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 ...

Subscribers wish to know the status of the Funimation and Crunchyroll merger. Who acquired who and which of the two is shutting down? Here’s all you need to know. Yes, Funimation is set to shut down ...

Funimation, the American OTT streaming service hub for anime and other entertainment content, is about to bid adieu. Launched in 2016, following its initial partnership with Toei Animation, Funimation ...

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 ...

Funimation, the anime streaming service that first launched in 2016, is finally shutting down next month, after parent company Sony Pictures Entertainment acquired Crunchyroll in 2022. The move will ...

It may be a good time to be a fan. But it isn’t a particularly good time to be a consumer. More than ever, the notion of “buying” media you love is significantly in question. First, there are ...

Subscribers of Funimation were informed by the streaming service for many years that digital copy purchases of content on its website would be available to the buyer "forever." However, a new ...

The biggest name in anime streaming is easily Crunchyroll. Originating as a pirate site in 2006, Crunchyroll went legit in 2008 and exists today as a subsidiary of Sony. (Sony also owned Funimation, a ...

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