Sony Pictures Television games and Funimation have announced they will be bringing the hugely popular anime series, My Hero Academia, to Google Play and the App Store. My Hero Academia: The Strongest Hero brings the superpowered Midoriya and his trainee hero classmates to mobile gamers later this spring but is available for pre-registration now. In My […]
AT&T to sell CrunchyRoll to Sony for almost $1.2 billion
As originally reported by Reuters, Sony will buy animation company Crunchyroll from AT&T for $1.175 billion. The two companies confirmed this news late on Wednesday evening. This means Crunchyroll will now be absorbed into its anime company rival Funimation, a joint venture between Sony Pictures and Aniplex. U.S. animation distributor Funimation Global Group already has […]
Funimation to release Makoto Shinkai’s latest film Your Name
Funimation have announced that they have obtained the rights to release the latest beautifully animated film, Your Name (titled Kimi no Na wa in Japan), from renowned director Makoto Shinkai in cinemas around the US and also on DVD. The script for Your Name was written by Makoto Shinkai and was inspired by a novel that he wrote […]