Crunchyroll Announces First Price Increase Since Funimation Purchase

Crunchyroll, like many other streaming services lately, is raises its subscription prices. The anime streaming service has announced its first price increase since being acquired by Funimation in 2020. Subscribers in Argentina, Colombia, France, Portugal, the United States, and select additional countries will now have to pay $12 for the Mega Fan tier, which is by $2 more than $10. Meanwhile, the Ultimate Fan tier will now be $1 more expensive at $16 per month.

Both options give subscribers access to offline viewing and the Crunchyroll Game Vault, which houses a library of mobile games. The Mega Fan tier allows streaming to up to four devices at once, while the Ultimate Fan tier allows streaming to up to six. People subscribed to the most expensive option also get a bag if they continue to pay for the service for 12 consecutive months. The basic level of fans doesn’t come with the benefits that these two have, but its price remains unchanged at $8 per month. Unfortunately, those who have not yet decided whether to pay for a subscription can now test the service for only seven days instead of 14 as before. But if they don’t mind watching their anime with ads, they can still watch more than 1000 hours of content for free.

Sony’s Funimation bought Crunchyroll from WarnerMedia for $1.175 billion in 2020, but it took some time before they could complete their transformation into a unified anime subscription service under the latter’s name. Funimation didn’t shut down its old app and website until April 2 of this year after moving its available titles to Crunchyroll’s service.

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