They seem to be sticking to the manga pretty well, and it ends with a cliffhanger for the arrival of Soma to Weston. Ep3 should begin with the rest of his arrival.
I'm not sure whether Harcourt was meant to be a full albino, but he is presented as one here, pink eyes and all.
All the fan service scenes of the manga have been preserved in the anime adaptation, but thankfully they haven't really been exaggerated. Just animated.
I still don't know whether they plan to include the weird fire giant in the story itself; I'm hoping that's just hype and/or symbolism. I mean the end credits have the p4's heads either exploding or getting lopped off, and that definitely can't be part of the story. They are needed for the plot later... still as humans, not bizarre dolls. So, here's to hoping the fire giant never surfaces, either. 😆
While I'm now paying for the Crunchyroll subscription, I guess I ought to start watching all the other series I've been putting off.... 😮💨
Crunchyroll buying out and shutting down Funimaton, deleting everyone’s purchased copies, and then hiking up their prices by 200% is just another example of why you should buy physical media. If you want to buy things you actually own, don’t look to streaming.
As an older(?) Anime fan, I am continuously amused when I spot anime in the wild.
I mean, look at this advertisement. No explanation, no tag line. Just Loid Forger.
Pretend for a second you know nothing about anime or Spy x Family.
Without context, what would this mean?
Who is this? What does he do?
Irrelevant, says Crunchyroll. Look at this man. He's Loid. Spy x Family. What is that? A show? A movie? Who cares. Watch it on Crunchyroll. Is that a channel? An app?Doesn't matter. Look at this handsome man. You want to see more of him. Locate the Crunchyroll. Consume Spy x Family.
The thought & painting process behind this painting I got to do for the Attack on Titan: Final Season! Still feels surreal to be able to say that I got to make a painting for such a popular anime series, but here we are
#brbchasingdreams
it's fucking bizarre to me that while every app is turning into a subscription plan they're also simultaneously removing all functionality from the apps to cancel your subscription. how the fuck is it legal to start charging someone monthly for something but then immediately after they sign up you take away the button to say "hey I'm done paying for that"???
this is fucking evil. "Hey I know we're tripling our prices soon but you can't cancel the membership in the app, but you could delete your account! but actually if you do that we're still gonna keep charging you money anyways :)"
Crunchyroll fails to meet industry standards for Closed Captioning
In 2017, Sony Pictures Entertainment bought a 95% majority share of Funimation Entertainment for $143 million. Four years later, Sony completed its acquisition of Crunchyroll for $1.175 billion, bringing the two companies back together after their partnership break in 2018. The decision cements Crunchyroll-qua-Sony’s place as the largest monopoly in the English-language anime streaming space.
The merger has included the gradual sunsetting of Funimation’s streaming site; all titles that aired after Spring 2022 will be uploaded exclusively to Crunchyroll; while any Funimation-exclusive titles have either been transferred over to Crunchyroll or will leave streaming, and dubbing projects are now carried out under the Crunchyroll umbrella. All of this makes one of the biggest issues with the site even more glaring: with a few exceptions, Crunchyroll does not offer closed captioning for its English dubs.
Wish I had the business acumen to make my own anime streaming competitor to Crunchyroll. Because it’s doubling its prices after FUNimation is folded into it. And you aren’t even getting a better service!