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 »
Mob Psycho 100‘s third season, Mob Psycho 100 III, is debuting next month and receiving a SimulDub. However, it appears that Crunchyroll is replacing some of the dub actors last minute because of the actors’ interest in Crunchyroll having a conversation with the union Screen …Read more »
Anime is dubbed into languages all over the world, and one French dub actress has found herself in hot water because of her work with fandubs. Anna Lauzeray-Gishi is the French voice for Kikyō Kushida in Classroom of the Elite, Chizuru Mizuhara in Rent-A-Girlfriend, Iris …Read more »
Last year (almost to the date), Sony’s Funimation Global Group acquired Crunchyroll, and the company continues to grow. It was revealed yesterday that Crunchyroll bought Right Stuf, a popular anime retailer that formed in 1987. It’s supposed to be an extension of Crunchyroll’s eCommerce service. …Read more »
In addition to the reveal of plans for the second season of the Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro anime, one of the shows Crunchyroll revealed during Japan Expo was the adaptation of Misaki Takamatsu’s Skip and Loafer manga. The simulcast airdate has yet to …Read more »
Some things are getting moved around at Crunchyroll. Colin Decker, Crunchyroll’s chief executive officer, is going to be moving on from the company, though he’ll stick around a few more weeks during the transitional phase. He’s being replaced by Rahul Purini, who has been both …Read more »
Shonen anime tends to do better than shojo anime, but a recent seminar put on by Crunchyroll talked about how popular shojo actually is. The seminar was for Japanese businesses, and it discussed what anime people in the West are watching on their platform. Asa …Read more »
Today both Crunchyroll and Funimation put up nearly identical announcements that Funimation is “unifying under the Crunchyroll brand.” Funimation’s subsidiary Wakanim and Crunchyroll’s VRV are also in on this, so it will be one subscription service through Crunchyroll with all of these other groups joining …Read more »
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