A new piece up over at Gigaom.com has broken the news this morning that Crunchyroll has now surpassed 100,000 paying subscribers for its varied Japanese, Koren and other Asian content, be it live action or animation. The piece goes through some of the basics of the company’s history which is fairly well known to most of those that follow them, but it has some interesting quotes from those that work at the service as they go on about how they now show between 80 to 85% of new anime that’s broadcast in Japan.

“We legitimized an iTunified the Anime space.”

What isn’t a surprise is that one of the bigger boosts to the company’s bottom line and subscriber base has been the way it’s moved beyond simple web streaming of series. With its apps on the various mobile platforms and other services, especially the PlayStation 3 now, it’s able to get its name out into more places and faces and far more ease of access, something that we’ve long talked about in the anime space. Once Crunchyroll ends up in front of more people, more people know, sample and subscribe. We’re still waiting for a Tivo app though.

[h/t to Wipeout31]

Chris Beveridge http://www.fandompost.com Chris has been writing about anime, manga, movies and comics for well on twenty years now. He began AnimeOnDVD.com back in 1998 and has covered nearly every anime release that’s come out in the US ever since. He likes to write a lot, as you can see. See author's posts

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