Crunchyroll and FUNimation Entertainment Partnership Announced

by Sakana-san
Sep 10, 2016 11:22 AM | 72 Comments

It was announced that Crunchyroll and FUNimation Entertainment will form a distribution partnership in order to bring more series and viewing experiences to global anime fans. It was stated that licensed titles by FUNimation will be available for streaming with subs through Crunchyroll, and titles licensed by Crunchyroll will be available for streaming with dubs on FUNimation. FUNimation will also distribute Crunchyroll titles for home release. It's still unknown how many upcoming Fall 2016 titles will be affected, nor how many current catalogue titles will be shared.

Now available on Crunchyroll

D.Gray-man Hallow
Hatsukoi Monster (First Love Monster)
Puzzle & Dragons Cross
Cowboy Bebop
Hai to Gensou no Grimgar (Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash)
Psycho-Pass

Will be available on Funimation with dub

91 Days
Mob Psycho 100
Orange
Free!
Shinmai Maou no Testament (The Testament of Sister New Devil)

Crunchyroll titles for North American home release by FUNimation

Gyakuten Saiban: Sono "Shinjitsu", Igi Ari! (Ace Attorney)
Nejimaki Seirei Senki: Tenkyou no Alderamin (Alderamin on the Sky)
Bungou Stray Dogs
Joker Game
Koutetsujou no Kabaneri (Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress)
ReLIFE

Source: Crunchyroll, FUNimation

Previous related news: Summer 2016 Simulcast List

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Koutetsujou no Kabaneri (Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress) will have a dubbed home release?

Oct 14, 2016 6:59 AM by DaMall

I'm also one of the many people who totally didn't see this one coming. Funimation + Crunchyroll = Funi-Roll or something like that.

Also, I will admit that region locking especially for many anime titles in different countries can be such a pain in the @$$ and whatnot.

Personally, some English Dubs do sound terrible than others( i.e., Byrnhildr) but at the same time, there are some anime that have solid English dubs like Cowboy Bebop and FMA/FMAB, just to name a few. Not everyone can get into watching anime with Japanese Voice-Overs and English Subtitles and prefer the Dub and vice-versa. It all comes down to personal preferences and for me, there's no right or wrong. That's for you to decide.

Whatever is still available to watch in America, I will hopefully watch it and plus, it is better than not getting any shows, at all. Just focus on what anime titles we do have available and don't worry on the ones we don't have available.

That's enough out of me. I really don't know when to shut up, do I?

Sep 15, 2016 12:35 AM by Doom1991____----

South America ...

Sep 13, 2016 6:24 AM by Slarkero

hpulley said:

Yaoi-Senpai said:
I'm so happy ^^ I love watching anime in Crunchyroll and I love buying DvD from Funimation. Now I will just un-subscribe for Funimation.
...

If you, like me, had a SubPass then no need to cancel it. Funimation cancelled mine for me already. Gives me a free AllAccess until November 7 and a refund for the rest. With AOD/TAN's brief re-experimentation with simulcasting over it is one stop shopping for me now, Crunchyroll (or raw for stuff they don't get).

Oh yeah that's cool, just now I checked it. Thanks for information me :3

Sep 13, 2016 12:37 AM by removed-user

Yaoi-Senpai said:
I'm so happy ^^ I love watching anime in Crunchyroll and I love buying DvD from Funimation. Now I will just un-subscribe for Funimation.
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Sep 12, 2016 12:57 PM by hpulley

the region locking is simply because CR doesn't buy the streaming rights to all they;re shows in every territory. End of the day the majority of they're paying viewers are in the States so thats where they buy the most show rights for. Smaller area's like my own Australia have less people using the service so its only economically viable to obtain a smaller catalog for those area's.

Sep 12, 2016 9:50 AM by Tichey

JunkYardHiro said:
Pretty darn cool. What's the problem with the region lock? That's never stopped anyone before.

Crunchyroll has a lot of region lock. But Funnimation has nearly 100% of region lock. Even their own youtube channel has region lock.

Sep 12, 2016 9:20 AM by swordmasterman

This really took me by surprise. I never thought in my wildest dreams that this would happen. Well, at least they can both profit well together. Since I assume CR is going to do all the subbed releases with Funimation doing all the dubs, I don't have to pay subscriptions for both anymore :D That being said, I wish the region-locks were dealt with for the less-fortunate people out there D:

Sep 12, 2016 4:41 AM by -Sabre-

I'm so happy ^^ I love watching anime in Crunchyroll and I love buying DvD from Funimation. Now I will just un-subscribe for Funimation.

Just want to make sure to everyone that SOME people in this world is watching anime in dub because they want to improve their speaking skills, correct pronunciation, listening skills or because they dislike Japanese voices.

Sep 12, 2016 12:37 AM by removed-user

valvravetruth said:
just like 10 years ago the subs are superb.

These old, shit fansubs? Roflmao.
http://www.crymore.net/2012/12/20/oldsub-review-shinsen-subs-blood-episode-14-vintage-2006/

Btw, what does "cencored" mean? I don't even...

Sep 11, 2016 5:30 PM by Kamiyan3991

blue-y said:
Now, if only they could do something about those regional restrictions... I know it's probably not an easy feat, but one can wish.. u___u

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that because the license holders in Japan didn't allow Crunchyroll to release in every region? I've seen a lot of people complain to Crunchyroll about regional restrictions but I feel they are complaining to the wrong people. I think Crunchyroll would love to not have any region restrictions because that would mean more business for them.

Sep 11, 2016 3:13 PM by HikaruKaneko

Now, if only they could do something about those regional restrictions... I know it's probably not an easy feat, but one can wish.. u___u

Sep 11, 2016 3:05 PM by blue-y

Pretty darn cool. What's the problem with the region lock? That's never stopped anyone before.

Sep 11, 2016 2:45 PM by JunkYardHiro

Well, I'm not sure how to react to it...

Sep 11, 2016 2:24 PM by Frezlaj

WeepingShinobu said:
Damn, Comic_Sans
Back at it again with the white vans angry shit posting

What can I say

I'm a woman with class

AO968 said:
Come back to me when region-locking is a thing of the past (which is probably never). When half of the shows I want to see are restricted to the English-speaking territories, this will be of a very little value to me.

BakaKuro said:
and now the shitty dub industry will be getting bigger. with more shitty dubs that ruin anime with funi's bad tastes in western voice actors that dont fit the characters at all

Truer words have never been spoken

Sep 11, 2016 12:16 PM by Comic_Sans

The subs are bad to begin with and sometimes they even cencored the anime, so they need to find someone better at translation just like 10 years ago the subs are superb. Well for me watching raw is also fine, plus raw are mostly uncencored if it is uncencored from the start. You can pretty much watch an anime even faster when its released by searching for it on google, many japanese website do provide them.

Sep 11, 2016 11:16 AM by valvravetruth

BakaKuro said:
and now the shitty dub industry will be getting bigger. with more shitty dubs that ruin anime with funi's bad tastes in western voice actors that dont fit the characters at all

You know I just have to say it makes me so happy to see the dub industry grow in spite of attitudes like this in the fandom. The anime industry has long since given up listening to your opinions. Dubs are profitable. Full stop. Nothing you say will change that.

Sep 11, 2016 9:37 AM by SeibaaHomu

Miragee said:

Wolf_Of_Reason said:

Isn't Crunchyroll free or is it that much different over there in Europe?

Even if it's free, it's still unusable. Some person posted this recently: http://imgur.com/KRnrVy8 I don't think I need to add something, the picture speaks for itself.

I just checked the same page, and I can confirm that the screenshot is legit.

Sep 11, 2016 8:49 AM by cookies0

Wolf_Of_Reason said:

Miragee said:
Sitting in europe, I don't know why I would use either Funimation or Crunchyroll. There is so much region lock going on that you can't watch most series. I as a customer don't pay for bullshit service, I'm sorry.

Isn't Crunchyroll free or is it that much different over there in Europe?

Even if it's free, it's still unusable. Some person posted this recently: http://imgur.com/KRnrVy8 I don't think I need to add something, the picture speaks for itself.

Sep 11, 2016 8:43 AM by Miragee

laCloud said:

Wolf_Of_Reason said:

Isn't Crunchyroll free or is it that much different over there in Europe?

Crunchyroll is free as long as you don't mind 1 week delays on simulcasts, 4 ads per episode and the same heavily restricted catalog if you don't live in NA

I feel Crunchyroll has been getting better with those annoying adds lately but it is lamentable to hear that Europe's catalog is much smaller than here in the NA. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't there a European company that is eating up all the shows by securing licensing rights at the speed of light?

Sep 11, 2016 8:40 AM by Wolf_Of_Reason

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