Forum - View topicNEWS: Funimation, Hulu Sign First-Look Streaming Deal for New Anime
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TheBeron
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They have also several things in work with AdultSwim which is also Warner media. Edited to remove overquoting. --willag |
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LagannImpact
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Somehow I doubt it holds true for series currently airing on Toonami. Also, Toonami might have acquired titles from Funimation to replace Mob Psycho 100 and Megalobox early next year before this deal went through. |
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Drunk
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Funimation be like: Friendship ended with Crunchyroll. Now Hulu is my best friend.
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SrkSano
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I do Crunchyroll, HiDive (may or may not do VRV, weighing the options) Netflix and Amazon Prime for anime but I borrow Hulu from a friend. So if Hulu gets Funimation shows that would work for me.
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Zof
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And I'm sick of having to have a bunch of services to watch a full season of Anime. So now we are talking: VRV + Hulu + Amazon to get everything right? That means I'll keep my vrv, drop hidive, get Hulu back now,. That's at least one less if I'm not missing anything. If I'm not mistaken it was just VRV + HiDive + Amazon +Hulu to get everything. I dont know. I just pay them all then legally download it all from USENET since I'm licensed for the content.
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CANimeFan88
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Is Sony (Funimation's parent company) slowly making a place on Hulu?
Because I read that AT&T (WarnerMedia's parent company) might possibly decide to give up their 10% share once they are ready to launch their own streaming service. Here is the article: https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/att-selling-hulu-stake-disney-valuation-1203063592/ When or if that happens, Disney will become the majority owner after their acquisition of Fox and they even confirmed that they intend to stream Hulu internationally which means I can finally watch it here in Canada. I can't wait until that happens. |
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TheAncientOne
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Hulu has had an $11.99 per month commercial free tier for quite some time now. |
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ECW28
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This is assuming that this deal will impact Toonami. I doubt Funi will ever permanently end their relationship with Toonami. This deal can change it up, but I don’t think this means that we won’t have anymore Funimation titles show up on the block. |
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dragonrider_cody
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It doesn’t say anything about this being an exclusive deal, so it shouldn’t affect Sentai or Viz too much. Considering Hulu will only be licensing shows from Funimation, which they already do, it shouldn’t affect their relationship with other publishers much. It’s completely different from their CR alliance. Also worth mentioning that even CR streams shows on Hulu now. |
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LuckySeven
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Glad I signed up for the same deal myself. I had my account from back when they still allowed free access and was pretty miffed when they started being pay only. 90 to 95% of what I watched on there was anime anyhow. So this new partnership makes me feel like I hit the jackpot in a sense. But all that aside, I am hoping this doesn't affect FUNimation's dealings with Toonami going forward either since I'm still a big supporter of that too. |
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TexZero
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No because Hulu = Disney with a 60% ownership once the fox merger goes through. Also
Watch yo back Disney, they gonna do to you what they did to CR. Take the money and run. Sony and Longterm is as good a joke as there could be in the entertainment industry. |
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Cardcaptor Takato
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I'm a bit confused here because I recall hearing one of the big reasons Sony pulled out of Crunchyroll was because they didn't want to share service with their rivals at AT&T yet they're partnering with Hulu now who is owned by their other rivals at Disney?
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Yasaal
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Really hope their definition of Global isn't "America+Canada"... Under Sony, Funi can do a LOT. It won't be as hard to be a global brand if the right measures and steps are taken, but who knows when Funi will get to that point. |
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getchman
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they expanded to the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand a few years ago, so they have already made some progress towards that goal
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Cardcaptor Takato
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Something else I'm wondering about is if Hulu is going to get first dibs on Funimaiton's titles, how does this effect the titles they're still sharing with Crunchyroll like Attack on Titan and My Hero Academia?
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