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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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Funimation has merged with Crunchyroll – and it’s changing how you watch anime. The two anime ...

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.

Nearly three years after the two streaming services merged, Funimation is being sacrificed to beef up Crunchyroll as the premier anime hub. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes Come April 2, ...

Anime streaming platform Funimation has been folded into one-time rival Crunchyroll to form an anime super-service. More than 1,600 hours of anime has been added to Crunchyroll at no extra cost, ...

The fine folks over at Funimation were kind enough to send me a selection of their Summer 2018 anime offerings, a crazy collection of some of the best series the medium has to offer right now. Whether ...