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A Chrome extension that synchronizes Crunchyroll video playback so friends can watch anime together.
Inspected
selector: roll-together state: active source: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/roll-together/opfkhpijmigdkjafeenfgbndokfphamh?hl=en
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Synchronize Crunchyroll video playback … Seamless shared viewing experience for … Fork of the original Roll Together extension Add to Chrome
How a watch party works
Install the extension
Head to the Chrome Web Store and add Roll Together to your browser. It takes about ten seconds and there is nothing to configure after that.
Open Crunchyroll and start a room
Navigate to any anime episode on Crunchyroll. Click the Roll Together icon in your browser toolbar and hit 'Create Room'. You will get a short link to share.
Invite your friends
Paste the room link into your group chat, Discord server, or wherever your crew hangs out. Friends click the link, the extension syncs everyone up, and you watch together.
The original Roll Together extension was a small, beloved tool that let Crunchyroll users watch anime in sync with friends over the internet. It worked well for a few years, then Crunchyroll redesigned its video player and the extension quietly broke. A lot of people noticed. Discord servers and Reddit threads filled up with people asking if anyone had fixed it yet. Ward, the developer behind this version, was one of those people asking the same question.
After a few weeks of digging into the old codebase and the new Crunchyroll player structure, Ward rebuilt the extension from scratch using the original as a reference point. The first working version went up in 2023. It handled pause and play sync reliably, which was the main thing people needed. Seek sync came a little later, once the player's event hooks were better understood. The extension has been updated a handful of times since then to keep up with Crunchyroll's occasional player tweaks.
Questions
Does everyone in the watch party need to install Roll Together?
Yes, everyone who wants to be part of the synced session needs the extension installed in their Chrome browser. It only takes about ten seconds to install from the Chrome Web Store. Once it is in, they just click your room link and they are in.
Does Roll Together work on browsers other than Chrome?
Right now it is Chrome only. It may work on Chromium-based browsers like Edge or Brave, but those are not officially tested. Firefox is not supported. If Chrome is not your main browser, you can install it just for Crunchyroll watch parties.
Do my friends need a Crunchyroll subscription?
Roll Together syncs playback, but it does not bypass Crunchyroll's own access rules. If an episode requires a premium subscription, each viewer needs their own account with the right tier. Roll Together cannot share one subscription across multiple viewers.
What people are saying
Built by people who use Roll Together every day.
Finally works again. Me and my friends used the original Roll Together for years and were lost when it broke. This version picked up right where it left off.
We do a weekly anime night over Discord and this extension is the reason it actually works. Pause sync is perfect.
Your summer anime queue is not going to watch itself
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