Tag: Crunchyroll
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Crunchyroll Raises The Price of One of Its Most Popular Plans
Today, Sony’s streaming service Crunchyroll announced a price hike on its popular Mega Fan membership from $9.99 a month to $11.99 a month starting today for new members. Current subscribers will see their bills go up on their next bill after June 25, 2024. Recently Crunchyroll announced it has passed 13 million subscribers. Crunchyroll also…
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Crunchyroll Now Available on LG Smart TVs
Crunchyroll said on Wednesday that it is now available on LG smart TVs, widening the potential reach of the anime streaming service. The company said the service live on all LG WebOS-powered televisions running on version 4.0 or newer, which means sets that came out in 2018 or later. The news comes amid a big…
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Funimation Users Are Losing Their “Forever” Digital Purchases After Getting Folded Into Crunchyroll
A price hike isn’t the only drawback to anime streaming service Funimation shutting down and combining with fellow provider Crunchyroll on April 2. While most of Funimation’s catalog will be available on Crunchyroll, digital purchases made by Funimation subscribers won’t make the transition. “Please note that Crunchyroll does not currently support Funimation Digital copies, which…
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Funimation’s End is Finally Here, and its Merger With Anime Giant Crunchyroll Will Cost You
Funimation and Crunchyroll, two anime streaming services that merged in 2021, will finally combine under the latter’s name on April 2. But subscribers may not like the result. Once the combination is complete, Funimation subscribers will be hit with a new $99.99 per year plan — a nearly double the current $54.95 rate. The two…
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Anime Streamer Crunchyroll is Now on Samsung Smart TVs
Crunchyroll, the largest anime streaming service, said on Monday it is now available on Samsung smart televisions. The streaming service is now available as an app on Samsung smart TV models from 2017 through 2023. Users can find it in the Samsung Smart TV app store. It’s the latest move by Crunchyroll to expand its…
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Anime Streaming Service Crunchyroll Now Has More Than 13 Million Subscribers
At Sony’s CES press conference on Tuesday, Crunchyroll said it has surpassed 13 million paid subscribers on its anime streaming service. This comes after Crunchyroll launched a free 24/7 channel on multiple platforms like Amazon Freevee, The Roku Channel, and Vizio WatchFree+. The service, which launched in 2006, offers popular movies and shows like My…
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Crunchyroll Pulls a Netflix and Unveils Free Mobile Games For Subscribers
Crunchyroll is following in Netflix’s footsteps and offering free mobile games to some of its subscribers. The anime streaming service on Tuesday unveiled Crunchyroll Game Vault, which includes five games available to members on its Mega and Ultimate Fan tiers, the upper two tiers of its subscription plans. The games include Captain Velvet Meteor: The…
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Walmart Teams Up With Crunchyroll To Offer In-Store Anime Stores
Today, Walmart and the streaming service Crunchyroll announced a partnership to offer anime stores in Walmart stores around the United States. This partnership will see Walmart have exclusive in-person deals on content like Dragon Ball Z. “Crunchyroll’s availability at Walmart will make anime more accessible than ever, inviting even more fans into this dynamic and…
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Crunchyroll May Owe You Money From a Class Action Settlement
If you subscribed to Crunchyroll between September 8, 2020 and September 20, 2023, check your email. You might qualify for a portion of the $16 billion class action settlement against the Sony-owned anime streaming service. In addition to the timeframe, you must have been a registered user for, and watched videos on, a website, app or…
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Crunchyroll Launches on Prime Video Channels
Amazon Prime Video and Crunchyroll, the go-to place for all things anime, have partnered to offer Prime members two memberships to access ad-free streaming. Crunchyroll hosts an extensive anime library with 24,000 hours of content spanning 46,000 episodes and more than 1,3000 films and series, including the fantasy adventure Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, the swashbuckling…