If you are a current user of the anime streaming service, Funimation, you should go ahead and cancel your subscription. That’s because the anime streaming service will move its entire library — ...

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 ...

Crunchyroll and Funimation are two of the biggest streaming services for anime, with the likes of HBO Max and Netflix attempting to keep up with the sheer amount of television series and movies that ...

Funimation announced that it will shut down on April 2, following the official announcement of its merger with Crunchyroll in 2022. Does this mean there will be a price increase for Crunchyroll ...

After last summer’s official close of the anime mega-merger of Crunchyroll and Funimation, Sony Pictures Entertainment has unified the offerings into a single service. Crunchyroll subscribers starting ...

Back in August 2021, Sony’s acquisition of the Crunchyroll anime streaming service went through. Now it means that Funimation and Crunchyroll are merging, with Crunchyroll and its subscription service ...

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 ...

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Funimation and Crunchyroll sent ripples throughout the world of anime when it was announced that the two companies would be merging under the umbrella of Sony, and a slate of new anime series have ...