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Ryota Ochi as Mame Bozu

Artwork that makes you go "this is porn isn't it?"

I can't for the life of me figure out how this site stays afloat. Sure it's pretty much the porn version of Crunchyroll but I don't need a 6 figure income to prove I'm not a horny, lonely loser because apparently that's who they think their services are for (spoiler[horny, lonely losers WITH 6 figure incomes]).

This sounds like bashing, but the real price tag on the content you get is beyond outrageous. They have to hide the fact you're paying in $ (or whatever) by using these deceptive tickets. Basically the smuttier the more tickets you need. Merely censored or cleverly hidden naughty shows came out to about $1 / minute. $1? so what? Yeah that will run you about $300 for a typical 12 episode anime series. Each series on there has a combined run time of about an hour. But if you purchase just 5, bam! $300 bucks down the drain (and no physical anything to show for it, just a pile of sticky tissues).

Well I guess that's how they stay afloat, by ripping off horny anime fans.

According to Coolmic's current pricing and ticket system each episode is 50 tickets ($5) and if its an 8 episode series thats 400 tickets to buy making it $40 to own the entire series digitally. I agree $40 for an 8 episode anime with 5min episodes is not a great value but where in the hell did you get $300? Even doing the 12 episode estimate thats only $60... Also the ticket system is not deceptive its pretty straight forward what youre paying for and what the cost per ticket is plus this is literally how every pay-per-chapter manga/manhwa/webtoon services operate, this is very much an industry norm.

I don't know whether they lowered their prices but I recall paying more than $5 for 50 tickets. Nevertheless, the pricing you quoted actually confirms the per minute rate is $1. When I said $300, I made it clear I was talking about 300 minutes of content (twelve 25-minute standard episodes or five entire coolmic series at about 1hour runtime each). I stand corrected that they are actually only about 40 minutes each.

Plus that standard content I was referring to is physical media. You usually get bonus content, artwork and a physical product that you can touch. And usually the price tag for that is less than $60 for a full series. You might argue the content on coolmic is not standard, it's value added with explicit, titillating animation. I still don't think it justifies the price. Especially with your so-called "industry standard" and the vast majority of its workers can barely survive even though customers are paying through the roof for that "industry standard."