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Crunchyroll expands One Piece catalogue

Crunchyroll, the anime straming service, has announced that the epic pirate adventure series One Piece will be bringing new subtitled episodes to French, German, Russian, Italian and Spanish-speaking Europe, alongside Portugal, the UK, Ireland and Nordics. This catalogue expansion will bring more than 400 subtitled episodes of the long running shonen series to fans in […]

May 24, 2021By Nik Roseveare

New Crunchyroll Beta in US

Crunchyroll, the anime streaming platform, has started rolling out a new, enhanced experience. Premium members in the US are are the first to experience the New Crunchyroll Beta which offers web users a chance to check out the mobile-responsive experience, fresh new homepage, redesigned browse and watch pages, new search capabilities and the new Crunchylists […]

March 22, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Crunchyroll passes 4m subs; Elba collab

Crunchyroll, the anime streaming brand, surpassed the four million subscriber milestone in January and now has 100 million registered users. The company announced three million subscribers and 70 million registered users in July 2020. The UK is among the top five countries with the highest number of subscribers. Daily premium active users are watching 100 […]

February 3, 2021By Nik Roseveare

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

Crunchyroll: “Black Clover most watched show”

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 […]

January 21, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Data: iPlayer searches outnumber Netflix

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 […]

January 12, 2021

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

Princess Connect! Re: Dive available through Crunchyroll Games

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 […]

December 4, 2020

Crunchyroll makes debut at MIPCOM 2020

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 […]

October 8, 2020

Early Detective Conan episodes on 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 […]

September 18, 2020