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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“Crunchyroll adds tremendous value to Sony’s existing anime businesses, including Funimation and our terrific partners at Aniplex and Sony Music Entertainment Japan,” Vinciquerra began. “With ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...