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NEWS: Funimation's Anime Content Heads to Crunchyroll

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I hope this won't affect the physical releases in the negative or lead to them phasing them out entirely in favor of streaming. I collect discs. I like discs. I can replay discs whenever I feel like. Internet goes down? Still got discs. Series leaves streaming? Got the discs. Want to watch uncensored? Discs.

Lynx Raven Raide wrote:

Oh, you will tell. Change in tone of translations, removal of certain series cause it goes against standards... you know, the stuff that gave Funi its toxic reputation in the first place. Just looking through the responses it looks like they will be basing things in CR hq in Cali rather than Funi in Dallas

I never had issues with Tone in Translations... Never noticed the difference...

Only series that was removed because it did not meet the standards was Interspecies Reviewers... IN which the Series WAs pretty extremely border lines.. SO I can partially understand Funi's case... EVEN the Japanese Government got involved with issues with the series... so you know they crossed some bad lines...

Sevokevo Royuki wrote:

SO How will one be able to tell if it is controlled by Dallas or not?

Oh, you will tell. Change in tone of translations, removal of certain series cause it goes against standards... you know, the stuff that gave Funi its toxic reputation in the first place. Just looking through the responses it looks like they will be basing things in CR hq in Cali rather than Funi in Dallas

Dam that sucks. layoff here they come. Honeslty Sony should have just gone back to that lincenas agreement funimation and crunchyroll once shared. Funimation for dubs and crunchy roll for subs. And just combines the storefronts into one company. That way they would still make more money from two services while they fixed the horrible interface for dubs in crunchy roll and then slowly. But board memenbers dint think, I’m pretty sure they just woke up and said it sounds cool to say we have anime in one place, without thinking I’d the nightmare logistics if this change.
Sony took a very premeditated approached. sony still has to figure out a lot stuff. like how port over user data to crunchy roll such as watch history, favorites, queues, figure out how to implement digital copies from funimation to crunchy roll which crunchy roll currently hasn’t no implementatio whatsoever. figure out the store front too. since crunchy roll and funimation have two different store front that sell goods and home media, also dubbing studio. so in the mean time while they figure stuff out everything will still be the same.but is a stupid decision if you ask me. they should have kept it as two separate companies and funimation should have been kept for dubs and crunchy roll for subs. I wouldn’t be surprised if they later retract this decision like Netflix did with qwikster.

2. This has been brought up by others, but how will simuldubs be treated? Right now I'm watching the My Dress-Up Darling and Demon Slayer Entertainment District simuldubs, but that makes things particularly stressful for me because both of those are Aniplex shows. I'm assuming Aniplex and AoA content in general will make the move over to Crunchyroll since they're under the umbrella as well, but I'd imagine that would be another licensing nightmare.

What should I do if I have a yearly Funimation subscription but I already have Crunchyroll synced up through VRV?

I've already cancelled my Funimation subscription and I'm not going on to CR.
Done is done.

I am glad that Funi is finally doing something about getting a better video player as my experience is that CR has a better one than Funi. However, I do wish that Funi didn't have foreign streaming services unless they were Funi-owned from the start. Also, the lay-offs are going to suck for those affected. So, I am happy and disappointed with such a plan.

Lynx Raven Raide wrote:

Sevokevo Royuki wrote: SO How will one be able to tell if it is controlled by Dallas or not? Oh, you will tell. Change in tone of translations, removal of certain series cause it goes against standards... you know, the stuff that gave Funi its toxic reputation in the first place. Just looking through the responses it looks like they will be basing things in CR hq in Cali rather than Funi in Dallas

This.

When it comes to the bottom line, the new top level will fix what was broken, because the dub market sector took the biggest hit due to a few childish, narcissistic Brutus pretending to change the world as they see fit will be shown the door, while their little coworker cultists can follow them out or grow up if they really want to stick around.

But the smarter ones have expanded their brand and have learned from some of their stupidity, since they could see the writing on the wall that this was coming. They have something to fall back on.

Will they go quietly?


They can still keep the drama going on by dragging out and on what ongoing litigation issues they are still stirring because they think they represent some righteous cause.