{"id":32724,"date":"2022-03-01T07:05:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T15:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=32724"},"modified":"2022-03-01T07:21:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T15:21:35","slug":"funimation-merges-with-crunchyroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2022\/03\/01\/funimation-merges-with-crunchyroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Funimation Merges with Crunchyroll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Crunchyroll<\/strong> has announced that it will merge with <strong>Funimation<\/strong> and operate as Crunchyroll. As a result, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/anime-news\/2022\/03\/01\/funimation-titles-now-available-on-crunchyroll?utm_source=editorial_cr&amp;utm_medium=news&amp;utm_campaign=brand-announcement_en&amp;referrer=editorial_cr_news_brand-announcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">content previously exclusive<\/a> to Funimation and Wakanim will now be available on Crunchyroll. Additionally, new series, beginning April 1 with titles from the Spring 2022 anime season, will be released exclusively on Crunchyroll.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Crunchyroll\u2019s VRV will also be unified under Crunchyroll, while Funimation will continue to add new episodes of its current anime series.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ALL YOUR ANIME - ALL IN ONE PLACE! \u2728\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s6MYLOvuagI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The consolidation comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2021\/08\/09\/sonys-funimation-completes-acquisition-of-crunchyroll\/\">Sony&#8217;s Funimation acquired Crunchyroll<\/a> from AT&amp;T in August 2021 for $1.175 billion USD. The acquisition was originally announced in December 2020 by Sony Pictures and Crunchyroll. In March 2021, the U.S. Justice Department reviewed whether the deal would give Sony dominance over anime streaming.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Source: Funmation, Crunchyroll, Press Release<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crunchyroll has announced that it will merge with Funimation and operate as Crunchyroll. As a result, content previously exclusive to Funimation and Wakanim will now be available on Crunchyroll. Additionally, new series, beginning April 1 with titles from the Spring 2022 anime season, will be released exclusively on Crunchyroll.\u00a0 Crunchyroll\u2019s VRV will also be unified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/CR_ONE.PLACE_16x9.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-8vO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32724"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32733,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32724\/revisions\/32733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}