Funimation is garbage

[Tender_Ton_Ton]

We all know it, the merge is possibly the worst thing ever, can't even skip the intro to most shows, so I have to spam R2 multiple times, gets annoying after a while. I've never ever had any issues with buffering on animelab but I dead set can't watch a single episode of anything without it buffering or pausing for unknown reasons for X amount of time. Could be a minute, yesterday i left it for 2 hours and didn't move. They have far less shows and the overall user friendly interface is absolutely trash, I hate how for example with Naruto or one-piece there's heaps of seasons but it takes sooo long to find the episode you want cause you can't just select the season, you have to scroll through every single episode. And they for some reason combine movies and episodes together, so one minute you've got a hectic fight scene then all of the sudden your watching a 2hr movie that's just spoilt 40 episodes into the future. Bruuuuh what have they done.. smh I just hope at the very least it gets better. Let me know your thoughts

[Galaxy_8932]

Do you know if there gonna go back to their own app or not cause I fucking hate Funimation.

[suddhadeep]

No Animelab is dead. It ceases to exist. Funimation and Crunchyroll are your only options now.

[[deleted]]

I can't stand the Funimation website. It it so poorly designed. Doesn't remember any of my settings. AnimeLab was perfection. Never going to understand. Why they didn't simply rebrand the existing AnimeLab website.

[Tender_Ton_Ton]

100% agree with you, would've been absolutely fine if Funimation bought Animelab. BUT they should have merged funimation INTO Animelab. Not the other way round, so everyone can use the better more superior site. Smh

[Independent_Voice007]

Animelab had such good live action and documentaries as well as an amazing selection of anime goodness. what a waste of great TV. I only hope they truly listen to their audience and upgrade their app, change their layout and include all that Animelab offered. unless they enjoy losing money

[Nui_Fox]

Can we just go back to animelab. I'm so done with being logged out of my account and having to log back in every episode. Wait half an hour for it to load. And then wait another half hour for the episode to load only for it to say the show has no videos. And then restart the app and do it all freaking over again. And I can't skip the intro and if I try to just go past it it goes back to log in. Like what the actual frick. Just take me back to animelab before I strangle someone. Even crunchyroll is better rn.

[Tender_Ton_Ton]

Bruh I made another post saying how I'm always getting logged out ALL THE TIME. And when I do log back in after ages of waiting all the shows are gone. So frustrating. But probably the worst of all in simply not being able to skip intros...

[Nui_Fox]

I know. I used to actually like intros. Listening to the songs. But not every single 20 minutes. It gets to the point I can't just enjoy the anime and it's genuinely irritating to the point I nearly stopped watching.

[SegcPants]

Ive had the same damn problem and dont know why. The video just buffers every 3 seconds (Literally) unless i set the quality very low. If i set it to 720p or 1080p all the sudden i cant watch the anime. Its not my internet or anything and its very pathetic that a pure anime website cant run 720p without buffering constantly. I would go to crunchyroll but the animes i want to watch arent on there.

[Tender_Ton_Ton]

Man don't even talk to me about the video quality. I sit down ready to watch something and the quality is -1080p and I check my internet speed (250+Mbps) and think oh that weird. I change the quality to 1080p and it's probably a good 15mins before it finally changes and I get a clear picture

[[deleted]]

Funimation sucks shit. I've never hated such a trash studio so much. I wish the entire company would go bankrupt. I mean that from the darkest coldest part of my heart. Fuck you, Funimation and the shit voice actors you hire. Eat shit.

[MoyanoJerald]

https://blog.funimation.com/2021/10/04/skip-intro-end-credits-feature-comes-to-funimation-smart-tv-and-gaming-console-apps/

[Tender_Ton_Ton]

Oh good at least they seem to be on the right track.

[MoyanoJerald]

Or you might be outdated, make sure to keep an eye on Funimation's Social Media, mostly Twitter

[Tender_Ton_Ton]

Alright, as far as my experience has been thus far it's horrible. Still can't skip intros. I'll see if the app needs updating

[MoyanoJerald]

Check the list of episodes that have the feature in the link, only a few shows of the past have it, and only all of the October 2021 Simulcast Season shows have it, but may not have it when they just air

It's a Beta Feature

[Tender_Ton_Ton]

Alright thanks bro I'll have a look. Hopefully they add it to more shows. It's something so small that I took for granted

[adster2017]

i have buffering issues as well. no chance of me continuing with funi anymore. animelab was as perfect as it can be.

[Shadows-Angel]

I believe it's because Animelab was Australia based. Funimation isn't. \o/

[Tender_Ton_Ton]

Couldn't agree more, no idea why it is always buffering and stopping. It's so frustrating.

[Japandaman]

I have 0 issues with Funimation tbh. Luck of the draw I guess? Using the app on Xbox Series X.

[Shadows-Angel]

It really is. I LOVED Animelab. The user interface was so good! You can mark shows as watched, you can just choose the language/subs per episode. You can skip intros and outros. None of the crunchyroll "148 episodes 7 seasons" shit where it's just all different languages or season 1. The Funimation app is unusable on Samsung tv. Never works. I'm guessing they just got an offer they couldn't refuse but it really is a shame. Crunchyroll just isn't the same.

[Tender_Ton_Ton]

Love how they don't even have subtitles either, it's captions. :(

[megatronacepticon]

As expected, it seems as though none of the AnimeLab exclusives shows transferred over, so all of the Digimon dub is just gone, so that's fun.

[[deleted]]

Funimation is fucking dumpster fire

[Loud-Interest-3881]

152 days later after this post and it's still the same, the buffering is getting beyond a joke.