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"Crunchyroll, a streaming service for Japanese anime and television shows broadcast across Asia, is\u00A0launching in Spain and Portugal tomorrow\u00A0with translated subtitles across all of its programming.\r\n\r\nIt follows a similar update that brought Spanish language support to users in Latin America, as well as Portuguese for viewers in Brazil in November last year.\r\n\r\nCrunchyroll is unique as it\u2019s one of the few dedicated services offering a legal means of streaming anime in a timely manner. DVD sales, which often require large amounts of translation work and voice acting for \u201Cdubbed\u201D audio tracks, have slowed in recent times because of the delay in release dates.\r\n\r\nFans want to watch anime as and when it is broadcast in Japan, which has triggered a ground swell of online piracy and subtitles contributed by fans and amateur translation teams.\r\n\r\nCrunchyroll offers users a free, legal way of accessing a number of popular shows including Naruto Shuppuden, Total Eclipse, Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos. Some of these shows are uploaded with a small delay, up to a week in some cases, which users can choose to bypass by paying \u20AC4.99 per month for a premium subscription.\r\n\r\nThe paid tier also offers users a wider lineup of content and exclusive \u201Csimulcasts\u201D which air one hour after Japan, as well as ad-free and full HD, 1080p resolution streaming.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;With the recent launch and success of our Portuguese service in Brazil and Spanish service in Latin America, we are thrilled to continue to expand our service in Europe and now support Spain and Portugal,\u201D Brady McCollum, COO of Crunchyroll said.\r\n\r\n\u201CCrunchyroll is truly globalizing Asian content and we're already seeing strong European traction to date from the UK and Nordic regions.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nCrunchyroll is available from the browser, but also as iOS, Android, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 app. The company launched in 2009 and has offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Tokyo.\r\n\r\nImage Credit:\u00A0OLIVIER MORIN/AFP/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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