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Funimation is shutting down — and taking your digital library with it (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Funimation is shutting down — and taking your digital library with it::Funimation is shutting down on April 2nd, 2024. The service will automatically transfer subscribers to Crunchyroll, and legacy members will see a price increase.

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 45 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The most fucked up thing is that they're saying crunchyroll won't support funimations stuff.

FUNIMATION BOUGHT OUT CRUNCHYROLL. Not the other way around.

So funimation now owns CR and funimation is dropping off the digital copies that they themselves sold to people and changing their own name to Crunchyroll. Funimation literally chose to drop support of what they sold themselves, hike prices up after buying out their competitor Crunchyroll, and they're taking over using the name Crunchyroll because it has a more positive name recognition.

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

in the end, blame. sony (who owns both)

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 months ago

Good call.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 9 months ago

Funimation was purchased by Sony and merged into Crunchyroll.