Crunchyroll gets new anime in its range – namely those of the competition. Because now Funimation, including its portals, is part of the streaming service. You can find out what that means for you here.
Crunchyroll is getting bigger: You can now stream everything
Crunchyroll, the international largest streaming service for anime, announces a gathering of superlatives. Former competitor Funimation is now joining the platform. This also includes subsidiaries Wakanim and Animax Germany.
So you can now find all your favorite anime on a streaming service – apart from the anime that Netflix has secured exclusively, of course. Here are a few of them hottest wakanim series, which are now also landing on Crunchyroll:
- Fruits Bakset
- FireForce
- Wonder Egg Priority
- SK8 the Infinity
- The promised neverland season 2
For the full list, we recommend checking out the Crunchyroll page. There are also new anime that will be added.
Also good to know
The streaming platform promises that this will make more anime dubbings available in the future.
Wakanim and Funimation will probably only bring new episodes to ongoing series on their platforms – all brand new title From now on they will only appear on Crunchyroll.
As a welcome gift, Wakanim and Funimation subscribers will receive a 60-day free Crunchyroll Premium Membership. However, what the merger could mean for future pricing policy remains unclear for the time being.
Without much competition, Crunchyroll could raise the prices anyway. However, nothing is known about this from the official side. So for now, the only thing left to be happy about is that anime fans no longer have to subscribe to two or more streaming services at once.
You can currently see many of the best new releases on Crunchyroll. There are a few tips for new anime that you may not know yet in this photo gallery:
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