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, ...

After serving as one of the most affordable ways to stream anime for years, Crunchyroll is ending its ad-supported tier. Here ...

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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 ...

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

Funimation and Crunchyroll took the anime fandom by surprise when Sony announced it would be acquiring the latter brand. Fans knew the merge would make for the ultimate anime service, and those ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The anime world is about to get shaken to its core, and we have two of its top companies to thank!

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 ...

Sony is effectively merging its two anime streaming services, announcing that Crunchyroll subscribers will have access to library and simulcast content previously available exclusively on Funimation ...

Given that Sony owns now both Crunchyroll and Funimation, it’s not exactly a huge shock that eventually they were going to want to consolidate them into a singular mega-anime entity. And that day is ...