Crunchyroll Review

Name, when created, who created it:

Crunchyroll

Kun Gao, May 2006 (website)

Over 5 million downloads

Droid format for Androids

Available in Googleplay, FREE with optional membership upgrade

Purpose:

•  Allow people outside of Japan to watch professionally translated Anime/Japanese drama just hours after they air in Japan
• Also allows users view other translated Asian content hours after they’re published such as manga and music.

Need or desire?:

•  Desire

Identified desire:

• To watch/read translated Asian media as it’s released, rather than waiting months or even years for them to be professionally translated and distributed by major companies

Target audience:

• Dedicated anime fans, or people who really enjoy Japanese culture

Benefits:

• Allows for the spread of Japanese and Asian culture around the world.  
• More people can become familiar with it and hopefully seize make assumptions.

Design:

• The design is very simple and sleek, though it can be confusing to get to more episodes for a specific title because it isn’t outright shown.  
• There isn’t an icon to view more episodes, the user must manually go in and find it.  
• What is convenient though is that the app opens up to the users queue, allowing for easy access to where you left off. 
•   Looking for new and popular anime is easy, but unfortunately, the anime cannot be sorted by categories such as genre.

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