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"\n\tSony have today completed the acquisition of Crunchyroll for $1.175 billion. \n\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\tFull press release here. \n\n\n\n\tSo the aim is creating a \"unified anime subscription\", which is good to have confirmed. I just hope this means there's a major rebrand with all shows available on one platform which works as well as the Crunchyroll app/subtitles/everything else, and not the mess that Funimation often is. \n\n\n\n\tThink this will prove to be an absolute steal for Sony over the next decade, and hopefully they'll see some more stability outside of gaming because of this. Just make sure it works well and they could close to monopolise the western anime streaming industry. \n\n\n\n\tNow if we can please finally see some strings being pulled to secure UK streaming rights for series which are way too big to not be on anything (such as all of the old Dragon Ball stuff) and tear down some of those 'Not available in your country' Funimation error messages, that'd be great! \n\n"
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