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Sony nears acquisition of US anime streaming service Crunchyroll

Entertainment giant could pay more than $950m as talks wind up with parent AT&T

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I honestly don't feel anything about this one way or another.

 

[turtlepowa]

Never heard of it. If they have 1 billion to spend for stuff like that, good for them.

 

[ManaByte]

They already own Funimation.

 

[El Sueño]

Plus+ = free Crunchyroll. OMG.

 

[Joey.]

If they could offer Crunchyroll to PS+ subscribers, that would be pretty cool

 

[v_iHuGi]

If they could offer Crunchyroll to PS+ subscribers, that would be pretty cool

Lol not Happening.

 

[Sethbacca]

They already own Funimation.

If I could get all of Crunchyroll and funimation in a single service would be super pleased.

 

[Soodanim]

Wednesday.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

Cool, MS get Zenimax and Sony Crunchyroll.

It's all even now.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Cool, MS get Zenimax and Sony Crunchyroll.

It's all even now.

Anime tiddies > Skyrim tiddies

 

[bitbydeath]

I wonder if they’ll merge it into funimation.

 

[Krappadizzle]

Weeaboo level intensifies.

Anime tiddies > Skyrim tiddies

Someone's never heard of Schlongs of Skyrim. That which can be modded shall never die.

 

[SaturnSaturn]

White Rays > Skyrim tiddies

fixd

 

[martino]

Plus+ = free Crunchyroll. OMG.

why do you think that when it don't exist with funimation ?

 

[Deleted member 740922]

I had to look up what Crunchyroll is.

I now know what Crunchyroll is.

...

 

[Warnen]

Hope they combine them, cut my bill in half.

Watch them combine them and double the sub price.

 

[The Cartographer]

So that they can censor shit in other form of entertainment?
Fuck off, Sony.

 

[UltimateUnknown]

This could actually be really awesome as Sony already owns Funimation. Combining Crunchyroll's catalog with that of Funimation under one service would be huge. These are the two behemoths in the anime world and that would basically cover most anime licensed for streaming per season under one service.

 

[MudoSkills]

I blame Genshin Impact.

 

[El Sueño]

why do you think that when it don't exist with funimation ?

It would be cool, that's all. Maybe they are bulding something bigger to bring to Plus. :O

 

[JonnyMP3]

Finally! Been waiting months for this to happen since I heard Comcast were selling.

Edit: AT & T...
Not American.

 

[martino]

It would be cool, that's all. Maybe they are bulding something bigger to bring to Plus. :O

they could try to do it a la amzon prime but for entertainement only.
they could do a formula with, movies and games if they want

 

[Skifi28]

Can we make Friday the official day this is discussed?

 

[JORMBO]

They should do this then merge Crunchyroll and Funimation into one service so things aren’t split up.

 

[El Sueño]

I could watch Jojo all over again. Muda muda muda muda!

 

[Jaxx_377]

I dont watch any Anime stuff so I never used CrunchyRoll but I have heard my daughter mention it. Is it just a streaming service or do they own the IP's they stream and could those Ip's be utilized for new games?.

 

[Yoboman]

It would be cool, that's all. Maybe they are bulding something bigger to bring to Plus. :O

Sony are still way too disconnected to put these things together

If they were smart with this sort of thing they'd have allocated their Anime IPs from Aniplex to their gaming divisions.

Nevermind the movie IPs they could have leveraged over the years

 

[El Sueño]

I dont watch any Anime stuff so I never used CrunchyRoll but I have heard my daughter mention it. Is it just a streaming service or do they own the IP's they stream and could those Ip's be utilized for new games?.

Ora ora ora ora ora

 

[Warnen]

This could actually be really awesome as Sony already owns Funimation. Combining Crunchyroll's catalog with that of Funimation under one service would be huge. These are the two behemoths in the anime world and that would basically cover most anime licensed for streaming per season under one service.

they did do this a year or two back in an attempt to keep Netflix and Amazon from driving up the prices of new shows. Sadly Funimation pulled out when they were bought buy Sony.

it was nice have only 1 extra sub for a while there.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Sony is making a lot of moves towards becoming an Anime powerhouse. It has a good position in media actually - music and movies.

 

[UltimateUnknown]

they did do this a year or two back in an attempt to keep Netflix and Amazon from driving up the prices of new shows. Sadly Funimation pulled out when they were bought buy Sony.

it was nice have only 1 extra sub for a while there.

Yeah I actually remembered that. It was so nice to have Funi's entire catalog on CR but then they just suddenly pulled out. Hopefully they go back to it if CR is bought. More value for us CR users haha.

 

[Warnen]

Yeah I actually remembered that. It was so nice to have Funi's entire catalog on CR but then they just suddenly pulled out. Hopefully they go back to it if CR is bought. More value for us CR users haha.

yep would be great!

 

[megreotsugua]

They should merge their own Funimation and Crunchyroll.

 

[Birdo]

Sony buying all the anime to censor it.

 

[sid2vicious]

Woke anime? I hope not! Fuck off soyny, stop trying to kill my entertainment.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Sony buying all the anime to censor it.

Blame China though. Maybe the west also.

 

[nowhat]

They should merge their own Funimation and Crunchyroll.

But would it be Crunimation or Funchyroll?

 

[Kimahri]

Incoming lensflare

 

[yurinka]

At least here in Spain it's by far the main source of classic anime, and can be watched for free with ads. They have a huge catalog, makes sense.

 

[michaelius]

If they add all Aniplex and Funimation libraries to Crunchyroll it would be godlike sevice

 

[Evangelion Unit-01]

This one has been in the news for a little while but doesn’t have anything to do with PlayStation. Sony is a big company that does more than PlayStation after all..

Also, I’m not sure consolidating more power with Funimation/Crunchyroll will be great for anime fans. Less competition in the market surely isn’t a good thing-these are essentially the only streaming services for anime. There is also some friction there with Western political values and their influence on Japanese media. I’m admittedly out of the loop here so not sure to what end, if any, that connects with Funimation/Crunchyroll.

Paging @SLoWMoTIoN Bernkastel Happosai

 

[Cato]

Why?
What do they do that sony can not do themselves, better?

 

[cireza]

So they can censor all the anime content.

 

[Evangelion Unit-01]

So they can censor all the anime content.

Well I guess my conjecture above wasn’t wrong then... Disappointing.

 

[cireza]

Well I guess my conjecture above wasn’t wrong then... Disappointing.

Hum... this wasn't a serious answer from me, don't read too much into it. I have no clue on how censorship affects anime. However, Sony do enforce censorship on video-games.

 

[ReBurn]

people throw cash at anime. might as well get some

 

[Bryank75]

 

[Evangelion Unit-01]

Hum... this wasn't a serious answer from me, don't read too much into it. I have no clue on how censorship affects anime. However, Sony do enforce censorship on video-games.

Got it-I thought you were suggesting that Crunchyroll and/or Funimation had censored anime in the past.

 

[Sethbacca]

So that they can censor shit in other form of entertainment?
Fuck off, Sony.

Crunchyroll already have the censored versions of shows anyway. So it won't be Sony's fault if they start. HiDive has some decent stuff and is an uncensored service, but the selection is pretty limited.

 

[Warnen]

But would it be Crunimation or Funchyroll?

funchyroll sounds less like a std so go with that