FUNimation Announces New Streaming Shows

Oh hey, an update! There’s been a lot of announcements about new simulcast shows, and there are several new shows you can watch not long after they air in Japan. That’s pretty amazing and shows how far the industry has come.

FUNimation recently announced two new streaming shows. Here are the details on them:

Princess Jellyfish

Known as “Kuragehime” in its native Japan, “Princess Jellyfish” is a romantic-comedy based on the award-winning manga by Akiko Higashimura. Series episodes one and two will be available at www.funimation.com/video starting Thursday, October 28 at 11:45 a.m. CST. Then each week a new episode will be added to the site in addition to third-party streaming partners.

Animation for the 11-episode series is done by Brain’s Base (“Spice and Wolf II”, “Baccano!”) and is directed by Takahiro Omori (“Baccano!,” “Hell Girl,” and “Durarara!!”).

 

Heaven’s Lost Property Forte

FUNimation has acquired the home entertainment, broadcast, digital and merchandise rights to the second season of the romantic comedy “Heaven’s Lost Property” (“Sora no Otoshimono: Forte”) from Kadokawa. The first four episodes of Heaven’s Lost Property Forte will be posted www.funimation.com/video starting Friday, October 29 at 11:30 a.m. CST. Each week a new episode will be added to the site..

Director Hisashi Saito (“Bamboo Blade”) returns to direct the 12-episode second season.

FUNimation Entertainment will release the series on DVD in 2011.

 

Source: Official FUNimation Blog

New Streaming Updates

Lots of streaming updates here. Let’s get started. All the info is from Anime News Network.

4Kids Launches Toonzaki Anime Streaming Site
4Kids Entertainment is launching an new online streaming service for anime titled Toonzaki. The Facebook page for the website listed 72 series to be available when the the site goes live. Many of the shows are available from another streaming website, Hulu.com, but Toonzaki will provide some exclusive programming. Toonzaki has not confirmed which shows will be available dubbed or subtitled, nor which seasons of each title will be shown.

Crunchyroll adds new titles
Crunchyroll has announced a whole bunch of new simulcast titles: Sora no Otoshimono: Forte (Heaven’s Lost Property: Forte), Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, Fortune Arterial: Akai Yakusoku, the Squid Girl (Shinryaku! Ika Musume), The World God Only Knows, Tegami Bachi Reverse, and Super Robot Wars OG: The Inspector (Super Robot Taisen OG: The Inspector). That’s a lot of anime to watch!

Save even more on S.A.V.E. at Amazon.com

So the S.A.V.E. line from FUNimation was already pretty awesome. Now they’re on sale at Amazon.com and the prices are just amazing. Check out the deals over at FUNimation’s Blog. Sale ends September 20th.

I think I may finally get a copy of Gankutsuou – it’s only $13.50. I mean, c’mon. How can you go wrong?

Okamisan Now Streaming at FUNimation

Now at FUNimation.com/video, Okamisan. New Episodes Wednesdays at 12:00p.m. CST on FUNimation.com/video.

From Wikipedia: A love comedy parodying fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood, The Ant and the Grasshopper etc. Ryoko Ōkami (the eponymous Ōkami-san) is a spunky high school girl. She is a member of a “fixer” club so called Otogi High School Bank. She fixes the school’s problems with her partner Ringo Akai (“Little Red Riding Hood”).

Also coming soon to FUNimation, Blessing of the Campanella, starting this Friday at 1:00p.m. CST with episodes 1 and 2.

From Wikipedia: Based off the visual novel game, Shukufuku no Campanella takes place in Ert’Aria, a city know as the “treasury of the world” is preparing for a harvest festival. Leicester Maycraft, a young item technician of the Oasis clan, encounters a shooting star near a party he’s attending. Upon finding it, a girl appears before Leicester calling him her father.

Source: FUNimation Blog

Save on Viz at RightStuf

Right now you can save at least 33% on Manga, Novels, Books, and more from Viz when you go to RightStuf. From now through August 2, the “your price” listed is the price you pay, no coupon code required, and these new prices represent a savings on all graphic novels, novels and books from VIZ Media. This includes items that are pre-order, in stock, on order and special order. You can also save between 25-40% on all Anime and Live-Action titles from Viz!

Just be sure to place your orders before 11:59 p.m. CDT on August 2, 2010. Remember, if you’re a Got Anime member, you can stack your discounts for even more savings!

Click here to see what’s on sale.

New Streaming Videos from Crunchyroll and FUNimation

Crunchyroll has announced that it will be simulcasting the Mitsudomoe television anime series starting on Friday. This adaptation of Norio Sakurai’s Mitsudomoe gag manga premiered in Japan on July 7. The story centers around the comedic misadventures of the Marui triplets of sisters in sixth grade. Masahiko Ohta (Minami-ke, Yoake Mae Yori Ruri Iro Na -Crescent Love-) is directing the Aniplex project at the Bridge anime studio.

Crunchyroll’s streaming of Mitsudomoe will be available in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, and Portugal. The first four episodes will be available to Premium Membership subscribers at 11:30 a.m. PDT on Friday, and they will then be available for free a week later.

FUNimation has added the English dub premieres of both Corpse Princess (Shikabane Hime) and Hetalia: Axis Powers to their video portal. You can watch the first four episodes of each title right now on FUNimation.com/Video, as well as all these newly added episodes:

FUNimation.com
Black Butler II JPN 3
Corpse Princess ENG 1-4 launch
D. Gray-man ENG 46-48
D. Gray-man JPN 33-34
Fruits Basket JPN 11-12
Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu ENG 1-2
Hero Tales JPN 25-26
Hetalia: Axis Powers ENG 1-4 launch
Hetalia: Axis Powers JPN 49-52
Initial D Stage 1 JPN 11-12
Initial D Stage 2 JPN 11-13
Initial D Stage 4 ENG 5-7
Legend of Legendary Heroes JPN 4
MoonPhase ENG 14-16
Moyashimon JPN 3
Negima! JPN 15-16
Negima!? ENG 23-26
One Piece ENG & JPN 135-136
One Piece ENG 92-96
Rainbow JPN 16
Sengoku Basara II JPN 01
Str.A.in. ENG 9-11
Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations JPN 01

YouTube
Black Butler II JPN 3
Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu ENG 1-2
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood JPN 64
Hetalia: Axis Powers ENG 1-4
Hetalia: Axis Powers JPN 49-52
Initial D Stage 1 JPN 11-12
Initial D Stage 2 JPN 11-13
Initial D Stage 4 ENG 5-7
Legend of Legendary Heroes JPN 4
MoonPhase ENG 14-16
Moyashimon JPN 3
Negima! JPN 15-16
Negima!? ENG 23-26
Ouran High School Host Club ENG 23-26
Rainbow JPN 16

Hulu
Black Butler II JPN 3
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood JPN 64
D. Gray-man ENG 40-48
D. Gray-man JPN 14-26
Hero Tales JPN 19-26
Initial D Stage 1 JPN 11-12
Initial D Stage 2 JPN 1-13
Legend of Legendary Heroes JPN 4
Moon Phase ENG 1-16
Moon Phase JPN 1-26
Moyashimon JPN 3
Negima! S1 JPN 11-16
One Piece ENG & JPN 135-136
One Piece ENG 92-96
Rainbow JPN 16
Sengoku Basara II JPN 01
Str.A.in. ENG 1-11
UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie S3 ENG 1-6
UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie S4 ENG 1-2

Sources: Anime News Network, The Official FUNimation Blog

FUNimation Simulcast Update

FUNimation has a bunch of titles simulcasting on their video website. That means they’re up not long after they air in Japan. Thanks FUNimation! Here’s their schedule for this week:

Monday – Segoku Basara II at 12:00 p.m. CDT, episode 1 streamed this week. (If you need to catch up on Season 1, the subtitled episodes are also available.)

Tuesday – Rainbow at 12:00 p.m. CDT, episode 16 streamed this week

Wednesday – Black Butler II at 11:20 a.m. CDT, episode 3 streamed this week

ALERT – Due to technical difficulties Shiki ep 03 will NOT be available today (Thursday) at 12:15 pm CDT as scheduled. We hope to catch up next week.

Thursday – Moyashimon at 11:45 a.m CDT, episode 3 streams this week

Friday – Legend of Legendary Heroes at 12:00 p.m. CDT, episode 4 streams this week

Saturday – One Piece at 9:00 p.m. CDT, no new episode this week (special programming in Japan), episode 460 should stream next week

Source: FUNimation Blog

Streaming Anime from The Anime Network and FUNimation

Here’s some more streaming anime information, this time from The Anime Network and FUNimation. These announcements were made last weekend at Anime Expo.

The Anime Network announced that it is simulcasting the Highschool of the Dead television anime series starting this week. After issues cropped up for the first Highschool of the Dead episode this week, the service decided to offer the second episode next Sunday to users who register for free. Subsequent episodes will be available to Premium subscribers only. The Anime Network also launched Living for the Day After Tomorrow on June 21.

FUNimation announced that it will simulcast the following titles starting this week: Moyashimon (live action), Shiki, Black Butler 2 (Kuroshitsuji II), Sekirei ~Pure Engagement~, The Legend of the Legendary Heroes, and Sengoku Basara Two.

Source: Anime News Network

New Streaming Titles from Viz and Crunchyroll

I have updates on some new titles available for streaming from Viz and Crunchyroll.

Crunchyroll has announced plans to begin online subtitled streaming distribution of this month’s new Strike Witches 2 television series. They also have launched its simulcasting of the new “Occult Academy” (Seikimatsu Occult Gakuen) television series. For both shows, weekly episodes will be available to Crunchyroll subscribers one hour after Japanese broadcast, and available to all viewers one week later. The site will begin simulcasting this month’s new Tono to Issho television series today, shortly after the first episode airs in Japan.

Viz Media has begun streaming subtitled episodes of the current “Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan” (Nurarihyon no Mago) and the 2005 Strawberry 100% television series. Both shows are hosted by Hulu and are available on the Viz Anime site and Hulu homepage.

Source: AnimeNation News Blog

Anime News Network to Stream 1,000+ Anime Episodes

Got nothing to do this summer? If so, I sure wish I were you, because then I could watch anime all day long, thanks to Anime News Network. ANN has announced the launch of its new custom video player, as well as new content agreements and multiple new streaming anime series. The launch title for the player is Funimation’s motorcycle sci-fi action series Blassreiter, which is being streamed with episodes 1-4 dubbed and 1-24 subtitled.

ANN’s first license directly from Japan, Nobody’s Boy – Remi, will also launch on June 13, with five new episodes released every Sunday for 10 weeks. Due to an existing license in Canada, the series will only be available in the United States. However, TMS has announced that the English DVD rights, merchandising, and rights for Latin American distribution are still available, and can be obtained directly from TMS Entertainment, USA, Inc.

Also announced were ANN’s new content agreements with The Anime Network, Toei Animation, and Aniplex. The site will launch over 1,000 new episodes over the next several months. These include:

• Galaxy Express 999
• Captain Harlock
• Slam Dunk
• Pretty Cure
• Digimon Adventure 02
• Air Master
• La Corda D’Oro
• Miracle Train ~Ōedo-sen e Yōkoso~

Over 40 more titles, including The Anime Network’s back catalog and new ongoing series from Funimation, will be announced in the near future. ANN’s new video player is available to users for free without registration, and will now support DVD-quality video. The custom player will also eventually support multiple subtitle tracks.

Source: Anime News Network