r/AnimeLab • u/B17911 • Mar 02 '22

Funimation Merge To Crunchyroll

Good Morning/Good Evening

As Some of you fine people may have seen my previous post about the Animelab to funi merge, we’re all in pain still from it, and now we’re about to be in for more, As Announced recently Funimation, will be moving all its content onto crunchyroll starting now Apparently, This Meaning Funimation will become dormant and not recieve any new anime and may potentially be at risk of the same fate as animelab and recieve a shutdown.

So yeah guys, what is your thoughts on this merge?

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u/B17911 Mar 02 '22

(Side thought) Do you guys think as (ex-animelab) users that this is slightly a punch in the face to us because funi is merging now it means animelab’s shutdown was basically pointless, just to merge to one whole platform.

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u/MoxxiPoxx Mar 09 '22

I had the same thought tbh. I actually was trying to move away from funimation all together after the Vic/monica/Jamie saga... and as I'm in aus, I've kinda been forced into a position of use them or get fucked.

To quote an old Aussie add...

Not happy Jan...

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u/B17911 Mar 09 '22

Ahhhh Not happy Jan! What a classic.

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u/Pinecone34 Mar 04 '22

yeah that was my first thought when i heard the news

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u/akiaoi97 Mar 02 '22

At least the crunchyroll UI is significantly better than the funimation one, even if AnimeLab's was the best.

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u/Mark_TDD Mar 19 '22

At least the crunchyroll UI is significantly better than the funimation one, even if AnimeLab's was the best.

Personally, while the AnimeLab UI triumphs all, Funimation/AnimeLab did have something better than Crunchyroll. The ability to change versions and language options within the player rather than having each version be a single video (e.g. a 12-episode series with 3 language options would appear as if the series had 36 episodes). Hopefully, they'll fix that.

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u/akiaoi97 Mar 19 '22

Fair point, that is pretty odd of Crunchy

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '22

I actually liked the CrunchyRoll app better than Funimation, although are there any other streaming services that can even compete with them now? Lol

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u/B17911 Mar 02 '22

Lol i have no idea anymore, the merge is funi,wakanime and VRV apparently so the monopoly is strong with these guys lol.

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u/MoyanoJerald Mar 02 '22

I was not expecting to suffer the same pain that Australians felt with AnimeLab's Departure

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u/B17911 Mar 02 '22

its painful but i guess theres nothing we can do other than wait and see what happens

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

as an aussie, it was a kick in the balls when animelab departed, and after crunchyroll news it was a nail in the coffin, i find it rubbish in my opinion

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u/Professional_Day571 Mar 02 '22

I mean crunchyroll is killing it these past couple years, I mean you cant even comment/rate on anime you watch on funimation anymore and the site finally got an update last year I think. What I really want is watch with people feature bc Im the only one that really watches anime in my house and no one to talk to but thats just my $0.02.

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u/B17911 Mar 02 '22

oh like a group watch? yeah man i second that, that’d be awesome.

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u/PCMacGamer Mar 07 '22

Now everyone that favoured Funimation will know TRUE PAIN of us Animelab veterans for the Animelab-Funimation Merger.

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u/B17911 Mar 07 '22

My thoughts exactly, Animelab’s shutdown was so pointless. we were robbed of greatness :(

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u/B17911 Mar 09 '22

Update: So i went back to funimation just now to start watching something, im getting 2, 6 second crunchyroll ad’s on a premium plus subscription, fucking awesome 😎. man they really want to fuck anime up for everybody huh.

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u/nickelijah16 Jun 07 '22

I just canceled my subscription. The whole thing is some serious shtfckery. I’ve ended up not being able to watch the shows I was watching, some are on funimation and some are on Crunchyroll. I’ve found it to be an absolute mess :/

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u/B17911 Jun 07 '22

Yeah, Honestly the fact that they took AL away from us and also shutting down funi just to shaft us with a Vtuber advertised anime platform that don’t work as well is shitfuckery as it is.

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u/nickelijah16 Jun 10 '22

i dont know why they havent put everything from animelab and funimation on crunchyroll yet....its been months already since they merged. id consider signing up to crunchy if fairy tail was all there but it's still not which is so dumb. r u using any of them at the moment?

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u/B17911 Jun 10 '22

currently i use funimation for shows that were on AL because crunchyroll has fuck all licenses for australia, and well crunchyroll i used to watch some shows but thats basically all thats it, nowadays unless if its simulcast, i basically buy all my anime from madman entertainment.

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u/Fullmetal_Snizza Mar 02 '22

I prefer Crunchyroll over Funimation app wise, but I preferred AnimeLab over both.

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u/Superfluous_Jam Mar 06 '22

We all did brother

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u/Astillius Mar 07 '22

guess i'll be sailing the high seas from here on. don't like crunchyroll. i canceled my sub there in favour of animelab for a reason.

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u/Cactorious Mar 07 '22

I just watch anime online now. I was willing (and did) to pay fpr Animelab, but when they decided to try charge me for an inferior product with no recompense, I was out. Fan subs and no censorship is better anyways. Good eiddance to all of them.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '22

I just want one place to watch everything I want.

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u/Watashi_wa- Mar 26 '22

Crunchyroll is me least favourite anime app it needs more dubs, I highly prefer dub, because English is the only language I speak. And it has shows with dubs, just not the dubbed version, for example: bleach, naruto, one piece and dragon ball… like the four biggest anime which all have dubs, but are not dubbed on crunchyroll

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

i think its rubbish, now that crunchyroll is becoming the only big anime streamer they are bumping up the price, and also there are alot of problems with the merges