Whether you backed it yourself or just heard about it, you might be familiar with the Kickstarter-funded anime project Under the Dog . In Internet time it's been eons since it was successfully funded in 2014, but now we have a digital launch date thanks …Read more »
Japanese crowdfunding has grown up. While the earliest successfully-funded anime ( Little Witch Academia 2 , Kick-Heart ) were financed via America-based Kickstarter, recent months have seen Japanese crowdfunding sites play a bigger role in anime projects. Case in point: In This Corner of the …Read more »
The website for Under the Dog , the Masahiro Ando-directed anime short that raised $878,000 via Kickstarter back in September, posted its first update in months on January 22 – and it appears Under the Dog has undergone a major shakeup. The update, from producer …Read more »
Update: Under the Dog has reached its funding goal. Under the Dog , the Kickstarter project from director Masahiro Ando is about to hit its deadline - and it's a nail-biter. The project, which aims to fund an original 24-minute piece of animation, has a …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 »
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