Funimation Content Moving to Crunchyroll for World’s Largest Anime Library
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I think one thing that will massively help is simultaneous weekly releases. If they want to be competitive in the anime scene, they can't keep doing this "release it in a batch months after the show airs" shit. When an anime (that isn't originally produced by Netflix, rather than just getting licensed by them) gets a Netflix licensing announcement is always met with frustration it seems.
Maybe this thread can also serve as a good location for people who had Funimation before to recommend a few exclusive titles from the last couple years. I've subscribed in small doses to watch Kaguya-sama s2 and did watch Wonder Egg Priority but have missed out on a number of other shows if they weren't on Hulu.
I agree 100%
Practically nobody is talking about JoJo right now and that is insane to me.
I assume that this is just for streaming and that the physical home video releases will still carry the Funimation branding, correct? Or is the entire Funimation brand being done away with and even the DVDs/Blu-rays will have the Crunchyroll branding in the future? It's not clear from the article I read.
In any case, I've had a CR sub since 2013, but I had resisted subbing to Funi's service for quite some time. There were a few times where I was thinking about signing up for a free trial at the end of a season for a couple of shows exclusive to it, but I kept putting it off. Looks like that's a total non-issue anymore.
In any case, I've had a CR sub since 2013, but I had resisted subbing to Funi's service for quite some time. There were a few times where I was thinking about signing up for a free trial at the end of a season for a couple of shows exclusive to it, but I kept putting it off. Looks like that's a total non-issue anymore.
Is the beta player not working for you? I didn't use it for long, but it worked better when I was trying it I thought?
Netflix is big, and Disney is producing anime as well, both original (Twisted Wonderland, Visions) and licensing like a sequel to Tatami Galaxy
I think it sucks, but this video opened my eyes about the reason
Well at least I'll get AoT then. I'm waiting for the last few dubs to come out before I binge the second half of season 4.
I'm beginning to think that best case scenario for annual subscribers is going to be that we have to manually log a support ticket with customer service and won't get refunds but will get something like a code for 6 months of free Crunchyroll Premium instead of 2 months.
Yeah I don't think it would be too terrible given that the annual Funi sub was only $60. I'm in the UK but subbed through the US since at the time they didn't have a UK streaming service, and even when they did the US one had way more content.
Amazon have also been getting quite a bit more anime lately from what I've noticed on Prime, with some of it (In the UK at least) marked as Prime Original/Exclusive.
Sadly most of the old stuff from Funi is region blocked for me. Completely expected given that they have to abide by whatever licensing terms they had when the licenses were signed, but I just wish Crunchyroll was more transparent about what actually is and isn't available worldwide in their announcement.
But presumably going forward stuff won't be region locked anymore, which is nice.
But presumably going forward stuff won't be region locked anymore, which is nice.
Canceled my VRV subscription since I think it said I was already paying for Crunchyroll Premium (though I never got double charged), will wait to see when my Funimation queue gets brought over to Crunchyroll, or at the very least, just wait for said shows to hit Crunchyroll & add them to my queue there.
Just wonder how pricing is gonna be affected. I'm glad to worry about 1 (or rather 2 due to VRV) less subscriptions, but hopefully it won't be too much of an increase.
Just wonder how pricing is gonna be affected. I'm glad to worry about 1 (or rather 2 due to VRV) less subscriptions, but hopefully it won't be too much of an increase.
I would be fine with that as well. I think full refunds will be highly unlikely, but a compensation like 6 months free would be a good compromise.
Funimation home video releases are keeping the Funimation branding for the foreseeable future; they've already solicited titles through the end of May with no signs of changing anything on that front.
From the looks of it, it seems like there is still a bit of integration work to be done. For now, it's mainly library migration to CR, likely the main reason for the 2 months of free CR until they sort out all the backend payment processing and other components etc.
Hopefully Netflix can providing consistent subtitles as well as dub closed captioning. The state of some of Netflix's subs are so poor and only Funi is out there doing closed captioning.
I imagine Funi will remain the home video brand at least for the near future at least. Maybe they'd co-brand it to transition. Physical anime is so incredibly expensive still (although obviously a lot cheaper than before) that I think it must be very, very niche at this point. I haven't bought any series I like in ages -- $50-60 for like half a season is just not a compelling price for me.
With that being said, I think if they do just fully transition to CR and eventually get rid of the Funi name in general it could be done without much difficulty. Funi's brand name is only especially valuable with older fans (of which I am one) who definitely aren't the primary audience for anime. Probably anyone under 25-30 couldn't care less about the Funi name since they didn't grow up relying on them and ADV mostly.
Was expecting Anime Digital Network to be included in France since it's partially owned by Crunchyroll.
Oh well, paying for 2 subs is still better than paying for 3 subs.
Oh well, paying for 2 subs is still better than paying for 3 subs.
For as much as people complain about Funimation's web player, I think it's also worth noting that Crunchyroll's app has also been a mess with how they actually catalog their series. I hope they finally clean it up.
Nothing is stopping Sony from using VRV's tech though. It's all backend stuff. Crunchyroll is just the branding.
from my limited experience with CR apps, the best is when things would get cut of, so you would get Like
Monster Girl Doct...
Monster Girl Doct...
Monster Girl Doct...
You had to click into each one to see which it even was.
well fuck me, just saw The Case Study of Vanitas on here with Crunchy, the global saturation of Anime is here
Like I wish there was just an audio selection for each season. The thing literally every other streaming service does. But for whatever reason, Crunchyroll has always uploaded them as separate individual seasons lol
I'm also not sure if they finally updated it, but they also wouldn't do Closed Captions for dubbed videos which also kind of sucks for accessibility reasons.
Keep me posted if you hear back. I also was on an annual subscription to both Funimation and Crunchyroll. I cancelled my Funimation sub but I want a refund for my remaining months at least by April 1st since that's when all content will be fully merged.
Hmm none of the shows I'm watching on Funimation have moved over yet. Guess it will take a couple days
This is a good list of questions. Could you let me know what they tell you in response? My sub is active until August so it falls in a similar situation to yours.
yea, though you should at least submit a ticket now about your yearly sub. They are telling people to do that on twitter...with absolutely 0 clarity on how they will help with it...
Yeah I'll submit a ticket when it's my lunch break. I don't expect anything to be done about the grandfathered price tier. I viewed that as a PR move to sate current customers and I have no doubts that Sony wants to boot people off it.
To be honest, now that I read through more of the thread, realizing that older stuff isn't vanishing right away, I'll just use the rest of my time watching old stuff, unless there's a "website shut down" time that I haven't seen in the FAQ.
Sucks for some of my digital stuff.......I can't even really get access to them via Funimation as is. Guess I know why they haven't bothered fixing it.
They were bought by the owners of the Funimation app and chose to use their name and app instead for all the content. The people running the Funimation app are just running Cruncyhroll now lol.
The beta player is better than what they used to have, but it's still ass compared to Funimation's.
Between stuff like this, Funi subbing intros/outros, and varying app quality across different platforms, I really hope this whole merger initiative prioritizes bringing the best all these various services have to offer.
Presumably, CR is now going to have the benefit of a lot more resources behind it, and I'd expect Sony would want a premium experience for its customers now that it's doubling down as a custodian of anime. I hope this all goes in a positive direction instead of suffering from the usual corporate compromises.
Different strokes, I guess. Funimation regularly fucks up for me to the point where like the next/prev episode buttons wont even work, so I'd consider crunchy better nowadays, at least on desktop.
Netflix just spoils me with a competent player, i guess.
Aww man. I've been grandfathered into the cheap Funimation sub for years, mostly for the One Piece dub and a few other shows here and there.
Haven't subscribed to Crunchyroll in like 5 or 6 years but I've been using the app recently with a free trial and it's way worse than the Funimation app. And English dubs (at least the ones I'm watching) don't appear to have an English subtitles option on there unlike most stuff on Funimation.
I guess maybe they'll work on bringing that stuff up to par, but I wouldn't count on it. I'll probably just cling to my Funimation sub until they phase it out completely or enough new stuff I want to watch comes to Crunchyroll instead.
Haven't subscribed to Crunchyroll in like 5 or 6 years but I've been using the app recently with a free trial and it's way worse than the Funimation app. And English dubs (at least the ones I'm watching) don't appear to have an English subtitles option on there unlike most stuff on Funimation.
I guess maybe they'll work on bringing that stuff up to par, but I wouldn't count on it. I'll probably just cling to my Funimation sub until they phase it out completely or enough new stuff I want to watch comes to Crunchyroll instead.
