Shouldn’t have fucked your customer base then
That’s the fucked-up thing, though. Their subscriber count has almost doubled since 2024—yet they are hemorrhaging money like this. Smells like hookers and blow in here.
Don’t forget all the money wasted on the ai generated dubbing that’s even worse than early days funimation.
Wasn’t that Amazon Prime?
yes it was. crunchyroll did ai subs.
I take AI subs over activists rewriting character any day of the week.
100% agreed here. It’s their own fault for being too greedy.
Probably shouldn’t have sold out to Sony and sold my data like twice and then given away data in obviously avoidable breaches.
The open seas be a callin’ me ma8ty…yar!
Man the BitTorrent client, fire up the VPNs, load up Tor! There be torrents to download!
What anime is that? Pretty sure I’ve watched, but can not remember
Looks like Bodacious Space Pirates.
Fun fact - I visited Tokyo years ago when I had a friend living over there teaching English as part of the JET program. When I visited Ueno Park, there was a group of cosplayers in the park all in costumes from this show doing a photoshoot. I had no idea what show it was at the time, but figured it out years later when I came across a random image in a thread like this one and was able to piece it together.
Mouretsu Pirates, AKA Bodacious Space Pirates, I think.
Crunchyroll is never going to solve the problem because Crunchyroll is the problem.
- stop using AI subtitles
- fix the platform problems
- become PCI compliant
- bring back comments
Crunchyroll is a scourge on the Anime industry. The earlier it falls, the faster better services can take its place.
If Sony doesnt buy that one too
How do you buy peer to peer filesharing?
How to fumble the ball when you’re basically the only real player. I miss Wakanim.
I cancelled my subscription when they went to Israeli ai subbing tools. Sucks since I would like to watch lots of their shows
Those shows exist outside of crunchyfucks.
The link gives me a 404.
don’t see the article anywhere on the site
I guess it must’ve gotten taken down.
I mean I stopped even checking because they pretty much just abandoned free accounts. Worst possible time given amazon has upped its anime offering big time.
It’s a shame there is no information on what caused profit falls… It would have been nice to know what’s the gross revenue compared to the previous year. Same for staff costs and other operating expenses. Notably, is AI the reason for decline in profit?
Hayase. Thats all im saying
the Japanese branch of Crunchyroll’s net profits for the fiscal period ending in December 2025 were 453 million yen (about US$2.85 million), a drop of 63% from the previously reported 1.239 billion yen (about US$7.79 million) in 2024.
According to Crunchyroll, its Japan office “traditionally consists of content, programming, production and acquisition teams, which are non-revenue generating.”
Makes absolutely no sense. How is a non-revenue-generating branch experiencing a drop in profit?
