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Recent reports have announced that Crunchyroll, the largest anime streaming service, will be replacing Aegisub with Israeli Software, OOONA, to produce subtitles more efficiently. Anime fans across the world are disappointed with this collaboration due to Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians (via a report by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry).

Crunchyroll is also ignoring the needs of groups who require Closed Captions to understand the scenes better. They are isolating a large chunk of their audience in favor of AI-based subtitling, which defeats the point of a streaming service. Overall, this hasn’t been a great year for Crunchyroll, and this won’t be the end of it.

EDIT: Link was taken down thanks to someone in the comments here's the archive for the page https://web.archive.org/web/20251004184506/https://fandomwire.com/crunchyroll-faces-cancelation-why-anime-fans-are-choosing-piracy-after-latest-update/

https://bsky.app/profile/lamhfada.bsky.social/post/3m2c3udxnjc2u

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[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 202 points 4 days ago

Fansubs have always been superior.

[-] Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 93 points 4 days ago

Remembers all the fan sub opening/ending Karaoke so I could actually understand songs too. 🥹

[-] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 4 days ago

Steins Gate fansubs were amazing.

[-] exu@feditown.com 50 points 4 days ago

There are barely any real fansubs left. Most are Crunchyroll, Netflix or Funimation restyled and maybe retimed plus checked if they spent a lot of time on it.

[-] missphant 18 points 4 days ago

And that's honestly all that's needed, the official translations are usually perfectly fine. The elaborate typesetting is what makes the fansubs so good.

My daughter got into anime through friends and I got some street creds by talking about how things used to be. Buying laserdiscs in Japan, subbing them and showing them at conventions. I subbed two episodes of some show I don't remember. Or shipping VHS tapes across continents. My daughter doesn't care, of course. But her friends were impressed. I fear that that was my last hurrah, though. I got nothing else.

[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago

That‘s how Crunchyroll itself started out if I remember correctly. Now look at it, completely unrecognizable. It‘s exemplary for how things have been progressing or rather regressing this century so far.

[-] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 4 days ago

Agreed, It very noticeable how bad the subs are. I remember watching an the terminator anime and the subs were atrocious.

https://reddit.com/r/television/comments/1f4cj61/netflixs_wellanimated_terminator_zero_starts/?

[-] nullroot@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

I've been an anime of crunchy roll with those auto ai subs and the main character is called Kun. Holy shit half the time it's censoring itself because it's trying to say something racist, but not always...

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