Amazon will now allow you to entry Crunchyroll’s anime library proper from Prime Video

If you’re a Prime Video subscriber, starting as we speak, you’ll be able to start streaming Crunchyroll, the favored anime service, proper from contained in the Prime Video app. The corporations have introduced a worldwide distribution settlement that permits Amazon to supply Crunchyroll as considered one of its Prime Video Channels. Prime Video Channels are optionally available add-on providers that come at an additional month-to-month price. But there’s a comfort facet in that Amazon handles all billing, and extra importantly, you’ll be able to watch these channels straight inside Prime Video with out having to hop between quite a few leisure apps.

In the case of Crunchyroll, that’s a very good factor, as its app obtainable for sensible TV and set-top platforms will be buggy and annoying to navigate. Now, you’ll be able to skip the app and choose between the service’s Fan and Mega Fan subscriptions, “both of which allow customers to stream the entire Crunchyroll library ad-free, while enjoying new episodes shortly after release in Japan.” Mega Fan consists of additional perks like offline downloads “with additional non-video benefits to be added shortly.” The Fan tier prices $7.99, which is the same price you’d pay Crunchyroll for a standalone subscription. A seven-day free trial is offered for purchasers new to the anime service.

Crunchyroll is coming to Prime Video Channels as we speak within the US and shall be obtainable in Canada, Sweden, and the UK by the tip of the week. Amazon says extra territories will observe all through 2024. The service is dwelling to what it claims is the world’s largest streaming library of anime, which consists of over 24,000 hours, 46,000 episodes, and greater than 1,300 collection and movies.

Other Prime Video Channels embrace Max, Paramount Plus, Starz, Cinemax, MGM Plus, and extra. Apple provides the same add-on subscription mannequin with Apple TV Channels, which all stream from throughout the Apple TV app. But Crunchyroll will not be amongst Apple’s choice, and neither is Max, for that matter.