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Crunchyroll is set to roll out three new summer hits starting on July 4th Whether your into Japanese ghost stories, adventure yarns or dating escapades, Crunchyroll has your recipe for summertime fun! If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord //Credit: Crunchyroll Debuts Thursday, July 4th Dale is a well-known and highly skilled adventurer despite being[...]

Mob Psycho 100 fans have a lot to celebrate, with Crunchyroll Games announcing their latest anime-inspired mobile game, Mob Psycho 100: Psychic Battle You can even pre-register now, and get ready to battle when the game drops soon! Here's what you need to know: //Credit: Crunchyroll Games Mob Psycho 100: Psychic Battle is an original, turn-based RPG[...]

Anime fans headed to Crunchyroll Expo this Labor Day weekend are in for a surprise, with the anime service announcing that they will be premiering Mob Psycho 100 II: The First Spirits and Such Company Trip ~A Journey that Mends the Heart and Heals the Soul~ on Sunday, September 1st. //Credit: Crunchyroll Here's how it works: The[...]

Crunchyroll is getting ready to fire up your summer with a bunch of hot anime titles, and will be kicking off the programming fireworks on the first of July! Fire Force drops on July Fourth: //Credit: Crunchyroll Tokyo is burning, and citizens are mysteriously suffering from spontaneous human combustion all throughout the city! Responsible for snuffing out this[...]

Fans of international anime sensation "My Hero Academia" is back for season 4 starting this October - and now we have an official trailer and poster, too.

If you're fired up and ready to dive into the fourth season of "My Hero Academia", and happen to be at Anime Expo in July, you might get to see it early!

Crunchyroll will be be at Anime Expo in Los Angeles on Thursday, July 4th, and they're bringing along the debut of Dr Stone to show to fans! //Credit: Crunchyroll All the fun kicks off at noon Pacific time, as fans will not only get to see the first episode of Dr Stone, they'll also be treated to[...]

Anything we can do to help entertain, at a minimum, but hopefully, also stimulate and motivate fans to get through their days better will be a success in my mind. The first season of gen:LOCK is available now on VRV and through Crunchyroll as well The series is an absolute blast, with incredible mech action and[...]

Crunchyroll is launching an anime adaptation of Dr Stone, one of the hottest manga titles in the world Dr Stone is set several thousand years in the future, with a lone figure coming to life after millennia trapped in a petrified, stone like state. //Credit: Crunchyroll Crunchyroll Presents a World of Stone Senku Ishigami finds himself awakened several[...]

There are a bunch of new additions coming this summer to Crunchyroll's already massive collections of anime and manga! Let's take a look at what's coming our way as the summer months roll in: Are You Lost? Because of a plane crash…starting today, we're spending the springtime of our lives on a desert island!! There's nothing here,[...]

Crunchyroll is joining forces with the folks at Twitch Prime to add the first-ever non game related loot perk for Twitch members! If you've been looking at checking out Crunchyroll Premium and you're already an Amazon Prime member, you can get a free month of awesome anime, just because you're amazing. Why do I bring up Amazon[...]

The alternate history of Saga of Tanya the Evil is an interesting one, to be sure, with the semi-Germanic Empire facing off against the Republic, a loose alliance of the other nations that border the Empire. //Credit: Crunchyroll Each faction uses traditional implements of war, but there's a twist- this world has a lot of magic in[...]

The folks over at Crunchyroll are rolling out a streetwear capsule collection of exclusive clothing featuring One Piece, the long- running and perennially popular pirate themed anime. There will be four total One Piece themed hoodies, available exclusively at the Crunchyroll webstore! //Credit: Crunchyroll Each hoodie has the One Piece logo on the front, and a character portrait[...]

The latest talks about localization, what it is, and how it has forced changes in anime series for western audiences over the years. Here's Crunchyroll host Tim Lyu with "How the Onigiri Became a Jelly Donut" : https://youtu.be/CyCob9hI4R4Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Why Pokemon, Dragon Ball, and Voltron Were Changed In America (+ Ghibli,[...]

Crunchyroll is teaming up with Fathom Events to bring  Saga of Tanya the Evil – the Movie – to over 500 theaters for another special Crunchyroll Movie Night. //Credit: Crunchyroll  Saga of Tanya the Evil – the Movie – is the direct sequel to the anime series Saga of Tanya the Evil, and follows the misadventures of[...]

It's the 40th anniversary of Mobile Suit Gundam, and the folks over at Crunchyroll are celebrating with a brand new series, MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM THE ORIGIN: Advent of the Red Comet… and a brand-new mini documentary chronicling the dawn of the anime series. credit//Bandai Namco It's pretty amazing that the entire Mobile Suit Gundam franchise almost crashed[...]

Mobile Suit Gundam is one of the longest lived franchises in existence, and Crunchyroll will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of the venerable series with a new series, and a documentary! The new series is called MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM THE ORIGIN: Advent of the Red Comet. //Credit: Crunchyroll The tragic story of Char Aznable, the ace pilot known[...]

Season one opening theme "Guren no Yumiya" and season two opening theme "Shinzou wo Sasageyo!" will both be featured in-game. In even further anime-based news, Crunchyroll will be helping support Tactics as the official marketing partner. "DeNA is excited to launch our officially licensed game app based on the popular anime series, Attack on Titan," says Shigenori Kobayashi, the Producer of[...]

Things are definitely heating up in the war between humanity and the titans that want to eat them with Attack on Titan coming back to Crunchyroll on April 28th! //Credit: Crunchroll The battle to retake Wall Maria begins now! With Eren's new hardening ability, the Scouts are confident they can seal the wall and take back Shiganshina[...]

More fresh anime is primed and ready to go at Crunchyroll! The streaming giant announced a big batch of spring debuts, most of which are already underway Here's three more you can add to your viewing schedule! YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of This World Tuesdays at 8AM PT //Credit: Crunchyroll During the summer, Takuya[...]

Chances are, if you're looking for fresh anime content, you've been finding a lot of it on Crunchyroll The animation streaming giant is pulling out all the stops this month with new spring series debuts, with everything from baseball centered dramas to kappas fighting the living dead! Here's a look at a couple of the upcoming[...]

Crunchyroll has announced the Spring debut of several new seasons of long-running anime favorite Fruits Basket, as well as a new simulcast series, Bakumatsu Crisis! This is all part of Crunchyroll's new Spring Anime Lineup, which you can check out here! Fruits Basket //Credit: Crunchyroll Debuts on Friday, April 5th in North America! Tohru Honda thought her life was[...]

In our review of 'My Hero Academia' season 2, Deku and the other heroes-in-training face Final Exams, the U.A.'s Sport Festival - and hero-killer Stain.

Crunchyroll and Adult Swim have just agreed to an expanded partnership deal that will have both of the companies working together to bring piping hot anime programming to eager eye-holes around the world. Both companies are owned by WarnerMedia, so a partnership between the sibling platforms makes sense, considering their overlapping interests. Crunchyroll will become a major[...]

Crunchyroll has officially unleashed their nominees for the third annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards, a celebration of the best and brightest in Japanese animation, presented by Capcom's Devil May Cry 5 Fans are invited to vote for their favourite series, characters, moments, etc., from across the anime landscape. The anime nominated are not just found on Crunchyroll,[...]

Rejoice, Anime fans! Crunchyroll has released their final list of pickups for the Winter 2019 programming season, with all the new shows either currently available or premiering within the next ten days. This latest batch consists mainly of shows about cute teenagers and fantasy versions of their lives, which takes up the majority of the anime[...]

This week, anime streaming service Crunchyroll announced the next wave of titles being added to their Winter 2019 line-up of anime series, kicking off with a look at three new series premiering this week as simulcasts, shortly after their premieres on TV in Japan: Rinshi! Edokachan (January 8, 2019) Adapted from the 4-panel manga series, Rinshi! Edokachan[...]

The characters don't act "goofy" or out of character; internal monlogues may be long, but there's always a purpose for them taking place; and it has an air about it that anyone could get killed off at any point (I stay away from the manga to avoid spoilers) – creating some unexpectedly tense moments that[...]

Crunchyroll is giving anime fans six more reasons to "Stay Crunchy!" with some welcome additions to their Winter 2019 anime season What follows is an overview of the six projects: Boogiepop and Others, Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka, Meiji Tokyo Renka, WATATEN!: an Angel Flew Down to Me, Kemono Friends 2, and Katana Maidens ~ Mini Toji;[...]

A gaggle of wonderfully bad movies. Television was my second "parent" with every example above (and a righteous amount more) another "sibling" whose influence directly impacted me, both personally and professionally. These were my "influencers." Credit: FX/AMC/Adult Swim/Funimation/Crunchyroll Which brings us to The Bleeding Cool Top 25 TV Influencers 2019 Countdown, a look inside our "crystal ball" and predict the[...]