Funimation is shutting down on April 2nd, 2024. The service will automatically transfer subscribers to Crunchyroll, and legacy members will see a price increase.

All this sucks on its own, but users going from Funimation to Crunchyroll will be going by the latter’s subscription fees. Meaning, a user may have to pay $10/month in April (Funimation was $6 ...

Crunchyroll’s president said that it’s offering “appropriate value” to customers concerned that they will lose access to their digital copy libraries when Funimation shuts down April 2nd.

Funimation will shut down on April 2, 2024. That means users are being ported over to Crunchyroll. But as Funimation’s users shift to their new platform, they’ll do so without their library of ...

Funimation’s parent company, Sony, bought rival anime streaming service Crunchyroll in 2021. Since then, it was suspected that Sony would merge the offerings together somehow.

Funimation Shuttering But Your Digital Movie Copies Won't Transfer To Crunchyroll With the merger, subscribers will not be able to keep their digital copies of their purchased DVDs and Blu-rays.

Anime fans have expressed frustration online after Crunchyroll announced it won't grant users access to Funimation digital copies when the two streaming services merge fully.

Over on social media, fans have come together to list the missing titles that Crunchyroll has yet to post from Funimation. Currently, there are 192 titles listed. For some of these shows, their ...

The anime streamer's recent decision to do away with Funimation came at a high cost for people who'd built up digital libraries—but that may change.

Crunchyroll president Rahul Purini reacts to concerns about AI replacing anime subtitle work and interpreting Japanese language, plus Funimation account issues.