The fate of anime surely hangs in the balance, not just for Westerners tired of scenes and dialogue changed for the purpose of political agenda pushing, but potentially Japanese fans as well as the corrupt Funimation announced that they are now a part of anime production committees.

Funimation made the announcement last month but the news was recently picked up by observant individuals – the Western anime streaming platform went on a long-winded discussion revolving around the function of an anime production committee before divulging the most vital information:

“Funimation is listed on the production committee for three titles during the Winter 2020 season: Hatena Illusion, ID: INVADED and Plunderer. They’ve also been on the anime production committee for titles like Fruits Basket (2019), Fire Force and Dimension W. Due to the work they’ve done and the strong relationships the company has built with Japanese partners in licensing shows from them, they were invited to participate on these committees to help fund these productions directly. Instead of simply licensing the rights to a finished show (as companies usually do), Funimation is now able to take part ownership of some titles directly when bringing them to the rest of the world. There’s no fear about losing the rights to these shows either; they are here to stay in the Funimation library in perpetuity. Conversely, Funimation is trusted by the rest of the committee to use their international expertise to better market the show to foreign viewers and provide more detailed input to the other Japanese companies regarding what fans abroad would like to see. It’s a win-win. […] Anime is no longer focused solely on the Japanese market. Japanese companies are looking to foreign fans’ interest in titles more than ever before to increase the financial return on their investment as well as allow them to reinvest that money into new productions of ever higher animation quality. This means that subscriptions to Funimation and purchases of home video releases, digital downloads, and merchandise supervised by Funimation will help creators in Japan more directly than having a finished title licensed as-is would. And while it’s only been a handful of titles in the past, there’s a future where Funimation and companies like it are on the production committee for more and more shows. The more involved they get in helping these shows resonate around the world, the stronger these relationships grow, and the more people get to experience the brilliance of anime. That’s a future we’re here for!”

Funimation will have a much more direct say in what will be present in the final product, and there is the possibility that fans will be completely unaware of any changes made – and taking into account Funimation’s history of injecting their agenda into shows (along with the fact that they are owned by Sony), change is almost an indisputable certainty.

Some of the mindless, unnecessary, and politically charged changes to anime Funimation is responsible for include the alteration to the YU-NO anime’s dialogue to have female character Shimazu call the protagonist a misogynist, despite there being no such line in the original Japanese version (top video is Funimation’s English dub, bottom is the Japanese original):

The English dub for Hajimete no Gal was also abysmally inaccurate, labeling erotic light novel readers as “horny losers with mommy issues” and inserting buzzwords such as “SJW” and “misogynist”:

Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon’s buxom Lucoa also explained in the English dub that she changed her clothes because the “pesky patriarchal societal demands were getting on [her] nerves”:

Perhaps most infamous was Funimation’s decision to pointlessly make a reference to GamerGate in Prison School:

When Funimation was called out for their sullying of the original scripts, they immediately played victim by asking fans not to “threaten them”:

Other questionable changes include the additions of memes for seemingly no reason at all other than because twisted leftists love using other people’s works for comedy rather than coming up with something original: