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Where the World Actually Watches Anime: A Streaming Field Guide
In Japan, you turn on the TV at midnight and anime is just there, playing. For everyone else it never worked that way: the show you want lives on some service, in some regions, and there's a decent chance it isn't yours. I watch the fallout of this every night in the comments, the where-can-I-watch-this questions, the not-in-my-country laments. Here's a plain guide to how anime streaming actually works outside Japan, and the drama that starts before anyone presses play.