Absolute hogwash. Torrenting is easy as pie if you know the right places and know the bare minimum basics of torrenting like pick a torrent with more seeds in the quality you want. It takes less time to torrent something than find out which of the gajillion streaming sites has the thing I want to watch.
Yeah 10 episodes down a hole of anime season and you find the last ones don’t have English dubs resulting in an impending shit show to deal with because no one bothered to release it or there are no seeds for single episodes. Then there’s the subs written by someone who doesn’t know any languages apparently. Then there’s the shitty transcodes originally. Then the logistics of managing which one of the 5 members of my family wanted it and getting it to the device of their choice.
Then you find something is only available in x265 so you have to transcode it yourself so it’ll play on the kids 5 year old Samsung TV. Oh and that only supports certain very fussy audio streams.
Just no. I’m on the mark. I’ve been doing this shit for a decade and I’m tired and fed up with it. I pay ~£35 a month for all my services and that’s a bargain. It’s literally fuck all money to make the problems go away.
You could just set up a NAS and a Plex server to do the transcoding for you. In all my years I have personally never had any issues. I have had to struggle with x265 once or twice, and even then I just found a different non x265 torrent and went with that. Not that hard, there are often 10 torrents for a single show, each of varying compressions and qualities.
And I bet that you can find anything you could ever want on nyaa. If an anime/manga exists, it almost certainly is on nyaa, unless it is highly obscure in which case it may not even be there on paid streams.
