The Verge

Funimation’s solution for wiping out digital libraries could be good, if it works

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Crunchyroll president Rahul Purini says the company is working with customers to provide an ‘appropriate value’ ...
Gizmodo

Crunchyroll Is Killing Funimation for Good, And You’ll Pay For It

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, ...
IGN

Funimation's App Will Officially Sunset in April

Funimation will officially be ending its website and app services on April 2, 2024. Since the 2021 announcement of Funimation folding into Crunchyroll, anime fans have had the option to subscribe to ...
CNET

Crunchyroll and Funimation merger: What does it mean and what happens next?

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 ...
nerdist

What Crunchyroll and Funimation’s New Unified Anime Hub Means for Fans

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 ...
The Verge

Funimation’s anime library is moving over to Crunchyroll

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, ...
Newsweek

Funimation President Gen Fukunaga on Crunchyroll Split and Why Hulu Deal ‘Makes Sense’

For two years, Funimation and Crunchyroll partnered to make anime more widely available around the world. But all things must come to an end, and the two leading anime platforms parted ways in ...
Ars Technica

Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever”

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 ...
Wired

Funimation’s Crunchyroll Acquisition Means Big Anime Is Here

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 ...
Engadget

Funimation will stream its last anime on April 2

Sony's Funimation purchased Crunchyroll from WarnerMedia for $1.175 billion in 2020, and they kicked off their transformation into a unified anime subscription service under the latter's name a year ...
IGN

Funimation to Acquire Crunchyroll for $1.2 Billion

AT&T has announced that it will sell its Crunchyroll animation business to Funimation, which itself is owned by Sony. In a deal worth almost $1.2 billion, Crunchyroll, one of the leading anime ...