Crunchyroll confirmed on Tuesday that home video releases for the back arrow, BEM: BECOMING HUMAN, Hetalia World Stars, Life Lessons with Uramichi-Oniisanand A play the anime will be under his label. Funimation held the licenses of these series, and also took care of the previous ones A play home video outings. FunimationThe Twitter account also made the announcement on its Twitter account.
Crunchyroll also announced on Tuesday that it had added Dragon Ball Z with the English doubleand dragonball and Dragon Ball GT with English subtitles and English double. These were previously only available on Funimation.
the back arrow Part 1 Blu-ray Disc will be available on June 28th. BEM: BECOMING HUMAN will be available on June 7. Hetali: world stars will be available on June 14. Life Lessons with Uramichi-Oniisan will be available on June 28. A play Season 11 Voyage 8 will be available on June 7.
Funimation and Crunchyroll announced on March 1 that Funimation and wakanimthe anime library and simulcast content moved to Crunchyroll. sonyit’s Funimation Global Group has completed the acquisition of Crunchyroll from AT&T on August 9 of last year. The purchase price was US$1.175 billion and the proceeds were paid in cash at closing.
Crunchyroll and Funimation first announced the acquisition in December 2020 with a purchase price of US$1.175 billion. Technology website The Information reported in August 2020 that AT&T was offering Crunchyroll for sony for 1.5 billion US dollars and that sony reportedly “backed off” the price, which effectively valued the streaming service at $500 per subscriber. Entertainment Information Source Variety reported that AT&T was buying the company from several potential buyers outside of Sony Pictures Entertainment at this moment. Nikkei Asia reported later than October sony was in final negotiations for Crunchyroll acquisition. At that time, the newspaper reported that sony “could end up spending more than 100 billion yen ($957 million).”
Source: Crunchyroll (Nicholas Friedman), Funimationtwitter of AccountPress release
