Crunchyroll Raises Prices, Announces Plans for Video Games

It’s gonna cost more to get your anime fix. Crunchyroll is raising its prices. To offset the pain, the company announced it’s getting into video game development.

We’ll hear more about the new video games later this year, but they will be Crunchyroll Game Vault exclusives. In addition to the new games, Crunchyroll announced it’s adding several existing games to the Vault including Dungeons of Hinterberg, Call of Boba, Horror Hop, Pikuniku, and Battle Suit Aces.

There are already more than 80 titles in the Game Vault. Crunchyroll hopes to hit 100 games by the summer.

The Game Vault is only available at the Mega Fan Level or above.

Crunchyroll killed off its free tier at the end of 2025.

What Can You Watch with Crunchyroll?

The service has 2,000+ titles of groundbreaking anime. There are 50,000+ episodes overall.

Popular titles on the platform include:

• My Hero Academia
• One Piece
• Kailua No. 8
• DAN DA DAN
• Dr. STONE
• The Water Magician
• My Dress-Up Darling
• Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin
• Clevatess
• The Rising of the Shield Hero
• To Your Eternity
• Secrets of the Silent Witch
• TO BE HERO X
• Scooped Up by an S-Rank Adventurer!
• Dragon Raja: The Blazing Dawn
• New Saga
• Lord of Mysteries

Movies and shows are available in 12+ languages, and users have the option to watch with subtitles or dubbed in their native language.

Are There Any Other Ways to Stream Anime?

Anime is popular across several streaming services, but here are the best.

HIDIVE

HIDIVE is another paid anime library, but you can watch it with a free trial. It includes exclusives. Some of the popular titles include:

• Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon
• MADE IN ABYSS
• The Vexations of a Shut-in Vampire Princess
• Helck
• Tokyo Mew Mew New
• The Demon Girl Next Door
• My Gift LVL 9999 Unlimited Gacha
• Dusk Beyond The End Of The World

AsianCrush

If you’re looking for a freemium option, you can stream plenty of free content on AsianCrush without paying. If you’d like to drop the ads, you can choose to play $4.99/month or $49.99/year. There’s a 7-day free trial for either premium plan. Of just stick with free! It’s up to you.

Titles include “Urusei Yatsura: Only You,” “Hells,” “City Hunter: Bay City Wars,” “My Little Monster,” and “Magic User’s Club!”

Tubi

One of our top free services has a nice anime library with titles like “Storm Rider: Clash of the Evils,” “Terror in Resonance,” “Naruto,” and “Yu-Gi-Oh!”

RetroCrush

Looking for the classics? You can choose the totally free version of RetroCrush Anime or go for a premium version that has a 7-day free trial.

Either way, you get some knockout titles like “Astro Boy,” “Aim for the Ace!,” “Hajime no Ippo,” “Princess Nine,” “Yowamushi Pedal: The Movie,” “Samurai Troopers (Ronin Warriors),” “Ninja Robots Tobikage,” “Magic Knight Rayearth,” and “Flame of Recca.”