Tag: Funimation
At the tail end of 2020, Sony set out to purchase Crunchyroll.
AT&T, Crunchyroll’s owners, wanted to shed debt, and Sony wants to dominate the anime space. It’s a match made in business heaven.
The US government, however, has some questions.
A project called AnimeLog recently made the news. A joint venture between several major anime studios and production companies, AnimeLog is a YouTube channel for full episodes of anime. Companies like Toei Animation, Tezuka Productions, and Kodansha are on-board.
We say we should support the industry, but what does that mean?
The anime industry has a complex business model. Through it, we get anime, and we know there’s a studio involved somewhere, but there’s more that that.
Back in early 2020, Funimation decided Interspecies Reviewers violated their standards. They halted their translation and removed the show from their streaming service.
Problem is, they have the exclusive license to it, so once streams of it started popping up on sites like PornHub, Funimation was empowered to take them down, effectively barring anyone from seeing it.
Which is to say: If Funimation can’t stream it, nobody can.