I love PR Releases…they make my job easier…
Online Anime Distribution Leader Inks Deal with Major Japanese Anime Producers
Crunchyroll is the world’s largest anime-focused content and social networking service, and with this partnership, is making a decisive transition from a platform for user-uploaded content to a platform for professionally-produced content.
The first program to launch will be NARUTO SHIPPUDEN, the most popular anime title by the trio of producers. Beginning January 8, 2009, Crunchyroll will offer episodes of the NARUTO SHIPPUDEN series, as well as a lineup of other blockbuster anime titles, as a “simulcast” for the first time immediately following it’s broadcast in Japan. Crunchyroll’s online community of 4.6 million users will be able to access the content in both subscription streaming and advertising-supported services.
So basically, this means that you will get to watch (english subbed) naruto 1hr after release with a subscription; 1 week after the release for free. And crunchyroll will be taking down all of their illegal uploads. This is a GOOD thing, folks…
We are witnessing the end of the Fansub age…and the beginnings of a 24 hour anime channel in the U.S. Subbed by the way…
A 24-hr subbed channel? That’s wishful thinking. I doubt we will see a channel period, because TV (in the historical sense, of course) is becoming less and less significant. I predict in the next few we will have Televisions with Wifi and Ethernet ports built in.
THE INTERNETS!!!!!!
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