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 […]
Crunchyroll, the anime streaming service, has revealed that Black Clover was its most viewed title in 2020. It was the most viewed show in 87 countries and territories. The data comes from users in over 200 countries and territories and represents the most unique viewers of a given simulcast anime during 2020 from Crunchyroll’s 3 […]
BroadbandDeals has analysed monthly average search volume data from SEMRush, to reveal which video streaming service is the most popular in the UK. BBC iPlayer is the UK’s most popular streaming service when it comes to the data, with 5,100,000 monthly average searches. In second place is Netflix, with 5,000,000 monthly average searches. Disney+ comes […]
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 […]
Crunchyroll Games, the in-house publisher and distributor of interactive content from the world’s most popular anime brand, is collaborating with Cygames, the acclaimed developer of hit mobile titles, and funplex, a live-ops management and game operations company developed by GREE, Inc., to launch Princess Connect! Re: Dive to anime fans worldwide, with pre-registration launching 3rd […]
Crunchyroll, a WarnerMedia company and anime brand, will attend and exhibit at MIPCOM for the first time this year. Crunchyroll will showcase its extensive content catalogue to global customers at the virtual event from October 12th-16th. John Easum, Head of Crunchyroll EMEA, commented: “Following our acquisition of VIZ Media Europe and its rebranding to Crunchyroll […]
Crunchyroll has announced that the first 42 episodes of the long-running detective series Detective Conan are streaming now on Crunchyroll. The series follows student detective Shinichi Kudo, the son of a famous mystery writer, on his adventures assisting local police to solve mysteries and criminal cases. Fans eager to see how the popular series started […]
AT&T is struggling to find a potential buyer for its DirecTV Latin American satellite DTH business which trades as Vrio. Bloomberg reports that AT&T’s CEO John Stankey is looking to dump non-essential and non-performing divisions under the AT&T umbrella. It lists the AT&T divisions now up for sale and which includes the whole or part […]
Crunchyroll has announced that an anime adaptation of the celebrated Shenmue game series is currently in production. The third Crunchyroll and Adult Swim collaboration, based on the Sega game series, will be a 13 episode series with animation production from Telecom Animation Film (Tower of God, Lupin the Third: Part 5), directed by Chikara Sakurai […]
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 […]