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Funimation Adds More Video Streams

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Jul 282009
 

Funimation has added the following shows/episodes to its bespoke streaming service:

  • Count of Monte Cristo Episodes 7-8 (sub)
  • Devil May Cry Episodes 1-2 (dub)
  • Dragonaut Episodes 22-23 (sub)
  • El Cazador De La Bruja Episodes 3-4 (sub)
  • Gad Guard Episodes 1-4 (dub)
  • Heroic Age Episodes 5-6 (sub)
  • Ikki Tousen Episodes 1-2 (dub & sub)
  • Magikano Episodes 1-2 (dub)
  • Murder Princess Episodes 1-2 (dub & sub)
  • Nabari no Ou Episodes 1-3 ( sub)
  • Samurai Champloo Episodes 15-16 (sub)
  • Shakugan no Shana Episodes 1-4 (dub)
  • Soul Eater Episodes 1-2

AX09: Crunchyroll Announces New Simulcast Titles

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Jul 052009
 

Crunchroll has officially announced the forthcoming debut of some of the most popular Spring/Summer season anime titles for its streaming service during Anime Expo.

YOKUWAKARU GENDAI MAHOU promoYOKUWAKARU GENDAI MAHOU: The story revolves around Koyomi Morishita, a clumsy high school freshman girl who is often mistaken for a grade-schooler because of her shortness. Koyomi becomes a disciple of Misa Anehara, a 25-year-old graduate studentwho happens to be one of the most powerful modern-day magicians.

CHARGER GIRL:
³Juden² means battery charge in Japanese. Charger Girls are girls withspecial abilities who charge ³spirit² other people. One day a pretty girl named Plug, one of the Charger Girls, enters the ordinary life of the college student, Sento Ohmi.

Aoihana promoAOIHANA:
Fumi Manjoume enters Kamakura’s accelerated high school – Matsuoka All-Girls High School. While waiting at the Kamakura station on the day of her entrance ceremony, she runs into an old childhood friend whom she had not seen in 10 years: Akira Okudaira. As their friendship is rekindled and they start falling back into the rhythm of friends again, it starts a delicate love story…

KANAMEMO bannerKANAMEMO: Kana Nakamichi, a middle-school girl, had lost her parents and recently lost her remaining grandmother. Because she needs to support herself, she ends up living and working at a newspaper delivery office. Everyone else living at the office are all charming, self-assertive bishojo. The story follows Kana’s daily life.

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Funimation Announcements from Katsucon

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Feb 142009
 

Funimation has made a few announcements regarding new licenses at its panel during Katsucon today.

  • The D-Rights produced Bamboo Blade anime about a high school kendo teacher’s adventures in forming a female kendo team to compete with his friend’s team to win a bet for a year’s worth of food.
  • The GDH/Gonzo Rosso Tower of Druaga series co-production which became notable last year for being the first to be streamed internationally after airing the day before in Japan.  The acqusition includes the Sword of Uruk series currently airing in Japan
  • The GDH production Blassreiter, which was the second series to be streamed internationally after Japanese airing.  The series deals with a demonic plague sweeping Germany and series protagonist Joseph Jobson’s attempts to fend off the apocalyptic end of humanity by being the only one that can control the demonic form within him
  • The GDH production Dragonaut, about a future Earth where humans breed dragons to fend off asteroid collisions, before being attacked by space faring dragons.

All of the above will be released in two part season sets beginning later this year, with Tower of Druaga being split into two complete sets.

Funimation will also announce more acquisitions next week on its newly launched company blog.

Crunchyroll Reveals New Shows via Publisher Index

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Dec 302008
 

crunchyrollThe streaming platform provider Crunchyroll has quitely announced a new spate of licenses available for streaming on its service on its Publisher Index page.  Notable shows include Eyeshield 21 (formerly streamed in English on NFL Rush.com), Moegaku, Viewtiful Joe, Neo Angelic, and Dear Boys, along with a large listing of Gonzo shows with prior DVD distribution handled by ADV Flims:

  • Chrono Crusade
  • Gravion
  • Gravion Zwei
  • Kaleido Star
  • Kaleido Star: New Wings Extra Stage
  • Najica
  • Peacemaker Kurogane

    • Funimation Adds New Shows to Hulu

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    Nov 072008
     

    Funimation has announced that it has added the Shuffle!, Peach Girl, and Slayers anime series to its channel on the online streaming service Hulu, bringing the total amount of series offered on the service to 14.

    Funimation has been one of the few anime distributors in the US market that is readily willing to distribute its content via digital distribution outside of its own channels, going so far as to make it a part of its overall strategy to increase total marketshare and increase exposure to a more general audience beyond the core anime fanbase.

    The Funimation channel on Hulu is also one of the few legal outlets to view the recently released Shikabane Hime: Aka anime series produced by Gainax which is currently broadcasting on TV in Japan, with Funimation airing episodes three weeks after original broadcast.