do you watch anime legally or are you a pirate

i have gone completely legal when it has come to watching anime and reading manga. with the exception to unlicensed shows and out of print shows because there is simply no legal way to watch those. does anyone else do this? keep in mind this poll is only about anime because i feel making it about both anime and manga might be awkward since some people buy their anime but not their manga or vise versa. also watching anime legally means you watch anime on tv, legal streams or buy the dvds. unlicensed anime doesnt count.

90% of new shows are licensed before airing outside Japan.

yes and they are almost all available for legal stream on crunchyroll.

I'd fall into the third option in the poll...a...legal pirate? xD

When I can, I do buy BDs/DVDs of series I really like. But I'm not a big fan of anime streaming (though the Crunchyroll app for my xbox is something to start considering) and prefer to download fansubs to watch at my own convenience.

Most of the anime I watch I stream on my ps3 with Crunchyroll. I torrent what I can't get on there... this season especially they didn't have most of the shows that I wanted to watch. Last season they did, it just depends I guess.

I stream, but then I also do buy anime I REALLY like



which explains me dishing out $60 at AX for the Gurren Laggan boxset
worth it btw since well WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM

I dont have the money to buy every series I like, and paying to stream something I can get free by torrenting is a waste of money, so I torrent.

A little bit of column A and a little bit of column B, I try to watch anime on crunchyroll, but if theres a anime I want to watch and its not on there I put on my eyepatch arrrg

I torrent because

>streaming
>2013

and it's more convenient to watch them whenever I want. Also higher quality

Someshow are very hard to find but i try my best :s

As a non-native speaker of English,i still prefer watching any sort of shows with my mother tongue subtitles by either downloading or streaming from different local fansub sites but i still torrent eng sub whenever i cant find anime i want to watch on there.Either way,it doesnt seem like such a big deal to me.

Well, aside from Crunchyroll and unlike in the US, there's almost nothing licensed here in Mexico and generally in all Latin America. So most of the time I have to download some series xP

Only in the 90's, anime was there even in local channels, but it has been almost forgotten lately. Crunchyroll only raised the amount of licensed series to a mere 30% or so of every season.

It's the same for mangas, we haven't recieved that much in that regard either (hellsing, elfen lied, shaman king... there's not that many)

On short, I try to watch it legally when I can, but most of the time it's not there and I have to download it.

You should change the title of the thread to do you buy anime when you can. Most anime play before their BD release and many people watch them before they are available for purchase. Anime is aired for free in Japan, and watching something with subtitles isn't piracy. If you like it, then buy it when it comes out.

[size=1]Context was the same as topic of the thread. I'm a window shopper.[/h]

True. Soggyroll also don't hold the license... just rents. But the animu on a-tx or cable only channel aren't free to watch unless your on there site I think.

Pirate mostly.

I buy the ones I really like.

Pirate, the only anime I ever bought was that Battle angel alita ova, and that was via ebay.

the elfen lied manga has never been brought outside of japan.

there is more than 1 legal streaming site. crunchyroll isnt the only choice. i mean funimation puts up almost their entire library for legal stream on both youtube and their website.

Now its mostly legal thanks to netflix and hulu plus but I still go on animefreak once in a while or whenever I want to watch mobile suit gundam.