There is no denying the might of Crunchyroll. The streaming service is the go-to home of anime online, and that title was solidified a few years back with Funimation’s help. The latter announced it ...

Nearly three years after the two streaming services merged, Funimation is being sacrificed to beef up Crunchyroll as the premier anime hub. Reading time 2 minutes Come April 2, Funimation is going the ...

We now have a situation that encompasses how the consolidation in the media space is bad, especially when combined with the concept of digital ownership over physical The Sony-owned Crunchyroll has ...

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 ...

There is no denying digital media is a double-edged sword. While such content is easy to access, there is usually a catch when it comes to ownership. From music to television, most digital media is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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” ...

In a recent interview with The Verge, Crunchyroll president Rahul Purini announced the anime streamer is working on a solution for customers who will lose access to their Funimation digital libraries ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's been two years since the initial announcement that Funimation would be absorbed into rival animation service Crunchyroll. "When we brought Funimation and Crunchyroll together last year, our top ...