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, ...

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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 ...

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Effectively putting a bookend to Sony’s $1.175 billion deal to buy the platform in 2020, Crunchyroll has added more than 50 series that were previously either exclusive to Funimation or weren’t ...

Funimation and Crunchyroll are partnering to share some existing library content and split future anime streaming responsibilities: Funimation will handle simulcast dubbing, and Crunchyroll will take ...

There is no denying the might of Crunchyroll. The streaming service is the go-to home of anime online, and that title was solidified a few years back with Funimation’s help. The latter announced it ...

Get ready to consume all your anime (or most of it, anyway) under one roof. That’s basically the result of big news on Monday afternoon, as Sony announced its Funimation Global Group has acquired ...

Crunchyroll is officially ceasing its free, ad-supported streaming option, and this marks a fundamental shift in anime viewing.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Two of the biggest anime providers in the West, that of ...