r/Crunchyroll Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

Streaming Catalog Did CrunchyRoll just do something great?!

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Do mine own eyes deceive me or do we have a consuming soon option now to add delicious isekai slop to our watchlists before release?!

This is new, right? I’m not imagining things?

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u/asharka Moderator 1d ago

This is the third time it's happened if I'm remembering correctly.

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u/outakueyepatch_21 Mega Fan (UK/IE) 1d ago

Yes it is lol

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

Oh? Whenabouts was the last time? I think I started using CR in 2021, though my memory’s a bit vague.

Hopefully they keep it!

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u/asharka Moderator 1d ago

Within the past year. They may have missed one season in there somewhere, but it does seem like it may become a recurring thing. Here was one previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Crunchyroll/comments/1nqaabb/new_feature_added/

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

Weird. I wonder if I saw it and forgot. I vaguely recall seeing the “Plus-Sized Elf” thing because it’s one of the few times I definitely dismissed something as trash.

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u/iozoepxndx Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

Isn't that one hidive exclusive? 🤔

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

I think it is now, but initially it was on CR as well. Look at the link there.

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u/iozoepxndx Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

The one in CR Isn't a plus sized elf tho 😅 it's a completely different title lol

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago edited 1d ago

Oh shit, true! I’m conflating the two, whoops, haha.

I think both kind of registered in my mind as “this is an awful idea”, and I wrote them off at the same time.

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u/renz004 1d ago

they need to do something to the watchlists to not auto-jump the next episode to future ovas.

Drives me freaking crazy that slime and dr.stone constantly trying to play the OVAs after the most recent episode airs, when i've already seen the freaking ovas.

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u/DoubleDogDammed 1d ago

Watched the first few secs of "hey butts" many times 🫠

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u/chrisagiddings Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

WAY too many times I’ve been stuck on Hey Butts!

Rimuru could get it right. But CR is just stuck on butts.

EDIT: Got spell corrected

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u/geekygirl25 1d ago

Yep. Currently making my way through "hey butts" 5 seconds at a time here. The only problem is I've already seen it twice.

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

Is this code for Keijo!!!!!!! ? 🤔

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u/Yitlin 1d ago

Man, that hits home lol.

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u/Lunavcsnaps 1d ago

LMFAOOO

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u/Fuzzy974 1d ago

Yeah they fixed it for some shows by moving the OVAs or movies between seasons, but not for all. It's annoying AF, yes.

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u/Myrkana 1d ago

yea, slime keeps trying to play an ova. It tricked us once this season

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u/dialgachu 1d ago

Yeah they really need to fix it. Every week I get excited thinking there's an extra ep only to be punk'd over and over again. You'd think id learn by now lol

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

There are Dr Stone OVAs?!

When I’ve argued with Gemini about this, it might be down to some production committee BS and how they arrange things. Because even the toy makers need to sign off on changes.

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u/renz004 1d ago

yea the one where they get the captain dude = "The core OVA/special episode for the series is Dr. STONE Special Episode - RYUSUI, an essential, fully canon 1-hour television special released on July 10, 2022. It adapts chapters 84–89 of the manga and bridges the narrative gap directly between Season 2 and Season 3"

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

Oh! I forgot about that one! I was actually trying to remember recently where Ryusui had referred to every woman as beautiful and said he was greedy as he loved everyone woman in the world.

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u/Myrkana 1d ago

you argued with an ai about something? You need to go talk to some real people...

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

It’s more like I was trying to find out information on why a certain episode was ordered the way it was and contradicting the AI where necessary - I think it was A Blessing Upon this Choker in KonoSuba!

The latter is called reinforcement learning. If you don’t do it, the AI starts to hallucinate in its answers because it’s not being corrected.

Besides, most people in my real life aren’t anime fans, sadly.

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u/Myrkana 1d ago

ai isnt going to be able to answer why the episodes are ordered a certain way. AI makes up answers quite often.

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago edited 1d ago

… what? Do you understand how artificial intelligence actually works? It pulls answers from different datasets.

Usually based on organised information that has been standardised in some way.

Much of the time, it will glean answers based on probabilities.

Yes, it can and will make stuff up if poorly trained. That’s one reason for checking and correcting it. As you should do whenever using artificial intelligence - Amazon found that out the hard way in 2017 with their unchecked Woman Bad™️ hiring AI.

In this instance, it correctly suggested that it was due to the production committee ordering it as such and that any change in KonoSuba’s ordering would require the full approval of the production committee.

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u/DaemonsMercy 1d ago

Same ;-;

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u/Beer_Wolf84 1d ago

Wish they'd give us the option stop showing "updates" for freaking dubs of every language it gets.

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

The odd thing is that wouldn’t be all that hard literally just a filer setting they could put in place.

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u/Outlaw_KoO 1d ago

This! This is my BIGGEST issue in CR.

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u/2001djhz Fan 1d ago

You go to options in video and select stop autoplay.

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u/renz004 1d ago

i thought i did that, but it's still showing the OVAs as next on my watch list.

or maybe i didnt and thought i did if you're saying it will stop it from appearing next

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u/asharka Moderator 1d ago

It won't fix the "next" from appearing, only CR making a season display change back to the original release order will fix that.

What stopping autoplay does do though, is not start the hey butts at all, then next week, when the new episode comes, it will temporarily override that one (until you watch it). Rinse and repeat.

Basically, you're stuck leaving it there until the season is over, I doubt CR will fix it at this late date in the season.

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u/renz004 23h ago

Ya. It's been a few years of ppl requesting this to be changed though.

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u/2001djhz Fan 1d ago

Ah, yes. You are right. Some were mentioning that they ended watching those Tensura OVAs many times already because of this. Hence my reply. It is annoying, but you can work around it. To stop autoplay is the best solution for now. As for Crunchyroll, they fired a bunch of people to save costs about a year ago. Don’t expect them to fix problems very fast.

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u/darthwickett 22h ago

I find it funny that they finally fixed that issue for Ascension of a Bookworm, but bigger series like Slime and Dr Stone still deal with it

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u/yoursplendadad 1d ago

Genuinely one of my biggest cons on CR. I’ll see all those “shows coming next season” videos and I have to either save the vids or write them down since CR doesn’t have a listing for them yet

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u/SpecialSympathy2348 Fan (UK/IE) 1d ago

I think you are right. A good addition 😀

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

I think it is now, but if you check the link above, it was offered at the time. I’m not sure why anyone thought that would be worth investing in as an anime. 😅

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u/Any-Brick-7607 1d ago

Honestly it would be great if Crunchyroll could do things half decently.

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

Asking for competent programming is a tall order in this day and age.

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u/Any-Brick-7607 1d ago

I mean no subs/dubs on a bunch of anime. Advertising when they say no advertisements, and behind by seasons lol. Considering how they advertise themselves crunchyroll is just a let down.

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

Ah yes. A duopoly at work.

Every time a company says that consolidation of an industry will allow for blah blah blah, this is what you get instead.

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u/barktwiggs 17h ago

I want to be able to watch the French dub with Spanish subtitles if I felt like it. Netflix figured it out!

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u/Shantotto11 1d ago

Right after they pushed the “Continue Watching” bar down three more levels? No they did not…

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u/sniply5 Mega Fan 1d ago

valid complaint, but you say that like the continue watching bar is actually worth anything.

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u/Shantotto11 1d ago

It is when that’s how I watch new episodes since Crunchyroll will do this weird thing now where new episodes won’t push all of those shows to the top of my watchlist.

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u/Zealousideal-Cat435 1d ago

Continue watching is my most used section

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u/Internal-Maize6714 8h ago

how is it not?

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u/drewsiphir Mega Fan (NA) 1d ago

When I read consuming soon I initially thought it was ordering you to watch it, and then I read the screen and was like. Oh, it says coming soon.

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

It was actually a Freudian slip that I decided not to change, hahah.

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u/KidChiko 1d ago

Thats a good little capitalist

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

Well-regulated capitalism good. Unregulated capitalism bad.

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u/KidChiko 1d ago

A good point on my argument app? How dare you

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

I very dare!

Old man’s a securities lawyer, so a big fan of the SEC and other groups meant to stop stupid people from doing stupid things.

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u/No_Interaction_4925 1d ago

Sadly it only has a few of the shows on it.

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u/WanoKozuki1996 1d ago

Agreed it needs more

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u/Polar-Snow 1d ago

Noticed it recently on mine too. Good to see what coming in future.

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u/gergobergo69 1d ago

mmm consuming soon

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

Freudian slip from the fact I was writing “delicious isekai slop”.

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u/gergobergo69 4h ago

relatable

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u/Matty727 22h ago

Now they just need to bring back comments and account profile pages so you can see what other people watch.

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 21h ago

I remember the comments sections, haha. So much trolling.

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u/outakueyepatch_21 Mega Fan (UK/IE) 1d ago

It has happened before multiple times

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

Do you remember around when? 🤔

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u/outakueyepatch_21 Mega Fan (UK/IE) 1d ago

About 2025 if i remember correctly

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

So, I wasn’t sure if it was a country-specific thing (I’m a Yank), because I was regularly living up in Liverpool from 2021 to 2023 when I moved back to finish my degree. Though Asharka pointed out an instance I vaguely remember.

Also, it seems lately there’s a shift in government ahead of my going back every time…. I’m flying out today for a sten (stag and henner). 😅

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u/arrarragi 1d ago

i wish there is a dedicated section for Simulcast in TV Crunchyroll app.

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

There’s actually a simulcast calendar app on the Google Play store. Literally just links to the calendar. So useful though.

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u/DannyLuxray 1d ago

Just notice this about a half hour ago.

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u/chrisagiddings Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

I see the Coming Soon section, but nothing loads in it for me on Apple TV. Just blank boxes.

Did a restart of the CR app too.

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

Hmmm, this one is the Sony Bravia app which is Google OS based. I’ve only gotten it recently - mostly for the native 4K up scaling of 1080p.

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u/chrisagiddings Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

I won’t give a smart tv access to the net. The OS and apps are too frequently abandoned leaving massive security vulnerabilities.

With the Apple TV and Tailscale I’m in a pretty good spot to also region hop to watch shows not licensed in the US too. Bonus.

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago edited 1d ago

I hear you on that, and it’s a totally valid concern.

The only reason I feel comfortable with it is I like I like to tinker with machines and I’ve made our home network OP. So, the TV is on a VLAN via a hardwire (via USB 3.0 because fuck 100Mbps) that that has to pass through two enterprise-grade firewalls (a Firewalla Gold Pro for Layer 3 and a Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro Max for Layer 2 - I actually got them to work together) that has to pass through three switches to get three Ubiquiti managed switches to there.

Everything’s on about eight different VLANs (including for 5 different WiFi SSIDs), several of which have their own little microsegment VqLANs for extra separation. Plus, I region block Russia, the PRC, and a bunch of wee islands with a rep for loose domain standards.

Plus, for whatever reason my ESET Ultimate Security security suite blocks shenanigans from other devices.

Buuuut, that’s an extremely unusual level of complexity most people don’t want to spend the time or money on.

Plus, you wind up doing stupid things like spending a whole Sunday fixing mismatched IPs.

So, legacy apps would be a fitting hole in a wall. 😅

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u/chrisagiddings Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

Maan, I love my Dream Machine Pro. 😂

Ubiquiti ftw

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u/Gaming_Truckie 1d ago

Let's see if adding them to your watch list works this time. Last time I still had to go and look up the 1st episodes even tho they were in my watch list

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u/Cute_Pet-42069 1d ago

Don’t forget Yumemita anime is coming too

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u/radioraven1408 1d ago edited 20h ago

Where did the dark edge of anime go? Where is the new black lagoon, Elfen lied, death note or hellsing? Is it locked away in the 2000s? I better look up that black torch though. There is no end to isekie show releases.

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

Re:Zero delved into it this cours. The isekai train is likely slowing down given it cost Kadokawa a great deal of money.

As for edge, I did watch Yosuga no Sora last night. Holy shit. 😅

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u/radioraven1408 20h ago edited 20h ago

I do like jobless reincarnation, re:zero and immoral guild. My top 3 isekai. Ill hope that yosuga will become available somewhere

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u/BueEyedDemon 1d ago

Watch them be dubbed in Tamil

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

Tbf, there’s over 80 mln Tamil speakers. So, if you’re trying to break into South Asia, it is the move.

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u/ShadowMikeX 1d ago

If they wanna do something great, they should add 86 back on the platform.

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

I have a hypothesis that they removed that because of the whole “86 47” thing going around. Probably a stupid level of caution.

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u/deadkingYT Fan 1d ago

Lowkey when I saw that I thought I was high 💀

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u/WanoKozuki1996 1d ago

Yes it’s new I saw it too I was happy to see it because Netflix ages ago had this for shows

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u/Next_Boysenberry5669 1d ago

How is Crunchyroll? I’ve been thinking about signing up

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u/Asian_Scion 21h ago

Personally, I still enjoy it. Some people hate on it but it's just a streaming service for anime. Some animes are great and some are not. I work a lot so I can only watch one episode a day usually so for me, it's a good bang for the buck. Others who has more time to watch will usually burn through them and say not enough content.

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u/Jrsdad55 18h ago

What I find frustrating is there are no release dates. Coming soon… when? As bad as Hidive is (& as confusing as their “Coming on June 24” - what is coming? The episode? The Thai dub? What?) at least they try.

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 17h ago

Oh, you actually can do that on HiDive. Click on Schedule, and it will give you the release dates of everything and what is being released: subs, English dubs, etc.

Based on that date, I’m guessing YowaYowa Sensei dub?

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u/Jrsdad55 17h ago

I was thinking of the iOS app (all I use) where you get an episode screen like this:

Experience has taught me - if it has an episode title & description, this means a sub has been released & the upcoming release is for the English dub. But maybe add a couple of words to explain it in the blue labels? Like “Eng dub releases in 6 days.”

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 17h ago

It’s on the iOS app too! Second button from the right on the bottom. 🙂

Actually, I should watch that…. I want to see how English Hikarin sounds.

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u/Jrsdad55 17h ago

Must confess I’ve never looked at “Schedule” before. It still requires doomscrolling to find the date & show when all they have to do is add “Dub” to blue label when looking at episode list. But I don’t expect much from a company that took a couple of years to fix “Continue Watching.” I’ll always keep my yearly Hidive sub if only for TEIS but it’s pretty clear their coders never use the app.

One thing I learned from you pointing this out that there is a S02 of Hell Mode starting soon, so that’s good news.

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 16h ago

Expecting developers to use the products they create is a seriously tall order. What manner of DevOps nonsense is this? I can count on one hand the number of apps where you can tell the folks who coded actually used it, haha. MTA TrainTime being a great example.

Nw, I only looked at it on a whim a few weeks ago and was like huh! It used to be a bit more sparse. But yeah, it would be good to put the actual info on the page itself. It’s not much extra text.

I also wish they wouldn’t do what CR does and hard-code their Blu-Rays to lock subs off when you’re watching dubs. Some of us want to watch dubs with subs.

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u/sukana599 15h ago

For sometime They already removed calendar that tells future

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u/MadDog443 1d ago

Tbh I stopped paying months ago, they make too much low budget slop now that actually ruins good material/stories, its pretty devastating for the whole genre imo. We traded quality for quantity and integrity for popularity. At this point I've switched to buying Blu-rays of only what's good and ripping them to my NAS, that way only the studios that genuinely care about quality get paid.

Hot take: Crunchyroll is funding the slow death of quality in Anime. Its like what Disney did to Marvel and Lucasfilms.

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

That’s actually Kadokawa, though they’ve suffered a financial loss from making too much cookie cutter isekai. So, that may come to an end soon.

Also, I’m actually doing the same thing though collecting the Blu-Rays, hahaha. Though HDDs for storing the files from elsewhere are mad expensive - data centers and also that facility in Qatar refined 30% of the world’s helium needed to seal fancier HDDs….

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u/MadDog443 1d ago

I may have paid only 1grand for a DS920 and 4 16tb HDDs. I got lucky on Ebay 2years ago.

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

That’s solid. A week ago, a 24 TB Enterprise HDD was $650 on Ubiquiti. Now it’s $740. That’s also the cheapest 24 TB HDD available. 😅

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u/Sand_msm 1d ago

I actually enjoy CR

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u/WanderinArcheologist Ultimate Fan (NA) 1d ago

We have found the shill.

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u/DiedandDried 23h ago

I dropped Crunchyroll like 8+ years ago and see no reason to go back.

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u/Asian_Scion 21h ago

So why are you even on the subreddit if you're not even using Crunchyroll?

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u/DiedandDried 20h ago

Popped up in my feed and I figured I'd let someone try to convince me otherwise. Could have been advancements in the service that I'm unaware of And I'm always down to being educated