In summer 2021, the Sony’s Funimation Global Group acquired Crunchyroll for over one billion dollars. At the time, it wasn’t clear what that would mean. We only knew that Funimation sought to create ...

How long is “forever”? When it comes to digital media, forever could be as close as a couple of months away. Funimation’s parent company, Sony, bought rival anime streaming service Crunchyroll in 2021 ...

Nearly three years after the two streaming services merged, Funimation is being sacrificed to beef up Crunchyroll as the premier anime hub. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes Come April 2, ...

Gen Fukunaga, founder and former CEO of Funimation, has joined adult animation outfit Bizaar Studios as a stakeholder and ...

According to the Funimation statement, this will not have any impact on fans’ access to the anime on Crunchyroll. It then goes into benefits on why you should have a Crunchyroll account and ...

Mark Serrels is an award-winning Senior Editorial Director focused on all things culture. He covers TV, movies, anime, video games and whatever weird things are happening on the internet. He ...

Just as how the debut of the anime adaptation for Rifujin na Magonote’s original light novel series had been delayed from its initially scheduled debut of Fall 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 ...

Earlier this month, Funimation finalized its acquisition of Crunchyroll for $1.175 billion, merging the anime megaplexes of Sony and AT&T and setting the stage for industry upheaval. The era of Big ...

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