AnimEigo, one of North America’s first anime licensors, is using Kickstarter to help rerelease some of its classic properties on Blu-ray. It all started with Bubblegum Crisis , the classic cyberpunk 80s OVA originally released in the States by AnimEigo on VHS back in the …Read more »
Some good news and some bad news from the Kickstarter campaign for Little Witch Academia 2 , which was successfully funded in 2013. The bad news about the Studio Trigger-produced film is that it’ll be coming out a little later than expected. While the film …Read more »
Just a few weeks ago we were praising Otaku no Video for being the first "anime about making anime" meta show, predating Shirobako by a couple decades (its 25th anniversary is coming up, actually). Evidently AnimEigo has noticed these parallels as well, as it's decided …Read more »
If you are in the habit of pouring one out for dead homies, please offer your next libation to crowdfunding site Anime Sols, who will shutter their virtual doors May 1. As stated on the Anime Sols news page : As you may have noticed, …Read more »
Japanese crowdfunding has grown up. While the earliest successfully-funded anime ( Little Witch Academia 2 , Kick-Heart ) were financed via America-based Kickstarter, recent months have seen Japanese crowdfunding sites play a bigger role in anime projects. Case in point: In This Corner of the …Read more »
It was just about nine days ago that we first posted about MAPPA and production company GENCO's efforts to crowdfund the In This Corner of the World anime film. Well, it's officially been successfully funded in that time, having reached its goal of over ¥20million …Read more »
Animation studio MAPPA and production company GENCO revealed on Monday the crowdfunding site for their film In This Corner of the World ( Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni ). Based on a manga by Fumiyo Kono ( Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms …Read more »
At first thought, Space Dandy seems like an unlikely candidate for a deck-building card game. What comes to mind when I think of this games, at least, are long-running, dead serious fantasy franchises. On reflection, though, Space Dandy seems like a better bet: after all, …Read more »
The website for Under the Dog , the Masahiro Ando-directed anime short that raised $878,000 via Kickstarter back in September, posted its first update in months on January 22 – and it appears Under the Dog has undergone a major shakeup. The update, from producer …Read more »
Premiering 20 years ago, Neon Genesis Evangelion triggered a fan boom in Japan and became a mega-hit around the world. But for one group, the world is not enough. Their plan is to replicate a scene from the original series and plant a replica of …Read more »
Digital Manga Publishing previously had some success with funding the work of God of Manga Osamu Tezuka through Kickstarter, including campaigns for Captain Ken , Unico , Atomcat , Triton of the Sea , and the more recent Ludwig B . While the broader attempt …Read more »
LeSean Thomas has quite a bit of experience under his belt—from his work on shows like The Boondocks and The Legend of Korra to the currently-running Black Dynamite: The Animated Series— and he recently hit up Kickstarter in an attempt to gather funds for a …Read more »
Little Witch Academia 2. Kick-Heart. Under the Dog. The list of successfully crowdfunded anime projects keeps on growing, and with every success, another producer says to himself "hey, we should get on that!" Let's check out the new projects that hit Kickstarter this week. First …Read more »
Update: Under the Dog has reached its funding goal. Under the Dog , the Kickstarter project from director Masahiro Ando is about to hit its deadline - and it's a nail-biter. The project, which aims to fund an original 24-minute piece of animation, has a …Read more »
It wouldn't be a week in anime news without a new crowdfunding project, a format that's gotten so ubiquitous it's impossible to write about every one of them. But this isn't your average Kickstarter (whatever that means). Nope, this is a new project by none …Read more »
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