So the transfers are still happening but at this rate it’s going to be another year or more before completeįor the same reason Funimation ended their partnership with CR in late 2016 & CR theirs with Sentai in late 2021: because Viz & Discotek aren't companies under Sony's control. It’s true they should have made sure Crunchyroll had the servers in place to handle the transfers, but Sony did not think about that. So they had to slow down the transfers which got better but still caused issues, it’s now at the point where they transfer 1-5 shows over a month, anything more then that seems to cause problems, where they were transferring 100 shows at a time yeah it would only take a few months but after the very first transfer they had to reduce the number of shows. They started out by transferring a ton of shows over and suddenly half the shows lost subtitles(text object translations) some had sync issues, then their existing shows started having issues, and this effected new shows.
Part of the issue was in theory it was going to work, just transfer a huge number of shows over to Crunchyroll and be done with it in a few months time, what they did not expect was how many errors this started causing. Keep in mind, licensing/co-production agreements for brand new simulcasts can occur several seasons in advance.Īlthough there are still some notable shows (One Piece dub) not yet transitioned to Crunchyroll, it’s nice I only need to subscribe to Crunchyroll for the current simulcasts while still enjoying a large catalog. The transition of content from Funimation to Crunchyroll in many territories likely wasn’t something they wanted to hold up the rebranding of Funimation to Crunchyroll.
Each service still had new simulcasts not shared with the other during the Fall 2021 and Winter 2022 seasons. Sharing brand new simulcasts between both services (which occurred during the Fall 2021 and Winter 2022 seasons after the acquisition was completed in August 2021) was limited to only a few titles and was likely also hampered by licensing agreements. The priority of the rebranding was likely on ensuring that brand new simulcasts were only licensed for one service and brand for as many territories as possible going forward.
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