Crunchyroll Inc caught the attention of many people, not only otakus, but also the anime industry.
but... What's Crunchyroll?
It is only a website that streams anime, videos and oriental series. ( <3>Indeed, this little detail caught the attention of many people. Today, Crunchyroll site has over 4 mill unique visits, 250 mil pageviews and 50 mil stream videos monthly, 40% of them are from United States.This fast growing company was the talk about topic of many Anime distribution companies and as well investors. Here is when Venrock comes into the picture, by helping crunchyroll with a secured capital investment of $4.05mill.
Additionally, Funimation Entertainment anounced they has been constantly monitoring crunchyroll.com. FE said since 2006 they has benn sending letters to this site about the copyright infrigments. Crunchyroll, as a good company, removed all licensed anime and they even posted "please support this anime and buy the DVDs". (I cant think of any better idea, I gotta admit the good work of crunchy).
Bandai doesnt stay behind, and 4 hours after F.E. finish their press conference, Bandai announced that they agreed with F.E. about their concern about free streaming anime videos and they have also sent letters to crunchy about licensed series. Crunchyroll did they same thing as they did with F.E.
"If you cant fight against them , join them!"
Apparently, Gonzo/GD, instead of go agains them, they decided to have a serious talk about working together
“we are talking about exchangin ideas of working together , so we both get benefits from it”
Gonzo is planning to do an official press conference to clarify things.
Crunchyroll previously said that DEL production Company gave them authorization to show the first episode of the serie Eagle Talon The Movie - The Chancellor Only Lives Twice. This episode was the first video anime int he site to be legally authorized.
Let's hope Crunchyroll keeps growing and make happy all the otakus :)
Fuentes : Animeportal.cl
Udon Comics decided to celebrate their anniversary #20 of this classic game, by creating an art book high quality color!. Hence, they started a contest where anyone can send their original art work about this game to this emaill: sftribute@udoncomics.com
Obviously, there are some rules, such as: the characters must be from street fighter (any version of it), but you cant mix it with other characters (no even capcom)
Besides your work, you need to send some of your information: Name(no nick) and a valid email address. The art works has to be in JPG and low resolution, no more than 900kb.More Details: Here :).
Source: Animeportal.cl
Amuri in Star Ocean releases their new promo video online!. This new series was created and written by Yoshitomo Tonetani. It is one of the first series that MA@YA will be working on, showing his famous 3D female characters.
This super-dimensional sciences-fiction anime will be release this march 21th and the DVD in May 23th, 2008.
You can find the promo video in Here!!
Source: Animeportal
