Crunchyroll Druaga Ep Disappears
Dated: 7 Apr 2008
I feel like this should be a Scooby Doo mystery: The Case of the Disappearing Anime Series!
Crunchyroll has announced that for the time being, they’re taking down Tower of Druaga. Why? I have no idea; all they say is tha it’s not GONZO’s fault.
BLASSREITER is still available on CR, though, and other sites (YouTube, BOST, and apparently BitTorrent) are still streaming both BLASSREITER and Druaga, and in BOST’s case offering downloads for iPod and PSP. At least now BOST’s is free.
Still, though…I wonder what happened? Speculation, anyone?
Tags: crunchyroll, legal downloads, piracy, tower-of-druaga
April 7th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Well. Damn. I was gonna watch that tonight. That’ll teach me to assume these things won’t fall apart while I’m not looking.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
That sucks…I was going to watch that this week. Maybe they’re doing it precisely for the internet reaction?
April 7th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Quality issues? Maybe it wasn’t bringing enough money as they hoped?
April 7th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
@Caitlin: I doubt that; it looks very unprofessional, and Crunchyroll *needs* to seem professional right now.
@IcyStorm: I think it’s more likely to be bandwidth problems.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Could be the “choppyness” issue that both gia and I wrote about, though I’m not sure why they’d take it down NOW to address that, unless the move by BOST to make the high quality stream free forced their hand in that regard.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
[...] for that and the fact that I heaped loads of love on Crunchyroll and they fricken pulled Tower of Druaga. I’m sure that those liars and thieves over there have some really good reason why they [...]
April 8th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
CR fails at providing enough information other than transparent “we can’t tell you and can’t really figure out a better way to explain it” statements, once again.