Remember when I said that Japan has options? Well one of them has finally made good on the attempt. Animelog is live on YouTube, providing free and legal English-subbed anime, a mix of new and classic stuff. Sure, nothing in the way of the stuff I prefer as yet (gotta hit up Bandai Spirits, Gundaminfo, etc. for that), but let me point out one classic you folks won't want to miss.
That is the series that Disney all but ripped off to make The Lion King. ("All-but" because they skirted the legal line, but you're not likely to be able to prove they crossed it.) Because it's subtitled into English, you can watch this with the kids--albeit older ones with the patience and reading speed for subtitles--and if you're serious about raising multi-lingual kids then child-friendly subbed anime is the funnel into learning Japanese- with, of course, proper external educational support.
What Animelog isn't doing is putting out the stuff that's already licensed in the West and appearing on Funimation, Crunchyroll, Hi-Dive, Amazon, et. al. so don't expect Your Favorite Genre Show to appear here. Expect more normie-friendly, family-friendly faire that you can watch with Grandma and the kids.
As with other efforts out of Japan, it looks like they're following a release schedule that mimics what you'd get from a Japanese TV airplay schedule. If you're interested in a series, but you want to binge it, watch something else and come back in a week or two. Some of this is in Spanish, and some of it is region-locked (have VPN ready), but there is a large enough to get started and sub to the channel.
And Animelog needs that support here and now to make it worthwhile over time. Good luck, because we need them to work around Western gatekeepers because things like we're seeing out of Capcom will spread faster than we can do anything about it.
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