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In 2021, Sony acquired Crunchyroll. [4] In March 2022, Funimation Global Group, the service's parent company, was rebranded as Crunchyroll, LLC and a large majority of its catalog was moved to Crunchyroll; [5] [6] despite this, the Funimation streaming service remained active and continued to distribute titles that were originally licensed by ...
On May 11, 2005, Funimation was acquired by Navarre Corporation for US$100.4 million in cash and 1.8 million shares of Navarre stock. As part of the acquisition, Gen Fukunaga was retained as head of the company, transitioning to the position of CEO, and the company's name was changed from Funimation Productions to Funimation Entertainment.
Crunchyroll - sold to Sony's joint venture anime division Funimation, run by Sony Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment Japan's Aniplex, in 2021; the merged company was branded entirely as Crunchyroll, LLC in 2022, with the Funimation name continuing to be used for its streaming service until the merger is completed.
The telco, looking for every opportunity to pay down its debt, sold Crunchyroll for $1.175 billion in cash paid at closing by Funimation Global Group, a joint venture between Sony Pictures ...
AT&T inked a deal to sell its Crunchyroll anime business to Sony’s Funimation group for $1.175 billion in cash, the companies announced. Funimation, a joint venture between Sony Pictures ...
Crunchyroll subscribers starting today will gain access to streaming fare previously exclusive to Funimation as Sony starts to phase out the Funimation brand. The company paid nearly $1.2 billion ...
Crunchyroll is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Sony Group Corporation. [b] The service primarily distributes films and television series produced by East Asian media, including Japanese anime, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with a Japanese branch located in Shibuya, Tokyo.
Sony has taken a different tack. Its primary direct-to-consumer streaming video business is Crunchyroll, geared to the Japanese art forms of anime and manga. Instead of pouring tens of billions ...