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Crunchyroll president Rahul Purini on the rise of anime, the Funimation shutdown, and competing with Netflix

Today, I’m talking with Rahul Purini, the president of Crunchyroll, a streaming service focused entirely on anime — and really, the biggest anime service still going. Rahul has a long history with anime: he spent more than seven years at Funimation, a company that started in the ’90s to distribute Dragon Ball Z to US audiences, before getting the top job at Crunchyroll.Anime might seem like niche content, but it’s not nearly as niche as you might think — our colleagues over at Polygon just ran a...

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