In summer 2021, the Sony’s Funimation Global Group acquired Crunchyroll for over one billion dollars. At the time, it wasn’t clear what that would mean. We only knew that Funimation sought to create ...

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Earlier this month, Funimation finalized its acquisition of Crunchyroll for $1.175 billion, merging the anime megaplexes of Sony and AT&T and setting the stage for industry upheaval. The era of Big ...

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For those of us who explored the early iterations of the Internet, it wasn’t all too hard to find episodes of an anime show streaming on YouTube. Then, unfortunately, that big old copyright hammer ...