Anime: DNA and Crunchyroll streaming platforms separate

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Crunchyroll vs DNA

The anime streaming services group formed by Crunchyroll and Anime Digital Network (DNA) has just experienced a small revolution. Indeed, the first has just announced having separated from the second. What consequence for the French market ?

Crunchyroll and anime Digital Network has been going on a long time. And for good reason: DNA had been launched on the market in 2013 “In the form of a partnership between the former Crunchyroll brand, Viz Media Europe, and the Citel brand of media-participations”, Recalls Crunchyroll today on its site . However, The two entities, although partners, offered two separate streaming offers. What to sow some confusion with the public.

From now on, the situation is clearer, since Crunchyroll and anime Digital Network will go separately. DNA is 100% bought by media-participations (Citel and Kana Home Video) while Crunchyroll, a heritage of Kazé for a few months, now continues its route alone.

A new era for the Japanimation SVOD

We must not leave aside Wakanim, another actor in anime streaming in France. This one actually belongs to the same group as Crunchyroll, which gradually absorbs its catalog. “Wakanim, which has operated in France and most European countries since 2009, is in the process of transferring its entire catalog available on the Crunchyroll platform. In March 2022, Crunchyroll announced that Funimation and Wakanim would stop adding new series on these services, limiting only to new episodes of existing series “, Can we read in the same press release.

You are lost ? It’s not abnormal. To summarize, you must remember two information:

• Crunchyroll, property of Funimation, gives its DNA independence and merges with Wakanim.
• Anime Digital Network now belongs to Média-Participations and is a horseman alone.

If you have subscribed to one or the other of these services, it should not change much for you. Wakanim’s fate has not yet been detailed : although it is acted that the service will no longer welcome new products, it is not specified if the platform will completely disappear soon.

DNA changes (a little) name

With this announcement, Crunchyroll is proclaimed “First anime broadcaster in France”. It is certain that the service catalog, enriched by that of Wakanim, is of the largest. With a clarified position, it is a safe bet that Crunchyroll will be able to associate with new partners to expand its offer in the coming months.

For its part, Anime Digital Network changes a slight name, to become a digital network animation. A press release published on Twitter announces that the service is “A new step towards a French, creative, committed, entertainment streaming platform at the service of animation”. This name change is far from anecdotal, Since he underlines the desire for DNA not to limit himself to Japanese animation: the service actively participates in French productions, such as the adaptation of the French manga Dreamland.

�� �� The new Digital Network animation adventure begins ! ����
We will explain everything to you !
If you have other questions about the continuation of events, everything is available on our FAQ !
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– Digital Network animation (@adnanime) July 27, 2022

Immediate, It is impossible to know if this situation will have an impact on subscribers of the various services, But also if it will have any impact on the offers offered. The situation has, however, the merit of being a little more readable today.

Anime: DNA and Crunchyroll streaming platforms separate

It is a small revolution in the world of Japanese animation series dissemination platforms: the American Crunchyroll platform, a subsidiary of Sony, separates from the French DNA, which joins the Franco-Belgian media-party group.

Posted on July 28. 2022 at 9:01

The Crunchyroll streaming giant announced in a press release separate from the French SVOD platform specializing in manga and anime, anime Digital Network (DNA), which it has been code. The full DNA property now goes to the Franco-Belgian Media-Participations group.

In 2021, Crunchyroll was itself bought by Sony for an amount of $ 1.18 billion who wanted to place itself on this market which continues to grow outside the borders of Japan.

A goal of unification of the giant crunchyroll

In its press release, Crunchyroll explains to register “in the continuity of several initiatives aimed at unifying the Crunchyroll brand in Europe”. In March 2022, the American giant announced recovering the catalogs from Funimation and French Wakanim platforms. In June, the Kazé platform, which includes the manga and DVD edition in France and Germany, that Crunchyroll was offered.

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“France is an essential market for us and we want to offer anime fans a simple way to access the best of anime in one place,” said Rahul Purini, president of Crunchyroll, in his press release.

DNA passes under Franco-Belgian Pavilion

The DNA platform leaves the American ship to join the Franco-Belgian Média-Participations publishing house, specializing in publishing through the Fleurus group, but also specializing in comics and manga with the houses of Edition like Dargaud, Lombard, Dupuis or Kana Manga who publishes among others the popular Naruto, Death Note or Yu-Gi-Oh !.

�� �� The new Digital Network animation adventure begins ! ����
We will explain everything to you !
If you have other questions about the continuation of events, everything is available on our FAQ !
➡ https: // t.CO/SLYAAIABEX PIC.twitter.com/nwf2gbsl7t

– Digital Network animation (@adnanime) July 27, 2022

“This new important step concretizes the group’s ambitions to continue to develop this major actor of the SVOD, in France and in Europe”, wrote the platform for its part in a press release. She announces that she wanted to “support French animation with new original productions”, such as Dreamland and Lance Hard which are already in production, and the acquisition of new Japanese licenses.

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