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Crunchyroll, LLC [6] [d] 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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 January 2025. American video streaming service This article is about the streaming service. For the various related companies of this name and other uses, see Crunchyroll (disambiguation). Crunchyroll Logo used since 2024 [a] Type of business Subsidiary Type of site OTT streaming platform Available in ...
On December 2, 2013, The Chernin Group (the holding company of former News Corp. president Peter Chernin) announced that it had acquired a controlling interest in Crunchyroll for a reported $100 million. [1] The Chernin Group said that Crunchyroll management and existing investor TV Tokyo would maintain a "significant" stake in the company. [2] [3]
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).
Funimation [b] was an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service. Launched in 2016, the service was one of the leading distributors of anime and other foreign entertainment properties in North America.
Crunchyroll Ltd., trading as Crunchyroll UK and Ireland, is an anime distributor and licensing company in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Founded in 1987 as Island World Communications, the company operated as Manga Entertainment Ltd. until 2021.
Crunchyroll GmbH, formerly known as AV Visionen GmbH, the German subsidiary of Crunchyroll SA, part of Crunchyroll EMEA Crunchyroll UK and Ireland (officially Crunchyroll Ltd and previously called Island World Communications and then Manga Entertainment Ltd.), the former subsidiary in the British Isles, an anime distributor and licensor
On November 7, 2018, season 1 of TBS's Final Space was made available to watch on VRV Select. [17] On the same day, Otter Media announced Mike Tyson Mysteries and Jabberjaw were also going to be added to VRV in 2018. [18] [19] On August 9, 2021, Crunchyroll was acquired by Sony-owned Funimation, making Sony the new owner of VRV. [20] [21]