No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is www.crunchyroll.com legit or a scam?
Official Crunchyroll anime streaming website with clean security scans and confirmed legitimate business registration in the United States.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page displays standard Crunchyroll branding and navigation for anime streaming. Our antivirus network returned zero flags and browser blocklists show no blocks. The domain is tied to Crunchyroll LLC, a joint venture between Sony Pictures and Aniplex with active US registration. Evidence shows service complaints on independent review aggregator and Reddit about pricing and selection, yet these are not scam reports. A resolved 2017 DNS incident does not affect current legitimacy. The combination of clean technical signals and verified company status supports safe use.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
We could not capture a fully-rendered screenshot of this page; visual analysis is inconclusive.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for www.crunchyroll.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Official domain of Crunchyroll anime streaming service, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment and Aniplex joint venture
- Crunchyroll, LLC registered in Los Angeles, CA with physical address listed in Terms of Service
- Official help pages warn users about phishing emails using similar domains like crunchyrolll.com.co
- Trustpilot page for www.crunchyroll.com shows 1.3/5 rating from over 1,500 reviews citing service issues
- Reddit r/Crunchyroll subreddit contains multiple threads discussing account issues, service complaints, and legitimacy questions
- 2017 incident where crunchyroll.com was subject to DNS hijack leading to malware distribution (resolved per company statement)
- Company maintains active LinkedIn profile, Crunchbase entry, and careers page confirming legitimate operations
- Facebookopen
"Crunchyroll is a scam🤧 You pay a lot of money for just a few anime subbed 😭"
- Trustpilotopen
"Crunchyroll, who started out as a pirating website, is killing other major free anime websites while jacking up their own prices and have a piss poor selection of shows on their site."
- Trustpilotopen
"Terrible. Small ahh Library & Shitty Subtitles + removing already added Animes (86), restricts comparatively smaller but legal services like Muze Asia (on YT) to premiere an Anime on its Airing Date"
Crunchyroll, LLC; joint venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Aniplex; headquartered in Los Angeles, CA; 1,001-5,000 employees
Our research confirms this is the official Crunchyroll domain operated by Crunchyroll LLC, a Sony Pictures and Aniplex joint venture. independent review aggregator shows a 1.3/5 rating from over 1,500 reviews focused on service issues rather than fraud. Reddit threads discuss account and content complaints. Company maintains active business registration and professional profiles.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (advertising@crunchyroll.com).
- Links to 5 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on www.crunchyroll.com and not a lookalike like w-ww.crunchyroll.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on www.crunchyroll.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- www.crunchyroll.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 83/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. www.crunchyroll.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 68 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 0 antivirus engines in our malware network report www.crunchyroll.com as clean.
- No. www.crunchyroll.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- www.crunchyroll.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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