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 ...

Funimation, the American OTT streaming service hub for anime and other entertainment content, is about to bid adieu. Launched in 2016, following its initial partnership with Toei Animation, Funimation ...

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

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 ...

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Funimation, the anime streaming service that first launched in 2016, is finally shutting down next month, after parent company Sony Pictures Entertainment acquired Crunchyroll in 2022. The move will ...

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 ...

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In an interesting move by Funimation, the company has added a bunch of classic Gundam anime shows to its streaming platform. The latter two are of the recent high-definition remaster in case you are ...