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They’ve lost a consistent customer of 15 years who stayed subscribed even during periods when they weren’t even watching any simulcasts whatsoever!

I'm actually so mad that ONE company will single-handedly ruin subbed anime for EVERYONE in the west. Some of these shows are nigh incomprehensible without proper typesetting. Even if you sail the high seas, you'll only find the enshittified subtitles 99% of the time unless some fansubbers get to it

This is what the subs for the episode looked like on initial release. CR has since updated it with the better original script that the first-party subtitling staff made in the first place in a silent response to the backlash.

That would be Crunchyroll subtitles under the new standards that executives are trying to push the entire site towards.

This is absolutely useless, I've got bootleg evangelion tapes with better subs than this. Between this, the funimation buyout and absorbing rightstuf @crunchyroll.com has done nothing but ravage the english anime industry for their own profit.

Same, I even sent this to the FTC. I hit the character limit on it. www.regulations.gov/comment/FTC-... Things have gotten so much worse since I sent that 2 years ago...

Shitty

god this is impossible to follow.

They're gonna be calling me Gold D. Rodgers the way I'm gonna be sailing the high seas if this continues.

I cannot keep up with this jfc.

I'm really curious if this would be followable if the flash *only* affected the changing lines, and not the lines that are *also still being spoken*

If I turn off the sound (so I can't just follow the Japanese), I can barely understand a lick of that conversation.

As a bonus, you'll be able to enjoy the very colorful Japanese TV captions (...assuming they're ripped for the show you're watching, which is unfortunately uncommon, especially now that people only bother ripping Netflix/Prime captions)

woof

It feels like they just pasted stuff in, rather than putting any consideration into *adapting* their subs for this format. They shouldn't be doing this at all, but they're really doing it in the most thoughtless, paint-by-numbers, zero-effort way possible, huh.

I haven't heard anything about you for years since fansubbing started to die out. Very appropriate that the first time I hear about you since then is you letting me know how bad Crunchyroll is screwing the pooch on their subtitles, good to know.

I've been watching anime subbed since the early 90s and I couldn't make out any of that. I thought it was being real-time "translated" by an AI and that's why the subs kept flashing in and out. That's intolerably bad. Oh for the days of Animeigo's high-effort subs being the standard...

the situation for the Arabic subtitles just got worse, after asking my followers about to present examples of the subtitles quality. I'm afraid just translate won't help but it need a proper writing to explain this poor quality, which will take time than what i originally thought.

Remember the best way to support a show you like isn't a sub to CR its buying physical media either the source material it is based on or the Blu-ray

Good thing I cancelled My subscription years ago

I looked at my watchlist, and I only saw two anime from this year, one of which was fansubbed because nobody licenced it. That's kinda just what happens when you near-exclusively watch mecha anime, though.

The closed captioning sucks just as much 😢

Keep circulating the tapes.

they are so fucking bad. it's amazing how bad they are.

Wait until they use them with Frieren. They will see a “big enough” backlash then…

Pirating anime is a lost art

Most pirate sites take their files from CR, subs and all…

Hmm, I thought I made those scale proportionally to the image size but guess not. Guess I'll need to do some fixin'

I'll be honest, I thought it was some intentional "CSS glitch" trick

If you are a Crunchyroll subscriber, then you should start by canceling your subscription, as instructed by the "what you can do about it" section. Other than that, you can do your best to spread the word - the only way we can stop this is to make a big enough stink that CR can't afford to ignore it

I wonder if this can be challenged legally in Canada or the states as an accessibility. The CC is required in the USA under title 3 of the ADA which requires wcag 2.0 compliance on web media and specifies pre record subs. In Canada our laws are softer but the crtc DOES govern streaming providers.

Ahhhh time to cancel Crunchyroll

Necronomico was not a case of Crunchyroll hiring a company to produce subtitles. The subtitles for it came from the Japanese company (Cygames) that licensed the series for Crunchyroll. Crunchyroll is to blame for putting them up with zero oversight, but they weren't actively paying for AI subs here

Crunchyroll finding news make to me hate them

Man...this is all a nightmare. I never stopped just using fansubs and their uploads from nyaa, but i know a lot of people these days dont know how to torrent or find quality translation groups. :/ but this shows the major problem with a company lile crunchyroll having such a huge monopoly on anime

Yeah, Hidive not available in my region. A bummer.