With July ending very soon, it’s time to share some interesting posts and some thoughts during the month. Crunchyroll Translators not receiving fair pay? Earlier this month, The Canipa Effect put out an interesting video about translators not receiving fair pay by Crunchyroll. In the past before legal anime streaming, especially in the 2000s, fan translators […]
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