Crunchyroll has almost 10 million paying users

Sony Group Corporation has released a document titled “Second Quarter 2022 Consolidated Financial Statements” detailing some of the favorable aspects of the company’s recently acquired Crunchyroll platform.

The full announcement in the platform section reads:

Next, let me introduce Crunchyroll, our anime distribution company: The integration of Crunchyroll and Funimation services is underway, the number of current paying users has grown to nearly 10 million, and business expansion has exceeded our initial expectations. .

The company is also active in distributing Japanese anime abroad. “Dragon Ball Super: Super Heroes” opened in the US in August and topped the box office in its first week of release. Also, we terminated The Right Stuf, Inc. on August 4th. Purchase. American e-commerce company that sells anime DVDs, character items, manga, and more.

With this acquisition, Crunchyroll plans to strengthen its merchandising business and create deeper and more diverse interaction with the anime fan community. Notably, in August 2021, Crunchyroll’s management announced that it had surpassed 5 million paying users, tripling the number of users in just over a year.

However, it should also be noted that Funimation’s user base was eventually absorbed into Crunchyroll after the decision to merge the two services, so it’s not entirely clear what numbers were actually achieved over the 12-month period. .

However, it should be noted that Sony Funimation Global Group completed the acquisition of AT&T Crunchyroll on August 9 last year. The purchase price was $1.17 billion and proceeds were paid in cash at closing.