Posted by: sidereeldom on: September 16, 2010
You want fall anime? Crunchyroll has your fall anime right here. Yesterday, the anime streaming site announced a host of Kadokawa titles, including: The World God Only Knows Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt Squid Girl (Shinryaku! Ika Musume) Super Robot Wars OG: The Inspector Sora no Otoshimono: Forte Tegami Bachi season 2 Fortune Arterial They [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 13, 2010
Stan Lee’s Heroman continues to march on in anime form. While many of you probably dropped it after its plodding-but-necessary origin episodes, the official site now contains a trailer for the second half of the show that promises nonstop greatness in the near future. The fusion of American comic and Japanese animation looks ready to [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: June 2, 2010
Well – what seemed inevitable, but certainly took its sweet time, was announced on Crunchyroll today: the hyper-popular Bleach is going to be simulcast on the streaming site starting next week. According to their release, “All episodes will be available to all viewers, with the latest simulcast episode available for Premium Members one hour after TV [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: May 19, 2010
It’s not exactly a surprise with Bandai owning everything else Haruhi, but Bandai has officially announced the licensing of the popular comedy shorts The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi-chan and Nyoro~n Churuya-san. The anime shorts, which were based on 4-panel gag comics that have nearly eclipsed the original novels in popularity, started out on YouTube and [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: April 2, 2010
Well, this is definitely out of the ordinary: it turns out that the Anime Network isn’t the only outlet for the simulcast of Ichiban Ushiro no Daimao! Crunchyroll announced today that it will also be streaming the high school fantasy/comedy. I wouldn’t go so far as to say this is unprecedented, but it’s interesting to see [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 31, 2010
Crunchyroll has added in the latest announcement in the race to for online streaming rights, and it’s a pretty interesting one – the East-meets-West Heroman. The simulcast will be available every Thursday at 3 AM Pacific time, and while I’m not going to stay up for it, I’m definitely going to add it to my [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: February 11, 2010
Hidden in all the news about the upcoming anime season is the Time of Eve movie trailer, which is now being streamed from Yahoo’s GyaO service. The trailer unfortunately shows nothing we haven’t seen before – the movie collects all six episodes of the science fiction shorts and adds in a small amount of new [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: February 1, 2010
The weekend is over, and that means that the usual suspects are up on the official streaming sites – the new One Piece is up on FUNimation’s side, Fairy Tail and Sora no Woto on Crunchyroll, and InuYasha: The Final Act on Viz. The new One Piece is interesting, since it’s one of the few [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: January 8, 2010
Okay, okay, I know that it’s officially spelled SO-RA-NO-WO-TO. But after years of writing out iDOLM@STER, I’ve had enough of silly Japanese typography and just want to write something that people will understand, like Sora no Woto. Anyway, the last batch of Crunchyroll announcements for this anime season are Sora no Woto and Hanamaru Kindergarten, [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: January 6, 2010
Well, that pulled us out of the doldrums pretty quickly. Both simulcast king Crunchyroll and anime market leader FUNimation dropped the names of big titles today, with FUNimation rescuing Gainax’s FLCL from the defunct Synch-Point/Broccoli, and Crunchyroll starting up simulcasts of Durarara!! Both of these titles come with strong pedigrees. FLCL is one of Gainax’s best [...]
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