executed this year.

i mean, it's certainly a better way than paying for CR

Thank you for justifying my future purchase of an oversized Yamato model

you needed to justify that?