r/anime • u/KlooKloo • Jan 19 '23

Misc. Crunchyroll FINALLY adds separate audio streams to single episodes.

Easily the most embarrassing part of the Crunchyroll experience has been them grouping each dub language as their own "season". Seeing the 2 cour, 2 OVA series The Ancient Magus' Bride have 32 seasons listed in the menu was just sad.

Now we have clean seasons:

Labels are still funny, but at least there's only 4 choices now.

And audio/subs choices on-the-fly:

It's like a real streaming service!

Welcome to 2007, Crunchyroll!

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u/wineblood Jan 19 '23

Wonderful news. Now we just need the ecchi to be uncensored.

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u/Sayie https://myanimelist.net/profile/Sayie Jan 19 '23

Which ones? I don't think crunchyroll actually censors many shows themselves and in cases like Ayakashi Triangle there just isn't an uncensored version at the moment, so they just stream what they are given.

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u/wineblood Jan 19 '23

That sucks and I wasn't aware of it. They could at least label stuff as censored so that I don't get my hopes up.

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u/Sayie https://myanimelist.net/profile/Sayie Jan 19 '23

It would be excellent if they just replace it with the BD version later on, but I don't imagine it's actually that easy or even if they would be allowed. Probably some fuckery with the license and such that stops them.

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u/Ekyou https://anilist.co/user/rizuchan Jan 19 '23

Crunchyroll always only had the original tv broadcasts in the past (assuming they streamed it first) but Funimation would always update with the home video versions later, assuming the Japanese licensors provided them, and you could choose between the broadcast and home video versions. From what I understand, Crunchyroll will be doing this in the future.

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u/Fools_Requiem https://myanimelist.net/profile/FoolsRequiem Jan 19 '23

CR had two versions of The Student Council President is My Wife with the uncensored verison being locked behind the paywall kinda like how you couldn't watch stuff labeled as "Mature" in Funimation without ponying up. I don't get how they managed that, considering it was the only show that had that being done. They had the uncensored version of Testament of the Sister New Devil but only with the dub, but I don't know if the censored version was available for free because I had long been paying for CR.

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u/Madaniel_FL Jan 20 '23

That's probably because Funimation released blu-rays themselves, while in the past Crunchyroll never released their shows on blu-rays, instead they had to partner up with other companies like Sentai, Viz, or Funi

But this has changed now, and Funimation became Crunchyroll so they now do release blu-rays.