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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.
Crunchyroll, LLC [d] [6] is an American entertainment company based in Coppell, Texas. [7] It currently operates the anime-focused eponymous over-the-top subscription video on-demand streaming service.
Gen Fukunaga (福永 元, Fukunaga Gen, born March 22, 1962) is a Japanese-born American engineer and entrepreneur. He established Funimation (now Crunchyroll, LLC), a company that distributes anime in Canada and the United States. He served as its president and chairman until 2019, where he stepped down.
Manga Entertainment was a producer, licensee, and distributor of anime in the United States and the United Kingdom. Originally founded in the UK in 1987, the UK branch became Funimation UK and Ireland in 2021, also currently known as Crunchyroll Ltd. since 2022, while its U.S. branch was absorbed into Starz Inc. (now owned by Lionsgate).
On August 22, 2018, Ellation formed Ellation Studios, a production studio with facilities in both the U.S. and Japan, to produce original content for Crunchyroll and VRV. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] On December 4, 2018, Otter announced a broad restructuring that would result in the layoff of about ten percent of its staff.
Crunchyroll EMEA is run by Sony through Crunchyroll, LLC, a joint venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment Japan's Aniplex, with Shogakukan, Shueisha and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions (ShoPro) retaining full ownership of the former Viz Media Europe's Publishing/Licensing Business for manga publishing in the region.
Crunchyroll, Inc was founded as Ellation in 2015, so anything before that is not directly related to Crunchyroll (the service), which was founded several years earlier. Link20XX 19:40, 22 July 2022 (UTC) Nope, Crunchyroll, Inc. was founded in 2006, after which it was merged into Ellation, LLC in 2016 - source (OpenCorporates). At first I ...
Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture. Ed. Takashi Murakami. Japan Society and Yale University Press. ISBN 0-913304-57-3. Sharp, Jasper "Pioneers of Japanese Animation at PIFan" Midnight Eye September 25, 2004; Richie, Donald (2005). A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to DVDs and Videos ...