Crunchyroll to
Simulcast New Anime to UK & Eire!
Online video
streaming service Crunchyroll have announced that
they will be simulcasting several new anime series from
January, and will be available for UK & Irish viewers too!
First up is Cardfight!! Vanguard, a new anime
series based on a card game developed by Bushiroad (Milky
Holmes), Akira Ito (Yu-Gi-Oh! R) and Satoshi
Nakamura (Duel Masters). The series kicks off
on 8th January and is available for subscribers at 12.30am
GMT and free viewing a week later.
Next is Gosick,
a gothic-styled mystery horror series set in 1920's Europe.
The series is based on a novel series by Kazuki Sakuraba and
kicks off on 7th January at 6pm GMT, but unfortunately is
subscription only to the UK & Eire due to licensing issues.
The series is only available to us until 30th June 2011.
Finally comes
Dragon Crisis!, a fantasy actioner about a school boy
who rescues a girl from slave traffickers only to find she's
actually a dragon. The series kicks off on 10th
January at 7pm GMT and is again available straight away for
subscribers and a week later for free viewing.
For more information
on these titles and other simulcasts check out
Crunchyroll
here.