I got the season 1-4 DVD set for 90 bucks.
The whole "support the original authors" kick is just a bunch of crap.
Crunchyroll can burn in hell, dirty streamers. Streams suck, and unfortunately, that's where things are headed. I refuse to watch netflix, hulu, or Crunchyroll. Keep the streaming to youtube, with the home made music videos where it belongs. Hell, you can even get a local copy on cable these days. It's called DVR. Seems to me, streaming tv on the internet is a step BACKWARDS.
If you're wondering where my hatred of streaming comes from, it's because I live in Oklahoma, where we get a LOT of bad weather, and the internet tends to go out. "Get a better internet service" really isn't an option, as I've had DSL (worthless junk), have cable right now, and well, we have satellite tv and that goes wonky every time a cloud passes by, so I'm not getting satellite internet. If the power goes out while I have a local copy, I can hop on my trusty portable dvd player or the laptop and watch the show via flash drive, dvd, or external (I have one that you don't have to plug into the wall).
LOL, I live in Oklahoma, right in the path of "Tornado alley" and my internet in the last 15 years hasn't gone out long enough to ever make a complaint like the one you're making.
Streams are also not as bad as what some of these clowns have made them out to be. If you've got even a remotely good internet connection Hulu and Netflix will give a very good quality visual. Faster the connection, better the quality. Currently I'm on a 1 meg connection (19.99 a month, cheaper than some dialups) and Hulu's video quality reminds me of what I used to see on Saturday and Sunday latenights.
Netflix occasionally leaves something to be desired though. When I had a fast connection (5megs) it was all but dvd quality with no interruptions. With my current connection I get at least 1 "you connection has slowed, please wait while we adjust your playback" for every 4 full length movies I watch/stream. Image quality is about VHS quality. A little trick though, sometimes it's faster to just refresh the webpage and let it load again. It will start right where you left off.
I can't speak Japanese, but I was married to a Japanese woman and I have a Japanese daughter and we watch anime a lot. She has told me that sometimes the Subs are wrong, but more often than not because of the differences in English and Japanese the subs are correct for the most part it's just that English and Jap don't translate directly and you need to make alterations to make things understandable. Then there are some subs that just fubarred but hell that happens.
A lot of the hate posts I've read are just wrong, reminds me of the WoW forums, jump on something and let it roll, hate for the sake of hating.