The End of Funimation - Cucked to Death by Crunchyroll

[5t3n0g0ph3r]

Crunchyroll Is Adding All Funimation Anime Content, Sony Starts to Phase Out Funimation Brand

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 Funimatio…

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Crunchyroll Adds All Funimation Content, Sony Phasing Out Funimation …

archived 1 Mar 2022 22:23:53 UTC

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As reported in the article above, Funimation Group, LLC is no more.
The Sony subsidiary has been renamed Crunchyroll, LLC.
All of Funimation's streaming titles are being transferred to Crunchyroll's streaming services.
Starting April 1st (the irony), Funimation will continue to release new episodes of the series they currently are streaming but all future streaming releases will be under Crunchyroll's banner.
No word on how this will affect the distribution of physical releases (DVD & Blu-Ray), but keep an eye out for Blu-Rays being sold with the Crunchyroll logo instead of the Funimation logo.
If that happens, Funimation will be truly dead as a brand.
Cucked to death by Sony's new acquisition (and, ironically, a site that formerly hosted pirated material).
UPDATE (03/15/2022):
Thanks to @An empty shill for the following.
Right Stuf, which had sold Funimation products for over a decade, are now featuring titles from the same series with Crunchyroll's logo on it:
Example:
This One Piece Blu-Ray/DVD has the Funimation logo on the spine:

https://www.rightstufanime.com/One-Piece-Season-11-Part-7-Blu-ray-DVD

https://archive.ph/mXsEn

The very next Blu-Ray/DVD now features Crunchyroll's logo:

https://www.rightstufanime.com/One-Piece-Season-11-Part-8-Blu-ray-DVD

https://archive.ph/Xj8e1

It's official.
Funimation is dead as a brand.
UPDATE (04/11/2022):
Funimation's YouTube channel was rebranded to "Crunchyroll Dubs."
Before:

https://www.youtube.com/c/FUNimation/videos

https://archive.ph/cKrOT
After:

https://archive.ph/J6mGM

URL change:

https://www.youtube.com/c/crunchyrolldubs

https://archive.ph/ZLMHL

 

[Testacles Maximus]

I didn’t know they were affiliated with Sony. Explains why they’re gone I guess. Maybe they can cameo in a future spiderman movie or get a terrible reboot.

 

[stupid frog]

Reminder Crunchyroll was a piracy site originally.

lmao

 

[5t3n0g0ph3r]

I didn’t know they were affiliated with Sony. Explains why they’re gone I guess.

Funimation was bought by Sony in 2017.
Crunchyroll was bought by Sony in August of last year:

Sony Pictures Entertainment Closes $1.2B Acquisition Of Crunchyroll From AT&T

Sony Pictures Entertainment has closed its $1.175 billion acquisition of Crunchyroll from AT&T, adding to the list of entertainment assets recently shed by the telecom giant. The company will b…

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Sony Pictures Entertainment Closes $1.2B Acquisition Of Crunchyroll F…

archived 9 Aug 2021 21:44:06 UTC

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They were going to be under the Funimation Group, LLC (which included VRV, Wakanim, Madman Anime Group, and AnimeLab).
Not anymore lol!

 

[Dang Woodchucks!]

Does this mean fags like Sabat and his circlejerks getting fired, or are they just changing a logo on their twatter and calling it a day?

 

[AnOminous]

They were going to be under the Funimation Group, LLC (which included VRV, Wakanim, Madman Anime Group, and AnimeLab).
Not anymore lol!

Imagine being so notoriously a pile of fried shit that Sony would rather bury your name permanently than even use it.

Does this mean fags like Sabat and his circlejerks getting fired, or are they just changing a logo on their twatter and calling it a day?

Probably the latter.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

Crunchyroll was bought by Sony in August of last year:

How long till they go belly-up you think?

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

The middle-schooler in me would've wept
The Kiwi in me knew about the Sony partnership/acquisition, so I'm neutral to this.

 

[5t3n0g0ph3r]

How long till they go belly-up you think?

Sony?! I'd say it's a matter of time before The Mouse nabs them.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

Sony?! I'd say it's a matter of time before The Mouse nabs them.

I actually meant crunchyroll. Sony has a history of failing at everything that isn’t video games.

 

[5t3n0g0ph3r]

I actually meant crunchyroll. Sony has a history of failing at everything that isn’t video games.

Considering they are competing with Hulu, Amazon, and Netflex, I'd give it about three years unless Sony gobbles something else up and shoves Crunchyroll under it between that period.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

Considering they are competing with Hulu, Amazon, and Netflex, I'd give it about three years unless Sony gobbles something else up and shoves Crunchyroll under it between that period.

I’m amazed they have the money to gobble up anything tbh

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Didn't Funimation go woke?

 

[Testacles Maximus]

Didn't Funimation go woke?

They fired Vic Mignognagon or whatever his name is for being a sexpervert but last I heard the evidence was circumstantial and potentially motivated by professional jealousy. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

 

[Pasta_Man]

Doesn't Sony own Animelab, which still releases content? Is Funimation's brand really that detested that Sony decides to say fuck it and thanos snap it?

 

[5t3n0g0ph3r]

Doesn't Sony own Animelab, which still releases content? Is Funimation's brand really that detested that Sony decides to say fuck it and thanos snap it?

For the first question, Sony does own AnimeLab.
It was under the formerly known as Funimation Group, LLC.
Now it's under Crunchyroll's brand.

 

[2lolis1cup]

Hey what a great name brand you have in your sector. Let's buy you up and grow it's brand with our massive resources.

 

[General Gunther]

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Cope.

 

[Boobie Bomb]

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[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

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Cope.

Denial, just 3 more stages of grief to go through.
EDIT: Spotted Anger as well, but whatever.