{"id":2274299,"date":"2026-02-09T16:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2274299"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:32:20","slug":"funimation-founder-gen-fukunaga-joins-george-r-r-martin-on-bizaar-studios-board-as-advisor-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/funimation-founder-gen-fukunaga-joins-george-r-r-martin-on-bizaar-studios-board-as-advisor-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Funimation Founder Gen Fukunaga Joins George R.R. Martin on Bizaar Studios Board as Advisor (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gen Fukunaga<\/a>, founder and former CEO of Funimation<\/a>, has joined adult animation outfit Bizaar Studios<\/a> as a stakeholder and strategic advisor.<\/p>\n

Fukunaga will develop original animation with the company, including projects with Webtoon, and joins an advisory board that includes \u201cGame of Thrones<\/a>\u201d author George R.R. Martin<\/a>, music mogul Jimmy Iovine<\/a> and filmmaker Conrad Vernon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fukunaga brings decades of experience building Funimation into the leading U.S. distributor of anime, handling over 1,000 brands including \u2018Dragon Ball Z.<\/a>\u2019 Under his leadership, the company managed the full spectrum of title production, marketing, sales and distribution, including annual production of English-language versions of over 1,000 TV episodes and movies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gen Fukunaga, founder and former CEO of Funimation, has joined adult animation outfit Bizaar Studios as a stakeholder and strategic advisor. Fukunaga will develop original animation with the company, including projects with Webtoon, and joins an advisory board that includes \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d author George R.R. Martin, music mogul Jimmy Iovine and filmmaker Conrad Vernon. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2274300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2274299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Funimation-Founder-Gen-Fukunaga-Joins-George-RR-Martin-on-Bizaar.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2274299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2274301,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274299\/revisions\/2274301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2274299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2274299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2274299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}