Crunchyroll Dubs, formerly Funimation Productions, LLC, commonly known as Funimation, is an American entertainment company that specializes in the dubbing and distribution of foreign content, most notably anime. Sony Pictures Entertainment, a division of the Japanese conglomerate Sony, is its majority owner. Based in Flower Mound, Texas, the studio is one of the leading distributors of anime and other foreign entertainment properties in North America alongside Viz Media, Sentai Filmworks, Aniplex of America, and more.
Their most popular property is Toei Animation's action-adventure franchise Dragon Ball, which - through its sequel Dragon Ball Z - had a successful run on Cartoon Network's Toonami block from 1998 to 2003, and has been re-released on DVD and Blu-ray several times since.
The company was founded on May 9th, 1994 by Gen Fukunaga and his wife Cindy as FUNimation Productions, with funding by Daniel Cocanougher and his family, who became investors in the company. Funimation was acquired by Navarre Corporation on May 11th, 2005 and the company was renamed to FUNimation Entertainment.
History[]
The company was founded on June 14, 1994 by Japanese-born businessman Gen Fukunaga. Fukunaga's uncle, Nagafumi Hori, was working as a producer for Toei Company; Hori approached Gen about licensing Dragon Ball to the United States.
Controversy[]
Voice actors[]
When allegations against Vic Mignogna arose, Funimation had no issue supporting the #KickVic campaign and firing him, claiming that sexual assaulters had no place in their company. However as pointed[1] out by Just Stop in his video How Funimation Became the Most Hated Dub Studio, one of their other voice actors, Scott Freeman, was arrested for having child pornography on his computer, but despite this, Funimation kept him employed for over a year before firing him. In Akudama Drive, they hired D.C. Douglas despite having evidence of him doing sexual harassment like indecent exposure.
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