{"id":13233,"date":"2008-08-11T11:24:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T15:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=13233"},"modified":"2008-08-11T11:24:19","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T15:24:19","slug":"crunchyroll-announcements-from-otakon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/crunchyroll-announcements-from-otakon\/","title":{"rendered":"Crunchyroll Announcements from Otakon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At this past weekend&#8217;s Otakon convention, multimedia hosting website Crunchyroll announced a number of new distribution agreements.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Tokyo based anime studio Gonzo will offer 100 hours of its anime for free and commercial download-to-own viewing through Crunchyroll beginning this month. Titles confirmed for online distribution include Kaleido Star and Peace Maker Kurogane.<\/p>\n<p>Media Blasters has licensed 6 titles for online distribution: the <strong>Girl&#8217;s High<\/strong>, <strong>Ramen Fighter Miki<\/strong>, and <strong>Kite: Liberator<\/strong> anime, and <strong>Flesh for the Beast<\/strong>, <strong>Machine Girl<\/strong>, and <strong>Shadow: Dead Riot<\/strong> live action films.<\/p>\n<p>AD Vision has licensed 12 titles for online distribution via Crunchyroll:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Angelic Layer<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Best Student Council<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Chance Pop Session<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Magical Play<\/strong> (22 episode web anime series)<br \/>\n<strong>Martian Successor Nadesico: Prince of Darkness<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Nurse Witch Komugi<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Parasite Dolls<\/strong> (movie edit)<br \/>\n<strong>Saiyuki<\/strong> (50 episode TV series)<br \/>\n<strong>Sin: The Movie<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>BASToF Syndrome<\/strong> (Korean animated series)<br \/>\n<strong>Lady Death<\/strong> (American\/Korean animated movie)<br \/>\n<strong>Yesterday<\/strong> (Korean live-action film)<\/p>\n<p>Also, according to Crunchyroll co-founder Vu Nguyen, despite Crunchyroll gaining $4 million in venture capital investments earlier this year, the site is looking for ways to &#8220;reward&#8221; volunteers who contribute to the site&#8217;s functionality without having to pay them.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/convention\/2008\/otakon\/crunchyroll\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this past weekend&#8217;s Otakon convention, multimedia hosting website Crunchyroll announced a number of new distribution agreements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}