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Crunchyroll Adds New Anime Titles in India Following Sony's Acquisition

Crunchyroll began streaming several new anime titles in India on March 1. Funimation and Crunchyroll announced on the same day that Funimation and Wakanim's anime library and simulcast content have moved to Crunchyroll.

ANN reached out to Crunchyroll for an exact list of titles and will update this article once we receive a response. Crunchyroll has posted a list of all titles heading over to its service, but not all titles are available in India.

Sony's Funimation Global Group completed its acquisition of Crunchyroll from AT&T on August 9. The purchase price was US$1.175 billion, and the proceeds were paid in cash at closing.

Crunchyroll and Funimation first announced the acquisition in December 2020 with a purchase price of US$1.175 billion. The technology website The Information reported in August 2020 that AT&T offered Crunchyroll to Sony for US$1.5 billion and that Sony reportedly "balked at" the price, which effectively valued the streaming service at US$500 per subscriber. Entertainment news source Variety reported that AT&T was shopping the company to multiple potential buyers aside from Sony Pictures Entertainment at that time. Nikkei Asia later reported that October that Sony was in final negotiations for the Crunchyroll acquisition. At that time, the newspaper reported that Sony "could end up spending more than 100 billion yen ($957 million)."

Source: Crunchyroll