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Crunchyroll Issues Reports

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  Dinnu daniel (@daniel_adinnu) reported 6 minutes ago

  Crunchyroll is moving its entire online store behind a paywall starting in August. The current Fan tier costs $9.99 a month and gets full access to the anime library. To keep shopping the store the way people do now, buying figures, Blu-rays, apparel, manga volumes, that same subscriber will need to upgrade to Mega Fan at $13.99 a month or Ultimate Fan at $17.99. The company has since walked the framing back slightly. Fan tier subscribers will still be able to browse the store, Crunchyroll told press this week. What’s actually locked behind Mega and Ultimate is the new “curated experience,” described in Crunchyroll’s own announcement as convention-exclusive collectibles and limited-release drops. The practical effect for most shoppers is the same: the merch people actually want increasingly lives behind the higher tiers. The timing compounds the problem. Selected purchases became final sale as of July 13, with refunds and returns no longer accepted except for damaged items. Crunchyroll Store gift cards stop working entirely after August 14. This lands on a storefront that absorbed Right Stuf, a specialist anime retailer Sony acquired and folded into Crunchyroll in 2023, removing a standalone option from the market in the process. Crunchyroll is owned by Sony, and this store change arrives while Sony faces separate backlash over discontinuing PS5 disc production. Two different Sony-owned storefronts, in the same window, both moving customers away from straightforward one-time purchases and toward tiered, recurring payment structures.

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  Shredder - Mass Effect (@Shredder1400) reported 8 minutes ago

  @RileyEatsGood The other problem with subscription services is they don’t keep up some of those favorites due to licensing and royalty fees. HBO Max took off so many classic cartoons recently, and Crunchyroll just took off Black Lagoon and others. With physical or piracy, you keep what you want

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  Mac McCollum (@Maclovesmanga) reported 13 minutes ago

  @AprileAttilio @Crunchyroll Fair, though most companies, including Crunchyroll, usually give an advanced notice before removal. My issue is more with the scalping that’s occurred every time this has happened and Crunchyroll switching to exclusive boutique member merch drops, meaning more out of print DVDs

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  🇺🇸 Guru Of Syrinx 🇺🇸 (@GuruOfSyrinx) reported 17 minutes ago

  @BananaDnG Hypothetically, Yes. If whichever streaming service you have allows you to "screen record" your shows. Crunchyroll specifically prevents you from doing this. You would think that its common sense. The problem however, is licensing and distribution. None of which is possible if EVERYONE does what you suggest. The problem is this: physical copies already give you permission to watch what you have. Streaming services do that without the physicality, but with these servers. Taking away the physical data creates a direct conflict between you the consumer, and the ability to watch what you want to watch. That is all. So yes. You can do what you clalim in your intiial comment, but there are concequences. One being the inability to own what tou watch.

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  VDeviance (@vdeviance) reported 24 minutes ago

  The bigger problem is that people *wanted* Crunchyroll to be that one stop shop for all anime a decade ago. The Crunchyroll that exists now is because of Sony's habit of duplicating effort without a coherent business direction and getting rid of the people that knew best.

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  Franklin Gonzales (@frgonzdev) reported 30 minutes ago

  @earth_ish Zen browser is amazing my only gripe with it is not being able to watch copyrighted content like prime video, hulu, and Crunchyroll due to the licensing issue. If it wasnt for that id use that browser instead of any other

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  Sonoro (@SON0R0) reported 31 minutes ago

  @micnax_ @ASIF_117 @walruspng Crunchyroll is the only one with decent subs format on streaming. Other distributors have no problem with the BD releases 'cause their formats are bad from the start. 😭

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  Liotir 20 mcg/ml (@LiotirGuzzler) reported 31 minutes ago

  @GhostOfTonba @PrayForOomfie Better than wasting my time watching it at subpar quality from some crunchyroll camrip, two steps removed from watching anime with gambling ads like poorfag normgroids do.

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  Dr. Austin Smith (@defmetal) reported 31 minutes ago

  @ChibiReviews I always wonder why Crunchyroll has deliberately bad subtitles. What is the purpose? Who does it help? These aren’t even woke they’re just bad

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  Andoryu🌸COMMIS OPEN (@AndoryuAnzuru) reported 33 minutes ago

  I don't know anyone that shops on Crunchyroll and those that did said that the service was one of the worst with long delays and packages not being ship well and damaged. At this point, if you're looking to own anime merch or DVDs, there's so many other sites or go to Book off

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  SoCalSamX (@SoCalSamX) reported 33 minutes ago

  @Nuk200 @Crunchyroll Paywalling basic access to the shop is messed up. The discount program always existed and nobody had a problem with it. Charging to access the shop at all is insane.

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  NikaHoshin₾ (@NikaHoshin) reported 37 minutes ago

  @punishedvaquera Crunchyroll is the worst streaming service in existence. They basically hold a monopoly on anime streaming because the japanese are so stingy with their IPs and only trust Crunchyroll or official streaming service like Netflix. Which is why they don't bother being competent

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  Star Hillsgrove 🇺🇲 (@PrettyPrawncess) reported 37 minutes ago

  @lynettepillled @OddishHime @CuriousBunnie12 You both live in a bubble and this is not the norm at all. Most only know what popular on Crunchyroll and that's it. Not a fan. But a literal tourist. Not all anime is the same and you arguing it is is the problem

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  Benjamin Merrell (@maneatingcow23) reported 38 minutes ago

  Why does @Sony want to get rid of physical media when @Crunchyroll is the only streaming service I use that consistently looks like crap and doesn't buffer properly any time I try to start a new episode? No other service I use works this poorly, and they think they got this?

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  Squirrels (@0xSquirrels) reported 41 minutes ago

  @Scratch_Point_Z companies only listen when they see that the user base takes a stand and they start having their revenue affected. if you have problems, do something. you can watch anime on other platforms like amazon, netflix, hulu, hidive and you can use piracy sites if people really want to create change, stop your subs crunchyroll has proven time and time again that they have anti consumer behaviors, they sold data without consent, they were hacked so they cant even protect your data/credit card info, they took away peoples purchased content during the merge from funimation, and they have been accused of union busting quite afew times.