Over a year ago I tried writing down on which streaming services the anime I was watching or wanted to watch were, in case I for some reason decided to stop pirating. I found that in order to access ~90% of the anime I was interested in without outright piracy, I needed five separate streaming service subscriptions plus a VPN subscription — the remaining tenth of anime I wanted to watch were wholly unavailable except by piracy. And since VPNs violate the TOS of many streaming services, you might as well be pirating, in that case! So how about without using a VPN to circumvent geo-blocking? Even with five separate streaming service subscriptions, I would in that case only have access to around half of the anime I wanted to watch.

Now I don’t want to come across as, y’know, treatbrained or whatever, but it’s like… What, $35~$40 a month to get access to only half of the anime I want to watch? I might as well be buying used DVDs from the local classifieds, because at least then I’d actually physically own my anime. The only good thing about Netflix is that they’ve got Norwegian subtitles, but even then the quality of the subtitles is sometimes questionable, and the shows themselves can be pulled at any moment. And do the Norwegian subs get saved to any piracy or subtitle websites before the shows get pulled? No, of course not, because I’m probably the only person in the world who actually gives a shit.

Definitely don’t pay for Crunchyroll, I like reminding people that they don’t want to pay their voice actors union wages.