“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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in May, you will remember that both Sony Pictures and Universal were interested in acquiring the anime distribution giant Funimation. Well, today it seems that Sony has made its move and intends ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. 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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. In the inevitable scramble for more intellectual property to ruin, ...

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 ...

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 ...