Stupid stuff that comes to mind that we want to post

Why doesn’t Sony just bundle it with PlayStation Plus subscriptions?

@Dirty Bit
This includes things I were watching for free a year or two ago, like Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh.

@Meanlucario
Well, you know- companies, infinite profit, finite economy and so forth.

Honestly, I’m already coming to terms with my VRV account turning into a Crunchyroll account. Debating on buying a premium gift card for myself

@SleepySteve
I’m surprised that Sony still doesn’t have its own general-purpose streaming service. It’s the only MPA member studio that doesn’t. Disney has Disney+, Universal has Peacock, Paramount has Paramount+ (real original there, guys), Warner Bros. has Max (the name you’d love to touch), and Netflix has… hang on, let me think about this…

They don’t have a streamer because they know it’s not worth the investment if it takes years for it to turn a profit, if at all. Much more valuable to license out than hoard it all. That’s why Sony has those deals with Netflix and Disney-ABC Networks/Disney+/Hulu.

@Dirty Bit
It seemed like they were already joined at the hip when I made a Crunchy account.

That doesn’t look very small to me.

@Meanlucario
Might as well be. It used to be that almost everything was available for free with ads, but once Crunchyroll and Funimation merged, and Sony got their hands on the brand, they changed it so that anything added from Spring 2022 onward required a Premium subscription to be viewed.

They also lost the streaming rights to Bleach, so that’s another fuck-up on their end.

@Penguin Dragneel
To Disney/Hulu of all people, to boot.

@SleepySteve
Hulu already had Bleach, but it seems like they negotiated for (and got) exclusive streaming rights to it when they renewed the license on the cusp of the Thousand Year Blood War anime coming out.

I had hoped that this meant the cropping on episodes 168-229 would’ve been fixed (especially since the Blu-Rays are now a thing), but I guess that’s asking too much of Disney.

Fuck streaming. Buy DVDs!

@Penguin Dragneel
…The sea was calling me anyway.

There’s chorizo on my toe!

You said it. Yar har, fiddle de dee…

@Goku Black
I would, but the Blu-Rays are about $50 per set, and I’m not blowing that much money on something at once (unless its a PS5), especially when I’m more focused on my manga collection right now.

Maybe when I can find an actually good deal on it.

@Penguin Dragneel
Anime is not for poor people.

@Darth Prime
That isn’t to say you CAN’T find any good deals on anime titles. I found the first Bleach Blu-ray set for $16 a week or so back, and I remember copping Seasons 1 and 2 of Haikyu for $7 each during a Right Stuf holiday sale. It’s just a matter of patience and looking at the right places.

Unless it’s an Aniplex title, in which case, you might as well suck it up and fork over the high amount of dough before it goes out of print.

@Darth Prime
@Penguin Dragneel

@Darth Prime
Imports from Japan ain’t cheap anymore.

@Goku Black
I would but I threw out my DVD player years ago so it’s pirate time for me

@Mr.Myoozik
You shouldn’t have done that, but to each their own…

I like the feeling of wearing casual clothes while doing my cashier job during my day off because of some kind of emergency that makes me have to go to the store. It makes me feel like a superhero fighting in civilian outfit in a movie scene.

So I’m on a Sailor Moon server, and we’re talking about how the villains don’t seem to do anything during the transformation sequences (supposedly time freezes around the Sailor Guardians while they’re changing forms) and I mention that it reminds me of that one cutscene from “The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass” (where Link does his “get an item” animation at one point in the story only for a character to swipe the item away instead of waiting for him to finish because he doesn’t have patience) and that particular post of mine got “banned”. No clarification why. It’s a game from 2007, get over it!

@Jade Kitsune
I think you chose the wrong game to compare it too.

We need a Japanese Disney Princess.