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 ...

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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 ...

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Get ready to consume all your anime (or most of it, anyway) under one roof. That’s basically the result of big news on Monday afternoon, as Sony announced its Funimation Global Group has acquired ...

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 ...

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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.