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Review summary

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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

The subtitles are locked depending on the country

I am currently in france and the subtitles area automaticaly locked in french even tough there are plenty of languages crunchyroll has for subtitles in one piece, i cannot change it and cannot watch it just because i am physically in another country, i do not recommend paying for poor services like these.

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

Don't Get If You Don't Watch Anime Daily

Not a great streaming service if you don't watch anime often. Many shows are locked by premiums, especially if they're more popular. It's not advised to get their premium considering that, in the past, people's card information has been hacked and stolen from the site. I have run into this issue on multiple occasions trying to watch something new.

August 2, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Truly awful

About a fourth of the time spent watching episodes is spent watching ads. Plus, when I was offered a two month subscription through Game Pass, I put my Cashapp card info in, the website acts like it doesn’t know the card exists. I will eat a devil fruit and jump in to the sea before I ever use this website again.

July 31, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Get a call from my bank about Crunchy Roll

Get a call from my bank about a suspicious charge for $11.99 from Crunchy Roll. I've no idea what Crunchy Roll is and neither does the bank. I dispute the charges.
Do a little research and find out that Crunchy Roll is an anime and gaming service.
A service I never had heard of and never signed up for.

Find a service number for them and guess what?
It wasn't in service. By the, its a San Francisco, CA number.
Next I go to website and get the chat bot.
Nothing can be done because I don't have a screen shot from the bank.
I call Spectrum to find out information about this anime streaming service and they don't know anything about Crunchy Roll.
Somehow Crunchy Roll is tapping into all kinds of accounts from what I've read on this site.
Call your bank, notify your cash apps about this site.
Whomever is running Crunchy Roll needs to get it together and straighten this out before it becomes more than a nightmare

July 24, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I love the selection

I love the selection, but the streaming service is awful. I have no issues with any other. This will buffer and cut out constantly. I would gladly pay more money for the service to work properly.

July 24, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Shitty customer service

Shitty customer service, purchased a premium subscription through youtubetv, didn't transfer despite using same email. horrible customer service saying at first it isn't possible, yelled to get escalated for a solid minute, did, said it would take a view days when i know it wouldn't be that long. They can duck off.

July 18, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

False charges to my bank account

Never heard of CRUNCHYROLL until a subscription charge appeared on my debit card. Contacted them, provided details of the charges, and was told "Please be assured that I have successfully canceled the subscription and processed the refund for the charges". Told the support person (Harshita) multiple times I never had a subscription. Almost 3 week later, no refund. Stay away from these people. They are obviously thieves.

June 28, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Lack of Security & Fraud!

This company/website will allow others to use your card information and then when you try to get to the bottom of it they’ll say “we can’t find any information that someone used your card”.

Really? Cause it showed up on my account AND my bank agreed with me that someone used my card information on your website.

Yall are sick

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

Logs me out and asks me to reset my…

Logs me out and asks me to reset my password then logs me out again and the cycle continues. How is this acceptable? And yes I pay a subscription fee. Criminal. If I could give it 0 I would

June 26, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Just kinda lmao

I subscribed for 2 months. The genres are badly organized, there is no way to filter by age rating, and overall the interface is very difficult to use. While they do have a good amount of anime, they don't have everything. In addition, the "free episodes" are not even worth it, as the literally pack 15 ADS into ONE episode. Overall, a disappointing experience. If you are an anime fan, use a different service: this one isn't worth it.

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

This is a recent experience with a…

This is a recent experience with a still being uploaded and dubbed anime, the apothecary diaries.
It's a pro prostitution anime.
I was trying to give it a chance, it was okay till season 2 episode 33, title- the late emperor.

It's a pro pedophile episode in a pro prostitution series.
It is openly stated the late emperor is a pedophile, and he hates grown women pushing down his adult female concubine.
A younger child, lady in waiting walks up to him. Knows what he is, they then draw it and voice act it out like she likes and wants the emperor, a full grown man.

They then tell us he impregnated her, and then he stopped touching her because she got too old and then we see hes collecting more younger girls to impregnate and they portray the little girls as wanting to be impregnated by the adult male emperor.
Even to the point of the first little girl growing older and being jealous of the little girls being assaulted.
They mention they were not mature enough.
And the series from this point keeps mentioning he deflowered young girls.

Not raped not assaulted, deflowered.
There was no warning of child sex abuse. And no warning of pro pedophilia content.

As a big company you would assume they screen their anime, and have enough resources to put a label on the listing as well as who thought this was okay to be dubbed in English?
As a csa survivor this has reopened wounds that I have to heal over and over again.
I hope this review will bring positive change and prevent csa survivors from having to be surprised with pro pedophilia content from a company .

June 25, 2025
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