CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

Now that I almost exclusively watch anime online, I'm curious to know which site gets the most traffic from CAA members. Note: For the purpose of this poll, I am only sticking to the legal ways to watch anime. Stuff like <modsnip> shouldn't even be encouraged. For those that don't know, <modsnip> is illegal.
Anyway, I go back and forth. I mostly use Crunchy Roll and Hulu for my anime.

Honestly, I use streaming to watch the show I want to see then, so whichever it's available on. Since Durarara!! is only on Crunchyroll, that's where I watch it. If I want to see Baccano!(pre-purchasing, it anyways, now I just pop it in the DVD player) I would've gone to ANN because they don't have a mature block so I don't have to lie to watch it.

I choose the "No streaming site available in my country" option.

Crunchyroll did just have an announcement that Hayate the Combat Butler is available everywhere but Asia and Afghanistan, so I'd assume it's not their only option for more than just America and Canada.

Websites give me the 'this video is not available in your country' speech, so I often have to resort to the unpredictable and often incomplete YouTube streams.

I watch it from three steaming sites, Crunchy Roll, Hulu and the anime network.

Where I like Crunchy Roll, but I like Hulu better as you can lower the lights on the screen and I like that better, when watching anime on my computer.

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Certainly not Funimation; their claim of availability in Canada makes them either liars or incompetents.

If I watch it streaming, Youtube. Most other streaming sites seem to hate my computer for some reason. But I usually don't watch streaming anime anyway. Torrents are much easier and faster.

I pretty much use everything. If I can find it legally (Funi, ANN, Hulu, Crunchyroll, Netflix) then I'll watch it there even if I have to wait an extra week or something. But if it's not licensed to stream anywhere else, well then...I find other means.

Youtube is the only legal site I use for streaming.

It depends. I normally go to ANN, Funi, Youtube (legally of course), and Viz. I very seldomly attend to watching anime on Crunchyroll (unless it's a show I can't watch legally anywhere else) or Hulu (most of it's stuff is up on ANN anyway). But for the most part I go to the other sites I mention because they work better for me.

MightiMidget (post: 1429701) wrote:I pretty much use everything. If I can find it legally (Funi, ANN, Hulu, Crunchyroll, Netflix) then I'll watch it there even if I have to wait an extra week or something. But if it's not licensed to stream anywhere else, well then...I find other means.

I share your methods.

In order of the most usage from me:
Funimation/ hulu- They have a great variety on their site, I like to sample when I have time. Funimation uses hulu for a vast majority of their videos so I suppose I use hulu too.
Crunchyroll- Occasional use, I actually don't have a reason that I don't use this site as much, maybe it's because a lot of the anime I am watching is on Funi? I plan to use this site more, because I'm gonna catch up on Durarara!!
Viz- I used this site when I was watching Shojo beat shows like Honey and Clover and Nana. I haven't checked out their shonen jump shows as much though. But they use Hulu as well...

I mostly use Netflix Streaming or DVD rentals. I do use youtube as well though.

I've tended to use Hulu and Youtube. I've watched some shows just because I saw them on the company's Youtube channel and said "that has at least a 50/50 chance of being good". I'd expand my methods, but I don't have the free time to follow that many series.

I mostly use Crunchyroll, but Hulu finds a decent amount of use, too. I almost never watch on Youtube because for some reason, that site hates to load long videos for me.

And if it's not available for legal streaming, well. I don't let that stop me from seeing it, since most of my faves are not licensed.

Atria35 (post: 1429874) wrote:I mostly use Crunchyroll, but Hulu finds a decent amount of use, too. I almost never watch on Youtube because for some reason, that site hates to load long videos for me.

And if it's not available for legal streaming, well. I don't let that stop me from seeing it, since most of my faves are not licensed.

I used to be that way, I won't lie. What made me stop for anime at least though were two things.
1. Finding out that illegal streaming may be one of the reasons a couple of anime companies are out of business now.
2. I got viruses from <modsnip>. After we cleaned them out, I decided not to use this method anymore.

rocklobster (post: 1429878) wrote:I used to be that way, I won't lie. What made me stop for anime at least though were two things.
1. Finding out that illegal streaming may be one of the reasons a couple of anime companies are out of business now.
2. I got viruses from (this is gonna get modsnipped because it's the name of an illegal site). After we cleaned them out, I decided not to use this method anymore.

1. The only ones I watch illegally are the ones that AREN'T licensed. I make a distinct effort to buy the series that are or at the very least watch them through a legal streaming site. But there are a lot of good series that I would never see other than through an illegal site because they will probably never be brought stateside- I've been waiting forever for Dennou Coil, and Mononoke is so niche it would never be worth the money for licensing.
2. That's always a risk, no matter what site you're on.

Crunchyroll has a good amount of anime for viewing, which is a relief- I ended up purchasing Gankutsuou because I liked what I saw so much (I really had no idea whether I would like it or not).

I don't like streaming websites in general, whether legal or not, because I miss the features I'm accustomed to having in my media player of choice. That said, illegal streaming websites are almost uniformly terrible because they're run by random guys who don't actually know anything about content delivery or video encoding and whatnot. Viruses and malware are things you'll be able to mitigate; getting eyecancer from watching a terribly encoded video, not so much.

And that's why I learned to hang out on IRC and use XDCC.

I use Netflix streaming and DVD rental to watch. I don't always have consistent Internet access (and my mom's computer is iffy a lot of times), so I stream when I can. But I mostly use their DVDs.

I look for whatever matches the google query and is on either ANN, youtube, or what looks like a legit website. I've watched some stuff off animecrazy.net . idk how legal all of that stuff is (Kirby RBaY was on FOX for awhile, so I assume that was fine).

I don't use illegal streaming sites because, as others have said, the quality sucks, and my computer doesn't like loading long videos. If I'm looking for something unlicensed, I'm downloading it rather than streaming it.

Softsubs are pretty easy to get set up, too, and depending on what show I'm looking for, I can usually torrent it in about 15-20 minutes, which is pretty good.

I don't use Youtube and Crunchy Roll that much for my streaming. I usually just watch my shows on Netflix or Funimation. I am considering in using ANN, but most of their shows come from other sites which some don't use the edited versions of the show. I see no point watching it on ANN when I could see it on Youtube or Funimation which I have bookmarked and not ANN.

I used to use mostly Hulu for legal viewing, tho Youtube's my new fav because I can comment on stuff. xD I really hate it that so many are not licensed: one of my favs I'm trying to watch, all i can find is fansubs that their sites give me viruses and my comp is slowing dying anyway. D:

A few of those aren't able to be streamed in Canada (darn cause hulu has all my fav's)

<modsnip> they have both anime and manga. love that site.

um ct girl, you didn't fully read my first post. I am disqualifying all illegal streaming sites. <modsnip> counts. So, folks, don't follow that link. Besides, they gave me a virus twice.

You also aren't allowed to link to/namedrop those illegal sites according to forum rules.

I've used most of those sites, and as others have said. I find my own means for watching ones that aren't licensed. Sometimes I download torrents, but only if I know that I'll watch the show thoroughly. Because it takes a lot of space on my laptop.

oh...woops...i didn't know it was an illegal site. :X;;; i've also never gotten a virus from it either. odd. o_O; sorry about that...