Crunchyroll

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Crunchyroll (disambiguation) .

Crunchyroll
On demand
languages	English , Arabic , German , French , Italian , Portuguese , Spanish , Russian
operator	Crunchyroll ( WarnerMedia )
user	70,000,000
Registration	optional
On-line	2006
https://www.crunchyroll.com

Crunchyroll is an American online community and on-demand platform for East Asian media, including anime , manga and Asian real-life series and films. Crunchyroll has an online shop selling DVDs , BluRays , literature products and merchandising products. Founded in 2006, the website now offers legal streaming of over 800 anime series and films. It is available in English, Arabic, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The operator is Crunchyroll LLC. headquartered in San Francisco .

Emergence and expansion

The site was founded in June 2006 by a group of students from the University of California, Berkeley as a community of anime fans and a site for the exchange of videos and fansubs . After a strong growth of the site until the summer of 2007, it was financially supported by Venrock and was able to acquire licenses for content. In addition, illegally uploaded content has been removed and only the respective rights holders can upload series. On August 1, 2008, Crunchyroll Inc. was founded, which was responsible for the operation of the site. Since the beginning of 2009, the site has been streaming the latest Japanese series and films, including initially Naruto Shippūden , Gintama and Skip Beat! on. Shortly after they have been broadcast on Japanese television, the episodes will be offered to subscribers in high resolution via Crunchyroll with originally English and now multilingual subtitles, most of which can be viewed free of charge with a one-week delay. The offer of the freely accessible episodes is mainly financed by advertising. Other current and older series and films were later added to the offer. Crunchyroll has been officially available in Portugal since May 9, 2013 . On October 27, 2013, the Japanese business newspaper Nikkei reported that the Kōdansha publishing house will be offering English translations via Crunchyroll for selected manga from October 30, at the same time as their first publication in Japan. The offer started with 12 titles: Apocalypse no Toride , Coppelion , Fairy Tail , Kami-sama no Iu Tōri ni , Kimi no Iru Machi , Nanatsu no Taizai , Nazo no Kanojo X , Shingeki no Kyojin , Uchū Kyōdai , UQ Holder! , Wagatsuma-san wa Ore no Yome and Yamada-kun to Nananin no Majo . The publication area is 170 countries, except for example Japan, China, France, Italy and Germany.

Crunchyroll was 2015, the newly founded ella tion Inc. assumed. On May 16, 2016, the operating company Crunchyroll Inc merged into ellation Inc. (now Crunchyroll LLC.), Which is now responsible for the Crunchyroll platform. Since March 2017, Crunchyroll has also been offering selected animes on the Steam distribution platform . For the time being, the animes on Steam are only offered with English subtitles. In January 2018 it became known that the holding company Otter Media had completely bought Crunchyroll. The American mobile operator AT&T announced in August 2018 that it had bought the remaining shares in Otter Media and wanted to subordinate its streaming services to WarnerMedia .

On April 21, 2018, Crunchyroll started a Crunchyroll block on the TV channel in cooperation with the Brazilian broadcaster Rede Brasil . Selected animes from the Crunchyroll portfolio are shown. The block started with a duration of one hour and was later increased to six hours.

Crunchyroll in Germany

Starting with the titles Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio - Ars Nova , Gingitsune , Little Busters! , Miss Monochrome and Nagi no Asukara , Crunchyroll has also been offering German subtitles since December 2013. After Crunchyroll has been offering English dubbed versions for a while, German dubbing was also announced on August 27, 2017, which they commissioned themselves. The first synchronized anime with the titles Schwarzes Marken , Rokka -Braves of the Six Flowers- and Yamada-kun and the seven Witches were released on November 16, 2017. In addition to German dubbing, dubbing in French, Spanish and Portuguese can also be seen. In March 2018 it became known that Crunchyroll was taking action against German fansub groups that offer subs to Crunchyroll products licensed in Germany. In response, several fan subgroups have broken up. Crunchyroll and KSM Anime announced a content partnership on December 7, 2018. From summer 2019, more than 10 series from the Crunchyroll portfolio will appear in German at KSM, making it the first major cooperation between Crunchyroll and a German anime publisher. In January 2019, Kazé Germany followed suit and announced that it had secured 27 stocks from Crunchyroll's portfolio. Among them are the titles Yamada-kun & the 7 Witches , Mob Psycho 100 and 'Saga of Tanya the Evil, synchronized by Crunchyroll .

Crunchyroll synchronizations

The following list contains all German-language synchronizations that Crunchyroll has commissioned.

• Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor (Series)
• Darling in the Franxx (series)
• Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody (Series)
• Dr. Stone
• In Another World With My Smartphone (Series)
• Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (Series)
• Mob Psycho 100 (Series)
• Mob Psycho 100 Reigen The Miraculous Unknown Psychic (OVA)
• Mob Psycho 100 II: The advisors' first super-cheap excursion for ghosts and stuff ~ A relaxing journey for heart and soul ~ (OVA)
• Recovery of an MMO Junkie (Series)
• Recovery of an MMO Junkie (OVA)
• Rokka -Braves of the Six Flowers- (Series)
• Saga of Tanya the Evil (Series)
• Black brands (series)
• That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
• The Ancient Magus' Bride (Series)
• The Ancient Magus' Bride: Those Awaiting a Star (OVA)
• The Rising of the Shield Hero
• Yamada-kun and the seven Witches (series)

In-house productions and Crunchyroll Originals

On July 25, 2017, Crunchyroll released Children of Ether, the first series, the production of which was commissioned by Crunchyroll itself. Directed by LeSean Thomas and produced by the French studio Yapiko Animation. It is available in the original English language and with English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian subtitles. In October 2017, Crunchyroll released the first season of the real-life series Anime Crimes Division in co-production with the RocketJump team . In August 2018, Crunchyroll announced the formation of ellation Studios. ellation Studios is to serve as the production facility for shows to run on Crunchyroll and VRV. One of the first production will be High Guardian Spice , which will be made for Crunchyroll. Meanwhile, ellation Studios operates as Crunchyroll Studios. Crunchyroll Studios has manufacturing facilities in Burbank and Tokyo . In 2019, Crunchyroll and the Webtoon provider Webtoon announced a strategic partnership in which their own animated content is to be developed and co-produced.

By early 2020, Crunchyroll had co-produced over 60 anime series, including The Rising of the Shield Hero . At the end of February 2020, Crunchyroll introduced the Crunchyroll Originals label, which is used to mark in-house and co-produced series. These are produced in the Crunchyroll Studios but also in Japanese studios.

See also : Crunchyroll Originals

Logos

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  Old long logo (2006 to 2012)

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  Old compact logo (2006 to 2012)

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  Old long logo (2012 to 2018)

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  Old compact logo (2012 to 2018)

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  Current long logo (since 2018)

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  Current compact logo (since 2018)

Crunchyroll Anime Awards

→ Main article : Crunchyroll Anime Awards

The Crunchyroll Anime Awards are an annual awards ceremony in the anime industry. In January 2017, Crunchyroll presented the Crunchyroll Anime Awards for the first time. The award was created to recognize the best anime of the previous year.

Technical

On September 19, 2018, Crunchyroll replaced the Flash -based player with an HTML5 -based player.

Crunchyroll provides apps for Windows Phone , Windows 10 , Playstation 3 / 4 / Vita , XBOX One / 360 , Wii U , iOS , and Android ready.

See also

• List of Crunchyroll's own productions

Web links

• Crunchyroll website
• Entry on Anime News Network with a list of the series offered (English)

Individual evidence

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17. ↑ Robin Hirsch: Crunchyroll and KSM Anime announce partnership. In: anime2you. December 7, 2018, accessed December 7, 2018 . 
18. ↑ Robin Hirsch: KAZÉ publishes 27 titles by Crunchyroll. In: anime2you. January 25, 2019, accessed January 25, 2019 . 
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23. ↑ René Kayser: Crunchyroll and WEBTOON will jointly produce new animated content. In: Crunchyroll. October 15, 2019, accessed March 12, 2020 . 
24. ↑ Our HTML5 player is now available to everyone! In: Crunchyroll. September 19, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018 . 
25. ↑ App overview. In: Crunchyroll. Retrieved September 22, 2017 .