Toonami is saved. DeMarco has the whole Crunchy library at his fingertips

good warner bros never had any idea what to do with it say what you want about diseny and netflix but at least they use their ips

well crunchyroll indie animation dead before it even started

Ask Otter Media. I guess RWBY will be out of CR too.

well now a japanese company actually owns them. theoretically they should understand anime better than warner ever did.

watch out for crunchyroll being included for free with all PS5s, if hope to attract weebs to your console that would be a smart move

We all talking abiut the company that destroyed the Animax brand in the entire western hemisphere (including Africa), have no hopes for anime

Will crunchyroll shows finally get decent dubs now?

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Go legit. Get hit.

yeah but that was a joint partnership cable channel of the mid 2000s, this is a streaming service that already kinda knows what it's doing. if sony is smart (which isn't a given) they will just focus on acquiring properties and funding anime without the huge amount of oversight it would take to program, air in different countries etc like they would have to do with a cable channel.

Prospects are combining the better aspects of both services. Appealing to japanese content makers to bulk license everything, front and backlogs. All your shows in one service for cost and convenience.
Dangers are combining the worse aspects of both services, fucking smaller players over and becoming lazy.

Sony have a replace for Crackle, if not then maybe my fear about Sony ruining CR and/or Funimation is not just paranoia. What killed the old Animax was Sony throwing a lot of live action in the channel ala Cartoon Nermtwork in the late 2000's

Jesus fucking christ do that many people use Crunchyroll?? I'm legitimately surprised it's worth that much money. Do we have any stats to how many people use the service and how many people pay for it's ad free thing?

The price astonishes me but the buyout doesn't. Don't think many people, if any, use funimations streaming service.

90 million users and 3 million suscribers

maybe this will kill off crunchys edgy on purpose mexican larp shit.

Really impressive. Had no clue they were doing that good. I haven't used or heard much about crunchyroll since I was a freshman in HS. I hear more about people using netflix to watch anime than CR

I think the thing to note was Crunchyroll has felt like it’s been on borrowed time ever since Netflix and Prime started getting interested in anime. The player was absolute garbage and the entire service felt more like a middle man you had to go through. The big idea being you could “support the industry”.
Funimation is in a similar position. I’m gonna avoid talking about the Vic stuff and just address the product. After ADV went down, it became the de facto leader of the pack in a dub centric landscape with not much real competition. However as subs became more popular, support dwindled. It became more and more noticed over the years that Funimation dubs tend to make characters smugger (see: Any dialogue involving Yamcha) and entire dialogues could be changed if the localizers felt it. (Jamie Marchi is the most stand out because of how she inserts politics but she’s far from the only one who changes dialogue well beyond the bounds of localization)
All things considered this isn’t really as much of a power move as people think. Funimation’s CEO was actively angry that he failed to secure the rights to Evangelion, Crunchyroll had it’s usual paid Youtube shills (see: Mother’s Basement) try to rag on Netflix left and right. Netflix and Prime both seem to be leaning further into anime which means some powerful competition ramped up and Funimation is trying to not get cannibalized.

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Most treens don't have money to pay a suscription so they just use the service that is payed by their parents in this case Netflix

Netflix is not so big in anime. Most people watch simulcast. It's newest originals failed too, Great Pretender is below that fucking Arte in MAL

Starting at 7$ for a subscription, crunchyroll makes around 250 million per year just off of its paid plan assuming those subscribers stay for an entire year. If they truly have 90 million unpaid watchers and can get even 4 dollars out of each one per month they should be easily hitting hitting a billion dollars in revenue, potentially around 4 billion if we assume those viewers are sticking around for a whole year.

Given that Warner was willing to part with them for a billion or so, the true numbers are probably a lot more volatile.

>Funimation
>Snoy

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This will mean jackshit for Toonami.

AT&T debt is the answer, there are even some rumors about they selling DirecTV

Nice. Hoping for a total transformation to western values in the next decade.

since when is Sony considered western

Actually, while I wanna stay away from the Vic shit, I feel I did a disservice in not mentioning the whole “High Guardian Spice” controversy from Crunchyroll because a lot of people see that as where the ball was dropped for Crunchyroll. It’s clear a lot of Funimation and Crunchyroll staff sort of wanna have their place in geek culture instead of just being viewed as middlemen.
When HGS was announced, Crunchyroll was sort of in this period where it had just made it big and people were expecting them to use those profits to fix the broken player among other things. Yet instead they announce an entire cartoon. People were pretty rightfully pissed off on that one.
As for Netflix, they’ve seen the market and they’ve made a few good calculated moves for sure. It’s something that needs to be considered because when you look at Netflix’s current anime catalog, Funimation clearly doesn’t have the exclusive rights to a lot of series they distribute, meaning that Dragon Ball might be their only real advantage as it’s their confirmed exclusive at this point

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