Good Online Ways To Watch Anime?

Eorzea Time
 
 
 
Langues: JP EN FR DE
users online
Forum » Everything Else » Culture and Media » Good online ways to watch anime?
Good online ways to watch anime?
 Garuda.Chanti
Offline
Serveur: Garuda
Game: FFXI
user: Chanti
Posts: 11096
By Garuda.Chanti 2017-03-27 20:29:53
Link | Citer | R
 
So yeah... I have a great internet connection, satellite TV, but I don't watch TV, that's mostly my roomie's domain.

Still I find I would like to catch up on some anime.

Got channels? sites? or portals? or whatever?

And my local library system (state wide) doesn't have what I am looking for. I checked.
 Bismarck.Magnuss
Offline
Serveur: Bismarck
Game: FFXI
Posts: 28615
By Bismarck.Magnuss 2017-03-27 20:40:56
Link | Citer | R
 
I hear people ranting and raving about Crunchyroll. I'm not an Anime fan, but maybe that warrants a quick looksee.
MSPaint Winner
Offline
Posts: 1509
By Skjalfeirdotter 2017-03-27 21:00:02
Link | Citer | R
 
Garuda.Chanti said: »
So yeah... I have a great internet connection, satellite TV, but I don't watch TV, that's mostly my roomie's domain.

Still I find I would like to catch up on some anime.

Got channels? sites? or portals? or whatever?

And my local library system (state wide) doesn't have what I am looking for. I checked.


https://ww1.gogoanime.io

http://www.anime-planet.com/anime/watch-online/

http://www.crunchyroll.com
 Asura.Kingnobody
Bug Hunter
Offline
Serveur: Asura
Game: FFXI
Posts: 34187
By Asura.Kingnobody 2017-03-27 21:04:17
Link | Citer | R
 
Bismarck.Magnuss said: »
I hear people ranting and raving about Crunchyroll.
Crunchyroll is ok if you aren't going to watch specific, very popular anime on the day/hour it's released.

Every time I try to watch Dragon Ball Super when it's released, the site goes down for a while (I think they are constantly attacked by DDoS, probably Lizard Squad, cause, you know, they are ***).
 Ramuh.Austar
Offline
Serveur: Ramuh
Game: FFXI
user: Austar
Posts: 10457
By Ramuh.Austar 2017-03-27 21:05:24
Link | Citer | R
 
It used to be better before they started putting ads in the video itself.
[+]
 Asura.Kingnobody
Bug Hunter
Offline
Serveur: Asura
Game: FFXI
Posts: 34187
By Asura.Kingnobody 2017-03-27 21:09:44
Link | Citer | R
 
Ramuh.Austar said: »
It used to be better before they started putting ads in the video itself.
I'm a premium member, so I don't get ads at all.

Still sucks that I have to usually wait the next day to watch some anime.

It's got some gems in there you wouldn't think to look though.

The World God Only Knows
Dog Days
Demon King Daimao

Some other stuff.
 Shiva.Siviard
Offline
Serveur: Shiva
Game: FFXI
user: Siviard
Posts: 1328
By Shiva.Siviard 2017-03-27 21:25:21
Link | Citer | R
 
In honor of the extremely overpowered Enlight effect from Excalibur in this month's Intense Ambuscade, I highly suggest watching the anime Soul Eater.

YouTube Video Placeholder
[+]
Offline
Posts: 703
By Nyarlko 2017-03-27 22:21:31
Link | Citer | R
 
If torrenting fansubs is an option for you, Nyaa Torrents is my go to. ^^ My 'net sucks (DSL) so streaming is not even an actual option for me... orz
 Sylph.Ice
Offline
Serveur: Sylph
Game: FFXI
user: Ice
Posts: 305
By Sylph.Ice 2017-03-27 23:26:13
Link | Citer | R
 
Shiva.Siviard said: »
In honor of the extremely overpowered Enlight effect from Excalibur in this month's Intense Ambuscade, I highly suggest watching the anime Soul Eater.

YouTube Video Placeholder

Soul Eater is amazing, but that english dub voice for Black Star is bleh. Excalibur is pure gold in that series.

Can confirm for Crunchyroll though, as long as you don't care about watching more current shows asap, the service is pretty good overall. Nice back catalog that will last you for quite a while no matter what type of taste you have.
 Ragnarok.Hevans
Offline
Serveur: Ragnarok
Game: FFXI
user: Hev
Posts: 15273
By Ragnarok.Hevans 2017-03-27 23:41:56
Link | Citer | R
 
dattebayo.com?
Offline
Posts: 194
By Gruknor 2017-03-28 00:27:07
Link | Citer | R
 
Ragnarok.Hevans said: »

The link just sends you back to this page with "www.dattebayo.com" at the end.
 Sylph.Kuwoobie
Offline
Serveur: Sylph
Game: FFXI
user: Kuwoobie
Posts: 765
By Sylph.Kuwoobie 2017-03-28 00:33:56
Link | Citer | R
 
I used to use crunchyroll before it started screaming at me for using adblock. There are probably hundreds of different sites you can view new anime as it's released that don't make you wait to see it or demand you buy their premium membership.

I use animeshow.tv, which is one of many identical anime streaming sites.
Offline
Posts: 703
By Nyarlko 2017-03-28 01:07:17
Link | Citer | R
 
Gruknor said: »
Ragnarok.Hevans said: »

The link just sends you back to this page with "www.dattebayo.com" at the end.
Looks like my link for Nyaa Torrets is doing the same thing... Is this some sort of "haven't posted enough" restriction?
 Bahamut.Rulerofdarkness
Offline
Serveur: Bahamut
Game: FFXI
Posts: 3620
By Bahamut.Rulerofdarkness 2017-03-28 02:54:18
Link | Citer | R
 
Nyarlko said: »
Looks like my link for Nyaa Torrets is doing the same thing... Is this some sort of "haven't posted enough" restriction?

You forgot the "http://" part in your url.
 Bismarck.Patrik
Offline
Serveur: Bismarck
Game: FFXI
user: Patrik
Posts: 1325
By Bismarck.Patrik 2017-03-28 03:16:35
Link | Citer | R
 
animefreak.tv is pretty good. Links for some anime can be slow but in general it works pretty well.
 Shiva.Dawezy
Offline
Serveur: Shiva
Game: FFXI
user: Dawezy
Posts: 26
By Shiva.Dawezy 2017-03-28 03:20:41
Link | Citer | R
 
Worth mention for the few Auzzies out there who don't know of it, can check out AnimeLab - basically a Auzzie version of Crunchyroll I guess? has some exclusives that Crunch hasn't got I think. Also exclusive to Australia & New Zealand folks.
 
Offline
Posts:
By 2017-03-28 06:24:23
 Undelete | Edit  | Link | Citer | R
 
Post deleted by User.
 Asura.Aineko
Offline
Serveur: Asura
Game: FFXI
user: Aineko
Posts: 71
By Asura.Aineko 2017-03-28 07:13:59
Link | Citer | R
 
Well, the thing about Kissanime is that they don't actually have licenses for the shows you're watching. If you care about that stuff at all, here's a sticky on Reddit I find helpful:

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/wiki/legal_streams_/_downloads

And if you're looking for a specific show (for free, it doesn't always show the library of titles behind the subscription wall), you can find which legal provider it'll be on here (think it is only good for NA though):

http://because.moe/

As for Crunchyroll, if you are willing to pay $7 a month you get ad-free content. It's not too bad for what you get. The service itself,yeah, when the bigger shows are VERY new the site sometimes gets congested, and possibly DDoS'd.. Then again, from what I've read, Kissanime has had its share of downtime due to DDoS.
 
Offline
Posts:
By 2017-03-28 08:07:29
 Undelete | Edit  | Link | Citer | R
 
Post deleted by User.
 
Offline
Posts:
By 2017-03-28 09:14:48
 Undelete | Edit  | Link | Citer | R
 
Post deleted by User.
Offline
Posts: 96
By Darksparksnot 2017-03-28 09:27:42
Link | Citer | R
 
Crunchyroll is a nono, tried yesterday and got flooded by ads during playtime.
Offline
Serveur: Excalibur
Game: FFXIV
user: misacat
Posts: 3176
By Nadleeh Sakurai 2017-03-28 09:31:00
Link | Citer | R
 
crunchy roll
yes, free users get ads, no ads for those who pay or use guest passes.

1/23/2017 XNKBJNJQ35V Premium+ Guest Pass - 48 Hours Valid Apr 23, 2017
2/24/2017 WL3UAMEUXCV Premium+ Guest Pass - 48 Hours Valid May 25, 2017
3/28/2017 JCFAKTAYBH5 Premium+ Guest Pass - 48 Hours Valid Jun 26, 2017

for those interested.
[+]
 
Offline
Posts:
By 2017-03-28 09:52:03
 Undelete | Edit  | Link | Citer | R
 
Post deleted by User.
Offline
Serveur: Excalibur
Game: FFXIV
user: misacat
Posts: 3176
By Nadleeh Sakurai 2017-03-28 10:11:06
Link | Citer | R
 
meh
 Asura.Kingnobody
Bug Hunter
Offline
Serveur: Asura
Game: FFXI
Posts: 34187
By Asura.Kingnobody 2017-03-28 11:19:17
Link | Citer | R
 
Candlejack said: »
Nadleeh Sakurai said: »
crunchy roll
yes, free users get ads, no ads for those who pay or use guest passes.

1/23/2017 XNKBJNJQ35V Premium+ Guest Pass - 48 Hours Valid Apr 23, 2017
2/24/2017 WL3UAMEUXCV Premium+ Guest Pass - 48 Hours Valid May 25, 2017
3/28/2017 JCFAKTAYBH5 Premium+ Guest Pass - 48 Hours Valid Jun 26, 2017

for those interested.
Read the article I linked above, please. Crunchy's begun *** over the paying customers too, I'm certain even you've noticed the hit in video quality going on.
You should read the blog again too.

Quote:
2017–03–16 UPDATE: Crunchyroll has put out a technical blog post regarding the reduced video quality. They have also started pushing out new encodes with improved encoding settings, albeit from quick comparing the new encodes are more of a side-step compared to their old ones from before the reduced quality ones. Nevertheless, this means that the vastly reduced video quality will be going away eventually and should not affect new episodes from now on. I wish we’d have gotten more than effectively just a return to the starting point, though. One can hope that Crunchyroll has learned their lesson though and will be improving their video quality further afterward. Maybe one day they will actually start fixing flaws in the sources they get!
 Odin.Rikiyame
Offline
Serveur: Odin
Game: FFXI
user: Rikiyame
Posts: 401
By Odin.Rikiyame 2017-03-28 14:50:11
Link | Citer | R
 
Netflix and Hulu have decent options, especially if you are already paying for those. Hulu has a better breakdown of genres and is getting into simulcast. Youtube has stuff but you have to know how to look (show s# episode#). Otherwise, I use kissanime, which usually has stuff an hour after airing.
 
Offline
Posts:
By 2017-03-28 16:39:02
 Undelete | Edit  | Link | Citer | R
 
Post deleted by User.