Looking for the best websites to watch anime online for free legally? Check out our recommendations for legal streaming platforms with a wide range of anime content!We review the 7 best websites to watch anime series and movies for free online and in a completely legal manner.
The other day, while we were reviewing the best sites to watch movies online for free , I realized that there are fewer and fewer streaming services dedicated exclusively to anime . Crunchyroll, which is owned by Sony, has gradually absorbed many of these platforms (such as Funimation ), so their number has been reduced in recent years.
In any case, don’t let your spirits drop! If you’re a true otaku and want to watch some of the best anime of the moment online while discovering new series, all without spending a cent from your pocket, then we recommend 7 of the best streaming services to watch anime for free .
The best sites to watch anime online for free (and legally)
Before we begin, it is important to clarify that, like most streaming platforms, many of these sites have regional blocking (usually in the US), which means that we will have to use a VPN if we want to access their content from our country. Finally, if you like k-dramas, don’t forget to also check out the post “ The 10 best websites to watch Korean dramas for free ”. Now, let’s go!
Crunchyroll
Crunchyroll is probably the best streaming platform to watch anime for free and legally. It has a ton of current series such as Chainsaw Man, One Piece, Boruto, Jujutsu Kaisen, My Hero Academia or Black Clover, among many other high-quality titles.
The service has a paid subscription plan, although you can sign up for a free account and watch the content for free but with ads. Another plus point for Crunchyroll is that it has an app for mobile phones and Smart TVs. Highly recommended!
Anime Box
Anime Box is the streaming platform of Selecta Visión, the main anime distributor in Spain. It is available both in app format and as a web version for browsers, and has recently gained a lot of notoriety for being one of the platforms where the new Dragon Ball Daima series is broadcast in simulcast along with its premiere in Japan.
Although Anime Box is a paid service, the truth is that it also offers a free subscription that allows us to watch some full episodes of anime series such as Slayers, Princess Yona, or No Game No Life, among others.
Tubi TV
Although Tubi TV is not available in Europe due to European legislation, this is one of the largest streaming services for watching free movies and series from the US. Of course, it also has a section dedicated to anime, with a ton of quality titles, such as Naruto, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Hunter X Hunter, Bleach, Fairy Tail, One Piece, Attack on Titan, One Punch Man and classic Japanese animated films such as Akira.
If you get bored of anime, you can always watch a live-action movie, a documentary or a reality show. As an interesting fact, it is worth mentioning that you do not need to register to watch any of the animes that are available.
Sony Crackle
Sony’s free streaming service is one of the most popular in the US, although outside of that country it is only available in 18 countries in Latin America, Canada and Australia. In any case, although it has a rather disorganized catalog, we can find quite a few quality anime to watch for free online in a completely legal way.
The best thing is that it doesn’t have any ads and the playback quality is pretty good. Although there isn’t a very large volume of titles, what there is is very useful.
Retro Crush
Retro Crush is a free streaming site focused on the Golden Age of anime. Therefore, all the content is series from a few years ago, such as Appleseed, Samurai Troopers or Astro Boy. It also has some more recent stuff like Hajime No Hippo.
It has some pretty interesting content, like the Osamu Tezuka collection, with little gems like Phoenix, or Black Jack, among others. The Retro Crush platform is available via the web, but it can also be found in app format for Android, iOS, Roku and Amazon Fire TV.
YouTube
You can find everything on YouTube, including anime, of course. There’s the official Pokémon channel , for example, where you’ll find tons of episodes from different seasons.
There are also some other pretty interesting channels, such as Marvel HQ , where the company offers dozens of episodes of some pretty interesting animated series like Avengers Assemble or Marvel’s Spider-Man. I’m aware that many of these series are not considered anime, but some are made by Japanese studios, so technically we can say that they are Japanese animation.
Pluto TV
Pluto TV is one of the best apps for watching free live TV over the Internet with a multitude of thematic channels and on-demand content. For several years now, Pluto has had several channels dedicated to anime, where they currently broadcast uninterrupted series such as Yu-Gi-Oh!, Detective Conan, Inazuma Eleven, Tonbo!.
The app is available on both Android and iOS and also has a website for viewing online content from the browser. One of its most positive aspects is that it does not usually display as many ads as other platforms.
In addition to these websites, there are also other platforms such as Rakuten TV , which offer free TV channels and where they broadcast some anime openly and without registration. We are talking about children’s anime, such as Rantaró el Ninja Boy , or the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime. You can see all the free content that is currently available from the official Rakuten TV website .
Gone are the days when there were many more anime platforms, such as the now defunct Funimation , but all of them have slowly been absorbed by Crunchyroll, which is the main anime service that currently dominates worldwide.
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