Crunchyroll Will Attempt to Compensate Funimation Users for Loss of Digital Libraries

Screenshot: Sunrise/Crunchyroll In an increasingly perilous streaming and digital media landscape—where content is as quick to vanish into the ether as it is spread out across myriad services—Crunchyroll’s recent announcement it was entirely subsuming Funimation three years after it merged with its largest anime streaming rival by raising prices and wiping out digital libraries from … Read more

Crunchyroll Is Killing Funimation for Good, And You’ll Pay For It

Image: Funimation/Studio Bones Come April 2, Funimation is going the way of the dodo. Earlier in the week, Sony revealed it’ll be sunsetting Funimation’s app and website in order to unify both it and Crunchyroll…something the company first revealed all the way back in 2022. Lamar Johnson Loves Beyblades and Pokemon When Funimation was folded … Read more

Crunchyroll is Shutting Down, Absorbing Anime Store Right Stuf

Since 1987, Right Stuf has been a reliable way for those who don’t live in Japan to purchase anime. In 2022, it was acquired by Sony, after which it became part of Crunchyroll while still operating as its own thing. But starting next month, Right Stuf will be no more as it becomes fully integrated … Read more