Gen Fukunaga, founder and former CEO of Funimation, has joined adult animation outfit Bizaar Studios as a stakeholder and strategic advisor. Fukunaga will develop original animation with the company, ...

"Time is a cruel mistress." While loading the Funimation app and settling in to watch the newest shonen title being streamed from Japan, anime fans are unlikely to every here Funimation's trademark ...

These days, it is hard to imagine a world without anime. Whether we’re talking about Japan or the United States, the medium has a tight hold on fans across the globe. For decades, anime was once seen ...

Matthew was the Apps and Games Editor at Android Police until 2025. It's been a long time coming, but Sony's Funimation is finally absorbing Crunchyroll while taking on the more popular name ...

In a recent interview with The Verge, Crunchyroll president Rahul Purini announced the anime streamer is working on a solution for customers who will lose access to their Funimation digital libraries ...

Nearly three years after the two streaming services merged, Funimation is being sacrificed to beef up Crunchyroll as the premier anime hub. Reading time 2 minutes Come April 2, Funimation is going the ...

How long is “forever”? When it comes to digital media, forever could be as close as a couple of months away. Funimation’s parent company, Sony, bought rival anime streaming service Crunchyroll in 2021 ...

Funimation is migrating existing subscribers to Crunchyroll when it shuts down in April. Funimation is migrating existing subscribers to Crunchyroll when it shuts down in April. is a news writer who ...

How long is “forever”? When it comes to digital media, forever could be as close as a couple of months away. Funimation’s parent company, Sony, bought rival anime streaming service Crunchyroll in 2021 ...

Sony's Funimation purchased Crunchyroll from WarnerMedia for $1.175 billion in 2020, and they kicked off their transformation into a unified anime subscription service under the latter's name a year ...