Thank you to elocinia for bringing this to my attention. I’m only an occasional visitor to CrunchyRoll and I wouldn’t have picked up on this otherwise. The site is going to have big changes.

CrunchyRoll made a deal with TV Tokyo to get subbed versions of some of their series available one hour after they air in Japan. Awesome no? Not necessarily. In order to do this, they are first removing all unlicensed anime from their site. And if you want to watch those new episodes? You need to pay to be able to watch them right away. If you don’t, you’ve got to wait a week to watch them.

The fall out could be pretty big and we’ll have to see how they handle the fall out that is sure to come from people who protest their illegal vids from being accessible like they want to.