I expected to write about Crunchyroll again soon, but this news wasn’t what I was expecting. Crunchyroll has become a dominant force for anime streaming partly because of its free viewing option. But plenty of watchers have opted to pay to skip the ads and get faster access to current series by signing up for […]
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