Rahul Purini, the president of Crunchyroll, mentioned in a recent interview that the company was experimenting with using AI for subtitles. This got a generally negative response from many anime fans, with their main contentions being that AI cannot properly translate Japanese with its subtleties, …Read more »
The Crunchyroll 2024 Anime Awards took place over the weekend. JUJUTSU KAISEN did really well all over, and many of Chainsaw Man’s Denji voice actors in various languages got honored. Let’s take a look at all the winners below! Best Continuing Anime Series – One …Read more »
Crunchyroll is making waves in the anime industry over its decision not to let digital copies people bought on Funimation transfer over, and The Verge recently wrote an article on how difficult its writer found getting any kind of help from Crunchyroll. Now another controversy …Read more »
Funimation is officially shutting down in the beginning of April as part of its merger with Crunchyroll. However, digital copies at Funimation are not transferring, which is controversial to many anime fans. Crunchyroll has since responded. “[We] are working really hard directly with each [customer] …Read more »
The Funimation app and website will be no more after April 2, which is being referred to as its “sunset.” This is part of Funimation merging with Crunchyroll, but the fact that digital copy transferring isn’t happening is bothering a lot of anime fans, according …Read more »
Crunchyroll has announced the lineup of categories (including some new ones) and the judges (this time a wider variety) for the 2024 Crunchyroll Anime Awards. Here are all the categories: Best Original Anime Best Character Design Best Animation Best Continuing Series Best Art Director Best …Read more »
Crunchyroll is going to become available through Amazon’s Prime Video Channels in four countries, with more countries added next year. Right now this offer is becoming available for audiences in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Sweden. While we’re informed of a 2024 extension …Read more »
A class action lawsuit against Crunchyroll, LLC has ended with the parties settling out of court. Crunchyroll was accused of giving away subscribers’ personally identifiable information to third parties, without the subscribers’ permission. The lawsuit said this was a violation of the Video Privacy Protection …Read more »
For people who want to watch popular anime on Crunchyroll but don’t have the funds for the streaming service, there is another option. Crunchyroll has revealed it’s increasing the number of new titles on its ad-supported catalog. That means people can watch these episodes for …Read more »
Laura Post, a voice actor in many anime dubs — including Tower of God, Cells at Work!, Demon Slayer, In This Corner of the World, The Promised Neverland and more — wrote on Twitter: “You may (or may not) have noticed that there is a …Read more »
Many anime fans are interested in learning to speak Japanese, whether it’s just a few phrases or they want to be full-on fluent. In fact, right now the most requested languages to learn in America are Spanish, French and Japanese, in that order. Crunchyroll and …Read more »
There’s some movement with the VRV streaming service bundle as it is becoming part of Crunchyroll in an official merging. VRV is a Crunchyroll brand that also has Cartoon Hangover, Rooster Teeth, and Mondo. It used to also have anime from HIDIVE, though that changed …Read more »
Anime continues to become more and more popular, but despite sales numbers and profits, anime dub actors continue to be poorly paid and often denied protections. Multiple dub actors spoke to In These Times for a lengthy article on the matter titled “Anime Voice Actors …Read more »
Many people in the anime world know—or at least know of—Shawne Kleckner, the president and co-founder of anime retailer Right Stuf. Kleckner was there when Right Stuf officially launched in 1987, was part of the 2007 creation of its Nozomi Entertainment production label, and is …Read more »
Voice actor Kyle McCarley has indicated he might not be returning to voice Mob in the new season of Mob Psycho 100, and it’s not from lack of interest on his part. He says that he’s being replaced because Crunchyroll is unwilling to have a …Read more »
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