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Sony: Acquired Crunchyroll from AT & T: Attack on Titan, One Piece
Sony:
On December 10th, it officially announced that it would acquire Crunchyroll from AT & T, a major US telecommunications company.
The purchase price is 1.175 billion dollars (about 120 billion yen).
Anime “Kimetsu no Yaiba”:
Sony owns influential content such as the anime “Kimetsu no Yaiba”.
Currently being supplied to major video distribution companies such as Netflix in the US.
Crunchyroll:
Incorporate Crunchyroll’s 90 million membership base worldwide.
Strengthen our strategy to deliver content directly to consumers around the world.
Obtained from parent company AT & T:
Sony will acquire all of the shares of the Crunchyroll operating company from its parent company, AT & T, and make it a wholly owned subsidiary.
Crunchyroll was founded in 2006
90 million free members with anime distribution,
3 million paying members,
It is held in more than 200 countries and regions such as Europe and the United States.
Complete the procedure after approval by the relevant authorities.
US Funimation Productions:
In 2017, Sony acquired Funimation Productions, an anime distribution company.
Currently, there are 1 million members in the United States.
“Kimetsu no Yaiba” Aniplex:
Sony owns Aniplex (Chiyoda, Tokyo), which produced “Kimetsu no Yaiba” under its umbrella.
Has many influential anime works.
With this acquisition, the business will be expanded to deliver content to the world through its own distribution network.
Nihon Keizai Shimbun
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQODZ100T10Q0A211C2000000
Sony is buying anime streaming service Crunchyroll from AT&T for $1.175 billion
Sony will be buying
anime streaming service Crunchyroll from AT&T for $1.175 billion, Sony and AT&T announced Wednesday.
Specifically, Crunchyroll
will become part of Sony’s Funimation, which already licenses many popular shows such as Attack on Titan, Fullmetal Alchemist, and One Piece.
Now that Sony owns both Crunchyroll and Funimation, the company
has tremendous power over anime in the US at a time when many other media companies are trying to figure out their anime content.
Netflix has also invested heavily in both licensing and producing its own anime content.
The Verge
AT&T to Sell Crunchyroll to Sony’s Funimation Global Group
Culver City, CA and Dallas, TX,
December 9, 2020 —
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. and AT&T Inc.* (NYSE:T)
today announced that AT&T agreed to sell its Crunchyroll anime business to Funimation Global Group, LLC.
Funimation
is a joint venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.’s subsidiary, Aniplex Inc.
Sony Pictures Entertainment