{"id":141515,"date":"2020-12-10T16:59:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T16:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/sony-buys-crunchyroll\/"},"modified":"2020-12-10T16:59:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T16:59:03","slug":"sony-inks-deal-buys-crunchyroll-from-at-and-t-game-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/12\/10\/sony-inks-deal-buys-crunchyroll-from-at-and-t-game-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Inks Deal, Buys Crunchyroll from AT and T | Game Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The anime streaming wars lost a competitor when\u00a0Funimation and Crunchyroll joined forces after their parent companies Sony and AT&T finally closed the book on a billion-dollar deal that had been months in the making. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sony, the owner of the popular anime streaming service Funimation, reported that it acquired AT&T-owned Crunchyroll for $1.75 billion dollars.\u00a0<\/span>Rumors of this big anime streaming deal<\/a> began as early as August of this year then picked up steam in October before\u00a0the official news came down in December.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/b>Funimation and Crunchyroll were once competitors<\/a> in a race with Netflix and other platforms to acquire licensed anime to stream on their platforms. What set Crunchyroll and Funimation apart from others were their lineups of simul-cast anime that afforded fans the opportunity to watch subtitled or sometimes even dubbed versions of popular anime at the same time as when they aired in Japan. The two companies were in constant competition for the rights to licensed anime to fill out their lineups each season, but now there is consolidation with Funimation now adding Crunchyroll\u2019s full library to their service.<\/span><\/p>\n