{"id":149992,"date":"2025-10-28T18:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/149992\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T18:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:04:09","slug":"crunchyroll-anime-is-now-being-used-to-treat-lazy-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/149992\/","title":{"rendered":"Crunchyroll Anime Is Now Being Used to Treat Lazy Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHow ubiquitous is anime<\/a>? It\u2019s now being used to treat lazy eye in children.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnime giant Crunchyroll<\/a> has partnered with Luminopia, a digital health company that devises new treatments for significant neuro-visual disorders, for a new VR treatment for kids with lazy eye (amblyopia). This isn\u2019t just some random press release PR stunt: the therapy is FDA-approved and doctor-prescribed.<\/p>\n

\n\tTechnically, what is approved and prescribed is Luminopia\u2019s treatment, which straps a VR headset on kids and forces them watch TV for one hour a day, six days a week. Crunchyroll<\/a> anime is a new programming option, joining Nickelodeon, PBS Kids, Sesame Workshop and, recently, hundreds of episodes of the original Pok\u00e9mon animated series. With the pre-existing lineup, it\u2019s actually a bit of a surprise that Crunchyroll took this long: Crunchyroll is a subsidiary of Sony, and Sony (through its Sony Innovation Fund) is an investor in Luminopia.<\/p>\n

\n\tA recent study<\/a> by third-party researcher National Resource Group found that 59 percent of U.S. teens say they\u2019re anime fans<\/a>. Crunchyroll commissioned the study.<\/p>\n

\n\tNo matter your preferred genre, the Luminopia treatment sounds a hell of a lot more enjoyable than the old way: patching the good eye in hopes the lazy one catches up. <\/p>\n

\n\tLazy eye affects about one million pediatric patients nationwide and is the leading cause of vision loss in children, per Luminopia. The Luminopia method encourages the brain to use both eyes together. It also encourages kids to stick with their therapy by \u2026 letting them enjoy their therapy.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOur mission has always been to transform lazy eye treatment into something children are actually excited about,\u201d said Scott Xiao, co-founder and CEO of Luminopia.\u00a0\u201cBy bringing anime content from Crunchyroll\u2019s catalog into our library, we\u2019re giving patients more shows to choose from, with the goal of making therapy as engaging as possible for every single child.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnime takes viewers on incredible adventures, and now with Luminopia, we\u2019re glad anime can help kids\u2019\u00a0 treatment journeys feel more like fun,\u201d said Mitchel Berger, executive vice president of global commerce at Crunchyroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How ubiquitous is anime? It\u2019s now being used to treat lazy eye in children. Anime giant Crunchyroll has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[746,15465,27405,18,19,17,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-149992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-animation","9":"tag-anime","10":"tag-crunchyroll","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115453117421781593","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}