Crunchyroll Announces First Streaming Bundle for U.S. Subscribers

Crunchyroll conscionable announced its first-ever streaming bundle for U.S. subscribers. The anime work is present disposable successful a bundle with Starz for $16.99/month, but the bundle is lone purchasable done Prime Video.

Crunchyroll offers 3 antithetic plans done its ain streaming website. Per Amazon's property release, the bundle offers a savings of 23%. That savings percent suggests the bundle is based connected the modular ‘Fan’ tier of Crunchyroll, which typically costs $9.99/mo. Starz, connected the different hand, lone has 1 standalone program astatine $11.99/mo.

Prime Video’s Director of U.S. Channels, Matt Huntley, spoke connected the somewhat unconventional operation of services coming to Amazon: “Whether it’s premium dramas, blockbuster films, oregon world-class anime, Prime Video is making it seamless for customers to entree the amusement they want, each successful 1 place.”

Both services are besides presently offering their ain standalone deals. Starz is offering caller subscribers 3 months astatine $5.99/mo, portion Crunchyroll is knocking 17% disconnected yearly plans until the extremity of July. Two of the much niche streamers surely look to beryllium making an assertive propulsion for subscriber growth.

Crunchyroll presently stands arsenic the largest anime streaming work successful North America, boasting implicit 21 cardinal subscribers. Most large changes to the work person occurred since it was controversially acquired by and merged with Funimation backmost successful 2021. Now, Crunchyroll is technically a associated task betwixt the U.S.-based Sony Pictures Entertainment and Japan’s Aniplex Inc., some of which are subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Sony Group.

Under the Sony banner, Crunchyroll has expanded its offerings beyond anime streaming. Crunchyroll Manga was rolled retired precocious successful 2025, and the work has been doubling down connected getting caller additions into its Crunchyroll Game Vault.

More recently, the work announced it volition beryllium restricting entree to the Crunchyroll Store to subscribers of its astir costly subscription tiers. Given that the caller streaming bundle seemingly combines the Fan tier and is besides exclusive to Prime Video, it’s astir apt that subscribers to this circumstantial bundle will not get entree to these different Crunchyroll services.

Other caller changes to Crunchyroll see the removal of its escaped ad-supported streaming tier astatine the extremity of past year, soon followed by a terms hike that went into effect this past March. One happening the work amazingly hasn’t gotten escaped of is simply a seven-day escaped trial.

While this is the archetypal Crunchroll streaming bundle disposable successful the U.S., Starz is disposable successful bundles with a fig of different streaming services, including Hallmark+, HBO Max, and MGM+. The work past reported crossing implicit 17.6 cardinal subscribers, and is location to archetypal bid similar Outlander arsenic good arsenic caller releases from Lionsgate Films and Universal Pictures.

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