Crunchyroll

This article is about the streaming service. For the various related companies of this name and other uses, see Crunchyroll (disambiguation).

Crunchyroll
Logo for the Crunchyroll service
Logo used since 2024[a]
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; 18 years ago (2006-05-14)
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
U.S.
Country of originUnited States
Area servedWorldwide
OwnerSony Group Corporation
Founder(s)Kun Gao[1][2]
James Lin[1][2]
Brandon Ooi[1]
Vu Nguyen[3][4]
Industry
Products
Services
  • Film production
  • film distribution
  • television production
  • television distribution
ParentCrunchyroll, LLC[b]
URLwww.crunchyroll.com Edit this at Wikidata
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
UsersIncrease Over 120 million
(15 million paying as of 2024)[5][6]
LaunchedMay 14, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-05-14)
Current statusActive

Crunchyroll is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Sony Group Corporation.[b] 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.

Launched in mid 2006 by a group of University of California, Berkeley, graduates,[7] the service has over 120 million registered users worldwide.[8] Crunchyroll was previously a subsidiary of AT&T/WarnerMedia's Otter Media, and from 2016 to 2018, the service 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).[9] "Crunchyroll-Hime", also known as "Hime", has been the official mascot of Crunchyroll since June 2013.[10]

Crunchyroll offers over 1,000 anime shows,[9] 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,[9][11] and has over 15 million paid subscribers as of 2024.[6]


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  6. ^ a b "Crunchyroll Officially Surpasses 15 Million Subscribers". Crunchyroll. August 7, 2024. Archived from the original on August 8, 2024. Retrieved August 7, 2024.
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  8. ^ Spangler, Todd (February 2, 2021). "Crunchyroll Inks Deal With Idris and Sabrina Elba for Dark Fantasy Anime Series". Variety. Archived from the original on February 2, 2021. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
  9. ^ a b c "Largest Anime Streaming Service Crunchyroll Surpasses One Million Paid Subscribers". Crunchyroll. February 9, 2017. Archived from the original on February 15, 2017. Retrieved February 14, 2021.
  10. ^ Fobian, Peter (June 6, 2018). "The Origin of Crunchyroll Hime". Crunchyroll. Archived from the original on July 29, 2020. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  11. ^ Sevakis, Justin (February 13, 2017). "How Big Of A Deal Is Crunchyroll Reaching A Million Subscribers?". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on February 13, 2017. Retrieved February 14, 2017.