At Anime Expo 2024, Iconic Events Releasing, in partnership with AMC Networks' HIDIVE, announced plans for a 30th anniversary theatrical release of the critically acclaimed samurai period drama film Ninja Scroll Written and directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, the anime feature film was originally released in 1993 and is considered a truly seminal work in anime[...]
Hidive Archives
announced today it has bought up Houston-based Sentai Holdings, LLC ("Sentai"), the global distributor of anime and official anime merchandise, and owner of subscription-based anime streaming service HIDIVE AMC's acquisition includes all of the member interests from Cool Japan Fund, Inc., a public-private Japanese investment fund Yes, AMC is getting into the anime streaming business,[...]
Other streaming services like Daisuki and HIDIVE didn't have their numbers.
The First Strike
Then in 2017, Amazon launched their own subscription-based anime streaming service, Anime Strike Amazon began to buy the rights to some of the interesting anime out that year That was the first blow in the Anime War This was the first real disrupton[...]
That copy did have English subtitles, but they were terrible subtitles because the bootleggers were either using Google Translate or possibly on drugs when they typed in the subtitles.
Amazon Prime is currently one of the main streamers of simulcast new anime series as they premiere on TV in Japan – that is, the shows that[...]