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Crunchyroll. Funimations website also confirmed the acquisition. Sony reports that the purchase price is US$1.175 billion, to be paid in cash at closing. None of the companies have provided any further details about the acquisition, and the deal is still awaiting regulatory approvals and other conditions. In the announcement, Nikkei Asia reported in October that Sony was in final negotiations for the Crunchyroll acquisition. At that time, the newspaper reported that Sony "could end up spe...

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2020 7:28 pm Extremely pessimistic about this, but I guess all we can do is wait and see. I wonder if the sites are going to merge, and if so, under CR or Funi, since both are big names in the anime world. Crunchys site is better, imo. Vannil wrote: I wonder if this is going to be reviewed by the FTC since this is going to kill competition for streaming services You could argue Hulu, Netflix, HiDive, etc. prevent this from being a monopoly. Also that these are ge...

MY HERO ACADEMIA Festive Ornaments, Lawn Gnomes, & Pop Vinyls Featured In Funimations Holiday Gift Guide This year, Funimation is pulling out all the stops when it comes to goodies for the holidays, and they sent us an awesome gift guide to share with you featuring lots of merchandise from different anime! LiteraryJoe | 12/9/2020 Fans of  My Hero Academia, Dragon Ball, Tokyo Ghoul, and other popular anime will definitely want to take a peek at Funimations 2020 Holiday Gift Guide. With the...

cours, or second half, of season two will premiere on AT-X on January 6 at 10:30 p.m. JST before debuting on Mayu Maeshima will perform the opening theme song "Long shot," and nonoc will perform the ending theme song "Believe in you." The livestream also revealed a key visual: The livestream revealed that the second half of the second season of the Re:Zero ~Starting Break Time From Zero~ ( Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Break Time) spinoff series will premiere on the Kadokawa Anime Channel on YouT...

Beastars Shares Season 2 Premiere Stills, International Release Date Beastars is set to return early next year on Netflix, continuing the mystery of who is picking off students of Legosi and Harus high school from the anime created by Paru Itagaki, and a handful of new images have been released to hype the return of the popular anime along with a set international release date! With the conclusion of the first season, Legosi and Haru revealed their feelings for one another, and an underground "...

Funimation to Officially Acquire Crunchyroll ✖ Funimation has dropped a bombshell that it, and its parent company of Sony Pictures, will be acquiring the streaming service of Crunchyroll for $1.175 Billion USD, creating a monumental partnership when it comes to the world of anime! Crunchyroll, which was previously owned by AT&T, has been sold to their former rival in Funimation, leaving anime fans to wonder what changes will be in store when it comes to both of the streaming platforms, and ho...

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The expansion of the Naruto property is underway as we had talked recently about it appearing at more services internationally. The series saw its arrival on Netflix last fall and Funimation brought it to the UK earlier this year before recently getting it rolling on the domestic side as well. Viz Media recently stepped in to reveal that the series is finally making the leap to high definition with Blu-ray releases. The first set was scheduled for a November 3rd, 2020 debut where it’ll incl...

AT&T to sell anime streamer Crunchyroll for about $1.2 billion [Los Angeles Times] Anime streaming service Crunchyroll is getting a new owner. On Wednesday, AT&T said it was selling the San Francisco-based streamer to Sony’s Funimation Global Group for $1.175 billion. The acquisition follows the sale of other smaller subscription streaming services as media companies aim to expand their foothold in the marketplace. Crunchyroll has more than 3 million subscribers, with a library that has more ...

AT&T to sell anime service Crunchyroll to Sony’s Funimation for $1.18 billion AT&T has reportedly been looking to offload the anime distributor for some time in order to pay down its significant debt. Aerial view of Whitacre Tower, also known as One AT&T Plaza, AT&Ts corporate headquarters in Dallas.(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer) Dallas-based AT&T will sell anime production and streaming company Crunchyroll to Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.’s Funimation Global Group for $1.18 billi...