Crunchyroll

Also known as crunchyroll.com

Crunchyroll is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Sony Group Corporation. The service primarily distributes Japanese anime television series and films, as well as other East Asian media, with the service also hosting anime content from other providers, content add-ons, live events, music, video games, and video channels.

Key facts

Website.name: Crunchyroll
Website.logo: Crunchyroll 2024.svg
Website.logo_size: 240px
Website.logo_alt: Logo for the Crunchyroll service
Website.logo_caption: Crunchyroll's logo used since July 2024
Website.company_type: Subsidiary
Website.type: OTT streaming platform
Website.language_count: 21
Website.location_city: San Francisco, California
Website.location_country: U.S.
Website.country_of_origin: United States
Website.area_served: Worldwide
Website.owner: Sony Group Corporation
Website.founder: Kun GaoJames LinBrandon OoiVu Nguyen
Website.parent: Crunchyroll, LLC
Website.ipv6: Yes
Website.commercial: Yes
Website.registration: Required

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Wikidata facts

Official website: www.crunchyroll.com

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inception: 2006-05-14
Alexa rank: 711
search formatter URL: www.crunchyroll.com/search?from=search&q=$1
Commons category: Crunchyroll
social media followers: 7120229
terms of service URL: www.crunchyroll.com/tos
privacy policy URL: www.crunchyroll.com/privacy/index.html
login URL: sso.crunchyroll.com/login
registration page URL: sso.crunchyroll.com/register
web feed URL: feeds.feedburner.com/crunchyroll/animenews
short name: CR
date of official opening: 2006-05-14
number of registered users/contributors: 120000000

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Contents

History
Origins and informal distribution
Move to legal distribution
Chernin Group ownership
Funimation partnership, and home video expansion
AT&T/WarnerMedia ownership and internal productions
Sony ownership
Programming
Original programming
Crunchyroll Channel
Device support and service features
The Anime Awards
Crunchyroll Expo
Reception
Controversies
See also
Notes
References
External links

Launched in May 2006, the service has more than 120million registered users worldwide. Crunchyroll was previously a subsidiary of Otter Media, itself a subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia; 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.