Emerging as one of the first big-name anime streaming platforms in the western world, CrunchyRoll has for the longest time remained one of the most reliable sources of the latest anime episodes direct from Japan. While other services were released to rival it in breadth, in terms of raw quantity, only recently did any other platform come close. In August 2021, Sony Pictures Entertainment, through Funimation Global Group, announced its acquisition of the streaming platform. While nothing immediately changed, despite Funimation Global Group now managing two platforms, changes are happening as of today.
From today, both existing and new CrunchyRoll subscribers will have access to library and simulcast content previously only available via Funimation. This expands the CrunchyRoll library with more than 50 titles (1,600+ hours), with future new series also slated to go live on CrunchyRoll starting 1 April 2022. In total, CrunchyRoll boasts more than 40,000 dubbed and subbed episodes of Japanese anime for fans to enjoy. While Funimation’s streaming service will continue to add episodes of ongoing series, future series will be exclusive to CrunchyRoll. This ultimately indicates that the Funimation streaming service will shutter in the future – although details have not been shared.
This is a bittersweet moment for anime fans in Australia and New Zealand, so soon after merging the region’s AnimeLab streaming platform into Funimation, having to move once again. While access to more content is welcome, the user interface was much better overall on AnimeLab compared to the other two… no gimmicks, just quick access to anime.
Current Funimation subscribers are invited to read this FAQ, about the transition, although doesn’t appear to be as seamless as the transition from AnimeLab to Funimation, requiring the creation of a new account and a separate subscription <scurries off to cancel their Funimation subscription the day before it renews>.
According to CrunchyRoll, the following (previously Funimation exclusive) works now available on their platform, include:
- 2.43: Seiin High School Boys Volleyball Team (Sub and Dub)
- Adachi and Shimamura (Sub and Dub)
- Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor (Dub)
- Akudama Drive (Sub and Dub)
- Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest (Sub and Dub)
- Attack on Titan: Junior High (Sub and Dub)
- BACK ARROW (Sub and Dub)
- Black Clover Episodes 1-170 (Dub)
- Blood Blockade Battlefront (Dub)
- Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond (Dub)
- BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defense (Sub and Dub)
- Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki (Sub and Dub)
- Bungo and Alchemist -Gears of Judgement- (Sub and Dub)
- By the Grace of the Gods (Sub and Dub)
- Cautious Hero: The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious (Sub and Dub)
- Charlotte (Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
- Combatants Will Be Dispatched! (Sub and Dub)
- Cowboy Bebop (Sub and Dub)
- DARLING in the FRANXX (Dub)
- Date A Live I (Dub)
- Date A Live II (Dub)
- Date A Live III (Dub)
- Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody (Dub)
- Demon Lord, Retry! (Sub and Dub)
- Dr. STONE (Dub)
- Dr. STONE Season 2 (Dub)
- Dragon Goes House-Hunting (Sub and Dub)
- Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia (Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
- Fire Force (Dub)
- Fire Force Season 2 (Dub)
- Fruits Basket (Dub)
- Fruits Basket Season 2 (Dub)
- Fruits Basket The Final Season (Dub)
- Full Dive: This Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG Is Even Shittier than Real Life! (Sub and Dub)
- Goblin Slayer (Dub)
- High School DxD (Dub)
- High School DxD NEW (Dub)
- High School DxD BorN (Dub)
- High School DxD Hero (Dub)
- Horimiya (Sub and Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
- Hortensia SAGA (Sub and Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
- How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? (Sub and Dub)
- How Not to Summon a Demon Lord (Dub)
- How Not to Summon a Demon Lord Omega (Dub)
- Hunter x Hunter Episodes 1-74 (Dub)
- Hyouka (Sub and Dub)
- Kaguya-sama: Love is War Season 1 (Dub)
- Kaguya-sama: Love is War Season 2 (Dub)
- Kemono Jihen (Sub and Dub)
- Kingdom Season 1 (Sub and Dub)
- Kingdom Season 2 (Sub and Dub)
- Kingdom Season 3 (Sub and Dub)
- Kiss Him, Not Me (Dub)
- Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear (Sub and Dub)
- Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan (Sub and Dub)
- Log Horizon (Sub and Dub)
- Log Horizon 2 (Sub and Dub)
- Log Horizon: Destruction of the Round Table (Sub and Dub)
- MARS RED (Sub and Dub)
- Megalobox (Dub)
- Megalobox 2: Nomad (Sub and Dub)
- Miss Caretaker of Sunohara-sou (Dub and Sub)
- Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid (Dub)
- Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S (Dub)
- Moriarty the Patriot (Sub and Dub)
- Muhyo & Roji’s Bureau of Supernatural Investigation Season 1 (Dub)
- Muhyo & Roji’s Bureau of Supernatural Investigation (Sub and Dub)
- Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (Sub and Dub)
- My First Girlfriend is a Gal (Dub)
- My Hero Academia Season 1 (Dub)
- My Hero Academia Season 2 (Dub)
- My Hero Academia Season 3 (Dub)
- My Hero Academia Season 4 (Dub)
- My Hero Academia Season 5 (Dub)
- Noragami (Dub)
- Noragami Aragoto (Dub)
- Otherside Picnic (Sub and Dub)
- Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World (Sub and Dub)
- Plunderer (Sub and Dub)
- Scar on the Praeter (Sub)
- Scarlet Nexus (Sub)
- SHADOWS HOUSE (Sub and Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
- SK8 the Infinity (Sub and Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
- Sorcerous Stabber Orphen (Sub and Dub)
- Sorcerous Stabber Orphen Battle of Kimluck (Sub and Dub)
- SSSS.DYNAZENON (Sub and Dub)
- SUPER HXEROS (Sub and Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
- Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies moved to a starter town? (Sub and Dub)
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 1 (Dub)
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 2 (Dub)
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime OADs (Dub)
- The Day I Became a God (Sub and Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
- The Detective Is Already Dead (Dub)
- The Duke of Death and His Maid (Sub and Dub)
- The Dungeon of Black Company (Sub and Dub)
- The Honor at Magic High School (Sub and Dub)
- The Promised Neverland Season 1 (Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
- The Promised Neverland Season 2 (Sub and Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
- The Quintessential Quintuplets Season 1 (Dub)
- The Quintessential Quintuplets Season 2 (Dub)
- Toilet-bound Hanako-kun (Sub and Dub)
- Tokyo Ghoul (Dub)
- Tokyo Ghoul: Root A (Dub)
- Tokyo Ghoul: re (Dub)
- Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! (Sub and Dub)
- Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Song- (Sub and Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
- Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina (Sub and Dub)
- WONDER EGG PRIORITY (Sub and Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
- Yu Yu Hakusho Episodes 1-112 (Sub and Dub)
- Yu Yu Hakusho OVAs (Sub)
- Yuri!!! on ICE (Dub)