UK Anime Distributor Crunchyroll/Funimation/Manga UK Discussion Thread

Falcon1991 said:
With the remaining unannounced Crunchyroll titles left for this season, I honestly feel one will be Digimon Beatbreak.

I only hope it comes to Europe like Ghost Game did.
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Crunchyroll has updated there line-up confirming digimon daybreak for Europe (except Italy), which interests me as I heard before it would be on disney plus, could be that it's on both but disney have the dubbed version, who knows.
 
I've noticed Crunchyroll has all the One Punch Man Specials + OVA available to stream in which I have no clue when they were made available. I know the Specials are included on the blu-rays but as far as I know the Road to Hero OVA was un-licensed so that's a nice surprise to see.
 
Relaxo said:
Road to Hero is just a Season 1 Recap
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You're thinking of A Super Serious Lookback which Crunchyroll has listed as Episode 0 of S2, Road to Hero is in a different section with the S1 & S2 Specials.

I watched Road to Hero earlier and it's an original story taking place before S1.
 
Has anybody seen how crappyroll has recently changed the style of streaming subtitles? Used to be they put some effort into the font style and positioning of them and did overlays for signs and comments now all they do what amazon and every other anime streaming site does-just lines of text. Amazon just uses srt files instead of ass files, one good thing about that is that it only takes me 3 or 4 minutes to convert srt subs to legible ass files which are much easier to read. This shot is from my release of Sky Girls and is my preferred style of subtitles, small, easy to read and highly legible.Sky Girls Intro.jpg
 
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Has anybody seen how crappyroll has recently changed the style of streaming subtitles? Used to be they put some effort into the font style and positioning of them and did overlays for signs and comments now all they do what amazon and every other anime streaming site does-just lines of text. Amazon just uses srt files instead of ass files, one good thing about that is that it only takes me 3 or 4 minutes to convert srt subs to legible ass files which are much easier to read. This shot is from my release of Sky Girls and is my preferred style of subtitles, small, easy to read and highly legible.View attachment 41783
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That's because they've moved away from using Aegisub to some cloud based Israeli crap. A lot of people aren't pleased and the mods on r/Crunchyroll won't allow it to be discussed.

The subtitles went from small and pretty illegible to taking up about a third of the screen yesterday.

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I used (or rather tried to use) Aegisub and found it difficult to use because the interface is not intuitive and it has a high learning curve so I just use Subtitle Edit instead. It does everything I need it to do. But back to point-the problem I have with most streaming subtitles is that they're too BIG and hard to read so my thing is making them smaller and more visible. As you can see from my screen shot above which is my usual style they don't take up a lot of screen space but they're very legible.
 
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Crunchyroll to stream season 3 of Oshi no Ko. Great of them to license a hit series they had zero interest in previously to try and put Hi Dive under.
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As much as I'd much rather HIDIVE succeed, I'm certainly happy to see CR take on Oshi no Ko so that we get some halfway decent streams. HIDIVE have one of the worst video qualities of any of the anime streamers atm. DanMachi next please.
 
Demelza said:
As much as I'd much rather HIDIVE succeed, I'm certainly happy to see CR take on Oshi no Ko so that we get some halfway decent streams. HIDIVE have one of the worst video qualities of any of the anime streamers atm. DanMachi next please.
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I don't find HiDive's video quality too bad, but their audio quality is awful. That's especially damaging for a show like Oshi no Ko where music and voice performance are major parts of the story.

I've wanted to support HiDive, but their catalogue has become so anaemic over the last couple of years that I finally let my subscription lapse last month. One good show per season just isn't enough to keep it running year round, especially when their back catalogue is a wasteland.
 
Dai said:
I don't find HiDive's video quality too bad, but their audio quality is awful. That's especially damaging for a show like Oshi no Ko where music and voice performance are major parts of the story.
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It's not so bad for half the shows they license, but better animated works like DanMachi or Oshi no Ko really stand out for the amount of banding and artifacting in the videos. I'm not really someone who particularly notices that a lot of the time compared to other members of this forum, but DanMachi has consistently looked terrible to me compared to CR or the eventual Blu-rays. I've not noticed the audio quality issues generally, but maybe I've been putting anything I do notice down to the show when the blame should be on HIDIVE...

Dai said:
I've wanted to support HiDive, but their catalogue has become so anaemic over the last couple of years that I finally let my subscription lapse last month. One good show per season just isn't enough to keep it running year round, especially when their back catalogue is a wasteland.
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I still let mine run because they do, unfortunately, consistently have one or two shows I want to watch, but that's because I have quite broad tastes. 😅 This season I'm using them for the trashy Hero Without a Class, Unlimited Gacha and Dusk Beyond the End of the World (which is the real draw being a new P.A Works original).
 
@sniper_samurai I saw this and the steelbook design is lovely but considering the last 4k had some pretty big issues including missing subtitles and still having the end theme replaced I might wait until a review hits. I just feel like every blu ray release I've spent money on has had a major flaw. Sad that I'm still looking for a decent blu ray release and we're on something stupid like the 6th blu ray release and 2nd 4k release.
 
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