i noticed that there was a way to watch some ad-supported/free episodes on Crunchyroll. Let's just say, that tier is unstable. i would consider Crunchyroll/Hidive if they had gift cards that i could purchase in cash at retail.
* Crunchyroll Free Streaming: What's not to love - the 22+ ads in a 23-minute episode or the failure of ads to load - giving you an infinite black screen. That was on the app on my Xbox, maybe PC is more stable. Sure, there other problems, but those were the most annoyingly egregious.
i think i saw How to Train Your Dragon ads at least 100 times. Don't you hate in it in ad supported streaming when they take a break to show ads in the middle of sen.... Brought to you for 2.5 minutes by sponsors of a product/service you don't want or even need. tence?
If the advertisers are getting charged based off the number of ads shown, they are getting screwed. Frequently play the same ad back-to-back. The ads are set up as follows: 2 into ads, and an additional 4 sets of 5 or 6 ads.
* Rent-a-Girlfriend - heard that a lot of people pretend to like this series, so i decided to watch the three seasons available on Crunchyroll (couldn't get the last two episodes, 35-36, to play). It was not what i hoped it would be at least according to the descriptors. Something with that title should end up with the main character ending up in real relationship with a former rental girlfriend (unless told by from the rental girlfriend's point of view).
Basically, there are "Sugar Babies" (young women who sell their non-sexual companionship) to other people. Hence, the Rent-A-Girlfriend monicker. In this series it is basically 18-22 year old college women who sell the non-physical girlfriend experience to people near their own age. Real world it would likely be selling companionship to older men ("sugar daddies"). Many of these "Sugar Baby" types will engage in prostitution in the future. In the show, Chizuru Mizuhara (the main rental girlfriend character) very likely will when her acting ambitions fail. The other two potential love (Ruka and Sumi) interests likely won't.
In this series, a guy gets dumped by his first girlfriend and calls a service (as he was spiraling). The date went well. Then he discovered that he was being used by a lying manipulative girl after reading reviews, so he books a second date to call her out. This is where the premise should have ended. It probably would if his grandmother did not end up in the hospital. Wouldn't you know it, for some reason, she came along, and the main character stupidly said she was his girlfriend (to not disappoint the grandmother). Then it gets compounded when their grandmothers turn out to be friends.
So, they are stuck in a relationship. Might be added, that it would have ended far earlier if the fake girlfriend would not have come over after he told his grandmother they broke up. Doing so trapped him in a fake relationship for over a year. Well fake for the unfeeling female, very expensive for the hapless male. It was set up in such a way he became dependent on her for emotional stability (it ain't easy being a guy). She said she wanted to help him, but she was soaking him. Any guy spending that much time with a woman is going to develop feelings for the girl. She is a self-involved unfeeling witch - despite how much a guy sacrifices for her it will never be enough.
Time goes on and some rentals start to show interest in him. A younger girl who proclaims herself his girlfriend (and basically leaves her "career" for him), and later a very shy, sweet girl unsuited to the role developed feelings for him. He should have taken the shy girl to karaoke at least once. The proclaimed girlfriend wants to save him from his main love interest, who has willfully broken almost all ethics considerations of her "profession". He would have been much better off with either of those. At least there could have been a future with one of them.
*Toxic Fanbases (at least my view on what i see online). Using Rent-A-Girlfriend as a basis...
- Anime online stuff is borderline feminist and very much anti-male. i suspect much of that is the programming/conditioning Millennials and Gen Z have been subject to. Very much not a fan of either demographic cohort.
If a man is into a girl, he is a "simp", stalker, or some other derisive term. Finally sort of know what that means all these years after hearing it in a Boyz II Men song.
Any woman that is a psycho bitch from hell (Almost Live reference) is revered (who are the real simps fanboys). i abhor lying, manipulative women (online puts them on a pedestal). Like the original girlfriend in Rent-a-Girlfriend, it is lauded that she tries to destroy her exes relationships and his life - because she is a "strong female" and he deserves to be destroyed for some reason (not that i could tell you what the idiotic rationale would be).
- The general hostility to relationships at all. Even though anime characters are cartoons, they have needs (their version of Maslowe's Heirarchy). Therefore, it would be reasonable for them to engage in relationships (meaningless and otherwise). Oh no a "harem". Couple that with insanely broad definitions of what a harem is (two+ girls like a guy - harem?). Rich coming from a bunch of people with body counts in the low-mid double digits.
For guys, a harem is a power fantasy: being important enough for women to want you (having power, renown) is a big part. It is not all about the sex, but if sex exists even better. Actually, having multiple women want a guy is a massive validation to their sense of a worth.
- Too much PC ness. i though PC died in the mid 90s. Guess it was just rebranded. Anything that doesn't fit their narrow world view is too much for them to understand (not like they would ever try anyway).
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