Yeah my Funi annual sub renewed on 1st Feb so I'm wondering what's going to happen. I'd want a refund of at least 50% ontop of my free 60 days of Crunchyroll Premium
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Funimation Content Moving to Crunchyroll for World’s Largest Anime Library
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Mine renewed on the 22nd of Feb. Wish they gave a notice to us yearly people that something like this was happening so soon.
For real what the fuck. :/
I'm subbed for the dubs of MHA, One Piece, and Dragon Ball. That is the only anime I watch. It was cheap enough that I was ok keeping it, but making me pay more for nonsense I don't give a shit about will probably just make me cancel. Does Crunchyroll have separate profiles like Netflix or Disney+? If I can split the cost with other folx I might consider it.
I can't imagine that Warner Bros Discovery will want to keep VRV running long term...
on twitter they are just telling people to contact funi support...
I don't think people are hating it, but there's a lot of confusion about people with older subscriptions like annual subs and how those are going to migrate over.
is there a chance that spartacus will offer crunchyroll? I'm waiting for sony to finally unveil it before subbing to CR.
People with annual subs like me are confused as to if we can get some sort of refund or better deal transferring to Crunchy. Also none of us were notified this merger was happening till this morning. We all knew it was going to happen eventually, but they should have given us much more of a notice.
Maybe. Timing of the merge makes sense with Spartacus coming 'soon', but could be pure coincidence due to the original acquisition date and integration planning roll-out which does take time.
I made a list of questions I submitted to funimation support, give you an idea of where confusion/frustration is coming from.
1) I have a Funimation Subscription active until July. The service starts becoming worthless with the spring updates. I only get 60 days free of crunchyroll. How will the rest of my remaining Funimation subscription be made up for.
2) My Funimation Subscription is a grandfathered $60 a year subscription. Will these plans be carried over to Crunchyroll, or will I be forced to have my price increased by $40 a year?
3) Funimation consistently uploads home video versions of its anime to the streaming platform. Will this continue on Crunchyroll. As it currently stands Akudama Drive just got its home video version uploaded on Funimation but it is missing on Crunchyroll.
4) On the same topic as above, Crunchyroll almost entirely lacks captions for written japanese in its english dub streams. Will this issue be fixed?
5) Crunchyroll separates its sub/dub into completely separate season listings that can be hard to parse through. Is there any intent to move over Funimation's handling of language and version selection to Crunchyroll?
6) Funimation currently offers free shipping to premium subscribers...this is about the only reason I buy things there instead of Amazon. Will there be any alternative?
There was a rumor awhile back that mentioned anime would be coming to PlayStation Plus or to another new Sony PlayStation subscription service (which could be Spartacus), and having everything on Crunchyroll would be a lot less messy than having to implement both Crunchyroll and Funimation.
If they don't refund me the year that LITERALLY just started yesterday as a renewal, I will hold off on moving over until next February. I'm so far behind on all my shows that there's nothing really current that would even lure me over.
As long as they don't start pulling things OFF Funimation or shutter it entirely, I'll just hold I think.
As long as they don't start pulling things OFF Funimation or shutter it entirely, I'll just hold I think.
Please, god, leave this merger until after AoT is finished. I don't want to watch the end of it in Crunchyroll's awful player and image quality.
Smart move. Crunchyroll is the much bigger name in streaming and the apps are SIGNIFICANTLY better. Hopefully they get the CR app on Samsung TVs though.. ideally it could just replace the Funi one. Would be preferable to not have to use my console just to watch it.
First batch of shows have already been moved.
I imagine theyll just keep it going like that, uploading a few batchs every week or so.
They are doing this in batches it seems, so I assume it will show up eventually.
Though if there's 1 company stuff that would the the hardest to add for some reason it would be Toei related.
Are any shows Funi are currently in the middle of dubbing added on the service so far?
Well, I submitted a customer service ticket so I'll see what they say. lol
They mentioned that any "continuing series" will still be added to Funimation so I imagine that AOT will continue to get added to Funimation. Basically that's just their way of saying anything Spring 2022 and onwards won't be available for streaming on Funimation's site.
Funimation's app is worse than Crunchyroll? That's impressive in all the terrible ways.
I wonder if they will upload the uncut versions these were on Funimation essentially the blu-ray releases. They had animation fixes and other stuff they couldn't do in the broadcast versions. Naruto Shippudden and Dragonball Super animation was improved in these releases.
This has actually been a huge bummer for me since Hulu is a good app and I also just like there being anime available to a larger audience. I noticed a ton of it expiring lately.. was in the middle of a Gundam 08th MS Team re-watch and didn't finish in time. :(
Haha, yeah, it's genuinely terrible. The CR app is really bad on consoles from my experience, but my iPhone and Android TV ones are really good.. so hopefully they get the Xbox one up to speed. I haven't used the PS5 one lately to see how it compares.
Last time I checked the Subtitled version was on Hulu. Both versions were on Funimation.
Same here
Hulu is vastly superior to both apps since it actually works. I'm blitzing through Samurai Champloo since it leaves on Thursday lol
Restaurant to another world and dress up darling are the big ones and I believe they both are already
Kinda stoked to not have to pay two subs now.
But on the flip side, it's a bit concerning Sony has something of a monopolization on anime streaming at the moment as of this moment, and I can't see my Crunchyroll sub staying the price that it is for too long.
I really hope this doesn't fuck over consumers in the long run.
But on the flip side, it's a bit concerning Sony has something of a monopolization on anime streaming at the moment as of this moment, and I can't see my Crunchyroll sub staying the price that it is for too long.
I really hope this doesn't fuck over consumers in the long run.
That kinda sucks, if only because the CR app on my TCL is absolute trash. Very unresponsive and can even crash at times, it also frequently signs me out. Funimation's app wasn't perfect by any means, but I had a more enjoyable experience overall.
Maybe I'll try the CR app on a console and see how that shakes out.
Maybe I'll try the CR app on a console and see how that shakes out.
Finally! Even though this will absolutely result in a price increase down the line, having everything all in one app is a huge upgrade. I routinely forget what series I was watching on which app.
One thing I will say I'll miss is that Funimation subtitles openings/endings and CR never bothers.. it's nice to see this when watching Ranking of Kings.
Never thought that I would be rooting for Netflix but they got a decent library and hopefully they can give Sony a run for their money.