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 ...

These days, it is hard to imagine a world without anime. Whether we’re talking about Japan or the United States, the medium has a tight hold on fans across the globe. For decades, anime was once seen ...

The anime world is about to get shaken to its core, and we have two of its top companies to thank! At last, Funimation and Crunchyroll are expanding their merger to bring anime to fans in a new way. A ...

Subscribers wish to know the status of the Funimation and Crunchyroll merger. Who acquired who and which of the two is shutting down? Here’s all you need to know. Yes, Funimation is set to shut down ...

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, ...

A Crunchyroll and Funimation merger just from the world’s largest anime library, adding over 40,000 episodes and over 16,000 hours of anime content. Luckily, fans do not have to wait long to catch ...

Mark Sammut serves as the lead editor of the Evergreen gaming list department for GameRant, along with contributing to other department like anime lists and resources. In a previous life, he also ...

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.

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