Funimation And Wakanim are officially Moving to Crunchyroll

Funimation and Crunchyroll announced on Tuesday that Funimation and Wakanim’s anime library and simulcast content are moving to Crunchyroll on Tuesday. Starting with the spring 2022 season, their newly licensed anime series will only stream on Crunchyroll. Funimation will only stream new episodes of continuing series. Crunchyroll posted a list of all titles heading over to its service, which includes titles with English subtitles and English dubs. This list will continue to be updated. Funimation streamed an announcement trailer.

Here Are The Anime’s That Will Move to Crunchyroll:

1. 2.43: Seiin High School Boys Volleyball Team (Sub and Dub)
2. Adachi and Shimamura (Sub and Dub)
3. Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor (Dub)
4. Akudama Drive (Sub and Dub)
5. Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest (Sub and Dub)
6. Attack on Titan: Junior High (Sub and Dub)
7. BACK ARROW (Sub and Dub)
8. Black Clover Episodes 1-170 (Dub)
9. Blood Blockade Battlefront (Dub)
10. Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond (Dub)
11. BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defense (Sub and Dub)
12. Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki (Sub and Dub)
13. Bungo and Alchemist -Gears of Judgement- (Sub and Dub)
14. By the Grace of the Gods (Sub and Dub)
15. Cautious Hero: The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious (Sub and Dub)
16. Charlotte (Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
17. Combatants Will Be Dispatched! (Sub and Dub)
18. Cowboy Bebop (Sub and Dub)
19. DARLING in the FRANXX (Dub)
20. Date A Live I (Dub)
21. Date A Live II (Dub)
22. Date A Live III (Dub)
23. Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody (Dub)
24. Demon Lord, Retry! (Sub and Dub)
25. Dr. STONE (Dub)
26. Dr. STONE Season 2 (Dub)
27. Dragon Goes House-Hunting (Sub and Dub)
28. Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia (Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
29. Fire Force (Dub)
30. Fire Force Season 2 (Dub)
31. Fruits Basket (Dub)
32. Fruits Basket Season 2 (Dub)
33. Fruits Basket The Final Season (Dub)
34. Full Dive: This Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG Is Even Shittier than Real Life! (Sub and Dub)
35. Goblin Slayer (Dub)
36. High School DxD (Dub)
37. High School DxD NEW (Dub)
38. High School DxD BorN (Dub)
39. High School DxD Hero (Dub)
40. Horimiya (Sub and Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
41. Hortensia SAGA (Sub and Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
42. How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? (Sub and Dub)
43. How Not to Summon a Demon Lord (Dub)
44. How Not to Summon a Demon Lord Omega (Dub)
45. Hunter x Hunter Episodes 1-74 (Dub)
46. Hyouka (Sub and Dub)
47. Kaguya-sama: Love is War Season 1 (Dub)
48. Kaguya-sama: Love is War Season 2 (Dub)
49. Kemono Jihen (Sub and Dub)
50. Kingdom Season 1 (Sub and Dub)
51. Kingdom Season 2 (Sub and Dub)
52. Kingdom Season 3 (Sub and Dub)
53. Kiss Him, Not Me (Dub)
54. Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear (Sub and Dub)
55. Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan (Sub and Dub)
56. Log Horizon (Sub and Dub)
57. Log Horizon 2 (Sub and Dub)
58. Log Horizon: Destruction of the Round Table (Sub and Dub)
59. MARS RED (Sub and Dub)
60. Megalobox (Dub)
61. Megalobox 2: Nomad (Sub and Dub)
62. Miss Caretaker of Sunohara-sou (Dub and Sub)
63. Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid (Dub)
64. Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S (Dub)
65. Moriarty the Patriot (Sub and Dub)
66. Muhyo & Roji’s Bureau of Supernatural Investigation Season 1 (Dub)
67. Muhyo & Roji’s Bureau of Supernatural Investigation (Sub and Dub)
68. Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (Sub and Dub)
69. My First Girlfriend is a Gal (Dub)
70. My Hero Academia Season 1 (Dub)
71. My Hero Academia Season 2 (Dub)
72. My Hero Academia Season 3 (Dub)
73. My Hero Academia Season 4 (Dub)
74. My Hero Academia Season 5 (Dub)
75. Noragami (Dub)
76. Noragami Aragoto (Dub)
77. Otherside Picnic (Sub and Dub)
78. Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World (Sub and Dub)
79. Plunderer (Sub and Dub)
80. Scar on the Praeter (Sub)
81. Scarlet Nexus (Sub)
82. SHADOWS HOUSE (Sub and Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
83. SK8 the Infinity (Sub and Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
84. Sorcerous Stabber Orphen (Sub and Dub)
85. Sorcerous Stabber Orphen Battle of Kimluck (Sub and Dub)
86. SSSS.DYNAZENON (Sub and Dub)
87. SUPER HXEROS (Sub and Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
88. Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies moved to a starter town? (Sub and Dub)
89. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 1 (Dub)
90. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 2 (Dub)
91. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime OADs (Dub)
92. The Day I Became a God (Sub and Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
93. The Detective Is Already Dead (Dub)
94. The Duke of Death and His Maid (Sub and Dub)
95. The Dungeon of Black Company (Sub and Dub)
96. The Honor at Magic High School (Sub and Dub)
97. The Promised Neverland Season 1 (Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
98. The Promised Neverland Season 2 (Sub and Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
99. The Quintessential Quintuplets Season 1 (Dub)
100. The Quintessential Quintuplets Season 2 (Dub)
101. Toilet-bound Hanako-kun (Sub and Dub)
102. Tokyo Ghoul (Dub)
103. Tokyo Ghoul: Root A (Dub)
104. Tokyo Ghoul: re (Dub)
105. Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! (Sub and Dub)
106. Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Song- (Sub and Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
107. Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina (Sub and Dub)
108. WONDER EGG PRIORITY (Sub and Dub | North America, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM only)
109. Yu Yu Hakusho Episodes 1-112 (Sub and Dub)
110. Yu Yu Hakusho OVAs (Sub)
111. Yuri!!! on ICE (Dub)

Funimation, Wakanim, and VRV subscribers as of Monday who have not subscribed to Crunchyroll are eligible for a deal to get 60 days of Crunchyroll Premium free.

Accounts for Funimation and Crunchyroll currently remain separate. Existing Funimation digital copy, watch history, or queue will not be transferred to Crunchyroll yet, but Funimation stated that it is working on it.

Sony’s Funimation Global Group completed its acquisition of Crunchyroll from AT&T on August 9. The purchase price was US$1.175 billion, and the proceeds were paid in cash at closing.

Crunchyroll and Funimation first announced the acquisition in December 2020 with a purchase price of US$1.175 billion. The technology website The Information reported in August 2020 that AT&T offered Crunchyroll to Sony for US$1.5 billion and that Sony reported “balked at” the price, which effectively values the streaming service at US$500 per subscriber. Entertainment news source Variety reported that AT&T was shopping the company to multiple potential buyers aside from Sony Pictures Entertainment at that time. Nikkei Asia later reported that October that Sony was in final negotiations for the Crunchyroll acquisition. At that time, the newspaper reported that Sony “could end up spending more than 100 billion yen ($957 million).”

Sony

Sony Group Corporation (ソニーグループ株式会社, Sonī Gurūpu kabushiki gaisha/ˈsoʊni/ SOH-nee), commonly known as Sony and stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world’s largest manufacturers of consumer and professional electronic products, the largest video game console company and the largest video game publisher. Through Sony Entertainment Inc, it is one of the largest music companies (largest music publisher & second largest record label) and the third largest film studio, making it one of the most comprehensive media companies. It is the largest technology and media conglomerate in Japan. At the same period, it is also recognized as the most cash-rich Japanese company, with its net cash reserves of ¥2 trillion.

Sony, with its 55 percent market share in the image sensor market, is the largest manufacturer of image sensors, the second largest camera manufacturer, and is among the semiconductor sales leaders. It is the world’s largest player in the premium TV market for a television of at least 55 inches (140 centimeters) with a price higher than $2,500 as well as second largest TV brand by market share and, as of 2020, the third largest television manufacturer in the world by annual sales figures.

Sony Group Corporation is the holding company of the Sony Group (ソニー・グループ, Sonī Gurūpu), which comprises Sony Corporation, Sony Semiconductor Solutions, Sony Entertainment (Sony Pictures, Sony Music), Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Financial Group, and others.

The company’s slogan is We are Sony. Their former slogans were The One and Only (1979–1982), It’s a Sony (1981–2005), like.no.other (2005–2009), make.believe (2009–2013)and Be Moved (2013–2021).

Sony has a weak tie to the Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) corporate group, the successor to the Mitsui keiretsu. Sony is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (in which it is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 and TOPIX Core30 indexes) with an additional listing in the form of American depositary receipts listed in the New York Stock Exchange (traded since 1970, making it the oldest Japanese company to be listed in an American exchange), and was ranked 88th on the 2021 Fortune Global 500 list.

Crunchyroll History

Crunchyroll launched in 2006 as a streaming service offering anime titles without authorization. The website secured US$4.05 million in its first-round funding from Venrock and began licensing titles for streaming in 2008.

The Chernin Group acquired a majority stake in Crunchyroll in December 2013. The Chernin Group and AT&T formed the joint venture Otter Media in 2014, and Otter Media invested another US$22 million in Crunchyroll’s parent company Ellation in November 2015. AT&T then announced in August 2018 that it acquired all of Otter Media.

The service had reached more than one million subscribers in February 2017, and more than five million subscribers in August 2021.

Crunchyroll and Viz Media Europe closed the deal for Crunchyroll to become the majority owner of Viz Media Europe Group last December. The companies announced the agreement in September 2019. Viz Media Europe SAS (Société par Actions Simplifiées or simplified joint-stock company) announced in April 2020 that it changed its name to Crunchyroll SAS. Since the December 2019 deal of Crunchyroll’s majority ownership of Viz Media Europe, Crunchyroll has also owned French anime distributor KAZÉ (the company was integrated with Viz Media Europe in 2009).

Sony History with Anime Streaming Services

Sony Pictures Television and Aniplex consolidated three Sony-owned anime acquisition and distribution companies — Funimation based in the United States, Wakanim based in France, and Madman Anime Group based in Australia — into one joint venture in September 2019. Sony Pictures Television Networks acquired a majority stake in Funimation for US$143 million in 2017. Funimation ended its content-sharing partnership with Crunchyroll in November 2018, and then signed a first-look streaming deal with Hulu in December 2018. Australian and New Zealand streaming service AnimeLab rebranded into Funimation in June 2021.

In addition to Funimation, Sony owns the subsidiary anime production companies A-1 Pictures and CloverWorks through Aniplex.

Sources: Funimation, Crunchyroll

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