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AZLeafCat
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Colin Decker, who led Funimation Global Group since the JV formation, continues to lead Crunchyroll LLC. His LinkedIn profile indicates his position is at Culver City, California, where its JV co-parent Sony Pictures Entertainment is based on. Dallas, TX was left off from the location of today’s press release, which only listed Culver City, CA. The press release announcing the completion of the acquisition listed both Culver City and Dallas. Crunchyroll’s Job website lists Culver City ahead of San Francisco and Dallas in terms of its US offices, with US position listings largely in Culver City and San Francisco, with Dallas/Coppell largely having production jobs. Therefore, it’s likely management of Crunchyroll LLC is largely at Culver City and San Francisco. The LA Times did have a quote from Decker about the split in content before today’s move. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2022-03-01/sony-bets-on-crunchyroll-brand-as-global-anime-audience-grows
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Sevokevo Royuki
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SO How will one be able to tell if it is controlled by Dallas or not? |
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Peebs
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I didn't read 6 pages of replies, so I don't know if anybody said this but, haven't we been through this once before? Is this acquisition going to stick this time?
I'm all for everything in one place. The Funi player got changed about a month ago and it's still rotten bananas. I have to unmute videos or they'll suddenly stop playing like I'm streaming over a dial-up. And if it's a Chinese title (I'm looking at you Heaven Official's Blessing; thank you Netflix for taking it over), good luck with that. Either the font is tiny or I have manually turn on the subs. My subscription is up in April, so I prolly won't cancel it and let it run out. I'm still watching stuff on there. I do worry about CR raising their prices again. |
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Zalis116
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CR is definitely better than Funi at some aspects, such as subtitle typesetting/positioning. Funimation did tend to translate songs fairly often, like midway through a season's simulcast, whereas CR rarely bothers. Let's hope we get something closer to "best of both worlds" than "worst of both worlds." Though I'm sure the anti-industry crowd and multiple-subscription whiners will find new ways to move the goalposts after this development, as they will also most likely transfer their culture-war grievances with Funimation to the New Crunchyroll. I just hope this doesn't mean that The Company Formerly Known as Funimation isn't giving up on the home-video side of the operation. Though with the Japanese side increasingly questioning* the value of producing Blu-Ray releases at all, maybe that's just where the market is going -- put out shows on TV and streaming, never update anything to decensor / fix animation issues, and hope that the streams/broadcasts generate enough additional sales for the manga/LN source material.
*Link is to Talkback thread; somehow the original article link here gets filtered as a bootleg seller site????
I imagine we might see some form of "audio choice apartheid," where Funimation adds their home-video versions of dubbed anime to CR, but the subtitled versions remain as the old censored/broadcast versions that CR originally streamed. After all, similar things have happened with Funi and HiDive in the past; I'm currently watching Sword Oratoria (the DanMachi sidestory) on the latter, and while I could watch the home-video version in English, Japanese audio is only available with the TV version.
The problem is that with fewer competitors in the licensing arena, there's less potential for bidding wars for exclusive rights. Japanese companies will still get licensing money, but there's less potential for growth as Neo!CR inches closer not just to being a monopoly (sole seller of anime streaming), but also a monopsony (sole buyer of streaming rights). There was already concern about this back in 2018 during Funi and CR's original partnership. Last edited by Zalis116 on Wed Mar 02, 2022 1:08 am; edited 1 time in total |
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dragonquiz
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I really hope that the merge will allow cr to actually put forth more effort into the beta side of things, like the anime schedule of when new epsiodes come out that was in the old site design and also the ability to change your username. We have UUID now crunchyroll, time to implement it so that all who had their 12 or so year old forum name can finally change it without having to delete the account and start over.
The upside to this is less subscription streaming services to sub to decreasing the fragmentation of the total streaming services out there, more stuff to better safeguard the site, etc Though the downside to this is now like ~90% of all streaming anime is now on one site that can go down if, lets say a ddos attack or if something goes awry well poof there goes the anime for a good while. With the funimerge what'll happen with the vrv service? Will it just be on cr? |
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DangerMouse
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Nice. |
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zrdb
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And it's bullshit like this that makes me hate crapamation and sony even more.....!!
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Shay Guy
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Nah, Crunchimation or CrunchyFun woulda been better. |
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Bvick00
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So Funimation is going to fade out, huh? I didn't expect that, but it makes sense for Sony considering Crunchyroll's global reach compared to Funimation. I have mixed feelings in regards to this - I used to enjoy Funimation Dubs (before they started adding nonsensical political stuff and memes that won't stay relevant in a few years) and I missed that old "You Should Be Watching" intro (the new intro sucks!).
I have seen the Crunchyroll app since the news went live hours ago and yep ; their has definitely been new shows that have been added , but they are premium only and some of them only have the dubs (EN,ES and PT dubs). Once the whole Funimation catalog has been added, I will check to see if it's worth subscribing to or not, since Crunchyroll India has had poultry few shows compared to other regions. |
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AZLeafCat
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It’s been official since last August. Unlike the previous licensing partnership between Crunchyroll and Funimation, both brands and companies are now under Sony, and Funimation Global Group has been renamed as Crunchyroll LLC as of today. Consolidating the Funimation, Wakanim, and VRV services under Crunchyroll allows Sony to focus on licensing and distributing anime across more markets around the world. |
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SpiritSmoocher
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Hopefully. On the Funimation Reddit and discord, there are lot of people trying to get refunds for their funimation subscription. |
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SpiritSmoocher
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Considering the anime crash of 2008 and how smaller licensors like went under, it is probably easier for JP studios to just focus on anime production rather than worry about the distribution side of things. Reality is an anime monopoly had began really far back then. |
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Kadmos1
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Heck, in the 60+ years that anime has in the U.S., I would be surprised if there ever was a Top 10 of anime licensors at any time. That is, there were 10 anime licensors that formed the majority of the domestic market share of anime licensing. |
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Romuska
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Okay, so I’m not the only onenwith that problem! Lol. My Apple TV constantly logs me out. |
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phia_one
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Figured this was going to happen. Wonder how this will affect physical releases?
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