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NEWS: Funimation's Anime Content Heads to Crunchyroll

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

And then there's the bigger issue of what is now essentially a monopoly. Because those always lead to improved customer service and quality of product, right?

I suspect some Funi content will disappear as CR will find it too niche or controversial.
More content will become geo-locked so "not available in your region" will become the bane of subscribers lives.
Sentai & Hidive could actually gain users if they can pickup the more obscure/outrageous series that CR management might be reluctant to stream due to puritanical American censorship.
Sony & CR need to get the balance right or it'll simply push more people onto the high seas of piracy where everyone looses.
In my ideal world CR would simulcast subs and dub the popular shows properly at a later date.
The best option being Dual audio with switchable subs. If the pirates can offer that, CR needs to offer that at the bare minimum.
They potentially have the library, they need consistent Subs/Dubs etc. to offer a better option than piracy...

I’ve heard that some series have changed to the home video version on CR now, like DxD.

Consolidating the Funimation, Wakanim, and VRV services under Crunchyroll allows Sony to focus on licensing and distributing anime across more markets around the world.

All I want is for Crunchyroll to put money into their servers and make an app for smart TVs. I have one for Funi on my Samsung but Crunchy doesn't. Also my XBox app for Crunchy sometimes won't load an ep for ligit 5 minutes. I've redownloaded, signed out/signed back in, even brought it up closer to the router and it STILL might have fits.

CrunchyFun all the way, baby! That was totally the name I wanted to see

I mean, come on, who doesn’t want to have crunchy good fun watching our beloved anime?

I can understand of updating the apps... However Even if they upgrade the Servers.... No amount of upgrades can help keep keep the servers from getting slammed by heavy traffic.. It can help support more and more traffic.. But still regardless.. there will always be times it gets overloaded because CR is to darn popular and a lot of people go there for there services.. and now with this influx of new shows coming from Funi.. Its going to get worse..

Then there is the continuation of the chip shortages.. Enough said about that.

Sevokevo Royuki wrote:

I can understand of updating the apps... However Even if they upgrade the Servers.... No amount of upgrades can help keep keep the servers from getting slammed by heavy traffic.. It can help support more and more traffic.. But still regardless.. there will always be times it gets overloaded because CR is to darn popular and a lot of people go there for there services.. and now with this influx of new shows coming from Funi.. Its going to get worse.. Then there is the continuation of the chip shortages.. Enough said about that.

The constant buffering on weekends and evenings, especially of newer shows has been a big issue on Crunchyroll for the past 2 years. It is mainly on desktop, not necessarily on mobile since you can also download the episode first, then remove the download after watching. Crunchyroll has a more global reach meaning their servers will get overloaded fast, especially during off days with big shonen titles. I am going to miss Funimation since they pretty much never buffered due to low and limited traffic, but the site can shut down any minute now so no use for a yearly subscription. Netflix is probably going to lose a ton of its anime subscribers since a lot of their anime is sourced straight from Funimation, and a lot of anime is recently getting pulled off their site. Plus their price is like double that of Crunchyroll and they have no yearly options.

The constant buffering on weekends and evenings, especially of newer shows has been a big issue on Crunchyroll for the past 2 years. It is mainly on desktop, not necessarily on mobile since you can also download the episode first, then remove the download after watching.

Mine has been the opposite, Funimation has been my problem with constant buffering on even old shows randomly through the day and night on my Roku TV. Crunchyroll was wonky when they first changed over to the new format, but it has been very steady and stable for the last six months. I just hope this leads to a stronger platform as they both have their pros and cons.

The first 3 seasons of HS DxD on CR were always the uncensored version, as they were added/sublicensed from Funimation after the broadcasts. The subtitled version of the 4th season was streamed on CR during the broadcast, and is still the TV-censored version.

Trying to sample something that was recently added out of curiosity, and honestly it doesn't look good. Uzaki-chan is one I know that's available on FUNimation now with the home video version and English credits. It is seemingly part of the titles the recently got dumped on Crunchyroll, but the dub there does not have English credits. And digging a bit to find out what some of the animation updates for Blu-ray were, I can tell that the dub on Crunchyroll is the broadcast version and not home video.

(Highschool DxD's dubbed videos for the first 3 seasons appear to be uncensored on CR, though I haven't checked S4.)

EmperorBrandon wrote:

Trying to sample something that was recently added out of curiosity, and honestly it doesn't look good. Uzaki-chan is one I know that's available on FUNimation now with the home video version and English credits. It is seemingly part of the titles the recently got dumped on Crunchyroll, but the dub there does not have English credits. And digging a bit to find out what some of the animation updates for Blu-ray were, I can tell that the dub on Crunchyroll is the broadcast version and not home video.

Same with My First Girlfriend is a Gal. It's available uncut in English and Japanese on Funimation, but the newly-added dubbed entry on CR is the broadcast version, as seen with the giant bejeweled heart added over the pantyshot at the very beginning of ep 01. So it is pretty concerning that at least for some shows, we may lose legal streaming access to the home-video versions whenever FunimationNow finally turns off the lights. And it's not just the uncensored ecchi and violent content at stake, since as you point out home-video versions often have animation corrections, additional scenes, and such.

Maybe it's a case of "we get what we pay for," i.e. having all of CR+Funi titles on one site for just CR's price comes with the "tradeoff" of not getting the home-video versions in many cases. (Highschool DxD's dubbed videos for the first 3 seasons appear to be uncensored on CR, though I haven't checked S4.) Maybe it's a ploy to induce more viewers to buy the BD releases, assuming they continue to exist. As far as I know, Japanese streaming sites don't have the home-video versions, so with Sony calling the shots, they could be trying to bring overseas streaming more in line with Japanese practices. Or maybe they were having "reverse importation" types of problems with Japanese viewers using VPNs to access Funimation to watch uncut content, rather than buying the Japanese BDs.

There is still a distinct lack of movies on crunchy and looks like Nada came over from Funi. AnimeLab used to have the most which was great