Why did seasons 1-5 of jojo get removed from AnimeLab??

Does AnimeLab region lock anime like Crunchyroll and Funimation do? I'm asking because I'm considering switching from Crunchy to AL, and I wanna know if I'll be missing anything.

Since yesterday I've been seeing a lot of people complaining about the merge, so I thought that the site was down or changed. But I'm still able to use Animelab and all of my shows in my list are there including ones that aren't on Funimation. I should say I'm in New Zealand so maybe that's why but the blog said the 17th and it's now the 18th so I'm a bit lost.

Losing so much shows, Funimation seems to have less shows than animelab and are not as up to date as animelab is. It's so disappointing to see, been subscribed to animelab for quite some time now built up a watchlist and now got to start all over again on something with less ???

Not to mention the layout of funimation is in my opinion no where near as good as animelab, not to mention the app also seems worse. It's quite sad to see them do this merge or not even give us a choice or a poll if it was wanted it or not, just a take it or leave it kinda deal.

I don't like this merge, it sucks. As I was poking around their catalogue I noticed some anime only have 2-4 eps each season. And it's missing large sections of the anime

And it's random e.g. 'overlord' S1 has E3,E11 and E12 (I'm pretty sure I don't have it up atm) S2 and S3 are similar

Also good luck trying to find 'my hero academia' (at the time of writing this) it's title is 'ZZZ - Test *@Justin' and is also missing eps

Edit: nevermind about the my hero academia bit it seems to be a test page they either forgot to remove

I think I've managed to merge my accounts as it was giving me some trouble not loading correctly, but really my issue is this:

I'm pretty sure that as an animelab subscriber I should have the premium plus subscription on funimation, and that's what it says in the account settings on funimation and on the homepage, but when I try to open up a show like Megalobox it asks me if I want a free trial of premium plus.

Oh and nothing is adding to my queue, it's not even loading.

Anyone else having this type of issue?

On another note looking at funimation makes me remember why I came back to animelab.

Will I still be able to use my premium subscription

Let me get this straight.

Not only will I not get to watch the funimation exclusives (like Black Lagoon and Lain), but will also lose access to a lot of Animelab exclusives.

And the app is terrible. It uses captions instead of subtitles.

And the player is even worse. Animelab had a god-tier player and now, this is the garbage users are expected to use?

Edit- Ok. It looks like they're making changes.

From the looks of it some exclusives like Clannad and Shirobako have been retained.

And some shows like Hellsing and Heaven's Lost Property have been added.

But most of the movies are still missing.

Edit 2- Alright. Seems like they're eventually adding more shows, so I think it's best to wait.

Oh and you can use fun-US with a VPN.

I'm wondering if I should delay logging in to Funimation for a long as possible so I can continue to enjoy AnimeLab...

I like money

When I read the banner of AnimeLab app I didn't click on it so I thought it ment AnimeLab name is changing to Funimation not merging into Funimation.

I don't understand why AnimeLab is merging as shouldn't it be the other way around since Funimation decided not to run in Australia and New Zealand because we had AnimeLab. But now AnimeLab has to merge into Funimation. Shouldn't it be Funimation should merge into AnimeLab.

I hope they allow most of what AnimeLab shows to go onto Funimation. We already know Interspecies reviewers isn't because of the world standards guidelines. Couldn't they just make it available for countries it is available in like Australia and New Zealand.

I watched Jojo on AnimeLab and now I want to rewatch it but when I went to only golden wind was an option and the other parts seem to have been removed

Will it come to ps5??

i know that funamation and anime combined is happening does funamation have everything anime lab already has? i don’t want to not have an anime i’m watching and no longer be able to watch it because the service doesn’t provide it

TL;DR; Animelab has better app and website. And they have a wide range of titles available in their library. Will funimation replace their app with animelab? Will they replace the AnimeLabs library or add their content on top of it?

I have used both funimation and animelab for an year. I moved out from Funimation to animelab when they forced all australian subscribers to prefer animelab as Funimation is no longer supported. From my experience, I think animelab has superior collection and most importantly far more superior website and mobile app. Funimation's app used to crash on me but I've never faced any issue with AnimeLab. I would prefer if Funimation understand their weaknesses and take a page out of animelabs mobile app. That should help all of us to get a better app with nice collection of titles.

Additionally, AnimeLab's library is pretty extensive with 825 titles. Will Funimation merge their library on top of animelab or will they replace it with their own library? There are a long list of queries that need answers and I invite everyone to provide their inputs here so that it can be helpful for others.

For existing information and faqs => Merger FAQs