This week Crunchyroll unveiled seven new anime acquisitions that will be arriving on the streamer later this year. The highlight is MF GHOST, the long-awaited anime adaption of Shuichi Shigeno’s sequel series to the iconic racing manga Initial D.
This happens to be a HUGE weekend for followers of prestige television. Succession, Barry, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel are ALL premiering their series finales at the same time. The streamers are gonna need some new buzzworthy shows when all this is through! Too bad they’d have to actually pay their writers for that to happen. There may not be any good American TV produced for a while. Guess there’s always anime.
Today Crunchyroll announced the upcoming anime comedy MASHLE: Magic And Muscles will premiere the first episode of its English dub version later this week.
Happy first of the month! It’s not just May, it’s not just Mer-May, but it’s also Ani-May according to Crunchyroll.
Now that One Piece Film: Red has completed its journey through the theater circuit, the next stop will be home video. Crunchyroll announced today they plan to make the movie available in disc form this July.
The new anime Hell’s Paradise debuted on Crunchyroll earlier this month. An English dub for the series was promised, and the streamer revealed today it will deliver, two weeks from the show’s sub premiere on April 15.
Knights of the Zodiac, is probably the best looking Hollywood adaptation of an Anime I had seen so far. This is based from the 1980s anime, Saint Seiya. I see progress in Hollywood’s part this time because Seiya is played by Japanese Actor, Mckenyu. After going through white washing seeing white actors playing Asian characters for a century, Finally an Asian lead in an Anime Adaptation. Remember When Scarlett Johansson played by Major Motoko Kusanagi, Or Justin Chatwin playing Son Goku. I also still have nightmares when Nat Wolff played Light Yagami. Success of Asian American movies like Crazy Rich Asians,Shang-chi and Everything,Everywhere all at once change the narrative for Asian Actors. We can also consider the success of Asian Streaming originals in American television. If this movie was done in 2008, A White actor will be playing Seiya.
Last year Netflix announced they had begun production on an anime adaption of the Scott Pilgrim graphic novels. This would be the second time Scott has been rendered viewable in motion, after the 2010 cult classic Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.
One of the most anticipated anime of the spring will premiere this Saturday, Crunchyroll announced today.
Resident Evil Masterpiece Theater is a Japanese ad for Resident Evil 4 remake.
Here’s the full slate of what Crunchyroll plans to premiere on their app within the next three months.