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Small correction: it's a generic subtitling software that doesn't have any inbuilt AI features^[It has third-party plugin support, and there are some third party plugins related to AI shit, but according to leaks from Crunchyroll employees they're not using any of those.], it's just mechanically worse than the open source anime-focused subtitling software they'd used before but allows for faster, sloppier subtitles to be churned out with less labor and yields something that's intrinsically compatible with other major streaming services.
The software company is based out of Tel Aviv though, that part is correct.
Okay. But still gives money to genocide so I'd rather not support it.
Oh, no, don't get me wrong here: the software is from a bad company, the software itself is just categorically worse in every way apart from "what lets them churn out the cheapest slop they can and then sell it to Netflix later" which no actual human being thinks is a valuable feature to have, and Crunchyroll is definitely circling the drain after Sony gutted it and did away with everyone competent and motivated over and over, year after year. The only thing people are getting wrong is the AI part of the story.
this is actually really important to note as translation from places such as CR is actually where most contemporary anime subs come from, even in pirate sites.
the last fansub i found was the fansub for girls band cry, which literally did not have an official translation until after it released. before then, i think the closest i found was commiesubs for oregairu s2 a long long time ago
the last fansub i found was the fansub for girls band cry,
Same. I think there were two different fansubs too, one of which was using machine translation to get it out faster.
This reminds me that I really need to actually study and learn Japanese. I can understand a handful of common expressions and pick out words, roots, or parts of speech here and there just from passively absorbing it, but that's no substitute for properly studying a language.
With subtitling getting worse and fan scanlation projects shutting down or getting scattered as publishers attack manga hosting sites, being able to just go to the originals would be a nice skill to have.
yeah there was a MTL fansub and a homophobic fansub, unsure if they were the same or not. one of the fansubs translated something like "yappari momoka san suki" "HA?" "kokuhaku desu" as i admire you or some shit. (rough tl: "i still really like(love?) momoka, even after all of that" "HUH?" "im confessing")
heres a reddit breakdown of it: https://www.reddit.com/r/yurimemes/comments/1d774ya/comment/l6yeqfx/
I remember that, although I still don't know what to actually think. The two of them had such bad chemistry and seemed to actively avoid each other, and if that was meant to be a romantic confession then it either wasn't reciprocated or they just never followed through with it. Although the show also refused to explicitly state that Tomo and Rupa were a couple, instead just showing that yeah they very obviously are, so who knows. It did feel like it ended in basically the same place as Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night though, for all that it did its ending better imo.
At least it didn't have the egregious heel face turn Jellyfish did where Mahiru and Kano so very clearly had feelings for one another and were so clearly escalating and working up to addressing this and then it's like someone took an axe to the script for the last five episode, ripping out everything to do with their relationship except stuff that whoever did it didn't recognize as gay, and then made an ending that sidelined all but one member of the cast and 100% inverted all the positive themes the story had up until that point about rejecting toxic societal pressures and being yourself, in favor of some complete dogshit about forgiving your abusers and conforming to their toxic demands and standards. Fuck, I'm still salty about how bad Jellyfish turned out after how great it's first 7 episodes were. There was still some good to the last stretch, like Watase's story in episode 11, but goddamn it went from "this is amazing and going to be an absolute classic" to "holy fuck how did they just throw away literally everything good and actively make it bad" at the drop of a hat.
I did later find a manga, Your True Color, that was basically just "what if Jellyfish's A plot actually went where it should have gone?" just with an actress instead of an idol, and that just made me saltier about what could have been lmao.
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So I'm currently working on finding a good substitute for CR. Does anyone know which will work on a fire stick?
If it can run a browser then just use any ad free website from the index.
what index do you speak of
The one I linked in the post
i use vlc and a ftp server on my phone
I haven't used crunchyroll since it was a pirate site
Any other services apart from Disney we should cancel?
All of them learn to pirate
I do know how to but sadly if I wanna watch something on my actual TV, I don't think it's possible on an Apple TV
Jellyfin is a pretty easy way to set up your own little local streaming service of pirated files. From a quick search, it looks like the Apple TV client would be swiftfin.
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