this looks like a headline I'd see in some weird geek version of The OnionThe Department of Justice investigated the Sony Funimation merger last year.
The Justice Department is worried about an anime monopoly after the Sony deal
Anime is yet another place where streaming services are competingwww.google.com
by what logic would the vic people be gone? who are they being replaced with from the crunchyroll merger? as far as im aware crunchyroll doesnt really have their own studio or internal dubbing, pretty much all their translation work is free lance and thier dubbing is outsourced. why would anyone involved in the dubbing process in texas lose thier job? who are these employees that replace them? are they willing to move to texas where the studio that sony owns is based out of? im really not seeing the logic in this. but yes some redunent postions from people that I've never heard of might lose their job.
yes funimation was the dub everything culure...but funimation has been owned by sony for years now and that motto hasnt changed, why would aquircing even more IP and less competion change that? you guys seeing this as a pure even merger are really underestimating that sony and funimation have already been a single entity and doing things together for awhile now, getting crunchyroll shouldnt change thier goals all that much. and the Reason Crunchyroll was never part of that dub everything culture was as I said earlier, they outsourced pretty much everything, they could only outsource so many before.
“Oh no they use the N-word! They’re racists! Disregard everything that they said!”
They’ve been working on it already I guess, they said 80% of the catalog will be in crunchyroll by the end of the month.
such as? you kinda just glossed over all my very obvious questions/statements. who is going to replace the people working on actual anime? Crunchyroll did not do a lot in house, they have not gained a massive work force like the texas studio has. If they fire a bunch of the texas talent they either go to something like sentai works in texas, or go to la and get work through a 3rd company thats probably gonna work for crunchyroll again, why would they go through the effort when they already have control of the talent in the cheaper state to work for? theres literally nothing to indicate that the Sony has any massive changes planned in terms of production, theyve gained a competitor, a bigger streaming site, and more IP that the texas studio can work on. If you guys want to talk about behind the scenes lawyers or whoever thats fine though.
i wouldnt say that but they undisputibly outsource more stuff...the texas studio unquestionably has more in house man power, which is going to be an incredbiy vital asset consdering all the IP's collectivly under them now.
then you arent looking very hard, people absoulty think this is a case of "go woke go broke" and are acting like the texas studio is shutting down shop or something or that the three demons sabat, rial and marchi are going to be jobless soon for absolutly no reason(remember, sony was on thier side in the whole vic shit if im remembering correctly)
none of that is what im saying, i was simply providing the counter point to the peope acting like some actors are definitly going to be fired which isnt the case. My point has always been as long as sony see dubs worth doing, they arent going to do much to the core talent in texas, behind the scenes postions are sure to get shuffled around(athough ive proven thats happening the opposite way, one of funimations heads is still in charge over whover wouldve had his position at crunchyroll) people are dancing on the grave of a name change, while ignoring sony and by extension funimations are the ones who absored crunchyroll, changing your company name doesnt change whos in charge, and so far one of the only names we can put to this new merged entity is from funimations side.
Funimation doesn't exist outside America so it's obvious why sony did the merger. Nothing more nothing less.
This wasn't true. They had already began expanding outside the US several years ago:
en.wikipedia.org
Crunchyroll is also the bigger name and has universal brand recognition among normie anime fans. Funimation is more known for being a dubbing studio than for being a streaming app. It’s a no-brainer to let CR keep their identity.
Same (4.4 TB). Honestly I had a subscription to CR since they said they were paying animators but canceled it after the Guardian Spice thing. Anime torrenting has been going since the years of Sailor moon at least where people wanted the uncut edition. I myself learned to do it while the first four digimon series aired.
This is what u worry about. With how adoptions are getting more censorship I do expect them flex their distribution muscles. There is some resistance in nipland, however, but that's mostly artist and politicians, and suits end up caring more about the immediate return than long term investment.
When it comes to mergers they look at which company did things better. Streaming wise, CR wins so expect all funi streaming staff to get the boot besides a few. Subbing and localization is relatively cheap so they might not put too much emphasis on that. Dubbing will probably stay with Funi, though if Sony is relatively intelligent they would tell their talent to sip it on Twitter. It doesn't help sells and has probably pushed people away.
