Posted by Freyja on 11 Mar : 03:38 in Others
The Crunchyroll media- distribution website has announced that it will discontinue its download-to-own service on March 31. Users' existing downloads must be downloaded and saved by May 1.

Crunchyroll 's download-to-own videos are free of digital rights management (DRM). Only some of Crunchyroll's titles, such as Angelic Layer, Blassreiter, and Saiyuki, are still available through the download-to-own option. Most of these episodes are offered at US$1.99 per episode, but some also operate on a donation system, with extras added on for donations of US$2 or more.

Kun Gao, Chief Executive Officer of Crunchyroll, told ANN in a statement that Crunchyroll's "core business and the future for anime is simulcast." He also stated that Crunchyroll is dedicating more resources to "increasing the number of ways [users] can stream content" from Crunchyroll. Gao explained that Crunchyroll has 10 times more users on its recently released iPhone and iPod Touch streaming application than download-to-own users.


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Posted by Freyja on 03 Mar : 23:30 in Anime
A hybrid live-action/ anime film version of the Kaidan Restaurant (Thriller Restaurant) horror storybook series has been green-lit for this August. In the stories, the owner of the titular restaurant recounts macabre tales of horror to several local children interested in paranormal phenomena. Ayano Kudō, the winner of 2009's Zen-Nihon Kokumin-teki Bishōjo Contest, will play a new character — 14-year-old spirit detective Haru Amano — in this film version. Masayuki Ochiai will direct the project after helming the Shutter and Parasite Eve films.

Source: Anime News Network


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