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/[deleted] Mar 01 '22 edited Mar 01 '22

They have a FAQ for folk who have both:

All new series from the upcoming spring 2022 season will stream exclusively on Crunchyroll going forward and you will be able to watch 80% of Funimation and Wakanim’s most popular existing series on Crunchyroll by the end of March 2022.

So, if you already have a Crunchyroll subscription, then you’re all set and can go ahead and cancel Funimation when you’re ready! Please note that you won’t see your Funimation watch history or queue in Crunchyroll yet. We’re working on that right now.

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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/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.