Guide
Watching anime legally in Bulgaria: services, subtitles and cinemas
Mochibayo ·
A lot of new anime reaches Bulgaria legally, some of it within hours of its Japanese broadcast. Watching it that way pays the studios and the people who make it, and it comes in full quality, without the pop-ups and fake download buttons of pirate sites.
This guide covers the services, the subtitles, how to check where a title streams, and anime in cinemas. It leaves out prices, which change often; each service lists its own.
The services
Crunchyroll is built around anime and is available in Bulgaria. Many new series appear there soon after they air in Japan: in 2022 it moved One Piece’s new episodes in Bulgaria to an hour after the Japanese broadcast.
Netflix and Amazon Prime Video carry anime alongside everything else, and Netflix also commissions anime of its own. Disney+, available in Bulgaria since 14 June 2022, has some anime too.
These are the four services Mochibayo lists on its title pages and on its Anime in Bulgaria page.
Subtitles
Expect English subtitles on most anime. Crunchyroll’s schedule announcements for Bulgaria, for example, name English subtitles.
On Netflix, the subtitle and audio languages you can choose depend on the title, on your country and on your profile’s language settings, so two viewers can see different options for the same series. Each title’s Audio & Subtitles menu shows what it has.
Checking where a title streams
Every title page on Mochibayo has a “Watch legally in Bulgaria” list: the services AniList links for that title, limited to the four above. AniList does not track what each country gets, so a title it links to a service can still be missing here. The Anime in Bulgaria page shows the most popular titles on each service.
To check what a service offers in Bulgaria itself, JustWatch has a Bulgarian edition that tracks the catalogues here. And when no service is listed for a series, the title page says so rather than sending you elsewhere.
A word on VPNs
Anime is licensed country by country, which is why a series can stream in one country and not in another. A VPN that changes your apparent country is not a way around it: Crunchyroll’s help pages say VPNs aren’t supported, and Netflix’s terms tie what you watch to the country where you set up your account.
In cinemas
The biggest anime films reach Bulgarian cinemas too, sometimes on the same day as in the UK and the US. Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures, who released Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle outside Japan, opened it in Bulgaria on 12 September 2025.
Our season previews give the Japanese release dates of new films. Bulgarian dates, when there are any, come from the distributors and the cinemas.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
Film · ufotable · in Japanese cinemas from 18 July 2025 · based on the manga
The first of three films that adapt the manga’s final arc. It opened in Japan on 18 July 2025 and in Bulgaria on 12 September.
The Anime in Bulgaria page also lists anime events and fan communities across the country. Know a legal service or a screening we should add? Write to hello@mochibayo.com.