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lmfao

no more allowing complaints about MTL subs to appear on the page

bruh

fuck

beat me to it by a minute Polu

>prevent misinformation

well if people were calling those deer subs MTL falsely then it is technically true

people are theorizing it's because people were shitting on this season's trashy BL show

but imo, this was probably in-progress for a while

so many sites are removing comments, mostly to hide how dead their engagement is

Sorry guys it was my fault. I was telling people the wrong watch order of Haruhi episodes.

reddit next, hide comments

CR is only dead because they dont like their own industry, and piracy websites offer far better service than they do

^

literally one of people's biggest praises of CR was that it's a highly concentrated normie audience so episode discussions were good

they had to be forced to make the player functional but I had stopped using them by then

this was like 7 years ago

I don't know what CR has to do for me to use them

because 80-90% of people concede that the player still sucks and pirate sites are just better

I know we've theorycrafted what they could do to edge out being useful enough to not pirate

native links to the major western anime database sites, making sure they have literally everything (specials, random twitter shorts, etc)

there are things they could do

be a cable channel that you can record on a DVR

I've thought about this in the past, and I think there are things they could do to court the anime autist audience but at this point so may independent sites do a good-enough job of what CR could do, they'd have no margin for error

If they promise to translate everything I would sub

Everything though

Yeah, thats the thing, they would skip the shit I'd actually want from them

I have so many random twitter shorts on my plan to watch that have no subs

the core issue is back to the general streaming problem in the West

they won't have everything seasonally

VRV had most of them and a much better player

then sony bought funimation and hidive started with its worst player

this season they have 49/60 shows (deregarding the shows not getting subbed)

so ~80%

The real problem is 90% of people who watch anime need 2-3 shows a season at most

we are outliars

it's funny how it's reversed in the West

in Japan, you are catering to a couple thousand niche retards

in America, you're hoping that enough normies subscribe and forget to unsub from your service they don't use

The platform that has jjk, one piece, demon slayer, etc you have cornered enough of the western market that it is debatable if adding more niche shows are even worth it

I would love the actual stats though, for seasonal shit

and the people who like those shows do not care that the site hosting them is bad

what % of people even watch seasonally at this point

it has gone up/down over time

Yeah that would be interesting to know

The database sites can't give that info because only tryhards use those

that's a thing CR could do that pirate sites wouldn't

but I don't actually have a sense for the value of a backlog versus the value of the 'hot new thing'

it used to strongly skew towards backlog, but now idk

completely unrelated

there are 3 Vtuber/YouTuber shows this season

and all of them absolutely mog that official VTuber show from a couple seasons ago

interesting

I only remember the one from the trailers we watched

Yeah, vtuber wave is coming, its been enough time that the productions on the first wave of shows are finishing

Mayonaka Punch and the Strong Zero ad

don't know the third

the only vtuber show i need is hologra

I'm watching Punch rn

the only vtuber shit that is going on my list is when I ocassionally watch the pirate girl's music videos because they get recommended to me

and loli god requiem

I like the pirate music

Pirate music is good

God I love cali's metal gear song

it is so good

She is a bottom tier vtuber because of that one song

I am also not the biggest fan of the suicide squad ED by her

its not the worst ed this season

but it is not the best

I can't think of any OPs or EDs that stand out to me as good yet

I like the deer OP

I like the beginning of it

I like the Yoasobi monogatari ED

It becomes generic near the middle