Harris’s in-depth report is well worth setting aside a long coffee break for, and publishers with a foot in the anime door especially will want to read this analysis.


“Netflix, AMC and Disney are going after the increasingly lucrative and global anime market, seeing it as a way to broaden their appeal to younger audiences, but Crunchyroll remains the most versatile and formidable anime streamer in the arena,” writes Raquel “Rocky” Harris in The Wrap, where the true scale of Sony-owned Crunchyroll’s anime project is shown to dwarf the upstart start-ups late to the anime game.

With “only” ten million subscribers it may seem Crunchyroll will be crunched and rolled-over vby its bigger competitors, but a closer look suggest that ls unlikely to happen.

Crunchyroll lives and breathes anime. The rivals are in the game as a sideshow for their main operation, and that gives Crunchyroll the edge.

Harris’s in-depth report is well worth setting aside a long coffee break for, and publishers with a foot in the anime door especially will want to read this analysis.

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