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.
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.
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
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.
😢😢😢 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
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”
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. 😆
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
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!
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. 🙏
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.
@@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.
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?
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❤😁
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Very interesting video, thank you for al the research you've done! I would have loved if years were also listed together with the events in the video, it would had been way more informative...
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
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.
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
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
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 RUclips 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
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
What is going to happen to regular digital copies (DVD only)? When I've buy long animes on DVD for a while. Like One Piece and Dragon Ball. So I'm a little worried about the future of Anime DVD in English Dub.
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.
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.
This was great, honorable mention : Manga entertainment, responsible for ghost in the shell. ADV Films (I used to order VHS from them) , Pioneer Geneon brought us Tenchi Muyo amongst others.
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.
Yeah, the internet and steaming literally killed an the art of dubbing at least for the English speaking world. It was a great era, but things move and change.
Considering Sony purchased Crunchyroll from AT&T it's understandable that all operations and series will carry over to Crunchyroll, as their library so much more bigger
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.
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.
I'll never forget how awful they had it when airing new episodes of dbz in the beginning (middle of the ginyu saga, about the time goku arrives on namek) only until around mid to late android saga where they were slowly but surely improving their voice actors. I think by the buu saga everyone was great. and I thank them for the bruce faulconer score as well since most are memorable bangers. I still quote some of those cheesy/corny lines sometimes "wow mondo cool!" "thats one whopper of a lizard!" goku's "oooh nooo" when vegeta flies away, etc. etc.
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.
RIP!!! THE CREATOR OF DRAGONBALL!!!😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
RIP to one of the best to ever do it 😞
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Janice burgess creator of The Backyardigans is gone.
Akira Toriyama is gone 😢
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Today is the day…farewell Funimation..
😢😢😢 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
God took Funimation and Akira Toriyama from us at the same time 😭
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
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?
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.
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
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! ❤
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. 🙏
Honestly, Funimation was getting too greedy for its own good.
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.
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
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?
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❤😁
Bro I love the formatting and research put into this! Absolutely deserve more subs
Great video gonna need to compete with this quality soon
Just subscribed to you!!
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
I just realized this dude only got like 300 subscribers like how? This video was so well put together and so interesting
Subscribed! Heavily underrated channel.
Funi started to get bad when they got the purple simplified logo instead of the Texas flag looking one.
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.
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
This amazing video just hit our pilaf servers! Underrated is an UNDERstatement!! Keep going kitsune amazing work - 💙
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.
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 😭
What a unbelievable video!!
Keep the video coming
RIP akira toriyama
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.
Fantastic video, man!
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.
I lost my respect for Funimation after that Vic Mignona case; so this one was a long time coming
3:21 POV Dragon Ball: Nah I’d win 💀
Rest In Peace to the goat Akira Toriyama 😢
man i hope you make a longer video on this subject cuz i like how you edited the video
This video was great I’ve never seen your content but you are amazing you earn a new sub
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.
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.
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
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
Great video.
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.
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
RIP Akira Toriyama
Very interesting video, thank you for al the research you've done! I would have loved if years were also listed together with the events in the video, it would had been way more informative...
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
Rest in Pieces. It was a dogshit service that didn’t care about its customers.
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?
With the merge of Funimation did crunchy will have DBZ with the Bruce Falconer Score option or it will become a lost media with time ???
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
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 $300,000. So yeah. Screw vic
@@alexmansfield3268Monica and Jamie were lying. Why else did Funimation fold? It's simple Karma.
honestly I'm glad funimation is shutting down because they'll find a way to ruin the shows you love through their dubbing and localization
They’re not shutting down, just getting rebranded.
RIP Akira Toriyama
DB & DBZ is what help lunched Funimation and Became Toonami Staple on Cartoon Network.
When Funimation fired Vic, that was the beginning of the end.
Was that before the George Floyd reaction? Imagine an animation company telling you how bad you are for having opinions of other people.
Who's Vic?
@@egp2497The voice of Broly. He got metood by 304s.
The vic mognova?
@@dansmith16 George Floyd not being able to breathe was in 2020. The Broly movie's dub release and consequently the false accusations against Vic happened in 2019.
Wow end of an era, I remember on my DBZ dvds hearing that funimation intro lol
Funimation shows have brought me a huge amount of joy during my adult life especially over the last ten years years or so when I really got back into it..... man what a ride it's been, good times
Bruh why pay 100$ 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.
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.
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.
Really good video you got a sub from me.
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.
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 😅
11:14 i heard the godzilla atomic breath sound. Wonder if anyone notice
This is shocking can’t believe that Funimation is going to be gone
Will there still be dubs though?
Uh why did you leave out ADV Films and Bandai
Speaking of Funimation and anime, I wonder what Funimation's reaction to the lastest update on Akira Toriyama will be.
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 RUclips 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
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
We should have been watching
What is going to happen to regular digital copies (DVD only)? When I've buy long animes on DVD for a while. Like One Piece and Dragon Ball. So I'm a little worried about the future of Anime DVD in English Dub.
Did Netflix take over their streaming?
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.
5:50 Ah, there we go! BINGO!
I’m surprised your a small channel bro
You earned a subscription lil bro
Heck yeah bro thank you 🙏🏻
I didn't know if it was just a streaming platform gone, or the whole company. Now I know. And this is so sad.
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.
Speed Racer and Sailor Moon were my first animes.
Well edited video. But the narration could use some work.
This was great, honorable mention : Manga entertainment, responsible for ghost in the shell. ADV Films (I used to order VHS from them) , Pioneer Geneon brought us Tenchi Muyo amongst others.
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.
Let's also not forget Funimation originally did the Chuck e cheese home videos before dragon Ball
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Watching Funimation dubs after school on Toonami was a huge part of my childhood.
Thank you, Funimation.
The way these executives and coworkers treated Vic don’t give a damn.
What an era Funimation was. Got some fond memories of it. Now I'm just a true pirate.
Yeah, the internet and steaming literally killed an the art of dubbing at least for the English speaking world. It was a great era, but things move and change.
Considering Sony purchased Crunchyroll from AT&T it's understandable that all operations and series will carry over to Crunchyroll, as their library so much more bigger
This video didn’t age well… idk if you heard … but akira Toyiama passed away.
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.
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.
I'll never forget how awful they had it when airing new episodes of dbz in the beginning (middle of the ginyu saga, about the time goku arrives on namek) only until around mid to late android saga where they were slowly but surely improving their voice actors. I think by the buu saga everyone was great. and I thank them for the bruce faulconer score as well since most are memorable bangers. I still quote some of those cheesy/corny lines sometimes "wow mondo cool!" "thats one whopper of a lizard!" goku's "oooh nooo" when vegeta flies away, etc. etc.