Soon you’ll be able to access a lot more of Funimation’s library through their self-named streaming service. The anime distributor announced today they were expanding the catalog of titles on the service to include more content from the series they license for the West. The additional content is coming in just three days, April 15. […]
Attention, all those who have been waiting for the US release of Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train…today is the day the tickets go on sale, so grab ’em before they’re gone! Aniplex and Funimation have entered a deal to screen the film around the country later this month. It opens here two weeks from […]
It remains one of the most popular manga and anime in Japan, it has millions of devoted followers, and yet it continues to get a bum deal in the States: we’re talking about One Piece, of course. Running weekly since the late 90s, the anime has hundreds of episodes, yet is only rarely seen on […]
For a while now, American anime distributor Funimation has been co-producing a feature film, the genre of which is pretty rare for anime movies: a musical. Today was the day we got a look at Sing A Bit Of Harmony via the release of the Japanese-language trailer. Shion Ashimori is a transfer student who wants […]
Kodansha announced today that, in honor of the Attack on Titan anime running its final season, the number of volumes in the manga series has been temporarily expanded on ComiXology. As of now, anyone with a ComiXology Unlimited or Kindle Unlimited subscription can read AoT up to Volume 22 free of charge. And in case […]
UA High is open for another semester! Funimation announced today the hit anime My Hero Academia will be returning for a fifth season in just four days. Funi is the official distributor for the show in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia, Brazil, and Mexico. My Hero Academia takes […]
The Demon Slayer movie was a huge hit in its home country, bu it’s taken months to hear word of a Stateside release. The silence was broken this week…Aniplex and Funimation have entered a deal to screen the film around the country next month and in Canada at the same time. The full title is […]
Dragon Ball Super isn’t over, it’s just going through a long hiatus. The manga is still ongoing, but the anime has shut down for a while with no announcement of return as of yet. To keep interest stoked, Toei is launching the “Battle of the Battles” Global Fan Event later this month. Last December Toei […]
It’s been with us for nearly a decade, but Attack On Titan is finally winding down. The manga has wrapped up and the anime is running through its last episodes, both on Funimation’s streaming service and Saturday evenings on Toonami. But Funi won’t let the Titans dissolve without one last party. They’re preparing a new […]
We’re not sure why this wasn’t part of the service from the beginning, but Funimation announced today that viewers of their streaming channel will have the option to watch anime in Spanish and Portuguese starting next Wednesday. Funi hasn’t confirmed if this change affects EVERY show, but they did provide a short list of shows […]
Normally we have reservations when a long-standing anime superstar tries to go the CG route, but the new anime film Lupin III: The First, which came this year to America courtesy of GKIDS, made the translation flawlessly (live-action is even worse, by the way, and Lupin’s been there). But this time the classic designs by […]
Mamoru Hosoda is an anime director responsible for several award-winning films: Summer Wars, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, The Boy and The Beast, Wolf Children and others. His last film, MIRAI, was released in 2018 and was nominated for a Golden Globe, a Critics’ Choice Award and an Academy Award; and actually did win […]