Items Matching Tag 'Crunchyroll'

Anime Review Roundup
Another Week, Another Convention In this case more than one convention, as it was a big week for fan gatherings in the United States at Sakuracon and Anime Boston, and it was also a big week for announcements from the various companies in the US....
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Crunchyroll Now Caters Directly For the UK
If you are an anime fan with an Internet connection, then the chances are that you know about Crunchyroll. Over the past few years, they have become the net’s largest legal online streaming business catering for fans of anime and Asian television...
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Anime ------ Roundup
My Latest Crunchyroll Discoveries No reviews for you this week, so instead I’ll share with you a couple of shows that I have started watching on Crunchyroll. Links are to the right as always. Asobi ni Ikuyo: Bombshells from the Sky Kio and...
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Anime Review Roundup
MVM Licence Deluge Okay, for someone like Sentai in the US, it may be a drip, but for a UK company, and for MVM in particular, announcing three licenses in one week is a deluge, especially as one of the titles will be their first venture into the...
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Anime Review Roundup
My New Crunchyroll Treat Is... Occult Academy! The recent news that NISA has licensed Occult Academy for US Blu-ray release has nudged me into making it a Crunchyroll priority. It doesn’t always happen thus, but often when a Crunchyroll property...
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Anime Review Roundup
A Couple Of Crunchyroll Charms With a lull in anime review discs over the holidays, I’ve been catching up a little with my online streaming. Of course being this far behind means that I have the benefit of marathoning series, rather than waiting...
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Anime Review Roundup
It Never Rains, But It Pours: Part 1 I had thought 2008 was anime’s Horrible Anus, the year when everything fell apart, when the bubble burst and companies dropped like flies. Well 2012 is turning out to be a Horribler Anus, as the New Year’s...
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Anime Review Roundup
Once again I've been left chasing after the bandwagon long after it has left the village. This time it's for Hanasaku Iroha, the most talked about slice-of-life anime this summer just past. Its wonderful collection of characters, its gentle story,...
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Anime Review Roundup
Online Anime Bonanza Anime on Demand has finally been catching up on their autumn announcements the past couple of weeks, following the debut, and subsequent delay of Persona 4: The Animation. The first episodes of Mirai Nikki are up, a concept...
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Anime Review Roundup
New Anime Coming to the UK Soon and Sooner Another week, another batch of reviews, and some more news to share. Manga Entertainment have been Twittering again. This time, to celebrate the acquisition of 9000 twats, or whatever the character...
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Anime Review Roundup
It's The New Anime Season Again Every thirteen weeks it's the same thing, the anime production houses announce the new shows that they will be airing, or the old shows that will be continuing, and for the last couple of years, that's when fans in...
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Anime Review Roundup
Anime Expo News It's the biggest week of the year for anime news, at least when it comes to the US. It was the weekend of the Anime Expo, when the great and the good gather to discuss all things animated, and announce all the new goodies they have...
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Anime Review Roundup
Funimation Sold Last year I mentioned that Navarre was looking for a buyer for Funimation, currently the biggest anime fish in the US pond, for the corporate reason of creative differences. The new owners are an investment group who will retain...
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Anime Review Roundup
It's one giant leap for UK Anime www.anime-on-demand.com Make a note of that url, as it is the web address of the UK's first, dedicated, streaming anime portal. Yes, finally we have one website where UK fans of anime can gather, and get anime...
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Anime Review Roundup
The Japanese Earthquake and the Anime Industry Japan is currently dealing with the aftermath of the worst natural disaster to hit the country in living memory. Friday's earthquake, the subsequent tsunami, and issues with the nation's nuclear...
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Midweek Anime News Roundup
Manga Twits Ahoy Making sense of tweets and twhoo's is beyond me at the best of times, but fortunately there are people around who can hack into the Pentagon, blindfold and with a smartphone, who understand all this modern nonsense, and have...
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Anime Review Roundup
This Week I Have Mostly Been Watching Online Anime With a plethora of anime available legally to stream online from sites like Crunchyroll and Youtube, you'd think that I would be taking advantage of that to sample all those cool shows that just...
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Anime Review Roundup
How Can You Turn A 2D Artform Into 3D? I mean, everything is being made 3D now. It's the latest cash cow being milked that has turned into one more reason why I don't go to the cinema anymore. I don't mind the made for 3D option, but retrofitting...
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Anime Review Roundup
Hayate The Combat Butler, Now Free And Legal To The UK! Last year, Crunchyroll streamed Hayate The Combat Butler Season 2 to the world, and given I couldn't easily find Season 1 to watch legally, turned out to be remarkably enjoyable even with the...
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Anime Review Roundup
It's (Not) Grim Up North: Part 1 There was another anime gathering this weekend just past, Amecon at Keele University. It was another chance for the great and the good to get together and celebrate the best of this particular entertainment medium....
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Anime Review Roundup
Bleach Comes To Crunchyroll When I posted that Bleach review last Monday, I made note that Crunchyroll had started an Internet petition to get the Japanese licensors to allow Bleach to be streamed to the world, the same way that Crunchyroll...
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Anime Review Roundup
The SOS Brigade invade Crunchyroll You no longer have an excuse. Crunchyroll have acquired the rights to The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. You can't get away from her if you tried, but given that Haruhi is this decade's anime pop culture...
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Anime Review Roundup
Gundam Free For All The big Gundam event has begun in preparation for the simultaneous worldwide release of Gundam Unicorn on Blu-ray. From now until the end of April, several classic Gundam series will be available for streaming from various...
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Anime Review Roundup
Begun, the Summer Wars Have There weren’t any anime reviews to round up last week, hence no review roundup, but this week it’s back to normal service, with three reviews of anime new and old for you to peruse. But I guess I missed out on...
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MCM Expo News and Anime Review Roundup
MCM News First It’s that time of year again, when people in the East End of London are confronted by men with spiky blonde hair, big red coats, and unfeasibly large guns (do people still cosplay as Vash the Stampede?), when they are accosted by...
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Anime Review Roundup
Forthcoming Anime Events in the UK It’s getting to festival season again, and there are plenty of things to do if you want to get away from those television screens and PC monitors and experience the real world. Every year there is the Sci-fi...
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Anime Review Roundup
Mnemosyne has been licensed… By a twit So what is it with these DVD companies anyway? They have set budgets for marketing and advertising, they have PR companies to facilitate this, to get their message out in the ether, they even have their own...
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Anime Review Roundup
Release Date Changes It’s summertime, the weather’s fine, the days are long, and the lager is cheap. It’s no surprise then that anime isn’t a priority… Your release schedule is barrelling forward like a juggernaut, relentlessly crushing all in its...
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Anime Review Roundup (Updated)
(Update) The Next Big Thing From Beez Is Beez Entertainment certainly bring the choicest of anime to these shores, last year it was Haruhi Suzumiya, this year it has been Gundam 00 and Gurren Lagann. But wandering past the BBFC this afternoon I...
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Anime Review Roundup
The 60 Billion Double Dollar Question Has An Answer It was Anime Expo in the US this weekend just past, and there has been so much news that I have ignored… Well, it’s hard to get enthused about shows that won’t be released for six to twelve...
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