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

AI Wants to Nuke Everyone While Helping You Find Love

Photo: SOPA Images / Contributor (Getty Images) At the beginning of 2023, TikTok was one of the weirdest and most delightful places on the internet. An app with a reputation for memes and 30-second dances had become the front page of the internet, and it seemed TikTok was only getting better as the platform matured. … 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

Funimation Digital Libraries Were Supposed to Last ‘Forever.’ Soon They’ll Disappear

How long is “forever”? When it comes to digital media, forever could be as close as a couple of months away. Funimation, a Sony-owned streaming service for anime, recently announced that subscribers’ digital libraries on the platform will be unavailable after April 2. For years, Funimation had been telling subscribers that they could keep streaming … Read more

Funimation is shutting down — and taking your digital library with it

Funimation is shutting down on April 2nd, 2024. The anime streaming service will start migrating existing subscribers to Crunchyroll — a move that will not only affect subscription prices, but will also wipe digital libraries. A support page on Funimation’s website says the service will automatically transfer existing subscribers to Crunchyroll, noting that the transfer … Read more

One Piece is Getting an Anime Remake (No, Seriously)

Image: Netflix Months after the live-action adaptation of the popular manga/anime One Piece released, Netflixis doing…an anime remake of One Piece. Really. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Has Infectious Good Energy Revealed at Jump Festa 2024, the remake—titled The One Piece, so as to make clear it’s not like the other two shows titled One Piece—will start … Read more

Netflix’s YuYu Hakusho Series Gets First Trailer

Image: Netflix The 1992 anime adaptation of Yoshihiro Togashi’s YuYu Hakusho is one of those series that hit at just the right time for a generation of animation fans, not unlike Dragonball Z. At a time of live-action adaptations of popular animated material, it wasn’t entirely unexpected to hear the series would be getting one … Read more

Crunchyroll’s Manga App is Being Shut Down Next Month

Image: Crunchyroll Along with being one of the biggest platforms to watch anime, Crunchyroll is also a hub to read manga on your phone or computer. While not as big as say, Shonen Jump, it’s managed to stick around for a little over a decade…which makes it tragic irony to reveal that the service is … Read more

First Reactions Reward Netflix Adaptation

Picture: Netflix Subsequent week, the live-action adaptation of One Piece lastly units sail, and it wouldn’t be flawed to say it has so much to stay as much as. Eiichiro Oda’s shonen collection has grown in reputation (and size) over time, and this present is coming off the again of a current theatrical film and … Read more

One Piece Star Iñaki Godoy on Taking part in Luffy in Netflix Sequence

Monkey D. Luffy’s casting is the important thing to what is going to make Netflix’s One Piece work, and we’re excited to see extra of the boundless power and optimism that Iñaki Godoy exudes as Luffy within the trailer alone. Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s long-running, much-loved anime collection a couple of misfit discovered … Read more