One of Sony’s labels, Crunchyroll, which is one of the largest and most influential companies when it comes to legal anime distribution, having a presence in a multitude of countries of various languages around the world, which season after season simultaneously broadcasts premiere anime. Recently, in a meeting where the company explains its fiscal policy for the current year 2024, it announced that the platform already has no less than 13 million registered subscriptions.
Sony announces Crunchyroll now has more than 13 million subscribers
This week there were some announcements that may go unnoticed, but they are relevant and necessary to understand the industry landscape of the medium that we are so passionate about, anime. Through an article published through the Yahoo Japan portal which explains some data that were given during a meeting by Sony where they explained their policy for the fiscal year 2024 in which they provided data that could serve as a prelude to measure how the anime industry is doing.
During the presentation, Kenichiro Yoshida, current CEO of Sony, along with other representatives, shared his vision for the future evolution of the company. Addressing the topic of international expansion, they announced that Crunchyroll had already surpassed a staggering 13 million subscribers. This significant achievement gives us a clear and encouraging view of Sony’s sustained global growth year on year.
Another announcement that was equally or even somewhat more relevant was that the Japanese company introduced an anime production software under the name “Anime Cancas“. The company mentioned that the development of such tool is under development in collaboration with Sony engineers in order for the software to help increase the efficiency and quality of the company’s productions. It should be noted that the company intends to highlight the value of its intellectual properties from three fronts: “creation”, “development” and “expansion”.
Aniplex, as part of the Sony Group, has under its label the prestigious Japanese studios A-1 Pictures (Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii, Lycoris Recoil, Solo Leveling) and Clover Works (Spy x Family, Bocchi the Rock!, Wonder Egg Priority). These studios will be the first to adopt the new anime production software during the early stages of the company’s strategy, with the main goal of raising the quality in each of their creations and further strengthening their position in the anime industry. In addition, Sony is also considering providing this tool to external studios in the future.
It was also revealed during the meeting that he also plans to focus on staff training in the future. To this end, it considers it necessary to create an academy to train anime creators in collaboration with the industry Aniplex and Crunchyroll. In order to their ability to plan, produce, distribute and expand internationally.
Leaving us looking forward to what is to come in a few years and hopefully it will be a revolution for the better that will improve the works that we as anime fans usually enjoy. Finally, it is worth mentioning that this spring 2024 season Crunchyroll has several anime on air such as Kaijuu 8-gou, Ookami to Koushinryou: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf, Wind Breaker, Bartender: Kami no Glass, Karasu wa Aruji wo Erabanai, Astro Note, Tonari no Youkai-san, among others.
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