“Winter announcements are here! We have been working together with Crunchyroll to bring anime to fans around the world!” the company wrote in a recently released statement. “This Winter 2017 season, ...

Japanese animation has exploded in popularity over the past few years, thanks to increased availability on streaming services like Crunchyroll, Hulu and Amazon. It was popular enough for Funimation, ...

Sony Pictures Television Networks will acquire a 95% majority stake in U.S.-based anime distributor Funimation Productions for about $143 million. The deal values Funimation, which was founded in 1994 ...

Funimation, one of the US's premier anime distributors/streaming services is being acquired by Sony Pictures ( SNE) for $143MN and a 95% stake. Variety broke the news yesterday. The deal, which values ...

Turns out the partnership Sony and Funimation forged to create the latter's streaming service wasn't a one-off thing. Sony Pictures is currently in the process of buying 95 percent of Funimation for ...

Your Name will release on home video later this year, Funimation announced today an Anime Expo. The popular anime film from director Makoto Shinkai will be released by Funimation on home video just a ...

At age 13, Gen Fukunaga discovered the key to his future success after returning to his home country of Japan for a year. This key would become the center of a multimillion-dollar business, boost a ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. For two years, Funimation and Crunchyroll partnered to make anime more widely available around the world. But all things ...

Prior to this announcement, the only legal way to watch the English dub of Dragon Ball Super was via Toonami. As in, interested fans had to watch it on TV rather than stream it online. According to ...