FunimationReviews of funimation.com

This streaming service is absolutely unacceptable. I am able to stream Netflix, Hulu and Disney+ flawlessly at 1080p but somehow I am unable to stream more than 6-10 seconds of any show on Funimation before it requires just as long to buffer on the lowest setting. On a good day the Funimation service might only buffer 8 times per episode. The lack of updates shows how little this company seems to care about their product. I would think, at the very least, with this company being owned partially under the Sony umbrella that it would be atleast optimized to run on my Sony Playstation 4 without issue. I feel like this should be an embarrassment for Sony. This company would do the world a favor by shutting down and letting a competent streaming company acquire the streaming rights it holds.

if I could rate it any lower I would this was the worst decision I've made in my life and I've made a lot of them it buffers constantly I would have a better time getting my grandpa's old ass tv and watching on there than watching on Funimation they should have left animelab on their own they just bought it and messed it up this is the worst possible site I've ever been on I'd rather watch anime blind then haft to deal with this.

Great selection but terrible service. Videos constantly buffering lucky to get a minute of continuous play. I have high speed internet for gaming, no issues playing games online or streaming from Netflix, Disney plus or prime, but unable to get a decent service from funmation. Massive shame as their library is good.

Good shows and a variety of them but the app itself is very poor. From not being able to use the favourite list due to it not registering or accepting most shows I select to then issues with the ‘continue watching’ section. I used this section as a temporary favourites list as the other method didn’t work and I’ve just logged in to see a bunch of random shows are now on my continue watching list. Shows I’ve never seen. They seriously need to sort the app out on the Xbox and iPhone

I bough the membership for my child for Christmas. After the 2 weeks free trial I was charged with no access to videos. I emailed the support team and they replied after 10-13 hours. Emails back and forth and still no solution. So annoying and ignorant. I don’t recommend.

If I could rate this any lower, I would. I was also a anime lab user, I used animelab because when I was first looking into the possible streaming services, funimation was the absolute lowest of the low and had no redeeming qualities whatsoever. When animelab was just absorbed into funimation without any of its superior features, I lost complete faith in the streaming service.

Poorly optimised, not intuitive and buggy as hell. Lacks rudimental features like bing able to skip intro's, will queue random shows up next and is extremely slow. They got rid of the Animelab app (which worked far more efficiently) for this??

I had better experience on pirating sites than on this platform. Where do I start.. I got a subscription where I pay 8,99 USD and get 3 Months Premium and let's just say that I would be better off spending that money to 9ani** as a donation than spending it to watch the anime legally. I mean WTH? They treat their customers like dogs, giving them some grocery store food and expecting them to love it. I never seen such an high amount of BS and censorship in my life. First off, their site looks worse than the online ordering homepage of my favorite fast food restaurant in my city. I found it had to navigate, the loading times (even with adblocker enabled) were terrible despite having stable 1Gbps download and 380mbps upload speeds. And it's not caused by my router. I was connected via Ethernet cable the whole time. Also a lot of the content was not available in my country. I had to use a private VPN server in order to access that content. The worst of all is that some anime seem to use different scripts for the dubbing. I'm not the best when it comes to Japanese language ( I can order stuff, introduce myself, rent something and somewhat speak with other people in Japan) but I can definitely say they're changing a lot of stuff in comparison to the original JP releases. If I wouldn't speak Japanese, I wouldn't notice that but since I do speak that language, I found it very irritating to listen to Funimations own English dubs which seem to be completely out of place. I guess they would also replace some of the lines if I would watch their releases in German, Italian, Bulgarian or Español languages. In the end it's been almost 3 months of having a subscription on their platform and today I'll cancel my subscription there. Never ever I'll visit them again. Even if they offer a subscription for 0.99$ per Month. In fact. I'm so upset that I will be switching back to not so official sites like 9ani** and watch everything there and also if I feel the need to, I'll be buying the physical anime from Amazon JP, rip them to my laptop and apply the fan subtitles on the free and open source program called VLC Player. When we're speaking about physical stuff. shop. funimation com is also very overpriced. I understand the costs for licensing etc. but on Amazon JP I can buy almost every DVD/BD/Collector Edition box way cheaper on Amazon than in their shop and I'll only pay 10$ extra for shipping to my country. In the end I can only say, if you value your money, get a VPN subscription at providers like IPVanish and watch the anime from the "unofficial" streaming platforms. If you don't mind the extra work when it comes to physical media, check for your local for 3rd party import sites or order them straight from Amazon Japan. For me, I had the best experience with nin-nin-game importer. Fast shipping and they even send the package to the hotel where I was staying at.