It looks like VRV wants this anime season to be everything but a bittersweet symphony.
Earlier today, Crunchyroll parent Ellation announced that their VRV service will stream simulcasts for seven titles. The company will run the following as ad-supported streams:
- Akashic Records of the Bastard Magical Instructor
- Attack on Titan Season 2
- Berserk
- Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
- Dragon Ball Super
- My Hero Academia Season 2
- What do you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us?
The titles will première on VRV within an hour of their début on Crunchyroll’s Premium subscription service. Attack on Titan will be offer both the subtitled simulcast and the Funimation’s SimulDub.
VRV is a multi-platform streaming service, which is available on the Chromecast, Android, iOS, Sony’s PlayStation 4, and Microsoft’ XBox One. On Tuesday, VRV launched a beta for computer web browsers. A Roku app is also planned, though a specific launch date has yet to be announced.
The service was officially unveiled in June 2016 and soft-launched a few months later, in November. The platform sports content from the following providers:
- Crunchyroll
- Funimation
- Cartoon Hangover
- CollegeHumor
- Geek & Sundry Alpha
- GINX eSports TV
- Machinima
- MONDO
- Nerdist Alpha
- RiffTrax
- Rooster Teeth
- Seeso
- Shudder
- Tested
VRV offers free ad-supported content, as well as a subscription services for each “channel” that include additional content. VRV offers a $9.99 bundle subscription, which includes the following channels:
- Crunchyroll
- Funimation
- Cartoon Hangover
- Geek & Sundry Alpha
- MONDO
- Nerdist
- Rooster Teeth
- Tested
Source: Ellation (Email Communication)
