Well, time to say bye bye to Funimation, and say hello to Crunchyroll Dubs.

I’m not sure how many people even listen to dubs nowadays, when they get older and learn that subtitles exist. I feel like most people who visit this site watch subs anyways. I only watched two dubs at this point, and that’s My Hero Academia and Jojo: Stone Ocean. So I’m not sure how many of you knew about this, or how many of you will even be affected by this, but yep, Funimation has been bought by Crunchyroll, and now is a part of Crunchyroll brand. I’m guessing it’s going to be pretty much the same thing, just with a new name. Funimation used to be the staple of anime and dubbing in the west, but I guess Crunchyroll has come a long way and is now going to be the forefront of anime in the west. We used to have other English dubs in-house studios like 4Kids and Bang Zoom!, but you don’t really hear that muc of them. The only relevant dubbing studio I know of right now is Netflix.

Everyday the anime industry is changing. I remember back in the day, Toonami was the only place to find anime, and then we got Funimation, who was a big part of most of our childhood, but now, as we get older, the companies and the industry do as well, and it gets bigger. Which is a good thing, but also could be bad, depending on the direction they want to take it. Crunchyroll hasn’t had the most successful ideas, I’m looking at you High Guardian Spice, but hopefully they don’t fuck up what Funimation has already built so far.

Have you heard of Crunchyroll Dubs? Do you still listen to English dub anime? Do you think Cruchyroll is going to fuck up? Tel us in the comments.