Weeb Life in Finland: Rising of Cinema and Return of Cons
Just earlier this week, it was announced that Wakanim (and its parent company Funimation) would be migrating their anime content libraries to Crunchyroll, meaning they would essentially cease active operations (adding new simulcast episodes) at the end of the current Winter 2022 anime season. Back in September of last year, I wondered if Wakanim would eventually be merged into Funimation, as AnimeLab had recently done, but it seems the higher-ups at Sony made a better decision and merged them both into Crunchyroll instead. Only time will tell how this will play out in practicality - a lot of Wakanim titles are for now region-locked in Crunchyroll and many have yet to be migrated at all - but one thing is certain: the anime streaming field is now more centralized than ever, with the plus side that for a consumer a Crunchyroll monopoly is still miles better than a Funimation monopoly. (Not so much for the workers behind the scenes though.) Meanwhile in Finland, it's a ...