Tag: Crunchyroll
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Crunchyroll Announces its Anime Lineup for Fall 2021
Crunchyroll has revealed all the new anime titles heading to the platform this fall, including the Crunchyroll and Adult Swim Original series “Blade Runner: Black Lotus” and “Fena: Pirate Princess,” Crunchyroll Original “High Guardian Spice,” and many more. Hot titles streaming on Crunchyroll this season include: “Blade Runner: Black Lotus” – A Crunchyroll and Adult…
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Sony’s Funimation Completes Acquisition of Crunchyroll
Sony and AT&T announced today that Sony has completed its acquisition of anime streaming service Crunchyroll. The acquisition was first announced in December 2020 with Sony paying AT&T $1.175 billion for the streaming service. Crunchyroll has 5 million SVOD subscribers, up from 3 million at the time the acquisition was announced, and 120 million registered…
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Crunchyroll Surpasses 5M Subscribers
Anime and manga streaming service Crunchyroll has now surpassed 5 million subscribers and 120 million active users. The growing global brand offers fans a robust anime library of more than 1,000 titles and 30,000 episodes available in more than 200 countries and territories. Now, Crunchyroll has also announced its new project “Dark Star Squadron,” an…
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Crunchyroll Announces New Language Dub List Dates for Spring 2021
Anime streaming services Crunchyroll has announced the release dates for series getting dubs in more languages for Spring 2021. Tokyo Revengers, To Your Eternity, I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years, 86 EIGHTY-SIX, and the continuation of So I’m a Spider, So What?, as well an English dub for Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun Season 2 are all getting dubbed in English,…
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Crunchyroll Launches Crunchyroll Beta
Anime streaming service Crunchyroll announced today the launch of Crunchyroll Beta, a new beta experience for Crunchyroll Premium users. The new experience includes a mobile responsive experience, updated homepage, redesigned browse and watch pages, new search capabilities, and the brand new Crunchylists feature. On the redesigned homepage, users will find an updated interface “to fit…
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Sony’s Newest ‘Play At Home’ Offers Include Extended Funimation Anime Streaming Trials
Sony is bringing back its Play At Home program, which gifted popular games to PlayStation users for free during the pandemic. This time around, though, it’s also offering up some streaming perks as well. Starting on March 25th, anime streaming service Funimation will offer extended access for new subscribers. In all, those who take advantage…
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Crunchyroll Reaches 4M Subscribers, Announces Deal with Idris and Sabrina Elba
Today the anime streaming service Crunchyroll announced its subscriber count surpassed 4 million in January, just six months after breaking the three million subscriber mark. In addition, the platform now has more than 100 million registered users and 50+ million followers on social media. Along with this news, Crunchyroll also announced its new collaboration with Idris…
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Weekend Wrap-Up: Disney’s Big Day, Crunchyroll’s Sale, and More
This week, Disney unleashed a multi-hour torrent of news during its Investor Day event. Elsewhere, AT&T sold off popular anime streaming service Crunchyroll, and Amazon started rolling out an updated Fire TV user interface. ViacomCBS also improved the kids and family experience on its CBS All Access service. Overall, a pretty busy week indeed. Here’s…
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AT&T Will Sell Crunchyroll to Sony’s Funimation
Sony and AT&T announced today that AT&T will sell its anime streaming service Crunchyroll to Sony-owned Funimation. We reported that the deal was nearing a close in October, with AT&T asking $1.5 billion for the service. Today, Funimation purchased the service for a price of $1.175 billion. Crunchyroll has over 3 million paid subscribers as…
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Sony Nearing a Deal to Buy Crunchyroll from AT&T
Sony is in the final stages of buying the anime streaming service Crunchyroll from AT&T for over $957 million. We first shared a report from The Information that Sony and AT&T were in talks about the sale of Crunchyroll in August when AT&T was asking for $1.5 billion for the service. Sony purchased Funimation Products…