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Official, Crunchyroll joins Funimation (Sony)

kyoji

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Crunchyroll - Anime News | Crunchyroll News

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Today we can share that Crunchyroll and Funimation have become one company!​

David-Christopher
August 09, 2021 3:16pm CDT (20 minutes ago)

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Today we can share that Crunchyroll and Funimation have become one company! You can find more official information in the press release.

The two brands you know and love will be working together, and we believe this is a great thing for fans and the industry, alike! Both teams are knowledgeable, passionate, and have been committed to the anime community for decades. We couldn’t ask for better partners.

We know you may have questions! Today we begin the work of bringing two awesome teams together to bring you more of what you love. Thank you for your trust and support!
 
Fbh

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SJRB said:
Can we expect Crunchyroll on PS+?

Because that would be dope.
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Considering Ps+ didn't include any funimation content (which they already owned), I wouldn't expect much.
At most maybe some "Ps+ extra" subscription or something like that that's slightly cheaper than subscribing to both services separately.

Dabaus said:
What exactly does owning crunchy roll add to sony if they already have funimation? Serious question.
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They had some of the weeb market. Now they have most of the weeb market.
 
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Bo_Hazem

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kyoji said:

Crunchyroll - Anime News | Crunchyroll News

www.crunchyroll.com www.crunchyroll.com


Today we can share that Crunchyroll and Funimation have become one company!​

David-Christopher
August 09, 2021 3:16pm CDT (20 minutes ago)

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2e76526192a0bb876bff22dc73f245c31628538797_main.png


Today we can share that Crunchyroll and Funimation have become one company! You can find more official information in the press release.

The two brands you know and love will be working together, and we believe this is a great thing for fans and the industry, alike! Both teams are knowledgeable, passionate, and have been committed to the anime community for decades. We couldn’t ask for better partners.

We know you may have questions! Today we begin the work of bringing two awesome teams together to bring you more of what you love. Thank you for your trust and support!
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Congrats to my Sonybros.
 
Dabaus

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Fbh said:
Considering Ps+ didn't include any funimation content (which they already owned), I wouldn't expect much.
At most maybe some "Ps+ extra" subscription or something like that that's slightly cheaper than subscribing to both services separately.



They had some of the weeb market. Not they have most of the weeb market.
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Yoboman said:
More Anime, more subscribers
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Okay what i mean is, like is certain anime exclusive to funimation and other anime exclusive to crunchy roll so sony is combining the 2?
 
Yoboman

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Dabaus said:
Okay what i mean is, like is certain anime exclusive to funimation and other anime exclusive to crunchy roll so sony is combining the 2?
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Yeah I think so.

But I think Crunchyroll is the biggest streaming service for Anime and Funimation is more of a dubbing company who more recently started streaming services but own the rights to many big Anime localisation
 
Warnen

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Don't pass gaas, it is your Destiny!
They teamed up years ago to fight against Amazon and Netflix till Sony broke it up…

having one sub will be nice again
 
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Yoboman

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kingfey said:
This is great.
If they own crunchy roll, this means new ip games, like spiderman.

Imagine Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba being exclusive to ps5.
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Sony already owned Demon Slayer but seem to have sold the game rights to Sega

More evidence of their cross department incompetence, and why Sony Japan Studios needed to be scrapped if they couldn't even make a game with their own successful IP
 
Dabaus

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Yoboman said:
Yeah I think so.

But I think Crunchyroll is the biggest streaming service for Anime and Funimation is more of a dubbing company who more recently started streaming services but own the rights to many big Anime localisation
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I see, so funimation did the translations and crunchy roll is the distribution rights? Something like that? Does sony own any animation studios?
 
Banjo64

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kingfey said:
This is great.
If they own crunchy roll, this means new ip games, like spiderman.

Imagine Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba being exclusive to ps5.
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Wow… imagine.

kingfey said:
www.cbr.com

Every Crunchyroll Original Anime (So Far), Ranked

Let’s take a look at all of the original series produced by Crunchyroll in 2020, ranking them from worst to best.
www.cbr.com www.cbr.com

These are game potential for sony, since crunchy roll owns these ip. It strengths their japanese market, and western people who love anime.
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OK? So not games yet? No offence, but you’re a full blown crack head if you think PlayStation are going to task one of their studios with developing a Tower of God video game, or that anyone would give a fuck about that IP if they did.
 
kingfey

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Yoboman said:
Sony already owned Demon Slayer but seem to have sold the game rights to Sega

More evidence of their cross department incompetence, and why Sony Japan Studios needed to be scrapped if they couldn't even make a game with their own successful IP
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This is what happens, when you own alot of stuff. You start suing yourself,
 
TheGodfather07

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yeah cool but where the hell is this sony "summer showcase"? i dont want no shitty state of play. are they gonna be at gamescom or what? what the hell are sony doing? who gives a shit about crunchyroll?
 
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So are they going to duplicate the content across both sites, bring sub prices in-line with each other (if they're different), or have one new site emerge with all the content?
 
kingfey

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Banjo64 said:
Wow… imagine.


OK? So not games yet? No offence, but you’re a full blown crack head if you think PlayStation are going to task one of their studios with developing a Tower of God video game, or that anyone would give a fuck about that IP if they did.
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Can you believe this dude? Seriously? Tower of god? Are you saying no one gives F about it? Man, that is the best crack joke I ever heard.

That game would sell bangers. That IP is very big in south korea and west. That game is printing money. Same for god of high school. If they get the gaming rights for that IP.
 
Yoboman

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Reading a bit on the ownership of Anime and Games from manga, it looks like copyrights are always held in co ownership with the original manga author

I actually doubt Anime studios have any right to sell the property to game studios. Its more likely the game publishers have to pitch to the original manga author
 
kingfey

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Yoboman said:
Reading a bit on the ownership of Anime and Games from manga, it looks like copyrights are always held in co ownership with the original manga author

I actually doubt Anime studios have any right to sell the property to game studios. Its more likely the game publishers have to pitch to the original manga author
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The author is the one who is making the story. Its why we cant get different settings for dragon ball, and one piece games. Different story will conflict with the manga. And with one piece doing like 30 chapters a year, its hard to get a proper story game, without waiting 4-6 years in between.
 
Fbh

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Dabaus said:
Okay what i mean is, like is certain anime exclusive to funimation and other anime exclusive to crunchy roll so sony is combining the 2?
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yeah crunchyroll has a larger library so there's a lot of shows which aren't available on funimation.
Also if I'm not mistaken Crunchy roll focuses exclusively on subs while Funimation is more about dubs.
 
Yoboman

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kingfey said:
The author is the one who is making the story. Its why we cant get different settings for dragon ball, and one piece games. Different story will conflict with the manga. And with one piece doing like 30 chapters a year, its hard to get a proper story game, without waiting 4-6 years in between.
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Im talking about the copyright ownership, not writing the story...
 
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