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Answerman - Why Did Crunchyroll and Funimation Divorce?

Funi's acquisition by Sony is a disaster waiting to happen. Soyny loves to respect "Western sensibilities" and in order to do that they turned the PS4 into a brick. Considering they want Funimation as an "International" mainstream brand, forgive me if I fear censorship, if not outright no longer licensing ecchi titles

Funi's acquisition by Sony is a disaster waiting to happen. Soyny loves to respect "Western sensibilities" and in order to do that they turned the PS4 into a brick. Considering they want Funimation as an "International" mainstream brand, forgive me if I fear censorship, if not outright no longer licensing ecchi titles, is just a few years away. It won't be right away, but we'll start hearing about it. About how said title is wrong because loli, said title is controversial because it objectifies women (Fanservice), said title is transphobic... And sooner or later, Sony will "Hear the fans and take note of its social responsibilities" and will start censoring. I also suspect that when the all too familiar pushback occurs from fans and sales start to take a bite, piracy will be blamed.

Anime becoming mainstream is the worst thing that could have happened to the medium and being monopolized by super corporations is essentially it's slow death. Political correctness is getting out of hand in every level of society, I'm not naive enough to think anime is the only hobby that'll be safe.

I take it Aniplex and Funiamtion will continue to operate independently? Because that is the ideal scenario, Aniplex continue with Fate and other such titles and Funimation do whatever they are going to be done from next year on.

What branch of Sony does the PS4 operate under? I'm pretty sure it's not Sony Pictures, which are the ones buying Funimation. Each branch of Sony does their own thing and is practically a separate company. Just because Sony's PlayStation branch is forcing censorship doesn't mean Sony Pictures will as well.

easy. CH isn't successful and funi is. simple as that.

Funi's acquisition by Sony is a disaster waiting to happen. Soyny loves to respect "Western sensibilities" and in order to do that they turned the PS4 into a brick.

This is suppression of female sexuality and, considering how beautiful women are now dehumanised and encouraged to “Love themselves” by repressing their sexuality and covering up, it is also slut shaming.

Sony as a whole has been increasing its communist-style “Moral values” censorship as Naughty Dog has been recently pushing highly “Feminist” ideals and intentionally admitted to virtue signalling in their games

How mainstream” it is while criticizing anime’s “Problematic” elements… Yeah, I’m seeing the same warning signs that accompanied the downfall of video games and comics.

Anime becoming mainstream is the worst thing that could have happened to the medium

and being monopolized by super corporations is essentially it's slow death. Political correctness is getting out of hand in every level of society,

The two did license a huge number of titles jointly, however (including several yet to be released, where they're even on the production committee together), and those will be staying put (although most of Funimation's dubs are being pulled from Crunchyroll).

I take it Aniplex and Funiamtion will continue to operate independently?

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(although most of Funimation's dubs are being pulled from Crunchyroll)

I don't recall Funimation placing a single dub on CR. Did you mean something else there?

With Disney readying their "Disney+" service, which every studio now believes will be a "Netflix-crushing juggernaut" (because they really don't understand streaming or its viewers all that well ), the push has been for studios to arms-race their own all-encompassing studio-branded content services.

As pointed out, that's why Warner took all their Archive classics off of FilmStruck--so they could circle the demographic wagons with one Warner-branded service--and why Sony became so interested in "The One Anime Company They'd Heard of", since their own brief attempt to spin off an all-anime version of Crackle never went anywhere.
As far as Sony is concerned, Funi is "the Anime Industry in America", and CR is a geek-niche that was doing fine without them.

Anime becoming mainstream is the worst thing that could have happened to the medium and being monopolized by super corporations is essentially it's slow death. Political correctness is getting out of hand in every level of society, I'm not naive enough to think anime is the only hobby that'll be safe.

I think this was defiantly one of the most talked about divorces in the anime industry in the history of modern anime.

The one thing I'm wondering about is what this means when an anime's streaming rights expire. Like if Crunchyroll loses the the streaming rights to a show they co-released with Funimation, does Funimation still have the home video distribution rights? And are the simuldubs that were made during this partnership owned by Funimation or Crunchyroll?