Funimation
Crunchyroll, LLC, previously known as Funimation from 1994 to 2022, is an American entertainment company owned by Japanese conglomerate Sony as a joint venture between Sony Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment Japan's Aniplex that specializes in the dubbing and distribution of East Asian media, with a long history of working with Japanese anime.
The company was founded in May 1994 as Funimation Productions by Gen Fukunaga and his wife Cindy Brennan in Silicon Valley, with funding by Daniel Cocanougher and his family, who became investors in the company, which then relocated to North Richland Hills, later to Flower Mound, Texas, and after that in Coppell, Texas. Funimation was one of the leading distributors of anime and other foreign entertainment properties in North America. It licensed popular series, such as Dragon Ball, One Piece, Yu Yu Hakusho, My Hero Academia, Attack on Titan, Fairy Tail, Black Clover, Fruits Basket, Assassination Classroom, and Tokyo Ghoul among many others.
FUNIMATION NETWORK INFORMATION
- Former Name: Funimation
- Current Name: Crunchyroll
- Network Type: Subsidiary
- Network Industry: Entertainment
- Founders: Olympusat
- Founded: September 29, 2005
- Closed: December 31, 2015
- Headquarters: West Palm Beach, Florida
- Website: Funimation
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