Funimation erasing all the uncensored Anime from the 2000s and 2010s Anime back before SONY acquired them. Thus is the reason why you needed to keep your physical copies.
Yep!! Sony are idiots as the industry spent years trying to curve piracy. Then, finally a platform comes along which looks might just do that. Then Sony shoots itself in the foot here lol.
Regarding the "buyout" of Crunchyroll. Sony bought Crunchyroll, just like they bought Funimation. Despite Funimation shuttering, it's actually Crunchyroll that got shuttered. After the merger, Funimation changed their name to Crunchyroll, and most of the layoffs occured at the former Crunchyroll offices. Funimation effectively pulled a Showbiz Pizza (Showbiz Pizza bought Chuck-e-Cheese then changed their name.) Funimation lives, they're just walking around with a Crunchyroll skin.
More like its Sony America in both of there skins. Before the buy out Sony got rid of both most of the Sony staff. So it is mostly Sony Entertainment staff running it now not Funimation.
Canceling my subscription as soon as my billing goes up. After what those scumbags did to Vic Mignogna, wokalizers ruining translations with their obvious bias, and now are doing to anime streaming services they’ll never get another cent from me. Time to sail the seven seas! 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
They were waiting to get most of their library from Funimation transferred over to Crunchyroll. Even then, there are a number of licenses that won't be making the move for one reason or another. Possible reasons include: - License disputes due to IP owner changed. A number of the licenses that did not transfer are by studios now owned by Netflix. Netflix would never allow one of their properties to be re-licensed willingly by the competition. - IP Owner demanding more money to transfer the license than what the show is worth to Sony. - or Sony has decided to secretly drop the license to cut costs. Remember, most of these TV/Streaming licenses have clauses that allow the licensee to keep the license so long as they keep up with the terms, which is why Netflix can't just revoke a license without a penalty. Since the ownership of the license is Funimation, to transfer the license to Crunchyroll, they likely need to get approval from the IP owner and a new contract. Now that they salvaged all they can, it's only natural to shutter the platform.
Being too touchy was his confessions, some people didn't like to get touched. If they want to be babies about it, that's fine, but its not serious.@@SlashinatorZ
Definitely feels weird that Funimation is dead. It is completely messed up that they are carrying over subscriptions to Crunchyroll. Welp now there's more anime that will be a pain to watch legally.
Funimation's not dead, they're just prancing around with the skinned body of Crunchyroll. The Crunchyroll offices were the ones hit with layoffs after the merger, and Sony is using this as an opportunity to prune licenses and features that were costing them excess money.
While we don’t agree with some of the choices Funimation has made in 2016 all the way to 2019 or 2020, let us remember all of the good anime Funimation has brought us such as Snow White with Red Hair, Attack on Titan, Yu Yu Hakusou, Code Geass, Trigun, Demon Slayer, My Hero Academia, Black Butler, Cowboy Bebop, One Piece, Bungou Stray Dogs, Spy X Family, Chainsaw Man, Hell’s Paradise and best of all, Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood. Let us hope that most of the Funimation Voice Actors (except for Sean Schemmel, Chris Sabat, Daman Mills, Jamie Marchi, Monica Rial and Scott Freeman) will find voice work outside of Funimation, perhaps with other anime dubbing companies like Bang Zoom, Ocean, Aniplex, Sentai Filmworks, Viz Media and the Netflix Dubbing Company.
I think the Funimation voice actors still have jobs; it's just that Funimation merged with Crunchyroll, thus keeping most of the VAs who worked at the former company in the process.
@@retroman3960 FYI, it was Crunchyroll that got shafted during the merger. After the merger, Funimation changed their name to Crunchyroll and laid off most of the staff in the Crunchyroll offices. For the past year, Funimation only existed as a company name on paper and web. This was all Sony's doing.
Sad day. Funimation was the Crunchyroll of the 90s. They did a crazy amount to bring Anime to the west. Certainly not happy that Cruchyroll has lost such a serious competitor.
Well thats actually the point, anime competition is very few and far between and not to mention its a obvious big corporate move by just owning everything under your umbrella, now its all mostly under Sony. @@bujin5455
@@bujin5455 just saying no need to be sad for FUNimation, they’re now Crunchyroll. But yes, they don’t have much competition now. But I mean, I personally don’t care since I use Crunchyroll and pirate everything else. I don’t use any other apps.
@@bujin5455You do realize Funi stopped being competition as they been bought out by Cruchyrolls parent company. The best parts of Funi was merged into Cruchyroll with the rest being planed to be shut down. This is not a loss for the industry as Funi was lost the second Sony bought them.
@fredbrown7582 what do you mean there isn't a price increase?? It was clearly stated in their FAQs that the price was increasing from like $50.99 a year to around $99.99 a year they are effectively doubling the price of the subscription. The only one spreading misinformation is you my friend.
The fact that some major shows like Serial Experiments Lain, Outlaw Star, The Legend of the Heroic Arslan, Aria The Animation, The Slayers, and Samurai Flamenco plus some iconic dubs like Steins;Gate and Dragon Ball Super aren't yet on Crunchyroll shows that the decision to shut down Funimation is far too premature.
You don't own digital copy until all bytes are on your device, no DRM is restricting access, and no proprietary software is required to replay it. Physical media has some drawbacks, but they don't vanish into thin air.
I wish they could keep the uncut version. If they have it on funimation, why can’t they move it to Crunchyroll? I understand the uncut version is a different license that they can’t always get, but don’t they already have it? Unless there’s something that I’m unaware of, I’m not an expert on this. I wish I could just know the reason they can’t just move it over. And I want them to get the uncut version as often as is allowed.
"Uncut version" is sometimes "unfinished version" though. Like, did you ever watch Wizard Barristers? Do you remember the infamous penultimate episode? Like most Umetsu shows, the show starts with lots of promise and flash and falls apart as deadlines hit. They actually fixed the animation in the DVD release version, but I think CR still has the broadcast version... which is hilarious to watch - but you don't want it as a definitive version.
It's probably the contracts. Some of their contracts probably had very specific distinctions to only be on Funi's website because they had those old partnerships. I remember 91 Days being in that weird limbo when the CR/Funi split happened.
I admin the Tenchi Muyo Wiki (the one on Fandom... that actually has content) and it drives me crazy that basically none of the OG stuff has ever been moved. I assume they're letting the license eventually lapse, but so annoying. On Funimation, but only recent sequels and that Ai show on CR. But the "classics" are definitely looking to be the hardest hit. Also no Slayers at all on CR.
Crazy how long it’s taking for all of Tenchi Muyo to come over to CR. Luckily I still have a physical version but not being able to stream it sure is disappointing. At least have an updated list of all the anime that isn’t on CR yet 🤦🏾♂️
@@gamekiller64 There is a list on Google Drive made by a CR Discord group. The only faults of it is that it's slightly out of date and you can't easily determine which are the shows on the list that are the ones that are on CR in one form (sub only, usually) but not the other.
Weird how YT takes out comments if you mention other sites- I'll try the comment again. There is a list, you can find it in certain places, some news articles mention it. Slightly outdated but mostly accurate.
The digital copies worked crap for me even before the buyout. Fortunately, I never bought a digital copy alone, it was only ever a pack-in with the disc version. MakeMKV means I can do everything I could do (or was supposed to be able to do; like I said, their execution was ass) with those “digital copies” and more.
Serial Experiments Lain never transferred. Seems like the titles that did transfer were previously on Crunchyroll as part of the past "partnership" that went away. They simply reactivated those. Even the old deleted viewer comments reappeared.
The shutting down of Funimation has been writing on the wall, but all the anime has not transferred. Anime like .Hack/sign Roots and Outlaw Star have not moved to Crunchyroll, and are still on my Funi watch list. Crunchyroll has not stepped their game up. I had problems with both services, but I won’t tolerate with Crunchyroll’s handling with the dubs when it comes to them adding the translation subtexts way later than the time the dub episode was uploaded. Knowing what’s being said is cool, but having to cycle between dub and sub to get the context of what’s being shown in text is ridiculous because that should be translated in the dub like it’s done for the sub. Paying for a service to get it right is all I’m asking for because I shouldn’t be waiting hours or days for them to get it right. If uploading a episode is all they’re going to do, then I might as well sail the high seas. This has been an existing problem, and the full merge is going to solidify how lazy they’re going to be, and how bad censored their content will be.
Ugh, so I'll have to merge them. The captioning for dubbed anime is rarely an option on CR (not sure why) which was why I kept my FM sub last year (my hearing is slowly going). So, I'll miss that. And the things not getting transferred. But the app on my firestick had all sorts of issues last 6 months due to lack of maintenance, so, I've hardly used it. But economically it makes sense, you ditch the dual expenses and any negative feelings FM name created. Problem is that CR isn't exactly a beloved name either. And Sony doesn't seem to understand anime fans very well. Which means you can change names but you can't change your issues. Thanks for the helping vid!
I'm kind of disappointed with this, mainly because the dubs are actually better on funanimation and they also had all the uncensored version's of all the shows that are censored on crunchyroll I'm wondering by April 2nd if all of the shows that have not yet been added to crunchy roll, including all of the dubs for those shows would be added before then cuz there's still a lot of shows and movies that still have not been added and they said that they were going to do that
At least they have moved some of the dubs over. Last time I checked the Takagi-san and New Game anime on Crunchyroll the dubs weren't there, but now they are, so it does at least look like that's happening. But it is a pain that we're losing the uncensored stuff.
Don't know about this... typically with digital purchases, it's licensed to you and they can revoke the license for any number of reasons-an acquisition/merger being one. It's within the "fine print" of the EULA. My library of* Funimation digital copies from Blurays was extensive, so it's sad... but this is why you gotta be wary of digital media.
@@QB.113 The argument against the shady EULA practices is that the digital copy is prominently displayed as a feature of the purchased item, but the EULA limitations are not. Unfortunately in our Pay2Play legal systems, it's too costly in time/money/sanity to fight them for it.
So no more new English Dubs by FUNimation then? The recent scandal involving Jamie Marchi and Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid really was the straw that broke the camels back.
I have an annual Funimation subscription that renewed last September. So I’m concerned about potential money loss. Also, I prefer Funimation’s interface. I’m gonna miss it.
Yup. Crunchyroll has stronger brand appeal, plus overseas knowledge. Funimation has mostly been an American only IP. I still find it stupid they didn't keep the Funimation name for English dubbing.
@@你好-戦 Dyslexic people, and I've also heard the excuse that they like to watch anime on the side while working. It's hard to read subs when your eyes are elsewhere.
@@Ncyphenthat's what I've had heard to. So they are technically not watching it. Also I've found that people that say they don't like anime, always say that they watched dubs. I mean I wouldn't like anime either, if all there was was dubs. I only remember seeing passable scenes in french. English is beyond traumatizing. Spanish Is bad as well. I'm not an expert in Dubs because the few things I have watched have scared me to bad and they have made me to never look back.
@@wingracer1614 that’s such a specific example lol. That being said I would think that the banks would shut down any recurring payments once they are notified of the deceased? I am not sure though.
Man can't believe that Sony is doing this to Funimation. I mean I guess that Crunchyroll has been the better acquisition to them. I mean I don't know why if Sony owns stuff on both of them they couldn't just move the stuff over.
With control over the majority of the market, expect what has happened at the "big mouse". Titles were dropped on "big mouse+". Because that streaming service held the sole source rights, there was no legal way to view dropped titles. Expect the same with the end of Funimation. So what can I as a consumer do? Support the competition and support the physical copy market when possible. Piracy is not the answer. Voting with your wallet is.
if funamation cloading what would happane too dh te dvd and blu ray will they be out of print ? or over priced or discontinued like full metal alchemist dvd
Has anyone heard anything about Crunchyroll *finally* moving over the final three episodes of Bakemonogatari? They only ported over 12 of the 15 episodes. This is especially egregious because the show pops up in my suggested feed quite regularly. CR has most of the overarching Monogatari series, but somehow doesn't think it's important to port over the final 20% of the original series. It's infuriating.
I wouldn't hold my breath. A couple years ago I reported a broken episode in a series and I'm not sure if they ever fixed it. I checked it a year and a half later and it was still unplayable.
good riddance, I appreciate what they've done for introducing anime to the west in the 2000s after the OGs fell off (Cartoon network, adult swim, nick, 4kids, G4TV and heck even disney had some)but by in large I think they and Crunchyroll need to be replaced with people that can actually do their job properly, and you know, update their fucking app/website more than once every 10 years Also yeah the culture in the dubber is awful, they've slowly been pervading into the sub department, considering some of their "translators" have openly stated they do not understand any Japanese and basically just take the translation that an actual translator does and then bastardizes it for the western market
Typically with these mergers the powers that be decide which is the "better" brand and that brand takes the name. The cultures will change though. Usually the dominant culture survives but slight changes with the subservient culture pushing slightly. See previous mergers of this size in banking, telecom, online sales, etc...
IMHO, Digital Purchase Platform was a stupid idea in the first place. People could pay a one time fee and the platform is now stuck with py both maintenance and license fees to keep the content available. From what I understand, though, most people's digital libraries were digital copies that came with DVD/BDs. Very few people actually bought a digital only copy.
Anyone know where I can find Web Gaming or a full list of shows not yet transferred? Working on a video on the subject and would appreciate the data if possible. 😁 Oh, and of course thanks for covering this! I don't comment much, but this is one of the only anime vlog channels I regularly watch tbh lol.
FUNimation lost a lot of my respect when they started shoveling their stuff out like it was meaningless slop. Going so far as to create sub standard B and C teams to handle certain shows while others got the premium treatment. Say what you want about Aniplex and their high prices, but I always knew what i was getting. Hearing that the localization teams became turbo woke in the past 10 years makes me glad I kind of lost interest in seasonal anime 10 years ago.
I feel like we should be more worried about Sony having a monopoly on anime in America. Also, it may be time to sue to enforce the First-Sale Doctrine and stop this digital ambiguity.
In terms of American law, Anime is just treated the same way as film is. I'm sure the Funimation Digital Copy thing affected people that opted to use Funimation's website to hold digital copies and *not redeem the Ultraviolet code* when that service was around.
The Slayers and Gonna Be The Twin-Tail!! aren't on crunchyroll, but are on FUNimation. Would it be possible for both programs to land on crunchyroll since FUNimation had the licenses at one point? Many of these FUNimation "exclusives" have yet to land on crunchyroll. Same goes for most Tenchi series and the Boogiepop Phantom dub.
I never liked Funimation's nickel and dime approach to products in the past and localizers / dubb actor's despicable behavior. Not sure if the same staff will transition to Crunchyroll although typically the dominant company doesn't need two of everything.
Funimation ... good riddance. They never met an anime they couldn't fuck up with really AWFUL voice work, and generally shit music. I gave up when they acquired Dragon Ball and used 4 people to do EVERY voice
They are still missing the movies that are some staple movies. I believe that if they do not move over at least 90% of the anime and movies, there will be a backlash. Digital purchases will be lost even if the data remains on the site. They will think that people will forget the digital purchases, but there will be a backlash on that as well and it would be added only if there are enough complaints. Many of the anime we’ve watched over the years will be lost if there is not support because they just want to make money over all. Right now their catalog is still Swiss cheese. We need to make it so that we can still buy the anime even in the future otherwise prices will get more expensive just to buy a single anime they do not support.
Tells me the heart wasn’t into funimation over the years. They started as fans making dubs and then corpo took over. Now they sold. Kind of sad really.
I have a ridiculous number of digital copies of discs I bought. All gone. Thankfully, I run my own Plex server and rip discs. It's ridiculous otherwise.
That's the glory of having single-purpose devices. You shouldn't be solely relying on a *game console* to watch video, anyway. Over-the-Top boxes aren't that expensive, either. Walmart's ONN 4K box is ~US$20, for example.
Censoring is the fast way to end subscribers to CrunchyRoll. This is Sony Censorship coming to CrunchyRoll aka that they Censored games on PS. Typical of Sony Censorship corporation.
Holy crap dude, Sony bought Crunchyroll to merge two two services and decided to use the Crunchyroll name instead of the Funimation name. They didn't end services because Funimation was bought out. I understand the world of business mergers is often very large and complex but this one in particular was quite simplistic.
Seeing Funimation go makes me really sad as imo in my reigion (UK) they offered a much better service with some real gems and was hoping when the Sony buyout happened they would prevail over Crunchyroll as their service UK wise just plain sucked . It thankfully has massively improved now (owning Funimation servers perhaps?) but to me Funi have always provided a better service to those outside the US at least thats how it feels to me . God bless Funimation and rip (sniff , sniff 😞 )
@@Code7Unltd being in Australia AnimeLab had the rights to the dub here until they were bought out by Funimation. Since then I don’t know where I can stream it. Lucky I own all of Naruto on dvd/blu ray but it’s still a pain.
This should suprise absolutely no one!! Then Sony went one further trying recently to say that everyone who bought digital content will no longer be available on the PlayStation market. This of coarse raised such a huge stink for PlayStation. They eventually had to roll back that move. Although just a matter of time before history repeats itself here. Fansubs, I have a feeling are going to make a return in a big way now though. If Sony was trying to avoid this, they just gave people 100 reasons to do it now. Thanks Sony!!
I never streamed anime (or anything) before and just stuck with Bluray. I was going to start this year to see all new ones but all the news and talk recently leads me to believe that EVERY anime is either censored now or intentionally mistranslated. How bad is it? Sorry if its a "under-the-rock" kind of question.
my entire digital library were add ons for some of my DVDs and/or Blurays. a lot of older animes the licenses covered all versions including TV versions, home version(purchesed dvd or whatever media) even raw. However i think around 2005 the way forign release licensing changed since companies no longer needed to ship physical media anymore
Rarely used the Funimation Digital Copies though it was useful at times but their app video tool was really bad at times. Not happy that we're losing Digital copies, realistically the only way that could stop that would be government legislation that protects it but government is rarely helpful for us Nerds. It's more the government making us look perverted due to the fun yet wide expanse of content anime brings from action to romance to comedy to horror to hentai, etc. Mainly curious if anyone will speak to their government representatives on it lol.
I hate that we have to deal with Crunchyroll I loved Funimation.... but I had no choice but to switch cuz I heard Funi. Wasn't updating stuff or bringing in new stuff ..... I am not a fan of crunchy and half the stuff is not even dub or they say it's dub or sub/dub and it's not so yea I do go to other places to see if I can find the dub version whether it's online or some other place..... they should left crap alone...
Funimation erasing all the uncensored Anime from the 2000s and 2010s Anime back before SONY acquired them.
Thus is the reason why you needed to keep your physical copies.
What anime was censored? I can't really think of any that were censored by them.
They didn't do that to my knowledge. In fact, they still had uncensored anime after Sony bought them albeit less than they did before.
Definitely going be less Japan wants to sell dvd . U want uncensored buy dvds . Get double income
or just resort to pxrxcy
I'm not getting the option to transfer accounts and I entered my email to log in or do I have to create crynchyroll new account
People are going to pirate the heck out of those funimation digital copies.😂
Yep!! Sony are idiots as the industry spent years trying to curve piracy. Then, finally a platform comes along which looks might just do that. Then Sony shoots itself in the foot here lol.
Regarding the "buyout" of Crunchyroll. Sony bought Crunchyroll, just like they bought Funimation. Despite Funimation shuttering, it's actually Crunchyroll that got shuttered. After the merger, Funimation changed their name to Crunchyroll, and most of the layoffs occured at the former Crunchyroll offices. Funimation effectively pulled a Showbiz Pizza (Showbiz Pizza bought Chuck-e-Cheese then changed their name.)
Funimation lives, they're just walking around with a Crunchyroll skin.
More like its Sony America in both of there skins. Before the buy out Sony got rid of both most of the Sony staff. So it is mostly Sony Entertainment staff running it now not Funimation.
Canceling my subscription as soon as my billing goes up. After what those scumbags did to Vic Mignogna, wokalizers ruining translations with their obvious bias, and now are doing to anime streaming services they’ll never get another cent from me. Time to sail the seven seas! 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
@@TheGreatSalsaMan glad you brought up vic that man was/ is amazing
@@JJEHUTYY hell probably come back. Most people that got cancelled are coming back now that the culture is changing again.
Could this be because of the Localizer issue?It would make sense to buy out crunchy roll to prevent American companies from destroying Japanese media.
Write your watchlist folks before it’s too late. That way you won’t be lost when sailing the high seas.
Why wouldn’t you already have it saved on MAL or anilist?
Just more justification of my bluray purchases. They may be expensive but at least I own them.
I bought the Cowboy Bebop BR specifically for the digital copy, which I no longer get.
It's a shame Sony bought the biggest distrubtor of Anime BD/DVD. I miss their annual holiday sale.
The writing was on the wall the second Funi stopped getting seasonals. I'm more surprised it's taken this long to finally pull the plug
They were waiting to get most of their library from Funimation transferred over to Crunchyroll. Even then, there are a number of licenses that won't be making the move for one reason or another.
Possible reasons include:
- License disputes due to IP owner changed. A number of the licenses that did not transfer are by studios now owned by Netflix. Netflix would never allow one of their properties to be re-licensed willingly by the competition.
- IP Owner demanding more money to transfer the license than what the show is worth to Sony.
- or Sony has decided to secretly drop the license to cut costs.
Remember, most of these TV/Streaming licenses have clauses that allow the licensee to keep the license so long as they keep up with the terms, which is why Netflix can't just revoke a license without a penalty. Since the ownership of the license is Funimation, to transfer the license to Crunchyroll, they likely need to get approval from the IP owner and a new contract.
Now that they salvaged all they can, it's only natural to shutter the platform.
Gotta love karma.
If they can take away what you bought digitally then piracy is not stealing then
but digital things unless its drm free and you have saved files of it you never truly own if company shutters down
Their death as a studio was long overdue after the bs they pulled with Vic Mignogna(OG Broly VA)
You got that right my friend.
Vic was not innocent
he was 99% innocent@@SlashinatorZ
@@animeswitch nope he even confessed to a number of things.
Being too touchy was his confessions, some people didn't like to get touched. If they want to be babies about it, that's fine, but its not serious.@@SlashinatorZ
Definitely feels weird that Funimation is dead. It is completely messed up that they are carrying over subscriptions to Crunchyroll. Welp now there's more anime that will be a pain to watch legally.
Funimation's not dead, they're just prancing around with the skinned body of Crunchyroll. The Crunchyroll offices were the ones hit with layoffs after the merger, and Sony is using this as an opportunity to prune licenses and features that were costing them excess money.
The perfect time to be a pirate
While we don’t agree with some of the choices Funimation has made in 2016 all the way to 2019 or 2020, let us remember all of the good anime Funimation has brought us such as Snow White with Red Hair, Attack on Titan, Yu Yu Hakusou, Code Geass, Trigun, Demon Slayer, My Hero Academia, Black Butler, Cowboy Bebop, One Piece, Bungou Stray Dogs, Spy X Family, Chainsaw Man, Hell’s Paradise and best of all, Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood. Let us hope that most of the Funimation Voice Actors (except for Sean Schemmel, Chris Sabat, Daman Mills, Jamie Marchi, Monica Rial and Scott Freeman) will find voice work outside of Funimation, perhaps with other anime dubbing companies like Bang Zoom, Ocean, Aniplex, Sentai Filmworks, Viz Media and the Netflix Dubbing Company.
I think the Funimation voice actors still have jobs; it's just that Funimation merged with Crunchyroll, thus keeping most of the VAs who worked at the former company in the process.
@@retroman3960 FYI, it was Crunchyroll that got shafted during the merger. After the merger, Funimation changed their name to Crunchyroll and laid off most of the staff in the Crunchyroll offices. For the past year, Funimation only existed as a company name on paper and web. This was all Sony's doing.
Funimation didn't dub a lot of those, they only bought the rights.
@@CantankerousDave I know they didn’t dub a lot of those. I was just saying that whenever my favorite anime had the Funimation logo, I’ll miss it.
Sad day. Funimation was the Crunchyroll of the 90s. They did a crazy amount to bring Anime to the west. Certainly not happy that Cruchyroll has lost such a serious competitor.
I mean, the team basically became Crunchyroll. No one lost their jobs.
@@aintthatapotofeffluck8926 Okay? But that doesn't provide Crunchyroll competition.
Well thats actually the point, anime competition is very few and far between and not to mention its a obvious big corporate move by just owning everything under your umbrella, now its all mostly under Sony. @@bujin5455
@@bujin5455 just saying no need to be sad for FUNimation, they’re now Crunchyroll.
But yes, they don’t have much competition now. But I mean, I personally don’t care since I use Crunchyroll and pirate everything else. I don’t use any other apps.
@@bujin5455You do realize Funi stopped being competition as they been bought out by Cruchyrolls parent company.
The best parts of Funi was merged into Cruchyroll with the rest being planed to be shut down.
This is not a loss for the industry as Funi was lost the second Sony bought them.
Sooo they are doubling the price without actually giving us all the dubs and uncut versions. Screw this company man.
There is no price increase . Either people don’t pay attention to what they pay or they spreading misinformation
@fredbrown7582 what do you mean there isn't a price increase?? It was clearly stated in their FAQs that the price was increasing from like $50.99 a year to around $99.99 a year they are effectively doubling the price of the subscription. The only one spreading misinformation is you my friend.
Imagine if Steam got bought out by a subscription only service and removed all your digital purchases
If you read Steam TOS, this is technically possible. You are just buying a license to the game
@@ssanc6 it would still piss off every member and I doubt many would keep the subscription service rather than just go to piracy
True, but just hoping nothing changes will Steam management to make it worse
@@aa-yt7wo not worth the chance of downloading a nasty virus i just watch on free sights
So “you should be watching” aged well.
More reasons to hate crunchyroll and why I pirate
had to start watching on free anime websites since a lot of anime hasn't been transferred
The fact that some major shows like Serial Experiments Lain, Outlaw Star, The Legend of the Heroic Arslan, Aria The Animation, The Slayers, and Samurai Flamenco plus some iconic dubs like Steins;Gate and Dragon Ball Super aren't yet on Crunchyroll shows that the decision to shut down Funimation is far too premature.
I feel bad for those that'll lose their digital copies. Time to pirate.
Or explore legal action for thieft of digital ownership.
You don't own digital copy until all bytes are on your device, no DRM is restricting access, and no proprietary software is required to replay it.
Physical media has some drawbacks, but they don't vanish into thin air.
I wish they could keep the uncut version. If they have it on funimation, why can’t they move it to Crunchyroll? I understand the uncut version is a different license that they can’t always get, but don’t they already have it? Unless there’s something that I’m unaware of, I’m not an expert on this. I wish I could just know the reason they can’t just move it over. And I want them to get the uncut version as often as is allowed.
"Uncut version" is sometimes "unfinished version" though. Like, did you ever watch Wizard Barristers? Do you remember the infamous penultimate episode? Like most Umetsu shows, the show starts with lots of promise and flash and falls apart as deadlines hit. They actually fixed the animation in the DVD release version, but I think CR still has the broadcast version... which is hilarious to watch - but you don't want it as a definitive version.
It's probably the contracts. Some of their contracts probably had very specific distinctions to only be on Funi's website because they had those old partnerships. I remember 91 Days being in that weird limbo when the CR/Funi split happened.
They want to pander to a young and divers audience and eliminate all other naratives. maybe?
@@stefanpredl6849 What “diverse audience”? Doing this will make less people buy there subscription, not more.
I admin the Tenchi Muyo Wiki (the one on Fandom... that actually has content) and it drives me crazy that basically none of the OG stuff has ever been moved. I assume they're letting the license eventually lapse, but so annoying. On Funimation, but only recent sequels and that Ai show on CR. But the "classics" are definitely looking to be the hardest hit. Also no Slayers at all on CR.
Crazy how long it’s taking for all of Tenchi Muyo to come over to CR. Luckily I still have a physical version but not being able to stream it sure is disappointing. At least have an updated list of all the anime that isn’t on CR yet 🤦🏾♂️
@@gamekiller64 There is a list on Google Drive made by a CR Discord group. The only faults of it is that it's slightly out of date and you can't easily determine which are the shows on the list that are the ones that are on CR in one form (sub only, usually) but not the other.
Weird how YT takes out comments if you mention other sites- I'll try the comment again. There is a list, you can find it in certain places, some news articles mention it. Slightly outdated but mostly accurate.
Glad I bought the DVD copies of all of those.
That is why i canceld crunchyroll subscription and sail the high seas
I’m subbed to both but I didn’t forget. I watch a lot of anime the fuckers haven’t transferred over yet. The hell are they doing it’s been YEARS.
100$ is too much time to pirate anime
The digital copies worked crap for me even before the buyout. Fortunately, I never bought a digital copy alone, it was only ever a pack-in with the disc version. MakeMKV means I can do everything I could do (or was supposed to be able to do; like I said, their execution was ass) with those “digital copies” and more.
By the way, I’m not saying that running a Switch through an Elgato will let you capture Funimation content. Perish the thought.
Serial Experiments Lain never transferred. Seems like the titles that did transfer were previously on Crunchyroll as part of the past "partnership" that went away. They simply reactivated those. Even the old deleted viewer comments reappeared.
I just want to watch uncensored anime. Ill pay what you want to charge but i dont want my blood, guts, nudity and death censored.
Don't forget underage smoking.
@@SteelShroom256 underage should be underage category simple
*me still waiting for Serial Experiments Lain to be moved over to CR*
The shutting down of Funimation has been writing on the wall, but all the anime has not transferred. Anime like .Hack/sign Roots and Outlaw Star have not moved to Crunchyroll, and are still on my Funi watch list. Crunchyroll has not stepped their game up. I had problems with both services, but I won’t tolerate with Crunchyroll’s handling with the dubs when it comes to them adding the translation subtexts way later than the time the dub episode was uploaded. Knowing what’s being said is cool, but having to cycle between dub and sub to get the context of what’s being shown in text is ridiculous because that should be translated in the dub like it’s done for the sub. Paying for a service to get it right is all I’m asking for because I shouldn’t be waiting hours or days for them to get it right. If uploading a episode is all they’re going to do, then I might as well sail the high seas. This has been an existing problem, and the full merge is going to solidify how lazy they’re going to be, and how bad censored their content will be.
Ugh, so I'll have to merge them. The captioning for dubbed anime is rarely an option on CR (not sure why) which was why I kept my FM sub last year (my hearing is slowly going). So, I'll miss that. And the things not getting transferred. But the app on my firestick had all sorts of issues last 6 months due to lack of maintenance, so, I've hardly used it.
But economically it makes sense, you ditch the dual expenses and any negative feelings FM name created.
Problem is that CR isn't exactly a beloved name either. And Sony doesn't seem to understand anime fans very well. Which means you can change names but you can't change your issues.
Thanks for the helping vid!
Haha, looks like Vic is laughing that the company that fired him will be gone. 😂
But they not though. Funi bought CR and merged with them.
They still exist but with a new name. Sony still exists too.
I'm kind of disappointed with this, mainly because the dubs are actually better on funanimation and they also had all the uncensored version's of all the shows that are censored on crunchyroll I'm wondering by April 2nd if all of the shows that have not yet been added to crunchy roll, including all of the dubs for those shows would be added before then cuz there's still a lot of shows and movies that still have not been added and they said that they were going to do that
Funi dubs have always been garbo. Stop simpin.
Durarara is on Funimation and not on Crunchyroll
I trust pirate sites more than these major corporations.
Actually those major corporations started as pirate sites.
Only difference is they became big enough to become legal and eventually got monopolized.
Fr lol 😂
The fact that Dragon Ball Super's dub isn't on Crunchyroll yet is quite concerning.
Super ended 5 years ago what the fuck is crunchyroll doing
Dub is garbo anyway. Anyone who watches it is a potato-brain. Grow up.
Your joking right?
The dub was garbo anyway. Be grateful you never had to see it.
@@dangerousdays2052Every dub is garbage
At least they have moved some of the dubs over. Last time I checked the Takagi-san and New Game anime on Crunchyroll the dubs weren't there, but now they are, so it does at least look like that's happening. But it is a pain that we're losing the uncensored stuff.
I saw the merge question/message popup today but my sub ended last year.
I have NO sympathy at all for FAILimation after what they did to Vic Mignogna. My heart is glad they're shutting down for good!!
I will miss the dopamine rush from hearing the Funimation intro the most.
This is exactly why I have since been joking, "Crunchyroll owns Funimation like the 49ers own the Cowboys."
If you get it, you get it
Ya, fuck crunchyroll too
Looks like there will be a future law suit against Crunchyroll for the lost Funimation digitally bought property
Don't know about this... typically with digital purchases, it's licensed to you and they can revoke the license for any number of reasons-an acquisition/merger being one. It's within the "fine print" of the EULA.
My library of* Funimation digital copies from Blurays was extensive, so it's sad... but this is why you gotta be wary of digital media.
Not sure if someone will win or not is another question. When there is a lot of money involved I can see it happening
@@QB.113 The argument against the shady EULA practices is that the digital copy is prominently displayed as a feature of the purchased item, but the EULA limitations are not.
Unfortunately in our Pay2Play legal systems, it's too costly in time/money/sanity to fight them for it.
@QB.113 this is true for any digital video store, unless you can download it and play it on any video app
I really like your saber keychain. It always makes me smile whenever I see it casually under your mic
I'm so glad! After what they did to Vic! Unforgivable!!
So no more new English Dubs by FUNimation then? The recent scandal involving Jamie Marchi and Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid really was the straw that broke the camels back.
10:44
"You're worried over not being able to access what you already bought? FU pay us!"
-Funimation/Sony/every company ever
I have an annual Funimation subscription that renewed last September. So I’m concerned about potential money loss. Also, I prefer Funimation’s interface. I’m gonna miss it.
you can kiss that money goodbye
This is likely a case like esg where funimation wants to change the name due to the public image they got.
Yup. Crunchyroll has stronger brand appeal, plus overseas knowledge. Funimation has mostly been an American only IP. I still find it stupid they didn't keep the Funimation name for English dubbing.
I find it stupid that there are people in this world that watch English dubs
@@你好-戦 Dyslexic people, and I've also heard the excuse that they like to watch anime on the side while working. It's hard to read subs when your eyes are elsewhere.
@@Ncyphenthat's what I've had heard to. So they are technically not watching it. Also I've found that people that say they don't like anime, always say that they watched dubs. I mean I wouldn't like anime either, if all there was was dubs.
I only remember seeing passable scenes in french. English is beyond traumatizing. Spanish Is bad as well. I'm not an expert in Dubs because the few things I have watched have scared me to bad and they have made me to never look back.
So, what anime will be losing? Can someone send out a list?
* puts on pirate hat*
You don't own digital media and come on guys just become pirates already.
Thanks for the info good to know stuff, if they don't add in the rest of the catalog i will be ticked
Certain scientific railgun English is missing on Crunchyroll
I hope some of these shows get redubbed by a competent studio. Raildex was my bag and FUNi made it impossible to watch in my native language.
@providencebreaker1558 the English dub of raildex was good, is your first language English
Less Dubs? They doing you a favor.
If you’re not on top of your subscriptions and recurring payments and don’t pay attention to emails, that’s on you
There are going to be some people that are now dead but still have money in a bank account still getting charged for it.
@@wingracer1614 that’s such a specific example lol. That being said I would think that the banks would shut down any recurring payments once they are notified of the deceased? I am not sure though.
@@elexg6982 They don't.
What uncut versions are we losing out on?
What shows are censored on CR?
I really want to know this too. It sounds like a big PANIC situation, but in the end it might not affect me (personally) at all.
A Centaur's Life is one, I'm sure there are others.
Sony, driving more to piracy than anyone else.
Man can't believe that Sony is doing this to Funimation. I mean I guess that Crunchyroll has been the better acquisition to them. I mean I don't know why if Sony owns stuff on both of them they couldn't just move the stuff over.
With control over the majority of the market, expect what has happened at the "big mouse". Titles were dropped on "big mouse+". Because that streaming service held the sole source rights, there was no legal way to view dropped titles. Expect the same with the end of Funimation. So what can I as a consumer do? Support the competition and support the physical copy market when possible. Piracy is not the answer. Voting with your wallet is.
Sad, this is one of the more negative aspect of all digital. Hopefully we get to a point where their is a archive service that will host all content.
Just losing the owned library digital loss!
if funamation cloading what would happane too dh te dvd and blu ray will they be out of print ? or over priced or discontinued like full metal alchemist dvd
LOL @ that corporate-speak about "oh we understand your concerns about losing your digital purchases so we'll make stuff better at Crunchyroll!"
Has anyone heard anything about Crunchyroll *finally* moving over the final three episodes of Bakemonogatari? They only ported over 12 of the 15 episodes. This is especially egregious because the show pops up in my suggested feed quite regularly. CR has most of the overarching Monogatari series, but somehow doesn't think it's important to port over the final 20% of the original series. It's infuriating.
I wouldn't hold my breath.
A couple years ago I reported a broken episode in a series and I'm not sure if they ever fixed it.
I checked it a year and a half later and it was still unplayable.
Uh, you guys do know that most of the good anime from back in the 90s and 2000s is on the internet archive uncut right?
good riddance, I appreciate what they've done for introducing anime to the west in the 2000s after the OGs fell off (Cartoon network, adult swim, nick, 4kids, G4TV and heck even disney had some)but by in large I think they and Crunchyroll need to be replaced with people that can actually do their job properly, and you know, update their fucking app/website more than once every 10 years
Also yeah the culture in the dubber is awful, they've slowly been pervading into the sub department, considering some of their "translators" have openly stated they do not understand any Japanese and basically just take the translation that an actual translator does and then bastardizes it for the western market
When the price increase comes I am sailing the high seas
Typically with these mergers the powers that be decide which is the "better" brand and that brand takes the name. The cultures will change though. Usually the dominant culture survives but slight changes with the subservient culture pushing slightly. See previous mergers of this size in banking, telecom, online sales, etc...
IMHO, Digital Purchase Platform was a stupid idea in the first place. People could pay a one time fee and the platform is now stuck with py both maintenance and license fees to keep the content available.
From what I understand, though, most people's digital libraries were digital copies that came with DVD/BDs. Very few people actually bought a digital only copy.
Anyone know where I can find Web Gaming or a full list of shows not yet transferred? Working on a video on the subject and would appreciate the data if possible. 😁
Oh, and of course thanks for covering this! I don't comment much, but this is one of the only anime vlog channels I regularly watch tbh lol.
This was because of executives at SONY forcing Crunchyroll to raise prices and ending Funimation.
FUNimation lost a lot of my respect when they started shoveling their stuff out like it was meaningless slop. Going so far as to create sub standard B and C teams to handle certain shows while others got the premium treatment. Say what you want about Aniplex and their high prices, but I always knew what i was getting. Hearing that the localization teams became turbo woke in the past 10 years makes me glad I kind of lost interest in seasonal anime 10 years ago.
I feel like we should be more worried about Sony having a monopoly on anime in America. Also, it may be time to sue to enforce the First-Sale Doctrine and stop this digital ambiguity.
In terms of American law, Anime is just treated the same way as film is. I'm sure the Funimation Digital Copy thing affected people that opted to use Funimation's website to hold digital copies and *not redeem the Ultraviolet code* when that service was around.
I will never support Crunchyroll. I'll continue to ride the high waves!
Amen. "Crunchyroll" is a scam after all.
The Slayers and Gonna Be The Twin-Tail!! aren't on crunchyroll, but are on FUNimation. Would it be possible for both programs to land on crunchyroll since FUNimation had the licenses at one point? Many of these FUNimation "exclusives" have yet to land on crunchyroll. Same goes for most Tenchi series and the Boogiepop Phantom dub.
I never liked Funimation's nickel and dime approach to products in the past and localizers / dubb actor's despicable behavior. Not sure if the same staff will transition to Crunchyroll although typically the dominant company doesn't need two of everything.
Well some of the dubs haven't transferred over. For example. A Certain Scientific Railgun season 2 english dub hasn't happened.
Funimation ... good riddance. They never met an anime they couldn't fuck up with really AWFUL voice work, and generally shit music. I gave up when they acquired Dragon Ball and used 4 people to do EVERY voice
They are still missing the movies that are some staple movies. I believe that if they do not move over at least 90% of the anime and movies, there will be a backlash. Digital purchases will be lost even if the data remains on the site. They will think that people will forget the digital purchases, but there will be a backlash on that as well and it would be added only if there are enough complaints. Many of the anime we’ve watched over the years will be lost if there is not support because they just want to make money over all. Right now their catalog is still Swiss cheese. We need to make it so that we can still buy the anime even in the future otherwise prices will get more expensive just to buy a single anime they do not support.
Tells me the heart wasn’t into funimation over the years. They started as fans making dubs and then corpo took over. Now they sold. Kind of sad really.
I have a ridiculous number of digital copies of discs I bought. All gone. Thankfully, I run my own Plex server and rip discs. It's ridiculous otherwise.
I went from having anime lab to needing to move to funimation.
Then moved with crunchyroll and told shows will be moved over... Soon 😮😅
I keep hearing they aren't raising prices and this is just for those who fused their funimation stuff with Crunchyroll. Which is true?
I hate that Sony blocks high dive on PlayStation your force to have crunchy roll or nothing
High five ending to
That's the glory of having single-purpose devices. You shouldn't be solely relying on a *game console* to watch video, anyway.
Over-the-Top boxes aren't that expensive, either. Walmart's ONN 4K box is ~US$20, for example.
I really hate Crunchyroll’s interface. Slow, laggy, and way counterintuitive compare to Funimation’s app.
My history wasn’t merged tho
Censoring is the fast way to end subscribers to CrunchyRoll. This is Sony Censorship coming to CrunchyRoll aka that they Censored games on PS. Typical of Sony Censorship corporation.
Holy crap dude, Sony bought Crunchyroll to merge two two services and decided to use the Crunchyroll name instead of the Funimation name. They didn't end services because Funimation was bought out. I understand the world of business mergers is often very large and complex but this one in particular was quite simplistic.
Seeing Funimation go makes me really sad as imo in my reigion (UK) they offered a much better service with some real gems and was hoping when the Sony buyout happened they would prevail over Crunchyroll as their service UK wise just plain sucked . It thankfully has massively improved now (owning Funimation servers perhaps?) but to me Funi have always provided a better service to those outside the US at least thats how it feels to me . God bless Funimation and rip (sniff , sniff 😞 )
Why isn’t Naruto Dub STILL NOT on Crunchyroll?
Viz Media manages the Naruto license. Crunchyroll's license was for the subbed simulcast.
@@Code7Unltd being in Australia AnimeLab had the rights to the dub here until they were bought out by Funimation. Since then I don’t know where I can stream it. Lucky I own all of Naruto on dvd/blu ray but it’s still a pain.
is akudama drive uncensored as the UK blu ray release has an 18 certificate and it was released by crunchyroll
FUNImation has just taking massive Ls after massive Ls after the whole Vic Mignogna fiasco, huh?
They said they were doing this YEARS ago. If you couldn’t see them cutting everything but the dotted line it’s your own fault. 🏴☠️ 🚢
This should suprise absolutely no one!! Then Sony went one further trying recently to say that everyone who bought digital content will no longer be available on the PlayStation market.
This of coarse raised such a huge stink for PlayStation. They eventually had to roll back that move. Although just a matter of time before history repeats itself here.
Fansubs, I have a feeling are going to make a return in a big way now though. If Sony was trying to avoid this, they just gave people 100 reasons to do it now. Thanks Sony!!
I never streamed anime (or anything) before and just stuck with Bluray. I was going to start this year to see all new ones but all the news and talk recently leads me to believe that EVERY anime is either censored now or intentionally mistranslated.
How bad is it? Sorry if its a "under-the-rock" kind of question.
my entire digital library were add ons for some of my DVDs and/or Blurays. a lot of older animes the licenses covered all versions including TV versions, home version(purchesed dvd or whatever media) even raw. However i think around 2005 the way forign release licensing changed since companies no longer needed to ship physical media anymore
I call this Karma from the Vic incident to charging people crazy fees to an app that barely works to the people like jamie Markie woke localization .
FUNimation actually did cancel my subscription. I was an annual describer to the service. I was described to both services.
After what they did to Vic Mignogna I'm not surprised at all karma is very real
Amen. I cancelled my Funi subscription and deleted my account that day.
Rarely used the Funimation Digital Copies though it was useful at times but their app video tool was really bad at times. Not happy that we're losing Digital copies, realistically the only way that could stop that would be government legislation that protects it but government is rarely helpful for us Nerds. It's more the government making us look perverted due to the fun yet wide expanse of content anime brings from action to romance to comedy to horror to hentai, etc. Mainly curious if anyone will speak to their government representatives on it lol.
I hate that we have to deal with Crunchyroll I loved Funimation.... but I had no choice but to switch cuz I heard Funi. Wasn't updating stuff or bringing in new stuff ..... I am not a fan of crunchy and half the stuff is not even dub or they say it's dub or sub/dub and it's not so yea I do go to other places to see if I can find the dub version whether it's online or some other place..... they should left crap alone...