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Crunchyroll, LLC is an anime streaming, video-on-demand and licensing company founded on May 14, 2006 by a group of University of California, Berkeley graduates, as a for-profit video upload and streaming site that specialized in hosting East Asian content. Some of the content hosted on Crunchyroll included fansubbed versions of East Asian shows. In 2008, Crunchyroll secured a capital investment of $4.05 million from the venture capital firm Venrock.

Crunchyroll was a subsidiary of AT&T's Otter Media (now owned by Warner Bros. Discovery), and from 2016 to 2018, the company partnered with Funimation, which would eventually merge into its brand in 2022 after Sony acquired Crunchyroll in 2021. The company is currently owned by Sony through a joint venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment Japan's Aniplex.

On February 25, 2020, Crunchyroll announced their intent to produce original content through co-productions with Japanese animation studios or their own Burbank-based animation studio formed in 2018. These select titles are known as Crunchyroll Originals.

1st Logo (April 1, 2020-)

Visuals: On a black background, an 2D-animated gold-orange light streak swirls and forms the corporate Crunchyroll logo in orange, with its eye symbol right next to "crunchyroll".

Trivia: The logo was originally introduced in 2012. The wordmark was changed to orange in 2018.

Variant: For Crunchyroll Originals, its the same as the normal logo, but the word "ORIGINALS" appears beside "crunchyroll".

Technique: 2D animation by MOCEAN, who also designed the 2020 Searchlight Pictures and 2018 Miramax logos.

Audio: A whoosh and then a few shining stings.

Availability: It was first seen on Tower of God and the theatrical release of Jujutsu Kaisen 0 and is also used as a de-facto home video logo, replacing the Funimation logo on their Blu-ray and DVD releases, starting with the home video release of BEM: Become Human - The Movie.

2nd Logo (April 12, 2024)

Visuals: The logo from before is shown on a dark blue-black gradient background with faintly lit cadet blue and orange curved lines, with the upper right having a large orange glow that rotates around its edge in a clockwise direction. At the beginning, the screen zooms out and stops.

Trivia: This was mainly used for Crunchyroll's branding at the time.

Technique: 2D computer animation.

Audio: None.

Availability: The logo is seen on Kurayukaba.

3rd Logo (July 25, 2024)

Visuals: On a black background, an orange circle with light orange ripples falls down a wide orange outlined circle. The outlined circle ripples into many outlined circles with each in a different style of anime with the circle being contained in them. It zooms out and forms the new Crunchyroll logo which is the Crunchyroll icon and the text Crunchyroll in a new font.

Technique: 2D computer animation.

Audio: An ambient sound with a pop-like sound with various instruments ending with a sword shine and a crunch.

Availability: The logo is seen on Crunchyroll's official Twitter post video and officialy debuted in the North American and International (Non-USA) prints of My Hero Academia: It's Your Turn before the Sony/Sony Pictures Releasing logos in the United States and Canada and the Sony/Sony Pictures Releasing International logos internationally.

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 '''Crunchyroll, LLC''' is an anime streaming, video-on-demand and licensing company founded on May 14, 2006 by a group of University of California, Berkeley graduates, as a for-profit video upload and streaming site that specialized in hosting East Asian content. Some of the content hosted on Crunchyroll included fansubbed versions of East Asian shows. In 2008, Crunchyroll secured a capital investment of $4.05 million from the venture capital firm Venrock.
-Crunchyroll was a subsidiary of [[AT&T]]'s Otter Media (now owned by [[Warner Bros. Discovery]]), and from 2016 to 2018, the company partnered with [[Funimation]], which would eventually merge into its brand in 2022 after Sony acquired Crunchyroll in 2021. The company is currently owned by Sony through a joint venture between [[Sony Pictures Entertainment]] and [[Sony Music Japan|Sony Music Entertainment Japan]]'s [[Aniplex, Inc. (Japan)|Aniplex]].
+Crunchyroll was a subsidiary of [[AT&T]]'s Otter Media (now owned by [[Warner Bros. Discovery]]), and from 2016 to 2018, the company partnered with [[Funimation]], which would eventually merge into its brand in 2022 after Sony acquired Crunchyroll in 2021. The company is currently owned by Sony through a joint venture between [[Sony Pictures Entertainment]] and [[Sony Music Japan|Sony Music Entertainment Japan]]'s [[Aniplex Inc.|Aniplex]].
-On February 25, 2020, [[Crunchyroll]] announced their intent to produce original content through co-productions with Japanese animation studios or their own Burbank-based animation studio formed in 2018. These select titles are known as '''Crunchyroll Originals'''.
+On February 25, 2020, Crunchyroll announced their intent to produce original content through co-productions with Japanese animation studios or their own Burbank-based animation studio formed in 2018. These select titles are known as '''Crunchyroll Originals'''.
-===(April 1, 2020-)===
+===1st Logo (April 1, 2020-)===
-<gallery mode=packed heights=200>
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="200">
 Crunchyroll (2022) (From - Blu-Ray release to My Hero Academia World Heroes' Mission).png
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-'''Logo:''' On a black background, an animated {{color|yellow}}-{{color|orange}} light streak swirls and forms the corporate Crunchyroll logo in {{color|orange}}.
+'''Visuals:''' On a black background, an 2D-animated gold-orange light streak swirls and forms the corporate Crunchyroll logo in orange, with its eye symbol right next to "{{color|orange|crunchyroll}}".
+'''Trivia:''' The logo was originally introduced in 2012. The wordmark was changed to orange in 2018.
-'''Variant:''' Same as the normal logo, but the word "'''ORIGINALS'''" appears beside "crunchyroll".
+'''Variant:''' For Crunchyroll Originals, its the same as the normal logo, but the word "'''ORIGINALS'''" appears beside "{{color|orange|crunchyroll}}".
-'''FX/SFX:''' The animation in the logo, designed by MOCEAN, who also designed the 2022 [[Searchlight Pictures]] and [[Miramax Films|Miramax]] logos.
+'''Technique:''' 2D animation by MOCEAN, who also designed the 2020 [[Searchlight Pictures]] and 2018 [[Miramax Films|Miramax]] logos.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' A whoosh and then a few shining stings.
+'''Audio:''' A whoosh and then a few shining stings.
-'''Availability:''' Current. It was first seen on ''Tower of God'', the theatrical release of ''Jujutsu Kaisen 0'' and is used as a de-facto home video logo, replacing the Funimation logo on their Blu-ray and DVD releases, starting with the home video release of ''BEM: Become Human - The Movie''.
+'''Availability:'''  It was first seen on ''Tower of God'' and the theatrical release of ''Jujutsu Kaisen 0'' and is also used as a de-facto home video logo, replacing the Funimation logo on their Blu-ray and DVD releases, starting with the home video release of ''BEM: Become Human - The Movie''.
-'''Editor's Note:''' Though the logo rebrand may confuse those who normally expect the Funimation logo to pop up in the Blu-ray releases of their anime, this is still a nicely executed logo.
+===2nd Logo (April 12, 2024)===
+<tabber>
+Image=
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="200">
+Crunchyroll (2024) (From - Kurayukaba).png
+</gallery>
+|-|
+Video=
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="150">
+Crunchyroll logo (2024) (From - Kurayukaba).mp4
+</gallery>
+</tabber>
+'''Visuals:''' The logo from before is shown on a dark blue-black gradient background with faintly lit {{color|cadetblue|cadet blue}} and orange curved lines, with the upper right having a large orange glow that rotates around its edge in a clockwise direction. At the beginning, the screen zooms out and stops.
+'''Trivia:''' This was mainly used for Crunchyroll's branding at the time.
+'''Technique:''' 2D computer animation.
+'''Audio:''' None.
+'''Availability:''' The logo is seen on ''Kurayukaba''.
+===3rd Logo (July 25, 2024)===
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="200">
+Crunchyroll (2024) logo.png
+</gallery>
+{{YouTube|id=RCAwjjM1FbQ}}
+'''Visuals:''' On a black background, an orange circle with light orange ripples falls down a wide orange outlined circle. The outlined circle ripples into many outlined circles with each in a different style of anime with the circle being contained in them. It zooms out and forms the new Crunchyroll logo which is the Crunchyroll icon and the text Crunchyroll in a new font.
+'''Technique:''' 2D computer animation.
+'''Audio:''' An ambient sound with a pop-like sound with various instruments ending with a sword shine and a crunch.
+'''Availability:''' The logo is seen on Crunchyroll's official Twitter post video and officialy debuted in the North American and International (Non-USA) prints of ''My Hero Academia: It's Your Turn'' before the Sony/Sony Pictures Releasing logos in the United States and Canada and the Sony/Sony Pictures Releasing International logos internationally.
+{{Chronology|[[Funimation]]}}
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-[[Category:American logos]]
+[[Category:United States]]
 [[Category:American animation logos]]
 [[Category:Animation logos]]
 [[Category:American home entertainment logos]]
 [[Category:Home entertainment logos]]
-[[Category:Sony Music Entertainment]]
+[[Category:Sony Music Japan]]
 [[Category:Sony Pictures Entertainment]]
-[[Category:Sony Corporation (Japan)]]
+[[Category:Sony Corporation]]
+[[Category:Dubbing logos]]
+[[Category:Logos made by MOCEAN]]
+[[Category:English-language logos]]