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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Funimation has one of the largest streaming libraries out there, and it is getting even bigger ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The anime world is about to get shaken to its core, and we have two of its top companies to thank!

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Mon, May 6, 2019 at 9:28 PM UTC SPT in July 2017 acquired a 95% majority stake in Funimation for $143 million with Fukunaga retaining a minority stake. Fukunaga founded Funimation in 1994. Decker’s ...

Funimation has revealed its forthcoming fall anime season lineup, which will include more than 20 new and returning titles, with 14 shows revealed so far. The streaming platform will also have four ...

For those of us who explored the early iterations of the Internet, it wasn’t all too hard to find episodes of an anime show streaming on YouTube. Then, unfortunately, that big old copyright hammer ...

Hellsing began as a Japanese manga series in 1997. Created by Kouta Hirano, the graphic novels ran 10 total volumes between 1997 and 2008. Meanwhile, in 2001, anime studio Gonzo K.K. created a ...

Crunchyroll is officially ceasing its free, ad-supported streaming option, and this marks a fundamental shift in anime ...

AT&T has announced that it will sell its Crunchyroll animation business to Funimation, which itself is owned by Sony. In a deal worth almost $1.2 billion, Crunchyroll, one of the leading anime ...