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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These anime series from Viz Media will be in good company on the streaming platform for Funimation, with the likes of Naruto, Hunter x Hunter, Sailor Moon, and Berserk having recently been brought to ...

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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For those of us who explored the early iterations of the Internet, it wasn’t all too hard to find episodes of an anime show streaming on YouTube. Then, unfortunately, that big old copyright hammer ...

Now that Sony owns both Funimation and Crunchyroll, there is apparently an opportunity for the company to leverage its anime offerings with its PlayStation platform. According to Eurogamer, there is ...

UPDATE: Microsoft has finally announced the Funimation promo: Sony owns Funimation, but apparently that hasn't stopped a big digital deal with its main competitor. Xbox Game Pass is so powerful that ...

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On Wednesday, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. announced that AT&T and WarnerMedia agreed to sell Crunchyroll to Funimation. Though there had been rumblings of the acquisition for a few weeks, it wasn ...