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This weekend saw the end of Pied Piper Inc.'s Skip Beat! Kickstarter , which was a resounding success. Not only did the campaign go well beyond its initial $155,000 goal, ending with a total of $224,546, it unlocked the Blu-ray stretch goal. That means everyone …Read more »
Digital Manga Publishing launched a new Kickstarter campaign , and this one is not for Osamu Tezuka manga. Thanks to the confidence built through those campaigns, the publisher is branching out to other manga, starting with Izumi Matsumoto's Kimagure Orange Road , which originally ran …Read more »
AnimEigo, one of America’s oldest anime licensors, has been giving its back catalog an HD upgrade thanks to backers on Kickstarter, who have so far provided the funds for Blu-ray releases of classics Bubblegum Crisis and Otaku no Video . Now a third title from …Read more »
This weekend FUNimation announced and launched a Kickstarter campaign for a new English dub for The Vision of Escaflowne anime, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. The goal is to raise $150,000 for the dub, and it's well on its way, with $75k+ raised …Read more »
Comcept launched two Kickstarter campaigns for Keiji Inafune's Mega Man Legends spiritual successor Red Ash last month. One was for the game itself, Red Ash: The Indelible Legend , while the other involves a Studio 4ºC-produced Red Ash anime. Things have been going pretty well …Read more »
Publisher Digital Manga launched its latest Kickstarter campaign , this time aiming to fund Osamu Tezuka's short story shoujo manga collection Storm Fairy . The Kickstarter has a goal of $14,200—it's already past the $10k mark at the time of this writing—and once it hits …Read more »
Some good news and some bad news from the Kickstarter campaign for Little Witch Academia 2 , which was successfully funded in 2013. The bad news about the Studio Trigger-produced film is that it’ll be coming out a little later than expected. While the film …Read more »
Just a few weeks ago we were praising Otaku no Video for being the first "anime about making anime" meta show, predating Shirobako by a couple decades (its 25th anniversary is coming up, actually). Evidently AnimEigo has noticed these parallels as well, as it's decided …Read more »
Not too long ago we were remarking how more anime is moving off the America-based Kickstarter and onto Japan-based crowdfunding platforms. Well, here to prove us wrong is Coluboccoro , a new fantasy anime project from Kenji Studio. The good old “if it ain’t broke, …Read more »
Those looking for more original anime out of the Kickstarter community should find promise in a new project from a group of Toei Animation veterans. Formed two years ago, Phoenix Angels Studios has been hard at work on a project called Devil's Legacy, and the …Read more »
Digital Manga Publishing previously had some success with funding the work of God of Manga Osamu Tezuka through Kickstarter, including campaigns for Captain Ken , Unico , Atomcat , Triton of the Sea , and the more recent Ludwig B . While the broader attempt …Read more »
LeSean Thomas has quite a bit of experience under his belt—from his work on shows like The Boondocks and The Legend of Korra to the currently-running Black Dynamite: The Animated Series— and he recently hit up Kickstarter in an attempt to gather funds for a …Read more »
Little Witch Academia 2. Kick-Heart. Under the Dog. The list of successfully crowdfunded anime projects keeps on growing, and with every success, another producer says to himself "hey, we should get on that!" Let's check out the new projects that hit Kickstarter this week. First …Read more »
It wouldn't be a week in anime news without a new crowdfunding project, a format that's gotten so ubiquitous it's impossible to write about every one of them. But this isn't your average Kickstarter (whatever that means). Nope, this is a new project by none …Read more »
Harmony Gold, the company behind Robotech , canceled their Robotech Academy Kickstarter project August 2nd, six days before the project’s deadline. Robotech Academy had received about $200,000 in pledges, far short of the $500,000 goal. Robotech Academy , if successfully funded, was to have been …Read more »
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