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And lo, Sony has a de-facto monopoly on anime distribution outside of Asia. Sentai/HiDive, All The Anime and basically every other anime distributor days are numbered, and I expect the end result will make the anime industry reliant on China (even more than it already is) as Sony will inevitably reduce the amount of money it spends on licensing third party productions.
As long as Disney+, Netflix, Prime, HBO Max, Hulu and the countless others exist there is no monopoly.
? I mean they both license anime, but that's hardly all the anime outside of Asia. It may be the majority (for now), but we still have Netflix, for instance. It's not like they own every single title they currently stream.
I can't really see them just combining the libraries and not raising the price, you'd think they would lose a lot of money doing that from all the people who keep two subs. And I really hope they don't just do sub/dub separation between the services, that would suck. Also I was looking forward to watching Jujutsu Kaisen on Max, and now who knows if that'll even all be put up there.
Honestly I'll be shocked if VRV manages to survive this transition
Will crunchy still be providing their own shows? Was absolutely the most interesting thing they were doing before this purchase.
Don't think so. It's like Sony telling Japan, we'll take your shit, and let everyone else enjoy it.(yes people I know Sony is Japanese)
VRV is going to die. AT&T sold Crunchyroll and only Crunchyroll. I feel like the writing has been on the wall for a while now since they kept losing all their different channels.
True when HBO Max launched 2/3 of its anime library was actually Aniplex/Sony titles.
They can just have a Toonami section for anime related content, instead.
Maybe there's something I missed but nothing that airs on Toonami is on HBO Max. I imagine the streaming rights are separate.
It's certainly possible but Sony seems to be paying a serious premium for CrunchyRoll. I'd think they'd want as much flexibility as possible to get returns on that.
Nope because Aniplex in charge of licensing their own shows. Aniplex pretty much licenses their shows to most streaming services like Crunchyroll, HBO Max, Netflix, and Hulu despite their partnership with Funimation.
Nah, its not like hbomax wants some vast anime collection, they just want the really big catalog titles.
I'm ok with a more consolidated anime service. I guess at&t unlimited people got vrv for free though? I didn't know that. I've been subbed to crunchy roll.
Good for Sony.
... Now hurry up and combine the fucking subscriptions! Fix the wrong you committed a couple years ago. I'm tired of paying for a double subscription to get access to content I already had access to before you got involved with Funimation.
Also take this opportunity to use the Crunchyroll tech to trash the Funimation website. CR isn't perfect techwise... But it's a hell of a lot better than bare minimum that Funimation came up with.
As for AT&T, I still can't believe they thought they would ever get their original 5B asking price. 1B is a lot more reasonable for what Crunchyroll is.
... Now hurry up and combine the fucking subscriptions! Fix the wrong you committed a couple years ago. I'm tired of paying for a double subscription to get access to content I already had access to before you got involved with Funimation.
Also take this opportunity to use the Crunchyroll tech to trash the Funimation website. CR isn't perfect techwise... But it's a hell of a lot better than bare minimum that Funimation came up with.
As for AT&T, I still can't believe they thought they would ever get their original 5B asking price. 1B is a lot more reasonable for what Crunchyroll is.
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Oh I'm aware, just noting the ignorance. That and all the "Oh noes more censorship and SJW politics in mah anime!" comments. Love seeing those degenerates squirm.
I like this purchase by Sony. They cannot scale to compete with Netflix, Warner, Disney, Universal, but they can carve themselves a niche with Anime, whether for a future acquisition target by a bigger fish or not.
Not anime but they also have crackle.
I wonder if they will all operate differently with different catalogues and whether they will have a sub that offers everything.