User blog comment:Prophet of Sanghelios/Dattebayo To Drop Bleach, Crunchyroll Aiming To Gain License/@comment-1454424-20100605110155

Well you can pay for CR service using CR Bucks - which you can earn doing surveys and stuff like that. In short, if you don't have the money, they are happy for you to pay in time.

In fact, forget about paid membership even if you use CR to rewatch old episodes of Bleach, that helps as well because that drives-up their site traffic and so they can charge more for ads to be placed on their site. Whichever way, CR will now be paying a license fee to TV Tokyo, The Anime Studio, Viz and Kubo too will derive some benefit from it.

I mean, I can totally understand that $59.99 for 12 months membership ($39.99 if you pay by paypal) is still a lot of money to some people. But it's not like CR is trying to squeeze the blood from your veins here. They will give you a free trial period if you just make an account with them. They will give you CR bucks for surveys and other things that you can use to pay for a premium membership and if all else fails, they will still make available the greater part of their anime library to you with the latest episode just being delayed by a week.

So at some point, not supporting the licenses distributor of Bleach in whatever way you can, even if it is watching old episodes at CR with their ads then somewhere else, basically amounts to you saying that you don't think Bleach is worth anything. Which is fine but that does mean that the future of Bleach comes into question. Bleach provides a livelihood for many people, Kubo is just the obvious person who derives his income from it, if people aren't willing to pay for Bleach in some way - then everybody who relies on Bleach must then move onto something people will pay for.