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Gen Fukunaga (福永 元, Fukunaga Gen, born March 22, 1962) is a Japanese-born American engineer and entrepreneur. He established Funimation (now Crunchyroll), a company that distributes anime in Canada and the United States. He served as its president and chairman until 2019, where he stepped down.
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May 9, 2017 · Learn how Gen Fukunaga turned his childhood passion for Japanese animation into a $100 million venture. Read about his journey from IBM engineer to anime licensor, producer, and distributor, and his vision for the future of Funimation.
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Jan 14, 2019 · That man is Gen Fukunaga. Fukunaga is the founder and CEO of Funimation, now a wholly owned division of Sony Pictures Television. The company’s fortunes waxed and waned and its future weighed...
Gen Fukunaga is a Japanese-American producer and production manager who has worked on many anime titles, such as Dragon Ball Super: Broly, Evangelion and Steins;Gate. He is also the founder of FUNimation Entertainment, a leading anime provider in North America.
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Origins. In the early 1990s, Japanese-born businessman Gen Fukunaga was approached by his uncle, Nagafumi Hori, who was working as a producer for Toei Company. Hori proposed that if Fukunaga could start a production company and raise enough money, Toei Animation would license the rights to the Dragon Ball franchise to the United States.
Feb 1, 2019 · Gen Fukunaga, who launched Funimation in 1994, is stepping down as GM and focusing on content partnerships. Sony Pictures Television is looking for a new GM to lead the anime network/distributor, which has a $130 million revenue run rate.