Heads up: VIZ streams Naruto Shippuden free @ Naruto.com!

Pretty sweet... I don't watch anime anymore I just read manga... but I guess it's a good way for all those Narutards to get their fix lol

It's definitely a fine leap towards making the world a better place for the English educated anime fan, though I'd much rather Viz get their head out of their ass and focus on pushing out the more obscure content they have sitting around and doing nothing with while the fans of it can only sit there and send e-mails regarding yet receive no response... Come on Viz, do something with your Shakugan no Shana light novel license already. It's almost 2 years now and nothing.

Putting that aside, it is like I said a fine effort, and will certainly stop quite a lot of the fansub downloading because the average Naruto viewer will latch onto the quickest sub of it that is available without regard to quality, and if it is being a simulcast, then you can't get any better than that really so it is quite the effective move by Viz. It's overall effects regarding the business aspects of everything though remains to be seen. Maybe they're hoping for getting some nice ad revenue out of it or something since they'll also be including the commercial break in the simulcast.

I guess it's a nice thing of VIZ to do. But I don't really like streams, I like to have something on my hard-drive. So I hope, fansubbers will still continue to do their job and release the series for us the normal way.

Damn!!^^ Not my region... :(

Me 2!

Me 2!

What about us who don't live in the great US of A?

I tried crunchyroll but the quality was very poor until the end and they don't have enough subs for me to want to subscribe for nearly what I pay for 'The Anime Network' as a cable channel where I get 70 chapters a month (but a lot of repeats over the years) for $8/mo. HuLu's quality on Viz is just awful.

Good one from Viz media... I really like their spanish dubs, is excellent and reflect pretty well the characters...

ammm cruncy roll releases this for free also for every one exept france and japan,
and if you pay 6 bux per month you can see episode 104 as well.

If you don't live in north america there are still ways to see it. This is the internet people!

Of course if Viz REALLY listened to fans they'd have hired Dattebayo to handle this endeavor XD

It shows VIZ has finally caved to the inevitability of data access via the internet. At least by streaming it themselves then can ensure a safe fan-base under their wings as a company.

I kinda wish i lived in the states now... for once...

@10
http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-491527/naruto-shippuden-103-free-for-everyone-win-a-signed-naruto-poster/

Seems like they are showing 103 as well :p (I mean how can they show 104 when it's not out in japan yet even :p

njt, 103 and 104 was a duble episode,or some other recent episode was a double. crunchy roll was messing around cuz one week they didnt give any episodes, but now if you are a member you can watch 103 and 104.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/media-523972/naruto-shippuden-104/

and crunchy roll has been subbing naruto offcially for a while, there was a thread here on MH actually.

http://mangahelpers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43918

well 104 is out, its allready on torrents. (ppl rip it right out of cruncy roll its called horrible subs :S [the ppl would comment on the horrible subs site, "WOW this subs are amazing! etc etc crunchy roll sucks" :S ])

http://mangahelpers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47944

i just controlled my self one week and didnt get it from torrents, and now i just legaly watch it weekly, even if its last weeks episode. Its all good.

The idea is good.

Only problem is that it only works in the US.

Yes: With some effort you might get it to work but even then there might be a problem with the transferspeed in the end.

@ Feanor
that's why you use downloading software that allows you to download it to your hard disk, altho albeit, the quality usually isn't great

I know that. That's what I do, although I havent seen a shippuuden ep in a long time. So that's what I'd do when I want them.
What I'm saying is that I hope this step won't stop people from fansubbing. Because if they stop because of this, it's not as easy to download anymore.

Bah... where can the rest of the world see it then? Not everybody is from N.A.....

Hotspot Shield ...

"Bah... where can the rest of the world see it then? Not everybody is from N.A..."

"The idea is good.Only problem is that it only works in the US.
Yes: With some effort you might get it to work but even then there might be a problem with the transferspeed in the end. "

look at post #10 and # 16

It's a pity, this won't be avaible in Brazil.

Fuck streams/Viz, fansubs ftw! It always was, is and I hope will be.