Funimation is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Sony Group Corporation. Launched in 2016,the service is one of the leading distributors of anime and other foreign entertainment properties in North America. It has streamed popular series,such as Dragon Ball,One Piece,Yu Yu Hakusho,My Hero Academia,Attack on Titan,Fairy Tail,Black Clover,Fruits Basket,Assassination Classroom and Tokyo Ghoul among many others.
Artland Inc. is a Japanese animation studio. It has produced numerous noted anime series,including the award-winning Mushishi and epic Legend of the Galactic Heroes. It is also well known for producing the anime adaptation of KatekyōHitman Reborn!.
Ufotable,Inc. is a Japanese animation studio founded in October 2000 by former staff of the TMS Entertainment subsidiary Telecom Animation Film and located in Suginami,Tokyo. A unique hallmark seen in many of their works is a claymation sequence. Other notable works from the studio include Fate/Zero,Fate/stay night:Unlimited Blade Works,and Demon Slayer:Kimetsu no Yaiba.
Campus Special Investigator Hikaruon is a Japanese original video animation produced by AIC. Directed by Kazuhiro Ochi,the OVA was released in 1987.
Drifters is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kouta Hirano. The manga started serialization in Shōnen Gahosha's magazine Young King Ours in April 2009. It focuses on various historical figures summoned to an unknown world where their skills and techniques are needed by magicians in order to save their world from total destruction. An anime television series adaptation aired between October and December 2016;three additional original video animation (OVA) episodes were released from December 2017 to November 2018.
Bilibili,nicknamed B Site,is a video sharing website based in Shanghai where users can submit,view and add overlaid commentary on videos. Since the mid-2010s,Bilibili began to expand to a broader audience from its original niche market that focused on animation,comics,and games (ACG),and it has become one of the major Chinese over-the-top streaming platforms serving videos on demand such as documentaries,variety shows,and other original programming.
Danganronpa:The Animation is an anime television series produced by Lerche,based on Spike Chunsoft's 2010 visual novel Danganronpa:Trigger Happy Havoc. The thirteen episode adaptation aired on MBS' Animeism programming block between July and September 2013. The series is licensed by Crunchyroll in the English-speaking regions of North America,Australia and United Kingdom and Muse Communication in Southeast Asia and South Asia. The series was succeeded by an anime-original sequel to the game series,Danganronpa 3:The End of Hope's Peak High School,which aired in 2016.
My Hero Academia is a Japanese superhero manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi. It has been serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump since July 2014,with its chapters additionally collected into 38 tankōbon volumes as of June 2023. Set in a world where superpowers have become commonplace,the story follows Izuku Midoriya,a boy who was born without a Quirk but still dreams of becoming a superhero himself. He is scouted by the world's greatest hero,All Might,who bestows his Quirk to Midoriya after recognizing his potential,and helps to enroll him in a prestigious high school for superheroes in training.
The Rising of the Shield Hero is a Japanese dark fantasy isekai light novel series written by Aneko Yusagi. Originally published as a web novel in the user-generated novel site Shōsetsuka ni Narō,the series has since been published by Media Factory with an expanded story-line featuring illustrations by Seira Minami. As of June 25,2019,twenty-two volumes have been published.
Amanchu! (あまんちゅ！) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kozue Amano,which began serialization in Mag Garden's Monthly Comic Blade magazine from November 2008. An anime television series adaptation by J.C.Staff aired in Japan between July and September 2016. The second season of the anime series aired between 7 April 2018 and 23 June 2018.
Chain Chronicle is a tower defense role-playing game developed and published by Sega for iOS,Android,and PlayStation Vita. It was released in Japan on July 26,2013,for iOS,August 1,2013,for Android and on July 16,2014,for the PlayStation Vita. The game is licensed in Asia by SNDA released in China,MobiMon for both Taiwan and Macau,Actoz Soft for South Korea and Gumi Asia for both Southeast Asia and North America,however the game was closed down in North America and Southeast Asia on February 29,2016.
Cheating Craft (チーティングクラフト) is a Japanese/Chinese anime television series animated by BLADE and produced by Emon. It is based on Gemini Xin Luo's novel Zuobi Yishu. The anime series premiered on October 5,2016 as a short anime and ran alongside To Be Hero.
Haoliners Animation League is a Chinese animation company based in Shanghai and established in 2013. Its subsidiary Animation Company Emon operates in Japan and South Korea,and Haoliners maintains a Korean animation branch as well.
Kenka Bancho Otome:Girl Beats Boys is a 12-episode anime series co-produced by A-Real and Project No.9. It aired from April to June 2017. It is based on the PlayStation Vita video game Kenka BanchōOtome,which itself is an otome spinoff of the Kenka Banchō game series. A sequel to the game,Kenka BanchōOtome:2nd Rumble!! was released on March 14,2019.
SSSS.Gridman is a Japanese anime television series adaptation of the 1993–1994 tokusatsu series Denkou Choujin Gridman. The production is a joint collaboration between Tsuburaya Productions,the production company behind Gridman and the Ultra Series,and Trigger. It was broadcast for 12 episodes from October to December 2018. A sequel,titled SSSS.Dynazenon,was broadcast from April to June 2021.
Tsukumogami Kashimasu is a Japanese novel written by Megumi Hatakenaka and published in 2007. A sequel,titled Tsukumogami,Asobōyo,was published in 2013. An anime television series adaptation premiered from July to October 2018. Crunchyroll is streaming the series under the title We Rent Tsukumogami.
Endro! is a Japanese original anime television series by Studio Gokumi. The series aired in Japan between January and March 2019,and a manga adaptation was serialized from August 9,2018 to February 15,2019. The anime series is licensed in North America under a Crunchyroll-Funimation partnership.
Sakugan is a Japanese anime television series produced by Satelight. It is directed and written by Jun'ichi Wada,with character designs by Yūji Iwahara,and music by Tatsuya Kato. It aired from October to December 2021.
Backflip!! is an original Japanese anime television series animated by Zexcs,directed by SeishirōNagaya and Toshimasa Kuroyanagi and written by Toshizo Nemoto. The series aired from April to June 2021. A manga adaptation by Kei Sakuraba was serialized in Kodansha's Dessert manga magazine from January 22 to September 24,2021. An anime film premiered on July 2,2022.
The fifth season of My Hero Academia anime television series was produced by Bones and directed by Kenji Nagasaki and Masahiro Mukai,following the story of the original manga series from the 21st volume through the end of the 26th volume. It covers the final parts of "Pro Hero" arc,"Joint Training","Meta Liberation Army" which temporarily shifts the title of the series to My Villain Academia,"Endeavor Agency",and the origin of "Paranormal Liberation War" arc.
