This is an alert to all the Otakus out there who frequent the American Entertainment Company, Funimation! This online platform will temporarily be down for the next two hours.
Funimation posted on their official Twitter account that their scheduled maintenance will begin today.
This announcement did not include when the maintenance will be over.
Though they have not reported what the maintenance is for, many claimed that the website has been lagging frequently since last year.
It has also been reported that while viewing, the video tends to skip or freeze frequently much to the dismay of its users.
Sources also claim that the scheduled maintenance may have also been called for after Sony announced that it is set to acquire American Streaming and Distribution Company, Crunchyroll.
Crunchyroll and Funimation would be partnering to make a new mega-service for its combined viewers. In order to achieve this, they might be laying the groundwork for blending the services.
Hence, the users are expecting a major revamp from them!
About Funimation
Funimation is an American entertainment company that specializes in the dubbing and distribution of foreign content, mostly anime.
The company is based in Flower Mound, Texas, and the studio is one of the leading distributors of anime and other foreign entertainment properties in North America.
The company was founded on May 9, 1994, by Fukunaga and his wife Cindy, and named it FUNimation Productions. The initial funding was provided by Daniel Cocanougher.
After eleven years, FUNimation Productions was acquired by Navarre Corporation and was renamed to FUNimation Entertainment.
The ownership of the company has since been transferred several more times until it was finally acquired by Sony Pictures Television on October 27, 2017.
Its name now is simply Funimation and is the leading entertainment company in terms of dubbing and distribution of anime.
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