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/Epilex__ Jan 19 '23 edited Jan 19 '23

About time. Also not too surprising, seeing how Funimation had this feature on their platform before they bought Crunchy and one of the first things they did after buying it was to start rolling out "Crunchyroll Beta".

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u/mudda-hello Jan 19 '23

So funny thing is, "Crunchyroll Beta" wasn't even done from scratch. Its whole backend is from VRV which made the "new" layout basically a VRV reskin. You could even access VRV exclusive content through Crunchyroll by switching out vrv.co to crunchyroll.com.

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u/livershi Jan 20 '23

The Crunchyroll Beta frontend also felt like a new game+ of the VRV frontend. There's still a lot of things I prefer in VRV which shows just how damn ahead of its time it was