the union of funimation and crunchyroll is a win for anime fans around the world
that will elevate the art and culture of this medium for decades to come
could you be any more full of it? Yahallo and welcome back to kinda neet
so if you haven't heard the news already funimation just closed the deal
and agreed to buy crunchyroll for a whopping 1.175
billion dollars this was perhaps the single largest
shift in the anime industry since uh ever
and of course it was announced in a funimation article titled
fans win not sony wins a death grip on the anime industry
not crunchyroll wins 1.175 billion dollars but the fans win
that's us guys and what exactly did we win you might ask
well um i i don't i don't know the elevation of art and culture i guess
so is this the end of anime as we know it
will the industry be overrun with censorship scummy practices and
terrible subtitles not really at least not more than it already has contrary to
the totally unbiased and diverse group of individuals known as reddit
i really don't think this is that big a deal and in the end it might actually be
a good thing for you as a viewer so i guess fans win but like everything
there are pros and cons pro you no longer have to pay for and
access multiple websites or i guess at least as many websites to
find the anime that you want to watch con in the long term you might actually
end up just paying double since funimation's biggest competitor and
price regulator just got wiped off the face of the earth but what about me shut
up high dive the adults are trying to talk
sorry about that kids am i right don't cry you little-
con this could potentially lead to anime being less profitable
for the actual creators because up until now
every new season of anime funimation and crunchyroll had to fight to the death
over who gets the rights to simulcast certain shows each driving the price up
higher and higher so now that there's less competition
fighting over the shows the studios have lost some of their
bargaining power so what will happen to the actual streaming apps themselves
well neither funimation or crunchyroll is particularly known for having a good
user experience so will the merger solve this problem or
just increase the traffic to the same subpar websites lowering the speeds for
everyone really only time will tell but we do have one glint of hope three
letters vrv vrv is a streaming bundle formerly
including funimation crunchyroll and whatever these are but a
few years ago funimation was swapped out for high dive
thanks to vrv's low price beautiful interface
and fully functioning video player it's easily my favorite streaming service
and it just so happens to be owned by crunchyroll so
as far as i can tell it'll be included in this deal in a perfect world
funimation and crunchyroll would just merge together into the vrv website
and be called funniroll or something like that but
i think that's pretty unlikely so i'm very curious to see what's going to
become of vrv because it would seem sort of pointless
to bundle their new mega service funniroll
with their new biggest competitor hidive but
if they remove hidive then it's pretty much just a funniroll
subscription plus whatever these are so they're sort
of stuck between a rock and a hard place probably the biggest concern i've seen
so far is that sony's working to build an
international anime monopoly everyone plays monopoly and now there's monopoly
anime not only does sony own funimation and now crunchyroll but they also own
the anime production company "aniplex" which you'll probably recognize as the
opening to every anime ever and even deeper aniplex owns cloverworks
of rascal does not dream of bunny girl senpai and the promised neverland
fame as well as a1 pictures known for a
ridiculous number of popular anime so is sony planting the seeds for an
anime monopoly nope even before this merger it was
already a full-blown rice field just waiting to be shaped into delicious
little sony onigiri so am i that worried meh first off it's
not like crunchyroll was this holy saint of an indie company it was
just as guilty as funimation of censorship poor translations and a
website that looks like it was designed in the 1970s
yes pre-dating the internet itself so i don't necessarily think that
any of the issues we already had before will be intensified by this merger
if anything it'll just give us an easier target for our complaints i would be far
more worried if like disney was gonna buy crunchyroll that
would be an absolute nightmare and i would actually be concerned that
they'd start censoring everything like araragi's muscles but all things
considered if anyone's going to have an anime monopoly
a japanese company like sony's probably not that bad but hey
what do i know i'm just some random weeb on the
internet so i'd love to hear what your guys's thoughts are
but none of this really matters anyways because funniroll is going to go under
the second antilog goes live or will it click here to find out
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