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Mobile Suit Gundam lands on Crunchyroll 

Crunchyroll, the anime streaming service, has added Mobile Suit Gundam, the first series within the iconic Gundam franchise, to its library of more than 1,000 titles and 30,000 episodes. All 42 episodes of the godfather of the mecha genre will be available on Crunchyroll effective immediately, in both English dub and subtitles. The subtitled series […]

January 26, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Yu-Gi-Oh! streams on Sky Kids

Konami Cross Media has secured new streaming agreements for its flagship anime property Yu-Gi-Oh! in the UK, as well as in Australia and New Zealand. In the UK, Sky Kids is the first platform to exhibit the new HD formatted versions of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters show. With over 230 episodes, it is the story […]

January 11, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Sony acquires Crunchyroll for $1.1bn

WarnerMedia’s AT&T has agreed to sell its Crunchyroll anime business to Sony’s Funimation Global Group in a deal worth $1.175 billion (€0.9bn). Crunchyroll is an anime direct-to-consumer service within AT&T’s WarnerMedia segment with over 3 million SVoD subscribers and growing. It currently serves 90 million registered users across more than 200 countries and territories offering […]

December 10, 2020By Nik Roseveare

Funimation launches in Brazil, Mexico

Funimation, the global anime content provider, has announced its service is now live in Brazil and Mexico. The service is now available online and will roll out on various apps and Smart TV platforms in 2021.  Funimation’s Brazil and Mexico service offerings include anime series subtitled in Portuguese and Spanish respectively, with select titles dubbed. […]

November 19, 2020

Crunchyroll adds new membership tiers

Crunchyroll, the anime streaming platform, is introducing new membership tiers alongside additional platform features including offline viewing. Crunchyroll’s new membership tiers are as follows: Free: Crunchyroll will continue to be available for free with ad-supported streaming access. Under the AVoD option, new episodes will be available one week after premiere. Fan: This plan is available […]

August 25, 2020By Nik Roseveare

Crunchyroll for sale?

AT&T is looking to sell Crunchyroll, its anime streaming service, for between $1 billion and $1.5 billion according to reports, in an attempt to raise funds to pay down debt. Sony Pictures Entertainment has been touted as a potential buyer, and is said to have already been pitched the service. Crunchyroll recently announced that it […]

August 14, 2020

Crunchyroll passes 3m subs

Crunchyroll, the anime streaming service, has reached a new milestone crossing three million paid subscribers globally and over 70 million registered users. “Crunchyroll’s global growth has been incredible. We launched in 2006 and it took us about 10 years to hit one million subscribers. It took us only two years after that to break two […]

July 29, 2020

Crunchyroll announces new Original series

Crunchyroll, the anime streaming service, announced at the Crunchyroll virtual industry panel at Anime Expo Lite a slate of new series coming soon to its platform. Crunchyroll announced two new Crunchyroll Original series including: TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You – In this married life comedy by “Hayate the Combat Butler” author Kenjiro Hata, Nasa […]

July 6, 2020

Cyperpunk 2077 anime series heading to Netflix

Netflix, CD Projekt Red, and Studio Trigger have announced an all new original anime series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners set in the same universe as the highly anticipated game, Cyberpunk 2077. The series will premiere in 2022. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed […]

June 26, 2020