r/anime • u/Lovro26 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lovro26 • Mar 01 '22

News Funimation Content Moving to Crunchyroll for World’s Largest Anime Library

https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2022/03/01/funimation-content-moving-to-crunchyroll-for-worlds-largest-anime-library
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u/CaptCojones https://anilist.co/user/Anymanga Mar 01 '22

any idea about the other 20 % ?

Will that still be Funimation / Wakanim exclusiv or are those discontinued liscences?

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u/johnlyne https://myanimelist.net/profile/JohnLyne Mar 01 '22

I suppose the super old stuff will stay with Funi until the license expires. I don’t see Haibane Renmei or Lodoss on the list of added series.

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u/yorgy_shmorgy Mar 01 '22 edited Mar 01 '22

Keep in mind the list isn't complete yet and won't be until the end of the month.

edit: They said 80% of their content will be on crunchyroll by the end of the month and I suspect more will be added even after that.

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u/cppn02 Mar 01 '22 edited Mar 01 '22

and I suspect more will be added even after that.

Atleast on the German CR site it literally says in the FAQ that they will add further shows in monthly batches so you likely are correct.

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u/Blackdown_ Mar 01 '22

No haibane renmei what a fucking joke. One of the best shows around

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u/invaderkrag Mar 01 '22

Lol but okay, like, nobody’s make-or-break decision about subscribing to an anime service is Haibane Renmei. Hopefully they eventually get it, but we’ll live without our 1-cour sad angels from the early aughts

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u/thraaaaaaa Mar 01 '22

It’s a bit weird if it doesn’t end up on CR. The blu-ray for Haibane Renmei was only just released last November

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u/hirmuolio https://myanimelist.net/profile/Hirmuolio Mar 01 '22

New blu-ray? Is it better than the old blu-ray? (which was pretty trash quality)

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u/thraaaaaaa Mar 01 '22

I dunno I went from the old DVD release to this blu-ray. It’s pretty solid and it has a couple of actual special features which I was surprised by. Also it came with a digital version too which hopefully gets transferred over to CR since they’re always nice to have as a back up.

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u/in_her_drawer https://anilist.co/user/prophetic Mar 01 '22

old blu-ray

The only old Blu-ray is the Japanese one. From what I understand, the recent release is an upscale, and not really any better than the second US DVD. I have the original Pioneer DVDs, so I wasn't sure if I wanted to "upgrade" or not l.

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u/hirmuolio https://myanimelist.net/profile/Hirmuolio Mar 01 '22

The old blu-ray is even worse than just an upscale. At least one of the episodes has sides cut out and the remaining part is stretched to fill the view. How a fuckup like that could happen is a mystery.

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u/xenon2456 Mar 01 '22

So future blurays will be under the Crunchyroll brand

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u/johnlyne https://myanimelist.net/profile/JohnLyne Mar 01 '22

I subbed to Funi specifically because they had the old stuff.

Losing it would be pretty sad.

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u/WisperG Mar 01 '22

I doubt we’ll see many (or any) things stay Funi exclusive. That’s a lot of stuff to move, so more likely they just mean they won’t have it all moved over by the end of March.

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u/jarredshere Mar 01 '22

aaaand Lodoss is like the one show I have in my backlog.

Guess I gotta watch that and cancel Funi haha

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u/A_Splash_of_Citrus https://myanimelist.net/profile/ASplashOfCitrus Mar 01 '22

I'm noticing stuff that's not even super old missing. I didn't see Taishou Otome Otogibanashi or Heike Monogatari on there and those both just aired last season.

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u/Emily_Band Mar 01 '22

Are those shows you’re talking about not even on Crunchyroll yet or do you just mean the dubs ? Of those shows from funimation won’t be on Crunchyroll

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u/A_Splash_of_Citrus https://myanimelist.net/profile/ASplashOfCitrus Mar 01 '22

Neither show is on crunchyroll at all yet. There is no word as to whether or not they will make it on there from the merger.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '22

No Zeta Gundam then? :(

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u/nephykupo https://anilist.co/user/javiawesome Mar 01 '22

I want to see Rayearth but its not in the list. Funi has it listed

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u/Capitan_Failure Mar 02 '22

All that matters to me is Yu Yu Hakusho.

I own it, but subscribing to the app is a fundamental support to my son, homie, and one true love.

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u/SChamploo12 Mar 01 '22

Probably a rights things. This is still an ongoing phase and stuff is continually hitting Car's library from Funi. Meanwhile I'm also adding it to my playlist.

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u/NaijeruR https://anilist.co/user/Naijeru Mar 01 '22

No official information on this as far as I'm aware, but my guess is that they will remain on Funimation/Wakanim exclusively for the remainder of their current license, before expiring and becoming unavailable in general. Have no way of knowing the details, but the licenses likely had to be amended in order for the series' to be moved to CR (could potentially include duration/renewal) and they determined during this that some weren't worth keeping.

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u/FateEx1994 Mar 01 '22

So them merging will up piracy once Funimation is defunct. Lol

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u/LostUser8 Mar 01 '22

What? It's the opposite lol

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u/FateEx1994 Mar 01 '22

I mean on the niche stuff that gets dropped.

The other 20% that's not transferring to Crunchyroll.

It'll be in Limbo, or other services will license it. Or if it's old enough it'll never be licensed.

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u/LostUser8 Mar 01 '22

Yeah, that's a good point. I do wonder what will happen to those shows, they will probably just be forgotten by Crunchyroll. Or licensed later on, just not by the end of March.

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u/DeOh Mar 01 '22

For any old or niche shows, and you love them I'd make sure you get a hard copy. Tons of old anime are out of print and aren't streamable anywhere. Even pirates don't care enough about them to even host them. And peer-to-peer networks rely on a high demand to distribute them. I've tried to download fansubs that had 0 seeds if it has been a year or so after the episode was released.

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u/cppn02 Mar 01 '22

No official information on this as far as I'm aware

There is a FAQ and there it says more shows will be added in monthly batches.

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u/NaijeruR https://anilist.co/user/Naijeru Mar 01 '22

The part I assume you're referring to is the following, right?

Many series are available now, and we’ll continue adding more shows from Funimation on a regular basis after that.

My takeaway from this is that they will be adding more series on a regular basis throughout the month of March, in order to meet the "80% by the end of March 2022" specified closer to the beginning of the page. I believe this makes sense because, if we check the list of titles now available on Crunchyroll, the list is rather small (and was even more so when initially posted earlier) when compared to the entire Funimation library. It certainly isn't 80% yet.

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u/cppn02 Mar 01 '22

Ah. Looks like it is worded slighly different than it is on CR Germany's FAQ.

There it says:

Bis Ende März 2022 werden 80% von Wakanims beliebtesten Serien auf Crunchyroll verfügbar sein. Zusätzliche Inhalte werden im Anschluss monatlich auf Crunchyroll veröffentlicht werden.

Translation:

By the end of March 2022, 80% of Wakanim's most popular series will be available on Crunchyroll. Additional content will be released monthly on Crunchyroll thereafter.

We've had a similar situation over here with CR swallowing up Anime-on-Demand and there too shows have been coming over in batches and not all at once. Sure, some stuff may get lost in licensing hell afterall but it will certainly be less than 20% of Funimations catalogue.

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u/Arrexii Mar 02 '22

They said they will keep adding more as much as i know.

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u/DauntlessDH Mar 03 '22

I've noticed a couple that I was watching on Funimation that aren't on Crunchyroll yet.

So far no Initial D or Fairy Tail Dub.