Crunchyroll

Crunchyroll is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Sony Group Corporation. The service primarily distributes films and television series produced by East Asian media, including Japanese anime, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with a Japanese branch located in Shibuya, Tokyo.

Crunchyroll
Logo used since 2018
Type of businessSubsidiary
Type of site
OTT streaming platform
Available in20 languages
List of languages
  • Arabic
  • Catalan
  • Chinese
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Hindi
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Malay
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Thai
  • Turkish
  • Vietnamese
FoundedMay 14, 2006 (2006-05-14)
Headquarters,
U.S.
Country of originUnited States
Area servedWorldwide
OwnerSony Group Corporation
Founder(s)Kun Gao
James Lin
Brandon Ooi
Vu Nguyen
Industry
Products
Services
  • Film production
  • film distribution
  • television production
  • television distribution
ParentCrunchyroll, LLC
URLwww.crunchyroll.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Users 120 million (2023)
(13 million paying)
Current statusActive

Founded in 2006 by a group of University of California, Berkeley, graduates, Crunchyroll delivers content to over 100 million registered users worldwide. Crunchyroll was previously a subsidiary of AT&T/WarnerMedia's Otter Media, and from 2016 to 2018, the company partnered with Funimation, which Sony acquired in 2017 and would eventually merge into its brand in 2022 after Sony acquired Crunchyroll from AT&T in 2021.

Crunchyroll is a member of The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA). "Crunchyroll-Hime", also known as "Hime", is the official mascot of Crunchyroll.

Crunchyroll offers over 1,000 anime shows, more than 200 East Asian dramas in over 18 languages, and formerly offered around 80 manga titles as Crunchyroll Manga, although the number of available shows varies by each country due to licensing restrictions. Crunchyroll passed one million paid subscribers in February 2017, and has over 10 million paid subscribers as of 2022. Crunchyroll also releases titles on home video either directly or by having select anime titles released through its distribution partners (Sentai Filmworks, Viz Media, Discotek Media, and its corporate sibling, Aniplex of America in North America; Anime Limited in the United Kingdom).

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