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Why is HiDive less popular than Crunchyroll? Well, that's what I'll be talking about in today's blog post! Much like Crunchyroll, HiDive is an anime streaming platform, and it has exclusive series too. But a lot of anime fans don't subscribe to it. So why is this? Well, it's mostly because there's not a lot of content on it. A lot of anime companies would rather stay with Crunchyroll, which is widely known and has a very large amount of subscribers. All anime fans know what Crunchyroll is, and it has a lot of content to choose from. It even has manga and videogames on it now. Because of this, any competing anime streaming platform is going to have very big competition. I was surprised when HiDive started because I knew it would struggle. Many fans think it isn't worth it. I did subscribe to it for a short while after it first came out, but there was a very small selection on there back then. It's been a few years now, but anime fans still say the selection is small because Crunchyroll gets everything. This is understandable since Crunchyroll is literally the original anime streaming service. Before them, there wasn't anywhere for fans to legally watch a large selection of anime content. I do hope HiDive does well, but right now it's still not as popular as the original. As always, I hope you all enjoyed this blog post!






