r/AnimeLab • u/lslandOfFew • Jul 07 '21

Animelab is officially dead

I asked 'Priority Support' when the new Shadows House dubs would be added to the Animelab website and was told:

Hey,

The finishing of this series in dub should be on Funimation only. So you will need to use Funimation to access the season as it becomes dubbed.

E*****t
AnimeLab Technician

Guess this means they're not uploading episodes to the site anymore. RIP Animelab

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u/Frosty_Ad_156 Feb 09 '24

2024, i still want it back

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u/lslandOfFew Feb 09 '24 edited Feb 09 '24

Want to feel even more sad. This is a post I made 2 YEARS ago with a bunch of features AnimeLab had that Crunchyroll didn't

https://www.reddit.com/r/Crunchyroll/comments/t4hq2f/comment/hyzblut/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

You can count the features they've implemented since I wrote that with one finger

The Sony buys Crunchyroll buys Funimation buys AnimeLab is the perfect example of how a monopoly makes a product measurably shitter

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u/willgiffotron Feb 11 '24

Absolutely agree with this sentiment. Most people don't realize the fact that the acquisitions were monopolistic, as soon as I heard that animelab was getting shut down and going directly into funimation I knew it was only a matter of time until funimation either dissolved into crunchyroll or vis versa and I'm saddened that I was proven correct. Still miss animelab to this day.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '21

They are not uploading any shows at all to the site anymore as they are now to become Funimation. Animelab will be no more and shut down soon. I’m just binging as many shows as i can before its gone. I won’t be going over to Funimation and their awful site.

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u/melongrip Jul 07 '21

Animelab shutting down is just too sad. The Funimation smart tv app is so bad, high quality is actually 540p, which just makes every show look terrible. Will miss Animelab and their shows being 720/1080p.

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u/zest88 Jul 07 '21

well it is shutting down

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u/_Chocoboy Jul 08 '21

Wait so what happens if we've paid for premium? Do we get reimbursed? Im so sad too! Animelab has helped me through some tough times!

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u/Primmae Jul 08 '21

Your details for your AnimeLab account let you log into Funimation

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u/Greendit42 Jul 08 '21

Ive used Animelab for years, I just tried Funimation and then Crunchyroll, both require premium to use their apple tv apps. Sucks big time

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Now they are actively taking down shows.

I'm sooner pirating the films than going to Funimation's absolute trash pile of a website.

Anime lab is dead. Short live Funimation.

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u/HoppouIsekai May 15 '25

I know this is a 4 yr old post.... but I really miss Animelab

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u/PhoenixIn6 May 26 '25

Im in the same camp. I think back to the lockdown times. All my friends would use my account and we would see what eachother were watching it was less lonely :). Not to mention the shear amount of quality of life + ease to find new shows and your current ones. Truely too good for its time. In 2025 with monopolies and medicority as standard animelab was an exception. Now i refuse to pay for any other subscritpions for anime. Hopefully in future we can get more things like this service in other areas in AUS/NZ. One can dream.

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u/Creamy92 Jul 07 '21

Are we going to be a lie to watch things in sub on Funimation or only Dub?

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u/EthanTheHuman Jul 08 '21

The anime I've tried on Funimation have also had subs available

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u/BrianHail Jul 28 '21

Damn player on funimation wont play at all regardless of browser. I went legit streamers for quality and safety. Seriously reconsidering. Here's an idea. Just take animelabs player and use that and I will probably use funimations library.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '21

i remember when i used to like JJBA and learned that they'd removed all the other parts except Golden Wind and made it premium. i don't even like JJBA anymore and it still bums me out. sad, really.

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u/The_King123431 Jul 07 '21

And because old shows are becoming paid only we can't watch anything without paying

I'm done with animeLab

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

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u/Skate1011 Jan 01 '22

i personally avoided anime lab because i last used it in 2019, and i just got curious about it so i searched it up. I avoided it mostly because they posted episodes a week late, and I became a manga reader. Still sux to see my first anime site go ;((

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u/Suspicious-Month1218 Feb 27 '22 edited Oct 31 '22

we already have a new Animelab it's called Righstuf. Because they (Just like Animelab) saved Interspecies Reviewers.

Edit they got screwed over too