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First, FUNimation announcing its end, and now Akira Toriyama is dead? That's a double whammy. Even FUNimation secured the license to one of Akira Toriyama's most popular creations prior to his death.
9:30 I'm 41, born in 83. I watched Dragon Ball's early days before Toonami, i tried telling my friends about it but no one knew anything about it and the airtime was early Saturday mornings. Me and my brothers loved watching it. When we ran out of new episode, we then found out that we could watch DB on Mexican channels. We loved the show so much, we'd tune in and watch it without any subtitles just to see what happened next. Eventually they also ran out of new episodes and the next time we saw it was on Toonami. After it gained fame on that airtime, we'd walk to our local comic book shop and buy future content that the owners got from Japan.
Same! Watched Dragon Ball in 96 in North Carolina on Saturdays then, when visiting my dad in Fort Knox Kentucky, watched Dragon Ball Z on their Funimation block.! All this before Toonami!
The dragon ball situation was probably worse in my area. When I was around 4-5 years old, a Dragon Ball marathon that wasn’t promoted would come on randomly every couple weeks, on the weekend, after the regular cartoons, and Not on fixed time slot. I would randomly catch it on tv. I guess my locaI station didn’t like the show. I always remembered that show & goku as the years passed, because I thought it was cool. A couple years later my family got cable, and me and my older sister would watch sailor moon together, but after it ended, she would always change the channel immediately, and say there was a show coming on that I probably wouldn’t like, and I believed her and never fought her on it. One day after sailor moon ended she got up to get something to eat without changing the channel, and that’s when the rock the dragon song started. It kept saying dragon ball z, and I instantly remembered dragon ball, but I didn’t really have a concept of anime at the point. My sister came back and wanted to change the channel but I wouldn’t let her. I started talking about how I use to watch a show called dragon ball w/ a character name goku, but he was a boy (I couldn’t wrap my brain around a cartoon character growing up). Then I saw the main character and said he looks like goku, but older. I waited for the show to start and when they mentioned the name Goku, I knew this was a continuation of the dragon ball cartoon I saw when I was 4-5 years old. I refused to let my sister change the channel anymore and from that point on, I started watching dragon ball z every day.
@@blakewilliams5627 Ah yah, back in the days when households had like 1 or 2 TVs. I remember the living room TV being bigger but the TV me and my brothers watched Dragon Ball on was a small Black and white TV.
@LowellLucasJr. I'm from NC as well. After they took Dragon Ball off, they replaced it with DBZ on Fox. But Fox dropped it after a few years. I didn't see it again until the local cable network added Cartoon Network. DBZ would come on at 12 at night, but could only watch it on the weekend and summers. Until Toonami was created, then it came on in the afternoon.
This reminds me a little of when WWF bought WCW in 2001 in the Wrestling industry pretty much putting them out of business leaving no competition. Lack of competition is the worst thing that can happen for the customer
Mine was actually Dragon ball Z. Came to America at 12 in 1998 and saw is on cartoon network and I was captivated for the 2 weeks I was in America for. Didn't see It again and didn't even remember the name until it I got cable in jamaica and it started showing up on toonami.
Mine was Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. I loved shows like Digimon and Pokemon growing up, and I KNEW anime was a thing, but I hadn't dabbled into it THAT much. But I used to watch adult swim alot, and I noticed every saturday this really interesting show called Fullmetal Alchemist would come on. Everything about it just hooked me. The music, the story, the characters. I literally started the show sometime around episode 16 I wanna say, with the Maria Ross stuff, and even without context the story was so compelling.
It depends on the anime - there is some for children, others for adults, and some for both. Anime in Japan are cartoons. The Japanese do not make this distinction people outside of Japan tend to do.
6:55 Side note: Toei’s first attempt at bringing Dragon Ball to the west was actually France in 1988. The series was a huge success there starting with the original Dragon Ball in 1988 continuing with DBZ in 1990, the manga being published in 1993, and then GT in 1997.
@@KitsuneAnimeYTWell, when you say the “west” it doesn’t mean the US. The video misleads the audience when you use the “west” and US interchangeably. Peace!
It was announced when the acquisition happened funimation would be phased out in favor of the crunchy roll name. I remember cause right after it happened I immediately canceled my funimation subscription and hopped back over to Crunchyroll. Don’t know why anybody is surprised the plans announced were followed through on.
I haven’t gotten the impression anyone is surprised (unless it’s the first they’re hearing about it) more so concern about near monopoly Sony now has and the way that impacts both pricing and content “ownership”
😢😢😢 Funimation cared about dub watchers and their app format was perfect. I don’t wanna switch to crunchyroll. I had some great times on funimation watching Black Clover, Yu Yu Hakusho, DBZ, One Piece and more. I’m going to miss it
Sailor Moon had a small success that was not noticed until the online fandom showed there was an audience. Pokemon was the 4Kids Entertainment success thanks to Nintendo's marketing. Dragon Ball Z, took a while to succeed but once the episodes got good, that was their break.
Agreed. I was so excited when Sailor Moon came to Toonami because I used to watch it on our local WB at like 7:00 am when I was very young before Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Of course if the internet was widespread during that airtime in the early 90s then people in the US would be talking about it more. Tenchi was my Toonami show of choice outside of DBZ!
What do you mean got good tho Dragon Ball Z is seen as the most popular and favorited Dragon Ball series and Dragon Ball Z was never bad as all of its seasons were seen as masterpieces I can see others not liking the Majin Buu Saga or just not into action animes or fighting kind of animes
R.I.P. Akira Toriyama 🙏😭 The positive messages in your works have and will change countless people's lives for the better. Your essence lives on through them. Thank you, sir. 🙏
Eh, Funimation had it coming for a long time. Watched them since 96/97 back before they were big when they used to air 2 hour tv-blocks showing Samurai Pizza Cats/ Eagle Riders aka Gforce/ pre-early Namek Saga Dragon Ball Z, Masked Rider( Kamen Rider) and others who'd rotate through their roster. When the company redubbed DBZ at their Texas studio as a cost cutting measure to avoid rehiring Ocean Dub from Canada( oh how i miss them! ❤ ROCK THE DRAGON!!) they had made a deal with Toonami to air new episodes after airing the previous Ocean Dubs. The company exploded with success and soon, could afford producing other Mega Hits such as Yu yu Hakusho, Full Metal Alchemist, One Piece( again redubbed) and Soul Eater to name a few. The big turning point came with Funi-corperate and controveries with Toei. While their were some fall out with the voiceactors, whether this be certain bloopers, outtakes, VA caught with CP on the job, the Vic Mignonia case with Jamie Marchi/Monical Rial, issues with Chris Sabat or Goku's current VA Sean Schemmel, taking personal ownership of his character and attacking verbally against fans...things were getting heated! Other issues would be changing the scripts from what was original intended for dubs, either into something more satirical or 'agenda driven' lines added( your results may vary but i personally love Shimoneta, Panty/Stockings changes- same with DB Super). Another is releasing anime titles that would quickly be Delisted from streaming and distribution-to never be seen ever again such as the english dub of Interspiecies Reviewers; which would later get a released sub release though Kitty Media/Right Stuff til Funimation bought the company and delisted all their Hentai/ Adult DVD's/Bluray from the site . These changes and more had created a bad reputation with Toei and the name Funimation. They saw it as, if this company keeps getting away with this negative behavior, we will take the properties away from them without a renewed contract! From a buisness perspective it makes since; you dont want to associated with a company that uses their property to glorify their peraonal egos and makes them look bad. Luckily, the merger with Sony/ Crunchy Roll would mean a rebranding of the company and ultimately eliminate some of the negative press under its new name. However, as you said, the days of Funimation are gone but the legacy will still be remembered....whether this its a good thing or not.😅
Man I despise Chris and Sean as people. Watching dub dbz nowadays just puts a sour taste in my mouth, been watching sub or reading the manga for awhile now.
@@CalderTF2 personally I prefer the ocean dub and Japanese original with a few exceptions to some Funi voice actors. To me, Goku will always be Cheetor, Dr Tofu and Mega Man while Vegeta will always be Zechs Marquise, Ryuk and Tiger of the Wind!
It is sad to hear them go, but to be fair ADV was the juggernaut that came before Funimation that they lived in the shadows of. For a while all Funimation had was DBZ, but now I understand why.
@@IN-tm8mw Evangelion was once the biggest anime, and it was around the time I got my first job and was always buying anime every week from Hastings, a local video store next to a Blockbuster. That really shows my age. 😆
Great video lad, I grew up in Arlington Texas. Walking distance near the FUNimation original studio. Good memories all around. I love dragon Ball Z and actually got to meet many of the voice actors who we're at the time, local residents in my hometown❤😁
Nice video, an all though Funimation's fall is somewhat sad the recent controversies they were involved in (specificly with their VAs) has gotten some people to lose any sympathy for them.
@@AlfredFJones1776What did they do to the pedo?More than a dozen girls accused him of acting creepy.Do you mean it’s ok a grown ass man suddenly hugs underage girls and kisses them on the cheek without permission?
As someone who is sad funimation left us I kinda knew this might happen the moment they fired Vic and Stopping the dub of interspecies reviewer every since then I knew it was end then it sad it was absorbed by a platform that was inspired by Funimation Hack there was a TV channel for Funimation in Maryland tv channel Most my DVD I gotten was from funimation I am sad this ended well at least anime Sentai work is still around at least my other childhood platform isn’t dead
@@gespenst1329 This video has just some piss poor research like going from Astro Boy to Akira. So just completely jumping over Battle Of The Planets, Star Blazers, Voltron, Robotech the list goes on. Just because Akira was big and cool and you like it doesn't make it the first time people saw anime or its potential.
I honestly thought the in-house politics was the true reason behind Funimation's fall, such as the Kick Vic movement that crashed and burned because he was ultimately proven innocent. Shame he can't get a voice acting job again, unlike Todd Habbercorn
@@alexmansfield3268 He lost the case against his lawsuit against Funimation. They did NOT prove he was guilty. Get your facts straight. All those allege accusations were never proved.
Crunchyroll exist also in many european countries. FUNimation did only exist in the US and maybe Canada und Mexiko. Maybe the meaning and name from FUNimation in other countries aren't so big like Crunchyroll's. Maybe Sony want to make Crunchyroll the only big anime streaming service in all western countries even in europa and australia
Nice try buddy, but funimation is still a thing, it just merged with crunchyroll, all the workers are still there and dubbing anime. Vic on the other not only fell on his face trying to sue funination,, but now owes Monica and Jamie $300,000. So yeah. Screw vic
While Funimation as a company will always be the heart of what helped anime to the West, however the people inside the Funimation company has always been a point of contention at least to me, given of what happened with Vic Mignogna, a once well-respected VA in the industry, and how they just kicked him out due to false allegations by Monica Rial and Jamie Marchi and not to mention how the veteran VA such as Christopher Sabat, treat their coworkers like trash which goes to show how toxic the workplace is. It didn't also help the fact the anime localizers insert their politics into their English dubs, infamously like Kobayashi Dragon Maid (you know the "woke stuff") by people who don't even like anime! So sorry but in a way I am glad Funimation is going away and hopefully all the toxicity might go away with it along with those VAs.
I personally haven't supported Funimation since the Vic Mignogna controversy. The mask slipped off of the company during that particularly nasty episode and I did not like what I saw. I'll still enjoy my box sets and dvds. But I'm not exactly unhappy they're closing up shop. Not that Crunchyroll that they're being folded into is any better mind you.
@@dansmith16 George Floyd not being able to breathe was in 2020. The Broly movie's dub release and consequently the false accusations against Vic happened in 2019.
WOAH WOAH WOAH, WAIT. Fullmetal was done by Aniplex, not Funimation. Anyways, fuck Funimation. Not the biggest fan rn of how localizers have been treating their recent properties, and the drama among the VA staff regarding Vic Mignogna left a bad taste in my mouth for years considering how it mirrored a lot of the issues that happened with the Johnny Depp trial. Idk if he did it or not, but I sure as hell have not been very trusting of the MeToo Movement since then. We shouldn't be assuming either side is immediately guilty in situations regarding sexual harassment.
Those Saturday Morning Anime items were what had me. Akira, Roujin Z, Vampire Hunter D, Record of Lodoss Wars, Iria:Zeiram, Robot Carnival, they were my intro. DBZ existed, true (when Fujisankei Communications International was a network; same place that had OG Iron Chef), but my intro came between Robotech & Sailor Moon. They got better when the movies were seen. After that & Sci-fi Channel, was hooked.
With the amount of research and effort put into the presentation, I thought you were bigger until the video ended and I saw your views and subscribers. Oh well, I guess I'll claim my "I've been there when you were amsll" card in the future after you get more traction.
It's funny how the founder sounded like this young, ambitious upstart with a dream, only needing to work hard to achieve his goals... Then you say he needed a MILLION DOLLARS given to him from family to license Dragon Ball, and it hits you that nope... you still need to have money to make money 😂 Back then, $1 million was even more than it is now, so good thing he had wealthy family to make his dreams come true.
The funny thing is that it wasn't even his family he got the finances from. A large chunk of it came from one of his coworkers and their family in Texas lol.
dude it sets you between the first two cr tiers. if you thought you were ever paying less than their first tier you were living in a fantasy. The cr tiers have been at 96, 120, and 180 for a long time now.
This trend towards also in many european countries like Germany. German anime and even manga publishers was acquirrd by Sony/ Crunchyroll and rebrand with the Crunchyroll Name. The same goes for anime streaming services like Wakanim, which were also acquired by Sony/Crunchyroll. In many countries crunchyroll didn't get some Anime licences like Attack on Titan or One Piece. Now they get mostly the same Anime in mostly all western countries like the US
I will never forgive them for what they did to Vic. There needs to be _Some_ sort of Justice served. If Elon was to buy a company I’d want him to buy Crunchy Roll just to clear out Sabat’s clique and rehire Vic.
I like how everyone is like “oh no Sony is taking away my Funimation!” But at the height of Funimation those same people were complaining on how clunky their streaming service was and how some of the physical media was in the wrong aspect ratio. And how subs were not correctly translated. Lol
whether you hate or love DragonBall (I personally love it) it paved the way for most anime's you have nowadays (MHA, JOJO, Naruto etc), without it most of these other anime's probably wouldn't have existed at all
Funimation shows have brought me a huge amount of joy during my adult life especially over the last ten years years or so when I really got back into it..... man what a ride it's been, good times
While I'd been a fan of some anime in the early 90's, I didn't really know that they were anime. It wasn't until Dragon Ball Z in the late 90's that I truly learned what anime was and became a fan of it in general. That said, I don't really remember how I even learned the word anime nor what it was. I just always remember knowing Dragon Ball Z was different from American cartoons.
Especially when the fans are the ones putting in the effort to do color correction and release a definitive version of the series. I already paid my dues and bought brand new copies of the entire blue box set back in the day, sure as hell ain't paying for a streaming subscription now.
How sad is it that the most definitive Dragon Ball release is done by a small company in France and not the juggernaut that is Funimation? Seriously though. They color corrected it, did a careful remastering, and even added the original broadcast audio thay no official release has done until now.
@@ralphjb All Funimation ever did was ruin it, but what can be expected of a company that only got the license via nepotism in the first place? At least AB Groupe actually took things seriously and fixed their own mistakes in the end.
I kind of like that you didn't bring up any other controversies but at the same time I think they're very important as to why FUNimation and Crunchyroll both far and we're in hard times
Honestly. The First Anime I EVER saw was Both The Original Dragon Ball, and the Fatal Fury OVAs. I was Big on Action Cartoons when I was Little, Thunder Cats, Batman, and even the Original Hanna Barbara Action toons like Arabian Knights helped to push my Interest! But when I saw how Dynamic, Insane, and Downright Brutal those Anime like DBZ, Fatal Fury, and Later THE GUYVER!! I was Hooked! Anime for me in the Early 90s was peak entertainment for me back then. Only fostered further the more My Uncle and my Dad exposed me to it! And yeah, without DBZ or the Og Dragon Ball show, I don’t think I’d Be here.
This is why I had issues with Funimation, like how the fuck do you skip the beginning of the story It's like skipping Naruto to Shippuden or skipping East Blue to New World I'll always prefer the OG Dragon Ball over the Z, GT, and Super
The mid 90s were very different than now in terms of bridging the cultural gap between Japanese, and western audiences. As stated in the video, the initial localization of Dragonball failed. And a big part of that reason was American audiences just couldn't connect with the whimsical nature of the show. Skipping to Dragonball Z was a bold move, but was the right one. And looking back at how American teenagers were at the time (I was one), Dragonball Z combined with it's marketing via Toonami just catered to the right demographic at the right time.
I remember when my family first got cable television and I was lucky enough to have good grades to the point that they let my room have cable television in there. I was ecstatic to get cartoon Network & Nickelodeon thinking I'd watch a few shows and hop on the video games later. . . But then there was this channel I never seen before called Funimation channel, and I clicked on it being exposed to samurai champion, soul eater, and on Saturday movies like the Evangelion movies and Trigun Badlands rumble came on. I spent an ungodly amount of time just absorbing anime the moment I found out there was an entire channel dedicated just to my favorite thing at the time. . . And then years later it was taken off FiOS. . . and I cried. . . Now hearing that Funimation is kinda on its last leg in name, I can't help but look at all the old bumps on CZcams that used to appear every commercial when it was streaming back then. The dope music the fascinating shows and introductions to entirely new worlds and characters. . . As frustrating as the company stated to become later down the line, I'm still gonna miss tf out of Funimation
Yes sir and what made dbz more epic was the Bruce falconer score it caught the eye of the American audience instantly it made the show more serious and badass
@@BigBoy257Unfortunate thing about the former is that you pretty much had to be there from the beginning to enjoy it at its best. Because Toei doesn't care about preserving it for future generations.
I bought Dragon Ball on VHS when it first came out, before Z was a thing on TV. It was my first introduction to Dragon Ball. There were 2 episodes per cassette, it was goofy, and fun. My cousin and I loved it.
Funimation deserved to shut down because over the years they got worse and worse first mistreating and firing the staff that dubbed dragon ball to begin with then mistreating the fans with constant bad release after bad release just for money purposes and not quality and care and then finally covering for child abusers and having them as their employees it's sickening and funimation got what it deserved at the end
Funimation was cringe before cringe was even a thing. Their dub of Dragon Ball was an embarrassment. I'm glad they're gone so they can't ruin any more animes.
@@AlfredFJones1776 I bet you're one of the simps who actually liked it when Funimation made Gohan say Nappa smelled like toenails and when they said "next dimension." 🙄🙄
@@dangerousdays2052Tbh most these days prefer the in-house Funimation material from 1999 to the initial Funimation production that used the Ocean cast, even bizarrely claiming that the nobodies they picked up from off the street were better than the Vancouver actors (which is wild considering the Pioneer movie dubs exist).
@@gespenst1329 American Dragon Ball fans also thought Broly was inside Magetta during the Universe 6 tournament. They ain't exactly known for their brain power.
I stand with Vic! He was done dirty. Monica lied about him and even WILLINGLY got engaged to a CONVICTED abuser. Jamie also lied. These two women are all over Vic at conventions when these so called situations happened. They were not fearing for their safety how they said in their made up nonsense. There are even videos as proof of them being all over him! Monica was jealous of Vic's popularity as was Chris and Sean. Vic in a genuine person who cares about his fans and that's why we love him. He puts aside time for US and makes sure all of us get turns to talk to him during signings and makes sure everyone gets a chance for an autograph.
The streaming service Funimation will shut down but the company formerly known as Funimation Global Group LLC has changed its name to Crunchyroll LLC. It is the original Crunchyroll business that was closed. So technically it is still Funimation under a new name, it is just the service known as Funimation that is gone in favor of the service known as Crunchyroll.
Do you people in the comments not realize that the NAME Funimation is going away (already has in most regards) but all those same people are still around just under the “Crunchy Roll Dubs” banner now? So saying “good riddance” doesn’t mean much since it’s just a rebranding/merger.
Crunchyroll isn’t increasing their prices as much as funimation annual subscribers will now be paying what crunchyroll subscribers have been paying for a long time now. The tiers of crunchyroll have been at 96, 120, and 180 for a long time now. You paying 100 sets you in the middle of the first two tiers. Funimation annual subscribers who honestly believed theyd ever pay less than the cheapest cr tier were living in a fantasy.
Fukunaga is truly a self-made man who pulled himself up by his bootstraps... With a little help from his well-connected uncle... And a tiny investment of a few million from other relatives!
And now the man responsible for fumination being popular in the past has passed away. RIP Akira Toriyama
Truly the end of an era.
Sadly
😢
May we meet in heaven Toriama sensei 🕊
That too but he helped make Chrono Trigger/Cross/Every single Dragon quest game as well.
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I only knew Funimation and Toei Animation through Anime Websites like AniWatch, Anicrush, Animesuge and more, I wonder how those sites will work now once Sony takes over
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First, FUNimation announcing its end, and now Akira Toriyama is dead? That's a double whammy. Even FUNimation secured the license to one of Akira Toriyama's most popular creations prior to his death.
It's techinically not ended, it's a rebrand. A lot of the key people are still there, including the VAs.
RIP!!! THE CREATOR OF DRAGONBALL!!!😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
RIP to one of the best to ever do it 😞
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9:30 I'm 41, born in 83. I watched Dragon Ball's early days before Toonami, i tried telling my friends about it but no one knew anything about it and the airtime was early Saturday mornings. Me and my brothers loved watching it. When we ran out of new episode, we then found out that we could watch DB on Mexican channels. We loved the show so much, we'd tune in and watch it without any subtitles just to see what happened next. Eventually they also ran out of new episodes and the next time we saw it was on Toonami. After it gained fame on that airtime, we'd walk to our local comic book shop and buy future content that the owners got from Japan.
It was slim picking for anime back in the day. I remember watching Dragon Ball early on Saturday morning. Me and my brother loved it.
Same! Watched Dragon Ball in 96 in North Carolina on Saturdays then, when visiting my dad in Fort Knox Kentucky, watched Dragon Ball Z on their Funimation block.! All this before Toonami!
The dragon ball situation was probably worse in my area. When I was around 4-5 years old, a Dragon Ball marathon that wasn’t promoted would come on randomly every couple weeks, on the weekend, after the regular cartoons, and Not on fixed time slot. I would randomly catch it on tv. I guess my locaI station didn’t like the show. I always remembered that show & goku as the years passed, because I thought it was cool. A couple years later my family got cable, and me and my older sister would watch sailor moon together, but after it ended, she would always change the channel immediately, and say there was a show coming on that I probably wouldn’t like, and I believed her and never fought her on it. One day after sailor moon ended she got up to get something to eat without changing the channel, and that’s when the rock the dragon song started. It kept saying dragon ball z, and I instantly remembered dragon ball, but I didn’t really have a concept of anime at the point. My sister came back and wanted to change the channel but I wouldn’t let her. I started talking about how I use to watch a show called dragon ball w/ a character name goku, but he was a boy (I couldn’t wrap my brain around a cartoon character growing up). Then I saw the main character and said he looks like goku, but older. I waited for the show to start and when they mentioned the name Goku, I knew this was a continuation of the dragon ball cartoon I saw when I was 4-5 years old. I refused to let my sister change the channel anymore and from that point on, I started watching dragon ball z every day.
@@blakewilliams5627 Ah yah, back in the days when households had like 1 or 2 TVs. I remember the living room TV being bigger but the TV me and my brothers watched Dragon Ball on was a small Black and white TV.
@LowellLucasJr. I'm from NC as well. After they took Dragon Ball off, they replaced it with DBZ on Fox. But Fox dropped it after a few years. I didn't see it again until the local cable network added Cartoon Network. DBZ would come on at 12 at night, but could only watch it on the weekend and summers. Until Toonami was created, then it came on in the afternoon.
This reminds me a little of when WWF bought WCW in 2001 in the Wrestling industry pretty much putting them out of business leaving no competition. Lack of competition is the worst thing that can happen for the customer
Government mandate is the worst. You have to pay for every bad thing they do to you.
My Akira was Princess Mononoke. That's what officially made me realize that anime was different. It was like adult like cartoons/animation.
Mine was actually Dragon ball Z. Came to America at 12 in 1998 and saw is on cartoon network and I was captivated for the 2 weeks I was in America for. Didn't see It again and didn't even remember the name until it I got cable in jamaica and it started showing up on toonami.
Mine was two, simultaneously: Transformers Armada and DBZ
Mine was Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. I loved shows like Digimon and Pokemon growing up, and I KNEW anime was a thing, but I hadn't dabbled into it THAT much. But I used to watch adult swim alot, and I noticed every saturday this really interesting show called Fullmetal Alchemist would come on. Everything about it just hooked me. The music, the story, the characters. I literally started the show sometime around episode 16 I wanna say, with the Maria Ross stuff, and even without context the story was so compelling.
@zonzore I saw anime like sailor moon, dbz, Digimon pokemon before that but dubbing made them seem like really good cartoons with storylines.
It depends on the anime - there is some for children, others for adults, and some for both. Anime in Japan are cartoons. The Japanese do not make this distinction people outside of Japan tend to do.
6:55 Side note: Toei’s first attempt at bringing Dragon Ball to the west was actually France in 1988. The series was a huge success there starting with the original Dragon Ball in 1988 continuing with DBZ in 1990, the manga being published in 1993, and then GT in 1997.
I was specifically talking about the West in regards to the U.S. My apologies, could have made it more clear.
@@KitsuneAnimeYT No problem at all! Your video was very well made regardless of that
@@KitsuneAnimeYTWell, when you say the “west” it doesn’t mean the US. The video misleads the audience when you use the “west” and US interchangeably. Peace!
And unlike Funimation, AB Groupe actually learned from their mistakes.
It was announced when the acquisition happened funimation would be phased out in favor of the crunchy roll name. I remember cause right after it happened I immediately canceled my funimation subscription and hopped back over to Crunchyroll. Don’t know why anybody is surprised the plans announced were followed through on.
oh its just that, not a company shut down. That makes more sense, its too confusing to have two names
I haven’t gotten the impression anyone is surprised (unless it’s the first they’re hearing about it) more so concern about near monopoly Sony now has and the way that impacts both pricing and content “ownership”
@BIacklce it's a shut down of the funimation brand not a absorbtion
😢😢😢 Funimation cared about dub watchers and their app format was perfect. I don’t wanna switch to crunchyroll. I had some great times on funimation watching Black Clover, Yu Yu Hakusho, DBZ, One Piece and more. I’m going to miss it
Sailor Moon had a small success that was not noticed until the online fandom showed there was an audience.
Pokemon was the 4Kids Entertainment success thanks to Nintendo's marketing.
Dragon Ball Z, took a while to succeed but once the episodes got good, that was their break.
Toonami showed that there was an audience for sailor moon.
Agreed. I was so excited when Sailor Moon came to Toonami because I used to watch it on our local WB at like 7:00 am when I was very young before Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Of course if the internet was widespread during that airtime in the early 90s then people in the US would be talking about it more. Tenchi was my Toonami show of choice outside of DBZ!
What do you mean got good tho Dragon Ball Z is seen as the most popular and favorited Dragon Ball series and Dragon Ball Z was never bad as all of its seasons were seen as masterpieces I can see others not liking the Majin Buu Saga or just not into action animes or fighting kind of animes
I'm impressed. I've found there's a lot of worth in small channels and there's a lot of effort shown. Keep it up. I look forward to seeing more
R.I.P. Akira Toriyama 🙏😭
The positive messages in your works have and will change countless people's lives for the better. Your essence lives on through them.
Thank you, sir. 🙏
I went on a date with a girl that worked at Funimation and picked her up from work. The building is not fun on the outside.
You mean no fun on the inside right?
Got any stories about it?
Eh, Funimation had it coming for a long time.
Watched them since 96/97 back before they were big when they used to air 2 hour tv-blocks showing Samurai Pizza Cats/ Eagle Riders aka Gforce/ pre-early Namek Saga Dragon Ball Z, Masked Rider( Kamen Rider) and others who'd rotate through their roster. When the company redubbed DBZ at their Texas studio as a cost cutting measure to avoid rehiring Ocean Dub from Canada( oh how i miss them! ❤ ROCK THE DRAGON!!) they had made a deal with Toonami to air new episodes after airing the previous Ocean Dubs.
The company exploded with success and soon, could afford producing other Mega Hits such as Yu yu Hakusho, Full Metal Alchemist, One Piece( again redubbed) and Soul Eater to name a few.
The big turning point came with Funi-corperate and controveries with Toei. While their were some fall out with the voiceactors, whether this be certain bloopers, outtakes, VA caught with CP on the job, the Vic Mignonia case with Jamie Marchi/Monical Rial, issues with Chris Sabat or Goku's current VA Sean Schemmel, taking personal ownership of his character and attacking verbally against fans...things were getting heated!
Other issues would be changing the scripts from what was original intended for dubs, either into something more satirical or 'agenda driven' lines added( your results may vary but i personally love Shimoneta, Panty/Stockings changes- same with DB Super).
Another is releasing anime titles that would quickly be Delisted from streaming and distribution-to never be seen ever again such as the english dub of Interspiecies Reviewers; which would later get a released sub release though Kitty Media/Right Stuff til Funimation bought the company and delisted all their Hentai/ Adult DVD's/Bluray from the site .
These changes and more had created a bad reputation with Toei and the name Funimation. They saw it as, if this company keeps getting away with this negative behavior, we will take the properties away from them without a renewed contract! From a buisness perspective it makes since; you dont want to associated with a company that uses their property to glorify their peraonal egos and makes them look bad.
Luckily, the merger with Sony/ Crunchy Roll would mean a rebranding of the company and ultimately eliminate some of the negative press under its new name. However, as you said, the days of Funimation are gone but the legacy will still be remembered....whether this its a good thing or not.😅
I haven't heard of a company buying out porn since Nintendo with Super Hornio Brothers
Man I despise Chris and Sean as people. Watching dub dbz nowadays just puts a sour taste in my mouth, been watching sub or reading the manga for awhile now.
@@CalderTF2 personally I prefer the ocean dub and Japanese original with a few exceptions to some Funi voice actors. To me, Goku will always be Cheetor, Dr Tofu and Mega Man while Vegeta will always be Zechs Marquise, Ryuk and Tiger of the Wind!
@@LowellLucasJr. Peter Kelamis was Ocean Goku right? I personally like his voice more for Goku than Sean.
@@CalderTF2 Ian Corlett for Goku and Brian Drummond for Vegeta! ❤
God took Funimation and Akira Toriyama from us at the same time 😭
It is sad to hear them go, but to be fair ADV was the juggernaut that came before Funimation that they lived in the shadows of. For a while all Funimation had was DBZ, but now I understand why.
And they didn't even deserve DBZ either.
I'm so happy someone else is old enough to remember A.D. Vision
@@gespenst1329 give them credit they did it better than Canada. At least they dubbed the whole show and not just half of it.
@@IN-tm8mw Evangelion was once the biggest anime, and it was around the time I got my first job and was always buying anime every week from Hastings, a local video store next to a Blockbuster. That really shows my age. 😆
Wasn’t it ocean that did the biggest dubs in the 90s.
Today is the day…farewell Funimation..
Great video lad, I grew up in Arlington Texas. Walking distance near the FUNimation original studio. Good memories all around. I love dragon Ball Z and actually got to meet many of the voice actors who we're at the time, local residents in my hometown❤😁
Nice video, an all though Funimation's fall is somewhat sad the recent controversies they were involved in (specificly with their VAs) has gotten some people to lose any sympathy for them.
I’ll never forgive them for what they did to Vic.
@@AlfredFJones1776 Agreed, Monica Rial and Jamie Marchi are basically the Amber Heards of the anime community
ok Vic simp
Rip
@@AlfredFJones1776What did they do to the pedo?More than a dozen girls accused him of acting creepy.Do you mean it’s ok a grown ass man suddenly hugs underage girls and kisses them on the cheek without permission?
As someone who is sad funimation left us I kinda knew this might happen the moment they fired Vic and Stopping the dub of interspecies reviewer every since then I knew it was end then it sad it was absorbed by a platform that was inspired by Funimation
Hack there was a TV channel for Funimation in Maryland tv channel
Most my DVD I gotten was from funimation I am sad this ended well at least anime Sentai work is still around at least my other childhood platform isn’t dead
I love the video
Honestly, Funimation was getting too greedy for its own good.
I wish the video had mentioned older distributors like ADV films, Tokyo pop, Geneon, Manga Video, etc.
And AnimEIGO too (they've survived the longest besides Viz).
Also Central Park Media.
A bunch of those names were far better than Funimation though.
@@gespenst1329 This video has just some piss poor research like going from Astro Boy to Akira. So just completely jumping over Battle Of The Planets, Star Blazers, Voltron, Robotech the list goes on. Just because Akira was big and cool and you like it doesn't make it the first time people saw anime or its potential.
Tokyopop had something coming
I honestly thought the in-house politics was the true reason behind Funimation's fall, such as the Kick Vic movement that crashed and burned because he was ultimately proven innocent. Shame he can't get a voice acting job again, unlike Todd Habbercorn
Why can't he? If he's proven innocent then shouldn't he be able to get a job?
@@wingadept8793blame Funimation for not taking their deformity tweet down when Vic asked them with no money involved & they refused to do that.
@@wingadept8793 The false accusations followed Vic wherever he went.
He wasn't proven innocent the hell are you talking about he just lost the court case
@@alexmansfield3268 He lost the case against his lawsuit against Funimation. They did NOT prove he was guilty. Get your facts straight. All those allege accusations were never proved.
Bro I love the formatting and research put into this! Absolutely deserve more subs
I lost my respect for Funimation after that Vic Mignona case; so this one was a long time coming
Crunchyroll exist also in many european countries. FUNimation did only exist in the US and maybe Canada und Mexiko.
Maybe the meaning and name from FUNimation in other countries aren't so big like Crunchyroll's.
Maybe Sony want to make Crunchyroll the only big anime streaming service in all western countries even in europa and australia
And in some Latin American countries
Rest in Pieces. It was a dogshit service that didn’t care about its customers.
Great video gonna need to compete with this quality soon
Just subscribed to you!!
The Karma for wrongfully firing Vic and ruining his career has been satisfying to hear about. Funimation became its own worst enemy.
Yeah that controversy brought out the worst in that company.
Nice try buddy, but funimation is still a thing, it just merged with crunchyroll, all the workers are still there and dubbing anime. Vic on the other not only fell on his face trying to sue funination,, but now owes Monica and Jamie $300,000. So yeah. Screw vic
@@alexmansfield3268Monica and Jamie were lying. Why else did Funimation fold? It's simple Karma.
Good video, however it would of been good for you to go into detail about the controversies in the company too.
Starting with how they even got DBZ in the first place and their treatment of it since.
While Funimation as a company will always be the heart of what helped anime to the West, however the people inside the Funimation company has always been a point of contention at least to me, given of what happened with Vic Mignogna, a once well-respected VA in the industry, and how they just kicked him out due to false allegations by Monica Rial and Jamie Marchi and not to mention how the veteran VA such as Christopher Sabat, treat their coworkers like trash which goes to show how toxic the workplace is. It didn't also help the fact the anime localizers insert their politics into their English dubs, infamously like Kobayashi Dragon Maid (you know the "woke stuff") by people who don't even like anime! So sorry but in a way I am glad Funimation is going away and hopefully all the toxicity might go away with it along with those VAs.
Those "veterans" were nobodies prior to 1999.
@@gespenst1329 then they got a taste of seniority and power and they abused it for their vanity & greed.
@@itsblitz4437 Once an amateur, always an amateur.
@@gespenst1329 yeah perhaps true, but any amateur can go pro, if they so desire.
FUNimation didn't die, it killed Crunchyroll and put on its clothing. Remember, Sony bought FUNimation first, then it consumed Crunchyroll.
I personally haven't supported Funimation since the Vic Mignogna controversy. The mask slipped off of the company during that particularly nasty episode and I did not like what I saw.
I'll still enjoy my box sets and dvds. But I'm not exactly unhappy they're closing up shop. Not that Crunchyroll that they're being folded into is any better mind you.
@@user-jw8rb8ii6l But wasn't what Vic accused of proven to be false? From my understanding it was false accusations.
@@wingadept8793Wrong. Vic admitted to it. Stop simpin.
@@dangerousdays2052 1. I'm not simping when I'm asking. 2. When did Vic admit to this?
@@wingadept8793 probably another woke SJW.
@@dangerousdays2052Proof?
When Funimation fired Vic, that was the beginning of the end.
Was that before the George Floyd reaction? Imagine an animation company telling you how bad you are for having opinions of other people.
Who's Vic?
@@egp2497The voice of Broly. He got metood by 304s.
The vic mognova?
@@dansmith16 George Floyd not being able to breathe was in 2020. The Broly movie's dub release and consequently the false accusations against Vic happened in 2019.
I can’t believe the impact of dragon ball z section made me tear up 😭 great vid
It's the biggest tragedy of anime licensing for sure.
Wrong. Funi's dub was 100% garbo. I'm glad they're out of business and they can't ruin any more anime.
@@dangerousdays2052 Agreed on the first, not so sure about the second considering how it's in Sony's hands now...
@@dangerousdays2052You’re wrong on both counts, but I’ve said this to you multiple times now.
@@AlfredFJones1776 You're just a fanboy. Stop simpin.
Your entire channel is beyond underrated my man
RIP AKIRA first anime I watched was dbz my dad got me into it at a very young age
WOAH WOAH WOAH, WAIT. Fullmetal was done by Aniplex, not Funimation.
Anyways, fuck Funimation. Not the biggest fan rn of how localizers have been treating their recent properties, and the drama among the VA staff regarding Vic Mignogna left a bad taste in my mouth for years considering how it mirrored a lot of the issues that happened with the Johnny Depp trial. Idk if he did it or not, but I sure as hell have not been very trusting of the MeToo Movement since then. We shouldn't be assuming either side is immediately guilty in situations regarding sexual harassment.
The truth.
It looked like Karma came for those girls. Honestly, I didn't believe them.
Those Saturday Morning Anime items were what had me. Akira, Roujin Z, Vampire Hunter D, Record of Lodoss Wars, Iria:Zeiram, Robot Carnival, they were my intro. DBZ existed, true (when Fujisankei Communications International was a network; same place that had OG Iron Chef), but my intro came between Robotech & Sailor Moon. They got better when the movies were seen. After that & Sci-fi Channel, was hooked.
I just realized this dude only got like 300 subscribers like how? This video was so well put together and so interesting
This amazing video just hit our pilaf servers! Underrated is an UNDERstatement!! Keep going kitsune amazing work - 💙
With the amount of research and effort put into the presentation, I thought you were bigger until the video ended and I saw your views and subscribers.
Oh well, I guess I'll claim my "I've been there when you were amsll" card in the future after you get more traction.
Thank you so much for the support! It really means alot, especially considering how much effort goes into these videos 😭
FUNimation was definitely a legend in anime history . But everything has it's end...
A legendarily bad dubbing company that was pure cringe maybe. Now Funi can't ruin any more anime at least.
@@dangerousdays2052They didn’t used to be, but now they are.
Also again, they’re not gone. Just rebranded.
Funi started to get bad when they got the purple simplified logo instead of the Texas flag looking one.
It's funny how the founder sounded like this young, ambitious upstart with a dream, only needing to work hard to achieve his goals...
Then you say he needed a MILLION DOLLARS given to him from family to license Dragon Ball, and it hits you that nope... you still need to have money to make money 😂
Back then, $1 million was even more than it is now, so good thing he had wealthy family to make his dreams come true.
The funny thing is that it wasn't even his family he got the finances from. A large chunk of it came from one of his coworkers and their family in Texas lol.
The way these executives and coworkers treated Vic don’t give a damn.
honestly I'm glad funimation is shutting down because they'll find a way to ruin the shows you love through their dubbing and localization
They’re not shutting down, just getting rebranded.
Subscribed! Heavily underrated channel.
3:21 POV Dragon Ball: Nah I’d win 💀
Rest In Peace to the goat Akira Toriyama 😢
Bruh why pay 100$ a year for anime that crazy😂
dude it sets you between the first two cr tiers. if you thought you were ever paying less than their first tier you were living in a fantasy. The cr tiers have been at 96, 120, and 180 for a long time now.
@@DragoSaul did I’m not paying to watch there other ways to see what I want
@@Goodkidbadseed whatever you want to do. i don’t pay for services for brownie points i pay for them for convenience.
This trend towards also in many european countries like Germany.
German anime and even manga publishers was acquirrd by Sony/ Crunchyroll and rebrand with the Crunchyroll Name.
The same goes for anime streaming services like Wakanim, which were also acquired by Sony/Crunchyroll.
In many countries crunchyroll didn't get some Anime licences like Attack on Titan or One Piece.
Now they get mostly the same Anime in mostly all western countries like the US
I will never forgive them for what they did to Vic. There needs to be _Some_ sort of Justice served.
If Elon was to buy a company I’d want him to buy Crunchy Roll just to clear out Sabat’s clique and rehire Vic.
Vic is doing his own voice acting with another company now. He’s fine.
ok SA apologist
My sentiments exactly! My respect for Funimation pretty much disappeared after how they backstabbed Vic. 😠
Vic should had known better hugging teen girls and kissing their cheeks is pedo behavior.
I like how everyone is like “oh no Sony is taking away my Funimation!” But at the height of Funimation those same people were complaining on how clunky their streaming service was and how some of the physical media was in the wrong aspect ratio. And how subs were not correctly translated. Lol
whether you hate or love DragonBall (I personally love it) it paved the way for most anime's you have nowadays (MHA, JOJO, Naruto etc), without it most of these other anime's probably wouldn't have existed at all
What a unbelievable video!!
Keep the video coming
It's kinda sad but given how some of the people that worked there act on Twitter I'm not as sad as five year old me would have been
Which is a shame. OG DB is amazing! Peak DB!
Agreed. Z may have introduced most of us to the franchise but it wasn't nearly in the same league as the OG.
Started great, became woke though, so Funimation won't be missed.
Na their origin sucked too.
@@gespenst1329Nah
@@AlfredFJones1776 Nepotism, you can’t deny it.
@@gespenst1329Debatable.
RIP akira toriyama
Fantastic video, man!
Funimation shows have brought me a huge amount of joy during my adult life especially over the last ten years years or so when I really got back into it..... man what a ride it's been, good times
While I'd been a fan of some anime in the early 90's, I didn't really know that they were anime. It wasn't until Dragon Ball Z in the late 90's that I truly learned what anime was and became a fan of it in general. That said, I don't really remember how I even learned the word anime nor what it was. I just always remember knowing Dragon Ball Z was different from American cartoons.
RIP Akira Toriyama
DB & DBZ is what help lunched Funimation and Became Toonami Staple on Cartoon Network.
Wow end of an era, I remember on my DBZ dvds hearing that funimation intro lol
Great video.
I don’t feel bad about pirating old episodes of Dragonball.
Not one little bit.
Screw streaming services.
Especially when the fans are the ones putting in the effort to do color correction and release a definitive version of the series. I already paid my dues and bought brand new copies of the entire blue box set back in the day, sure as hell ain't paying for a streaming subscription now.
How sad is it that the most definitive Dragon Ball release is done by a small company in France and not the juggernaut that is Funimation? Seriously though. They color corrected it, did a careful remastering, and even added the original broadcast audio thay no official release has done until now.
@@ralphjb All Funimation ever did was ruin it, but what can be expected of a company that only got the license via nepotism in the first place?
At least AB Groupe actually took things seriously and fixed their own mistakes in the end.
I kind of like that you didn't bring up any other controversies but at the same time I think they're very important as to why FUNimation and Crunchyroll both far and we're in hard times
Honestly. The First Anime I EVER saw was Both The Original Dragon Ball, and the Fatal Fury OVAs.
I was Big on Action Cartoons when I was Little, Thunder Cats, Batman, and even the Original Hanna Barbara Action toons like Arabian Knights helped to push my Interest!
But when I saw how Dynamic, Insane, and Downright Brutal those Anime like DBZ, Fatal Fury, and Later THE GUYVER!! I was Hooked!
Anime for me in the Early 90s was peak entertainment for me back then. Only fostered further the more My Uncle and my Dad exposed me to it!
And yeah, without DBZ or the Og Dragon Ball show, I don’t think I’d Be here.
Speaking of Funimation and anime, I wonder what Funimation's reaction to the lastest update on Akira Toriyama will be.
RIP Akira Toriyama
The price increase should be illegal. Its a form of extortion! Alas...I shall pay to get my fix 😂
Honestly, yeah... 😭 Could see it coming from a mile away though. That's what happens when they basically own the market 😅
This is shocking can’t believe that Funimation is going to be gone
This is why I had issues with Funimation, like how the fuck do you skip the beginning of the story
It's like skipping Naruto to Shippuden or skipping East Blue to New World
I'll always prefer the OG Dragon Ball over the Z, GT, and Super
The mid 90s were very different than now in terms of bridging the cultural gap between Japanese, and western audiences. As stated in the video, the initial localization of Dragonball failed. And a big part of that reason was American audiences just couldn't connect with the whimsical nature of the show. Skipping to Dragonball Z was a bold move, but was the right one. And looking back at how American teenagers were at the time (I was one), Dragonball Z combined with it's marketing via Toonami just catered to the right demographic at the right time.
They literally already tried to before the Z Ocean dub, yet nobody could process that it wasn’t 100% action packed like Z.
@@astrostar49Funimation didn't deserve the license anyway, would have preferred it if after DB failed it went the way of Saint Seiya.
@@gespenst1329Fading into obscurity and never making anime popular?
@@AlfredFJones1776 It was on track to becoming popular even without DB.
At the least it would be better than Funimation’s rise.
I remember when my family first got cable television and I was lucky enough to have good grades to the point that they let my room have cable television in there. I was ecstatic to get cartoon Network & Nickelodeon thinking I'd watch a few shows and hop on the video games later. . . But then there was this channel I never seen before called Funimation channel, and I clicked on it being exposed to samurai champion, soul eater, and on Saturday movies like the Evangelion movies and Trigun Badlands rumble came on. I spent an ungodly amount of time just absorbing anime the moment I found out there was an entire channel dedicated just to my favorite thing at the time. . . And then years later it was taken off FiOS. . . and I cried. . . Now hearing that Funimation is kinda on its last leg in name, I can't help but look at all the old bumps on CZcams that used to appear every commercial when it was streaming back then. The dope music the fascinating shows and introductions to entirely new worlds and characters. . . As frustrating as the company stated to become later down the line, I'm still gonna miss tf out of Funimation
Yes sir and what made dbz more epic was the Bruce falconer score it caught the eye of the American audience instantly it made the show more serious and badass
Except everyone on the internet *hated* it when it came out. Even the people who made the score can attest to that.
They saw it for what it was.
@@gespenst1329Nah
@@AlfredFJones1776 Just ask Scott Morgan. No one on the internet liked it and the kids who did weren’t old enough to be on it yet.
Idk man I really like the Kikuchi score. The Falconer stuff is still good tho
@@BigBoy257Unfortunate thing about the former is that you pretty much had to be there from the beginning to enjoy it at its best.
Because Toei doesn't care about preserving it for future generations.
man i hope you make a longer video on this subject cuz i like how you edited the video
I would like a different dub voice cast for future dragonball stuff. Nothing wrong with who did it before but I'd like a new take
Preferably they lose the license altogether, they only ever got it because of Fukunaga’s uncle at Toei.
I bought Dragon Ball on VHS when it first came out, before Z was a thing on TV. It was my first introduction to Dragon Ball. There were 2 episodes per cassette, it was goofy, and fun. My cousin and I loved it.
Really good video you got a sub from me.
You know what I don't feel bad or have any sympathy for Funimation being shut down.
2:53
And Akira itself was inspired by Blade Runner lmao full circle
…..Not a good time to appear in my recommend
Funimation deserved to shut down because over the years they got worse and worse first mistreating and firing the staff that dubbed dragon ball to begin with then mistreating the fans with constant bad release after bad release just for money purposes and not quality and care and then finally covering for child abusers and having them as their employees it's sickening and funimation got what it deserved at the end
Watching Funimation dubs after school on Toonami was a huge part of my childhood.
Thank you, Funimation.
What an era Funimation was. Got some fond memories of it. Now I'm just a true pirate.
Funimation was cringe before cringe was even a thing. Their dub of Dragon Ball was an embarrassment. I'm glad they're gone so they can't ruin any more animes.
That first part is wrong first off.
Secondly, they’re not gone, just rebranded as Crunchy Roll Dubs.
@@AlfredFJones1776 I bet you're one of the simps who actually liked it when Funimation made Gohan say Nappa smelled like toenails and when they said "next dimension." 🙄🙄
@@dangerousdays2052Tbh most these days prefer the in-house Funimation material from 1999 to the initial Funimation production that used the Ocean cast, even bizarrely claiming that the nobodies they picked up from off the street were better than the Vancouver actors (which is wild considering the Pioneer movie dubs exist).
@@gespenst1329 American Dragon Ball fans also thought Broly was inside Magetta during the Universe 6 tournament. They ain't exactly known for their brain power.
@@dangerousdays2052Do you even know what the word simp means?
Let's also not forget Funimation originally did the Chuck e cheese home videos before dragon Ball
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I remember when Cruncyroll used to be a piracy site back in the day.
Ana amazing video, very informative! I’ve been in the anime community for a pretty long time now, and didn’t know a lot of these things
I stand with Vic! He was done dirty. Monica lied about him and even WILLINGLY got engaged to a CONVICTED abuser. Jamie also lied. These two women are all over Vic at conventions when these so called situations happened. They were not fearing for their safety how they said in their made up nonsense. There are even videos as proof of them being all over him! Monica was jealous of Vic's popularity as was Chris and Sean. Vic in a genuine person who cares about his fans and that's why we love him. He puts aside time for US and makes sure all of us get turns to talk to him during signings and makes sure everyone gets a chance for an autograph.
A pirates life for me.
Karma is a bitch. I was waiting for this to happen since Funimation catered to their version of Amber Heard. And Chris's casting couch.
The streaming service Funimation will shut down but the company formerly known as Funimation Global Group LLC has changed its name to Crunchyroll LLC. It is the original Crunchyroll business that was closed. So technically it is still Funimation under a new name, it is just the service known as Funimation that is gone in favor of the service known as Crunchyroll.
Do you people in the comments not realize that the NAME Funimation is going away (already has in most regards) but all those same people are still around just under the “Crunchy Roll Dubs” banner now? So saying “good riddance” doesn’t mean much since it’s just a rebranding/merger.
Did Netflix take over their streaming?
Crunchyroll isn’t increasing their prices as much as funimation annual subscribers will now be paying what crunchyroll subscribers have been paying for a long time now. The tiers of crunchyroll have been at 96, 120, and 180 for a long time now. You paying 100 sets you in the middle of the first two tiers. Funimation annual subscribers who honestly believed theyd ever pay less than the cheapest cr tier were living in a fantasy.
This video was great I’ve never seen your content but you are amazing you earn a new sub
This video didn’t age well… idk if you heard … but akira Toyiama passed away.
Fukunaga is truly a self-made man who pulled himself up by his bootstraps... With a little help from his well-connected uncle... And a tiny investment of a few million from other relatives!
Lol good one.