Rumors have implied that AT&T’s WarnerMedia is interesting in selling Western anime streaming platform Crunchyroll to Sony for the whopping price of $1.5 billion, a move that will surely cause beloved shows to be further censored and mistranslated.
Three unnamed individuals have suggested that Sony seeks to purchase Crunchyroll so that it can capitalize on its control of anime, as they also possess the rather despicable Funimation.
According to the original source of the news, the colossal sum of cash is “well above recent values for other niche streaming services”, and Sony is hesitant to sacrifice such money for something catering exclusively to lovers of anime.
A Crunchyroll spokesperson and Sony representative both refused to comment on these rumors.
Sony, for those somehow not informed, have been on a crusade against anime-style titles in the past few years, outright admitting they are censoring games for the “sake of the children” and due to the #MeToo movement.
The all-ages versions of countless visual novels and games were censored for PlayStation consoles due to their sexualization of “underage fictional characters”, despite the existence of the rating system.
Should Sony seize control of Crunchyroll, it is likely that Western consumers of anime can expect more purposefully altered dialogue to include irrelevant political and racial jabs and “totally more fitting” humor.
honestly sony of all people? i may not use crunchy roll but f♥♥k sony and their censoring BS
This is old news, Sankaku is late. Sony rejected the offer and AT&T is trying to sell it to others for 1 billion.
Please successfully sell it to someone that does not FUCKING massacre anime!
Pray that MindGeek picks it up.
anime fandom massacre anime more than Crunchyroll, but they don’t realize
You are ultimately right, by supporting pozz western companies that censor anime and give a few nickels to JP companies that make the product
You mean all the unofficial groups, that try not to sell it no matter what?
The only folks with this kind of money, are commercial groups, that take income above all.
It’s the same people that bend backwards to court a groups of confused dykes or queers, thinking it will keep the sales flowing.
you guys basically forgot about Nintendo, they have over $90bil in their financials from pokemon alone they are more than qualified to buy it to put on their switch as an app.
Sell it to someone that doesn’t fucking massacre anime, unlike Cuckyroll…
Pawn shop: I give you $3.50 for it.
GIT OUTTA HERE, GOTDAMN LOCH NESS MONSTER!!!
Thank FUCKING god….I was bout to kill myself so I could roll over in my grave….
crunchy hole isnt even worth a charlie brown rock.
$1 Billion? Not bad for a website that started life as a pirate anime website hosting mirrors of a ton of shows they had no license too.
Shows theirs money in operators of these sites going legit if popular and licensing shows. Because holy s♥♥t, 1 billion for a site hosting anime? LOL.
Doesn’t mean that they won’t change their minds
I know Sony is pozzed to s♥♥t but even they wont take that piece of s♥♥t company for that amount of money, I mean what the f♥♥k were they thinking for the valuation price, that we were still riding the Dot com bubble or something??
Hm… he’s not wrong.
Honestly subs would be better most likely.
Sony owns Aniplex and they’re BD’s may cost a kidney but subs are at least decent.
Also doubt censors would change again would likely be handled by an anime focused division. PlayStation is simply one branch.
Down with soyny
Sony is Japanese, so down with the Japanese.
I doubt it, knowing Sony, they liked to censored s♥♥t over the damn #MeToo movement, yet Switch had some uncensored content on there. Might as well get Switch.
Also, Crunchyroll can go suck its dick for all that I care.
Getting switch becuz of salty censorship? Gud luk finding good games
And what good games are there for the Play Station 4 and 5? The Last of Us 2?
Yeah, it only has 2600. Man so hard.
such a shame about the switch, it’s such piece of trash console with exclusive games that try to force you to buy it.
I believe you have literal brain damage… I’m not a fan of the Switch either, but if any console has a good reason for its exclusives its the Switch, since you can’t replicate the things you can do with its gimmick tools with any other console.
luckily I ended my subscription way earlier when this fucking cucks started with their fucking sjw crap
and now fucking soyny will f♥♥k it more, soyny, the one that censores fucking anime but a fucking faggot humping a tranny is ok
that’s why I pirate now, f♥♥k chrunchy, f♥♥k unfunimation
cali must be nuked
seriously who gives a f♥♥k what happens to crunchyroll
for the fans who pay, not the pirates, it matters
Trying to be edgy huh? Without Crunchyroll and Sony investing into Legal anime we wouldn’t even have anime in the West, it would be like how superheroes weren’t even mainstream yet since its roots in the late 1930s.
Not true, if anything the mass availability of fansubs has made fansubbing groups less likely to sub something on mass because its readily available. I remember a decade ago it was like the golden age of fansubbing as you could get literally anything.
The US virtually created one of the top 3 most important pieces of paper in human history in the Constitution, but now that doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be destroyed at this point, given that they do not follow it at all, and are simply a feminist cultural marxist country exporting dysfunction, mental illness, and unequal treatment under the law (social justice).
Until I see the US exterminate their very numerous leftist subhumans, arrogant parasitical feminists, and deranged hypocritical low IQ monkeys they are not worth saving.
use your hands and then rub them in the fac
Because fansubs didn’t exist before those dogshit companies… Because they still don’t exist and deliver a far better product than those subhuman companies…
Please stop being retarded, ignorance is a choice in 2020.
I’d rather “have nothing” (learn japanese weeb filth), than have dogshit fed to me.
Also, are we going to ignore how anime has strived, (and is still sriving) via fansubs? Sites like Crunchcuck are redundant, they barely give back to the industry (look it up), delivers often s♥♥t subs driven by politics, and censors everything sometimes worse than even the Japanese.