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Recent reports have announced that Crunchyroll, the largest anime streaming service, will be replacing Aegisub with Israeli Software, OOONA, to produce subtitles more efficiently. Anime fans across the world are disappointed with this collaboration due to Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians (via a report by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry).

Crunchyroll is also ignoring the needs of groups who require Closed Captions to understand the scenes better. They are isolating a large chunk of their audience in favor of AI-based subtitling, which defeats the point of a streaming service. Overall, this hasn’t been a great year for Crunchyroll, and this won’t be the end of it.

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[–] Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org 24 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Crunchyroll doesn't even have all of the anime, they neglect a few classic ones. Pricks.

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 19 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Doesn't even have all the seasons of some animes they have. It's ridiculous copyright rules in different countries. It sucks.

[–] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 28 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The pirate life is the only life for me.

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[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 29 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Well shit. If this goes through I'll have to cancel

[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

https://xcancel.com/sugoilite/status/1973732830334292420?s=46&t=qypRlc3aYixql0uGFrdzNA

Many people noticed that the changes in the subs, they used to translate text in the background for example.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 28 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Oh so it has gone through? Fuck. Time to cancel then

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[–] Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 12 points 14 hours ago

Sub ran out midway last month.

Kodi + Premiumize.me + Otaku for the win. 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Have this odd bug where CC is enabled at first on every episode and man, it’s bad. Luckily subs for JP dubs are somewhat decent but I feel bad for anyone who needs closed captioning.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

CC is a separate setting from the subtitles. There is a place to turn it off but it's so unintuitive I can never remember it. All it really is, though is dub dialog. There was no attempt at proper closed captioning.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I turn the setting off and next time I launch the app, it’s tuned right back on. Works fine on my PC, just not my XB1.

And the CCs don’t even get the dub dialog right. Names are beyond mangled it looks like they’re trying to run it through a realtime recognition system to do auto captions. It’d be worlds better if they just uploaded the ADR script at that point.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

What I meant is there is a separate overall setting to turn it off. I think it is an app specific setting. If you just turn them off in the settings for the show, it will only affect that session.

Also it's sad to hear they've gotten worse. They were bad enough before when they were dub dialog only.

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