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Sony's Crunchyroll Finds Its Early Lead in Anime Under Attack from Netflix and Amazon. Angering anime/manga publishers and refusing to promote shows like Dandadan.
Disney and Netflix are expanding in the popular Japanese cartoon genre
Netflix Inc., Walt Disney Co. and Amazon.com Inc. are all digging into their deep pockets to license shows, making it more expensive for Crunchyroll to compete and giving fans less reason to subscribe to the niche service. With their greater reach and higher licensing budgets, Netflix and Disney are vacuuming up hit anime programs like Delicious in Dungeon and Little Witch Academia from key Crunchyroll suppliers. According to a survey of over 4,000 Americans earlier this year by the online gaming and entertainment site Polygon, 76% of Gen Z anime fans watch shows on Netflix, compared with 58% on Crunchyroll.
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