Are you looking forward to the new Death Note series but aren’t sure how you’re going to watch it? Leave it to the crunchy folks at Crunchyroll. The site plans to stream the series in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and, most importantly for Otaku …Read more »
Listen, anime is all well and good, but it’s also good to widen our horizons extremely slightly. If you like anime with flashy battles that fly in the face of common sense, with power-ups, special moves, weird personalities and drama... Do I need to keep …Read more »
Funimation is considering launching a near-real time English dub for one of its biggest titles, One Piece , according to brand manager Josh Kocurek. The company has been releasing what is calls Broadcast Dubs, which are streamed shortly after the subtitled simulcast, since November, dubbing …Read more »
Whoa, it’s finally happening: Netflix is bringing its digital streaming services to Japan later this year. The announcement came last Wednesday courtesy of both Netflix’s US twitter account and an official press release , and should come as good news, particularly to expats living in …Read more »
It’s coming! It’s really coming! It is, of course, Assassination Classroom , the anime adaptation of the manga in which a class of junior high school students have to assassinate their alien teacher before he destroys the earth. Frankly, the description alone makes the thing …Read more »
Exports of anime and dramas from Japan increased 30% in fiscal year 2013, according to a report from the Asahi Shinbun. That's good news for Cool Japan, the government initiative aimed at increasing exports of Japan's cultural products. Two major factors contributed to the increase: …Read more »
Hideaki Anno, director of Neon Genesis Evangelion , announced Sunday at the Tokyo International Film Festival his company, Khara, would be teaming up with media company Dwango to launch a new site called Animator Expo. Animator Expo is a website devoted to showing animated shorts …Read more »
Since joining Crunchyroll in 2012, Tiffany Chen (official title: Senior Manager of Japan Channels) has seen a lot of changes at the anime streaming site, which has added a manga section, spun off its live-action drama hub into KDrama.com, and generally expanded massively over a …Read more »
Big plans are in the works for the debut of ufotable’s Fate/stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works . The new anime series is set to hit in a bit way with simulcast streaming and theatrical premieres in Japan, France, Germany, South Korea, and the U.S. The …Read more »
Not particularly surprising news for those tracking the popularity of Sword Art Online in the west (a lot of you guys find us by searching for it!), but welcome news nonetheless: the second season of the massive multiplayer game-based series will be streamed on these …Read more »
Whether you haven't had a chance to check out the boobs, butts, and blood-filled mayhem of Highschool of the Dead , or you'd just love the chance to dive back in from the beginning, there's now yet another streaming option available. The potent animated mix …Read more »
The latest series to join Funimation's lineup of shows set to broadcast mere moments after their original Japanese airing has a title appropriate for the season (at least in my neck of the woods). Freezing —adapted from a manga by Lim Dall-Young and Kim Kwang-Hyun—will …Read more »
Funimation just announced another addition to their streaming lineup taken straight from Fuji Television's noitaminA block. This time it's the Yutaka Yamamoto- ( Kannagi , Haruhi Suzumiya ) directed Fractale . With A-1 Pictures and Ordet producing, Fractale spins the yarn of a young boy …Read more »
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