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Crunchyroll subscribers starting today will gain access to streaming fare previously exclusive to Funimation as Sony starts to phase out the Funimation brand. The company paid nearly $1.2 billion ...
On October 18, 2018, Funimation and Crunchyroll announced that their partnership with would end on November 9, 2018, as a result of Sony Pictures Television's acquisition of Funimation. [63] Despite the home video releases being unaffected and still going on as planned, select Funimation content would be removed from Crunchyroll, and subtitled ...
Crunchyroll is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Sony Group Corporation. [b] The service primarily distributes films and television series produced by East Asian media, including Japanese anime, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with a Japanese branch located in Shibuya, Tokyo.
Funimation Entertainment, along with OlympuSAT, launched the Funimation Channel on September 29, 2005, the second 24-hour anime digital cable network in North America (the first being A.D. Vision's Anime Network). [72] [73] OlympuSAT was the exclusive distributor of the channel. [73] On March 23, 2006, a syndicated block was announced for ...
The telco, looking for every opportunity to pay down its debt, sold Crunchyroll for $1.175 billion in cash paid at closing by Funimation Global Group, a joint venture between Sony Pictures ...
Purini has overseen robust expansion of Crunchyroll into new markets and opportunities since taking the reins in 2022, after Sony acquired the company from AT&T for $1.18 billion the previous year.
Crunchyroll—Anime and simulcasts (left April 29, 2023) CuriosityStream—Non-fiction documentaries relating to science, technology, nature, and world history (left November 19, 2019) DramaFever—Korean dramas (shut down on October 16, 2018, subsequently left VRV days after) Funimation—Japanese anime dubbed into English (left November 9, 2018)
All anime, all the time: Crunchyroll, the Sony-owned anime service, announced a new 24-hour free, ad-supported channel in the U.S. to promote the Japanese animation format — and try to win a few ...