Sony Pictures Entertainment, the owner of Funimation, bought Crunchyroll from AT&T for $1.175 billion in 2021 (Simons, 2021). In the past, Funimation and Crunchyroll worked together, distributing pieces of each other’s anime catalogs. Now, we have a vast, unified catalog, but we also don’t have real alternatives for anime consumption in the West. Okay, smaller,...
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