Right? I really struggle with corporate announcements because they water down the message until it's incomprehensible.
funimation is more of a licensing and distribution company than an "anime studio"
This is selling it short though. They hire actors/writers/directors to dub the content in order to do the distribution. They didn't hire 3rd party companies to do it. They did it in house in their studios. They were as much of a studio as a company can get without animating the content themselves.
They ask themselves the difficult question for every anime: which character will be voiced by Vic Mignogna.
Yeah, their credit list does look repetitive, and I made that opinion known all the time myself. To be fair, look at a Scorsese credit list, and you'll see a list of repeated names too. Not saying anything FUNi ever did is near that level. If you know that backstory of FUNi, it makes a lot more sense though
Last I heard, Vic Mignogna had been more or less blacklisted from the industry due to sexual harassment allegations, so I don't think that question would be very difficult.
Funimation was also “Netflix for anime”. Sony bought Funimation and then it bought Crunchyroll. Now they are finalizing the “unification” by migrating their remaining customers and shows to Crunchyroll and keeping it as the sole platform.
This “announcement” is describing how to move your account and answering questions current users might have.
At least that’s what I understood. Others can correct me if I’m wrong.
(I know Funimation is an anime studio, I know Crunchyroll is Netflix for anime, and I know there's some recent controversy over Funimation stuff being pulled from Crunchyroll, including past purchases, and I presume it's due to negotiations between the two parties.)