Why the DOJ Is Overthinking the Sony-Crunchyroll Deal

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The U.S. anime market may be headed toward a dangerous level of consolidation. That’s the thinking of the U.S. Justice Department at least, which is now examining whether Sony’s $1.2 billion Decem…

the Financial Times in January that it’s “fully committed” to anime and global fans “will see more coming from us in that genre.

Seeing as how anime initiatives by SVOD giants are ongoing anyway, shouldn’t the DOJ want Funimation and Crunchyroll to be able to join forces, so as to not keep Netflix and Amazon’s reach advantage over other services so glaring? those in the AVOD space like Roku and Tubi, are growing. And these platforms could also present new attractive anime distribution channel alternatives as Funimation and Crunchyroll join forces.

 

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