hey, y’all - how’s everybody doin’?
EVERYTHING on Hulu *and stuff on Netflix* is moving or has moved to Crunchyroll, Amazon‘s sole access for anime is slowly eroding as contracts end and rights revert…ditto for ‘Netflix jail’.
Funimation is out of the picture: I doubt they’d even sell you a monthly. ONLY CRUNCHYROLL is being updated w/ new shows & new episodes, and Funi’s deep catalog is showing up on CR frequently.
Go w/ CR and you’ll get everything FUNI. I pay $8/mo & I don’t have time to watch everything I want to see. Satisfied customer, who once burned thru everything on Prime, Hulu & NFLX.
Deeply disappointed w/ HiDive (most of my comments are in this thread); I’ll update them to say that they have few shows, & many are older; as for “mature content”, many such shows are incredibly juvenile & not worth watching - and not at all mature (fan-service NE maturity!) - but some are FUNNY (intentionally) and some are unbearable. Some, like Ikki Tousen, are awful - no story, no characters, just girls getting their clothes ripped off in swordfights. I signed up because I wanted to see “Call of the Night” & “Vermiel in Gold”, and to see what HD had. Those are good shows (not great but worth watching if you’re move to do so), but I won’t renew once those shows are done. HiDive’s mobile app is garbage to try & use.
As the FuniRoll merger rolls on, I expect HiDive to - well, take a dive: it’s pretty obvious that Sony wants to be THE central source for all things anime, so they’ll be competing for licenses as current agreements expire…and maybe not getting them.
In other news, Season TWO of Ancient Magus’ Bride has been announced (no dates, but still) - preview looks AMAZING! Also, Season 3 of Arifureta was announced. And the fall season looks to have a bunch of good stuff, the one most front-of-mind is The Eminence in Shadow.
as Summer is almost over anime-wise, it’s about time for what’s hot & what’s dropped, but I’ll do that later.
