Crunchyroll releases free 24-hour anime channel

Rejoice anime fans. Cruncyroll has just announced that it’s launching a new free 24-hour anime channel in the US.

In a world where the price of streaming services just keeps on rising, it’s refreshing to hear of something that is totally free. As I’m sure you’re aware, Netflix cracked down on password sharing earlier this year, forcing most of us to pay an extra supplementary fee in order to retain access to a friend or family member’s account. Expect to do the same on Disney Plus soon. The streamer is next in line to crackdown on password sharing. If you find yourself mainly using your subscriptions to watch anime though and you just so happen to live in the US, you’re definitely going to want to watch Crunchyroll’s brand new channel.

Speaking of Disney Plus, season two of Loki has just gotten underway.

As reported by IGN, the 24-hour free channel was launched in the US yesterday, on 11 October. It’s an ad-supported channel available on LG Channels, the Roku Channel, amd Vizio WatchFree+. It’ll soon join Amazon’s Freevee on 17 October.

For now, the channel is showing older anime shows - but they’re absolute bangers. Series being aired include Horimiya, Ranking of Kings, Moriarty the Patrio, Psycho-Pass, Arifureta, Sugar Apple Fairy Tail, To Your Eternity, and Code Geass. If you tune in, you’ll notice that English dubs are being shown.

Announcing the channel, Crunchyroll president Rahul Purini said, “[The channel is] a gateway to the world of anime where we will guide viewers to discover new worlds, new stories and new characters. Thanks to our distribution partners at launch, millions of fans have easy access to the medium that is taking the world by storm.”

If you want to watch newer series, you’ll need to subscribe to Cruncyroll’s subscription based streaming services. You may recall that PlayStation recently announced that it hopes to add a Crunchyroll channel to the newly launched Sony Pictures Core on PS4/5 consoles. Hopefully, that too will be free.