Crunchyroll’s Spring Finale Week Is On
It’s an eventful seven days on the Crunchyroll app. By sheer coincidence (or is it?) eight different anime on Crunchyroll will be ending their seasons within the same week’s time.
It’s an eventful seven days on the Crunchyroll app. By sheer coincidence (or is it?) eight different anime on Crunchyroll will be ending their seasons within the same week’s time.
Crunchyroll has sent us their schedule for the spring of 2024. Actually it’s more like just their April schedule, but what an April it is, with over thirty new shows coming to the library, many with multiple language dubs.
Crucnhyroll has just handed us their physical release list for June, and while there aren’t any well-known heavy hitters this time, there’s some stuff you might find interesting. The headliner is Buddy Daddies, a comedy series whose premise might remind you of Spy x Family, except it’s a bit more different than that.
In 2021 Disney+ made an unexpected announcement — check that, an unX-pected announcement. The 1990s X-Men cartoon, a massive hit in its day running five seasons on Fox Kids, would be resurrected to continue right where it left off. Direct from 1997, it’s X-Men 97!
It’s been a long and cold winter, but things will be shaping up very soon…the sun will come out, the flowers will sprout up, and Crunchyroll will debut four new anime series to their streaming service.
Music producer Kyle Horvath, otherwise known as “SweetBoiKyle,” has teamed up with record label GameChops to produce Avatar And Chill, a new album of lofi hip-hop remixes from the treasured animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Over the weekend, the 2024 Anime Awards were held in Tokyo. Like last year, it was sprinkled with appearances from a variety of celebrity guests from multiple industries; some from movies, some from music, some from sports. Singer Megan Thee Stallion, actress Iman Vellani and the NFL’s DeMarcus Lawrence were among those who showed up on stage. Voice actress Sally Amaki and entertainer Jon Kabira served as hosts.
A small LA-based animation studio called Hazimation will be releasing their creation Max Beyond on digital platforms this spring. Hazimation may not have the budget or resources for a full-fledged theatrical debut, but they are willing to explore a genre most mainstream animated films don’t: the sci-fi thriller.
Cruchyroll has put out its schedule of Blu-Ray releases for this May. Why should you still buy Blu-Rays? Because, for one thing, all the digital titles people owned under the Funimation label are now null and void. Those who bought the titles on disc don’t have problems like this.
Illumination was just a scrappy underdog animation studio until they came up with the first Despicable Me movie — then they became superstars with enough clout to court clients like Nintendo. But hits on that level are hard to reach twice….thus the sequels. Since none of you paid to see Migration last December, they have no choice but to trot Gru out again for a fourth Despicable Me later this year.
Solo Leveling started running on Crunchyroll January 6. It’s the first Japanese anime based on a Korean manhwa (their version of manga). Up to this point we knew nothing of any plans for an English dub, but Crunchy revealed all today.
Tomorrow marks the day something different comes to Crunchyroll, though you may not realize it at first glance. The new anime Solo Leveling premieres in just a few hours — the first Japanese animation based on a Korean manga (which they call “Manhwa” over there).