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 ...

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Anime fans have expressed frustration online after Crunchyroll announced it won't grant users access to Funimation digital copies when the two streaming services merge fully. Crunchyroll's guide ...

Sony just raised the price of anime and left American otakus with few other options. The company’s anime streamer, Funimation, is officially shutting down on April 2, according to a press release on ...

Funimation used to be known as a fierce competitor to Crunchyroll and one of the go-to streaming services for all things anime. While the Funimation app was notorious for being slow and ridden with ...

Kevin is an accomplished blogger and pop culture writer! Having written about the manga and anime industry since 2004, he's written a wide variety of stories! He has even interviewed legends like Stan ...

Shawn Gann, who plays Yusuke on Fruits Basket, started things off by explaining how anime has helped him throughout his life: “It’s helped me to meet far more people and expand my background, anime ...

Most major entertainment companies looking for the pole position in the global streaming road race have a go-big-or-go-home strategy — they’re building massive vehicles with broad, four-quadrant ...

For those of us who explored the early iterations of the Internet, it wasn’t all too hard to find episodes of an anime show streaming on YouTube. Then, unfortunately, that big old copyright hammer ...