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Looking at 165 reviews, most reviewers were let down by their experience overall. Many customers expressed dissatisfaction with the website's functionality, citing issues like constant buffering, lag, and a generally disorganized and buggy interface. People also reported significant problems with their subscriptions, including being charged for canceled services, difficulty canceling, and unexpected charges. The product itself, primarily the anime content, received criticism for missing English subtitles or dubs, incomplete series, and censored scenes. Reviewers frequently encountered poor user experience due0 to navigation issues, a lack of essential features like removing shows from "continue watching," and a hidden, unhelpful support page. Payment issues were also a recurring concern, with customers experiencing problems with card information, unexplained charges, and subscriptions not being activated despite successful payments.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I absolutely hate how utterly poor their customer service is. It's been complaining about two issue for about three years now, and nothing what so ever has been done, and they're pretty easy fixes.... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

App just flat out doesn’t work on most devices. The buffering and lag is insane. It doesn’t matter what WiFi you try, what settings you use, or how low quality the show you’re trying to stream is yo... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Got Crunchyroll to watch anike on a 11h flight to China on my massive tablet, the app kept crashing, cpuldwatch a thing and made carrying my tablet on an intercontinental journey pointless. This was... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Crunchyroll is absolute garbage. I’ve been trying to cancel my subscription for months, but they make it literally impossible. They keep telling me I have to cancel through Google Play — even though... See more


Company details

  1. Movie Streaming Service
  2. Movie Rental Store

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Crunchyroll.com is a free legal online video site that offers popular anime including Naruto, Skip Beat, and Shugo Chara. Start watching now. No registration or downloads required.


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TrustScore 1.5 out of 5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Worst streaming service ever the anime…

Worst streaming service ever the anime awards are a joke Bleach shouldve won every single category the fact that jin woo won mc of the year even though their is 0 writing behind him is a joke. Crunchyroll count your days.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

May 26, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

DUB Quality is declining rapidly..

The Help page is needly hidden. I see no point in keeping my subscription with the way your quality has declined.
Your dubs and voiceovers have gotten worse lately.
Hundreds of sound effects are missing, everything sounds cheap and rushed.
There’s zero focus on user experience — it’s all just about min-maxing.
Your whole service is a huge letdown. Doesn’t matter if it’s German, English, or any other language — we’re just getting garbage now, probably because you're putting insane pressure on the studios.
And for this pile of crap, I’ve been paying money this whole time.
"Sony ruins everything."

May 22, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

BEWARE

I awoke this morning to fraudulent charges with this company. They were reported to my bank and addressed.

May 16, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Compromised Website with Obfuscated Customer Support

Account was compromised and the process of deleting the account is unnecessarily convoluted. The customer support e-mail needed to delete the account is not given. The "virtual" assistant is useless in this regard and the "human" assistant chose to ignore my inquiry regarding what the e-mail is. It is not a secure site and this made even worse by requiring the user to spend far too much time attempting to figure out how to contact proper support.

May 11, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Alright Application

Been using Crunchyroll for well over a decade now, and for what it offers it is an alright anime streaming service. The company itself isn't the best on some of their recent choices they made, like for example the Funimation merge, as well as removing anime content for seemingly no reason, especially older series. The prices are reasonable for what you get, and if you primarily watch anime on mobile, game console, or TV then I would say it's worth it. If you primarily watch anime on PC then I would find other suitable sites that offer more for less.

May 10, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Crunchyroll support actually based

Making a review because I just used customer support, and in the same search I used to find the support page. I saw a negative review from here saying the support was awful.

I had the opposite experience, the pre-screening chatbot was quick and easy, I got to a real human very quickly, and they were not constrained to lists of predetermined responses.
They were very personable, even agreeing explicitly with some of my feedback. Felt like I was just talking to a fellow anime fan. 11/10 would recommend Crunchyroll support.

I contacted them to give feedback about bringing back the comment section with it default off for users so they still achieve "safety" while allowing those who want the comments (most of the user base) to have them.
I also suggested that they not show me ads for shows I'm already watching. That way their ads (still have some ads in premium) are more effective, and less onerous. They passed along the feedback, very nice, very easy, no stress

May 8, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

They screwed over one of my favorite…

They screwed over one of my favorite eng voice actors (withheld personal mail directed at him, opened boxes and gave them to employees. You know, really shit things to do) so he quit and now someone else voices one of his most iconic characters.

I don’t know much else about the site, my subscription was only for a week or so and I only watched one show.

January 1, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

To crunchyroll

To crunchyroll, I spoke to AYUSH today he goes he will help then responds and says let’s have a conversation via email and disappears, if you charge me as I’m within the free trial it won’t be good, remove my details asap you dodgy scams. NMe was AYUSH who was not able to supper me with the smallest query.

April 29, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Customer service is a nightmare

I like the selection of shows from Crunchyroll, but customer service is a HUGE problem. I've had to speak to them twice, including today, and while both problems were solved, communication felt like banging my head against the wall. They either assumed the incorrect problem, explained things poorly, or gave me unrelated answers to questions I had. Also--if a payment doesn't go through, NOTIFY THE CUSTOMER, FOR GOODNESS SAKE. I don't like finding out last month's payment failed when I thought I'd updated my payment method accordingly.

I am serious. You need to fix customer service, NOW. I like Crunchyroll, but the thought of having to deal with customer service again has me thinking of canceling.

April 25, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Shady practices

I signed up for a free trial and got instantly charged. Spent a lot of time going back and forth with the customer service, after which they said the charge would be canceled but nothing happened.

April 14, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This app is ATROCIOUS

This app is ATROCIOUS. Especially if your using it on Nintendo Switch. First it used to have the issue that if you Switch went into standby mode, it would kick you out of the episode your watching, now when it does this, it fully logs you out of your account. And it's on top of the fact that this app will have playback issues or the voices become slowed down or distorted, and also doesn't even have a full library of order anime that are available to watch online. This app is a pathetic joke.

April 23, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

No filters means no thank you.

Crunchyroll is in the position where they have no real competition, so they are fine getting by on a below mediocre service. The website is garbage, I’ve been on pirating websites that are far better. They don’t even have a language filter despite every show having a language tag. It honestly feels malicious of them. If they had a language filter, it would be at least a 4/5 star site. I’m sure they have more shows in my language, but I have no way of knowing. So I will just use pirating sites that do until Crunchyroll decides they want my money again. I’ve been a customer for 6 years, will come back when you put in a couple hours of work making a filter.

April 20, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Suspicious Billing from a Service I Never Used – A Concerning Experience

I recently discovered a charge on my bank card from Crunchyroll, a service I have never signed up for, never used, and never knowingly shared my payment details with. This came as a complete surprise, as I have no account with them and have never even visited their website intentionally.

What’s more concerning is the lack of transparency around how they obtained my payment information. This raises serious questions about data security and possible third-party sharing without consent. Attempts to resolve this directly have been met with either generic responses or little help at all.

To others reading this: double-check your bank statements. If you see a charge from Crunchyroll and don’t recall ever using it, treat it as suspicious and report it immediately to your bank or card provider.

In my opinion, this experience feels misleading and borderline fraudulent. I’m sharing this review not out of anger but to warn others and encourage the company to take these concerns seriously.

April 14, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

horruible

horrible i cannot even wtach a single anime without 57 different adds showing up i cannot watch one piece without having ro purchase prenium and i cant even watch anything without having th buy prenium you need to pay just to watch the 2nd season of any anime horrble the creator of this website is just a fat money loving pig who doesnt care about quality but just the money earnt

April 9, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

ever since the purchase of funimation…

ever since the purchase of funimation there customer service on crunchy roll is terrible, the website does not work. My issue i cant even make an account, it says enter a valid email so i try resetting the password nope nothing i contact support they tell me they changed something to do with my payment so i can have any option ? great I CANT LOG IN , so i try again they tell me oh i have an account just reset the password , thank you oh brilliant one i didn't try that already and said i tried when i contacted you. Just cause they are the one thats in your face and you see everywhere does not mean they are good . hands down one of the worst companies I have ever had to deal with.

April 6, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

this app is good but few are in premium…

this app is good but few are in premium that cannot see for example [solo leveling season 2 there is no option to see even in japanese ]. [ lf there has this option we can review the anime and we also have interest to see the other animes with the premium package ]so this is the only fault l consider from crunchyroll

April 6, 2025
Unprompted review

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