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Crunchyroll – Anime on Your iPhone

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Wow.  Thankfully I was checking out Anime 3000 while listening to my friends over at Reverse Thieves.  A3K happens to be hosting their new podcast.  Go give it a listen!

Anyway, this is an amazing development and I can't believe I hadn't heard about it till now.  For those who don't know, Crunchyroll is a a legal streaming site for anime and live action drama from Asia(Japan and I think Korea).  Before Netflix had their streaming, I used Crunchyroll a lot.

Now they've made it even easier to watch!  Crunchyroll is free for a good number of shows.  If you want exclusive content access as well as more current,  as they release in Japan, shows you can pay a fee.  If you pay a fee you also don't have to watch commercials.

The app itself is nothing too crazy.  You can sign in to your Crunchyroll profile to view your account and guestbook.  As for viewing content, you can tilt the phone sideways to see featured titles as well as using buttons along the bottom to Browse and Search.

I tested on wifi and 3G.  The wifi works great and it appears to use the built-in Quicktime viewer which allows you to scrub around to view the part you want as well as zoom in a little so the picture takes up the whole screen.

Unfortunately, probably because of Apple and ATT, the app will not let you stream anime over the 3G network.

For a free app this is great and it may actually turn me in to a paying customer of Crunchyroll!

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