After all of the hoopla about Crunchyroll’s financing and their copyright issues back in March, the company seems to have rebounded and are making great strides with partnerships. The Crunchyroll story seems very similar to the YouTube story in the early days.

Last month Crunchyroll announced partnerships with a variety of content providers in the U.S. and Japan. Today Crunchyroll is announcing a new partnership with the THINK company based in Japan. The partnership will create a new channel on Crunchyroll for the "Anime Innovation Tokyo ", backed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. The launch will include several videos and digital channel dedicated to Anime Innovation Tokyo’s content.

Crunchyroll self reports over four million unique visitors a month with a worldwide audience.

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You might remember Crunchyroll from their funding announcement last month and the discussion about copyright issues earlier this month. Tony Hung had a good overview of the copyright issue with regards to Crunchyroll.

Today Crunchyroll is back in the news, this time they have launched a content partnership program. The first batch of partners include: Akibanana, DLE, GDH, and GTChannel. These companies are based in the U.S. and in Japan.

While Crunchyroll has removed ads on the site, there is word that advertising might begin to appear in the videos themselves and that revenue will be shared between Crunchyroll and the content provider. Crunchyroll currently self-reports over four million unique visitors a month.

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We were the first to write about the CrunchyRoll $4.05 million venture capital round last month. The good doctor Tony Hung took a look at CrunchyRoll and went deep into the copyright and believes that CrunchyRoll is a "legal landmine." 

Hung is back tonight with some excellent research into the fansubbing community on CrunchyRoll. CrunchyRoll members don’t just upload videos, they also subtitle them and this is called "fansubbing". Apparently the community isn’t happy with the success that CrunchyRoll has received and the round of funding and have begun to show their feelings on the deal. Hung explains that the Fansubbers could also be the target of legal action. Check out Hung’s research on the topic.

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