For those of us who explored the early iterations of the Internet, it wasn’t all too hard to find episodes of an anime show streaming on YouTube. Then, unfortunately, that big old copyright hammer ...

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It was announced last summer how Funimation would be purchasing Crunchyroll for a cool $1.2 billion, bringing two of the most popular anime streaming platforms in the U.S. (if not the world) together.

In summer 2021, the Sony’s Funimation Global Group acquired Crunchyroll for over one billion dollars. At the time, it wasn’t clear what that would mean. We only knew that Funimation sought to create ...

Being an anime fan can be difficult. For fans, there’s been an obvious issue of getting these series subbed or dubbed into their native languages, often leaving them at the mercy of potentially ...

“Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba” season 2, the latest offering from Ufotable Studio, began simulcasting as part of Funimation’s streaming library on this past week. Since its launch, watching the ...

When the entire world was in lockdown amidst the coronavirus pandemic last year, Sony announced the Play At Home program to keep fans engaged at home. The initiative started off by giving away ...

Earlier this month, Funimation finalized its acquisition of Crunchyroll for $1.175 billion, merging the anime megaplexes of Sony and AT&T and setting the stage for industry upheaval. The era of Big ...