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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.
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 · 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 in the balance...
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Gen Fukunaga was born on 22 March 1961 in Itami, Hyogo, Japan. He is a producer and production manager, known for Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018), Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007) and Steins;Gate (2011). He is married to Cindy Brennan Fukunaga. They have three children.
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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.
Mar 17, 2022 · Anime is “an area Sony should dominate,” maintains Gen Fukunaga, founder of Funimation, who sold the company to Sony for $156 million.
Sep 11, 2021 · Gen Fukunaga, an engineer who was born in Japan but lived in the States most of his life, had an uncle at Toei, the studio that distributed Dragon Ball in Japan. Fukunaga managed to convince his...
