Crunchyroll UK just revealed their Sailor Moon Steelbook releases: Region B only, includes Japanese & VIZ English dub & English subs Anime screenshots on the backover seem to have original colours or at least not the usual pink tint, but 16:9. However specs say 4:3

There are claims that Japan Foundation created an English dub for the Okko's Inn TV-Series in Miami. The series ran in Japan in 2018 - but is that dub really "lost" or at least that rare that it's kinda impossible to find? @miketoole.com Could you help?

Currently Crunchyroll doesn't have a single upcoming Blu-ray or DVD confirmed & scheduled for the UK. Maybe that's a temp issue, especially as The Apothecary Diaries Steelbook has a UK product number on the spine - but still weird.

Bandai Namco Filmworks started streaming Magical Sisters Lulutto Lilly with translated subs. Well: Instead of translating directly from Japanese, at least the German & French subs are straight translations from the English script, with various formating issues and way too high Characters per Second

This month they released a My Hero Academia magazine in Germany € 5.99 includes toy-gun likely no follow-up issues planned Released by Egmont (who is also a large manga company, e. g. Ranma 1/2, Detective Conan, but not MHA manga) licensed via Crunchyroll

In case anyone here wants to be a product manager, and enjoy being on the other side of all the "why haven't you released x yet?" complaints 😅 just go to blog.alltheanime.com/jobs/ and apply for a job as production manager in Glasgow UK

Crunchyroll just added Kodocha aka Sana-chan, Destroyer of Translators 51 episodes (for now), English subbed and it seems they are using the Discotek subtitles www.crunchyroll.com/series/G8DHV... (no Dub, no foreign language subs)

Nice surprise: You can watch Saint Tail on Retrocrush even in Europe via Cineverse. Just the CC hiding the subtitles is kinda...

I analysed the German FAST anime channels on Pluto TV... It seems there are airing only 64 hours of Yu-Gi-Oh! daily. The "Anime Fantasy" channel airs some family friendly series after 10 pm, e. g. Interspecies Reviewers & Testament of Sister New Devil And we have only 24/7 of Naruto / Boruto

Some anime producers seem to have quite a lot of creative freedom... Jewelpet Sunshine Ep 39 Someone decided: Let's make an opening sequence using Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild"... ...for a shoujo anime www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPj_... Explains why this never got licensed in the west :D

Crunchyroll is hiring a new operations manager for their Germany & UK Blu-ray branch (London based). job-boards.greenhouse.io/crunchyroll/... So if you are living in the UK or willing to relocate, that might be the perfect job to get into the anime business.

Good(?) News everyone: Sailor Moon - Das Mädchen mit den Zauberkräften No. 21/2000 Is longer "indexed" by the German "Federal Agency for Child and Youth Protection in the Media" (BzKJ). Indexed = banned for advertisement in public, including online, and no sale to minors

Current Anime Blu-ray release schedule for Crunchyroll Germany: www.anisearch.de/news/anime/5... Around 20 new releases for April & May combined + several DVDs or overstock bundles. And almost(?) all of them include some goodies, e. g. Artcards and / or Poster

Got some Funimation Blu-rays in my mail today. It seems there was some kind of printing error on the reversible sleeves? The artworks of the characters are missing the clothes... And also the Blu-rays are labeled "Freezing", not "Frieren". Did I get the wrong anime series or what?

Since @milesofficial.bsky.social hasn’t made this post on bsky, piggybacking off of this post to share his take from Twitter

Nouveau planning des sorties @Crunchyroll_fr

After a break lasting more than a year, the German anime company Trimax is coming back this March - and the first product review arrived on Amazon.

Hardball Films Germany announced a Steelbook release of Hellsing TV-series for June 2026 - on Blu-ray. hardball-films.de/produkt/hell... Will include the classic German Dub & Japanese Audio + German subtitles

So Maomao the Animation will be the only Crunchyroll US release slated for May? at least it's a great title

Many have asked about AI and translation following the acquisition announcement. Seven Seas remains committed to human translators and the high editorial standards our readers & creators expect. Nothing about the acquisition changes how we translate our books. More info shortly.

People seem to not know that TMI Holdings, the company listed as selling the RightStuf Warehouse, appears to be Shawne Kleckner.

There is a Windows XP Version of Animal Crossing: New Horizons? ...or is it just a certain online store lying?

Calling your attacks can be Pretty (Cure) exhausting... Jugemu Jugemu, A Nearly Infinite Eon. Ultimate Marine Splash Mega Wave Dragon. Tropical Mango Kiwi Limbo Dance Tappity-tap Crash Niagara Shower. Flying Phoenix Super Serving of Level 100 Spiciness. Free Refill of Fatty Roast

Today I crossed the former Berlin wall six times - and I didn't even notice it. I only found out by checking historic maps. The world can change in a blink of an eye, and even for the better.

VIZ Media proudly presents... Captain Tsubasa 2018 1080p HD-DVD Boxsets with 8 episodes per discs. Audio languages not mentioned on packaging

Did you know that back in 2020, Amazon Prime Video already had .ass subtitles? ...just a few minor issues were left to fix. (Yowapeda via Amazon Prime Video Brasil)

The agents in Spy x Family S3 are using latest AI technology... (Ep 48 @ 16:46)

Netflix wants German voice actors to sign contracts allowing them to use their recordings for AI training - for free www.anisearch.de/news/anime/5... Well, many voice actors just said "NO" and as such Netflix currently struggles to get any voice actors for their dubs

One Piece Characters Log currently airs on German TV. Not much of a surprise... But the TV station announced that the episodes have not yet been dubbed, but they'll air it anyway (subbed this time) xcancel.com/prosiebenmax...

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Once I ordered 3 Maiden Japan discs: Dennoh Coil, Yumeiro Patisserie & Clamp School Detectives... ...this was my first order at Right Stuf Anime. It wasn't Fedex'd and took many weeks, but I ended up receiving it. And it was the first of many, many orders... Miss you, RightStufAnime & Maiden Japan

Does TV Tokyo traumatize kids in the morning? Next Saturday they'll go straight from Paw Patrol (Rubble & Crew) @ 9:45 to Trigun Stargaze @ 10:00

I was about to post this here if you have ever seen subtitles with color, karaoke or any sort of cool positioning they were likely made in srv3. youtube is now deleting ALL subtitles made in this format this includes basically every subbed hololive video (and hundreds of vtuber vids in general)

Weird developments in the German anime market? 2025 anime Blu-ray releases went down compared to 2024 - but DVDs went up? Weird? Yes But on a closer look: The number of delays, especially towards the end of 2025 was huge and even affected companies which were usually "on time".

Some days ago I placed a phone order at an anime retailer for that "famous horse series everyone is talking about". Guess I need to be more specific next time...

The worst official 4K AI upscale? Tezuka Productions The first AI colored anime in Japanese TV? Tezuka Productions ...now Amazon Prime has ruined their triple

Amazon x Crunchyroll France... It's like playing a game of "guess the anime"

So while we have seen some shows on Crunchyroll get updated with better subtitles, I would like to remind everyone that many shows haven't. I also reached out to some insiders, and so far there has been no clear internal communication about changing course back to comprehensive typesetting either.

New article on ★ daiz.moe ★ Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason daiz.moe/crunchyroll-... A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes! Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)

It seems that Netflix decided to produce brand new dubs of One Piece in multiple(!) languages... Not just Latin American Spanish, which was kinda obvious given the fact that they only got the 4kids edits before, but also German, French and likely others as well

Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro is up to pre-order! The steelbook has a brand new English dub w/ the much-loved cast of Tony Oliver, Richard Epcar, Michelle Ruff, Lex Lang, & Doug Erholtz and plenty of extras! Exclusive to the Crunchyroll Store. store.crunchyroll.com/products/lup...

Exclusive BD SteelBooks Berserk Golden Age Arc Memorial Edition store.crunchyroll.com/products/ber... That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime S1 store.crunchyroll.com/products/tha... S2 store.crunchyroll.com/products/tha... Lupin the 3rd Castle of Cagliostro store.crunchyroll.com/products/lup...

Crunchyroll started fixing the subtitles for their new simulcasts :) Left: fixed (German) Right: prior (English) Anime: A Mangaka’s Weirdly Wonderful Workplace

Hardball Films proves once again that it's not impossible to re-release older Aniplex shows: Coming soon in November is Sekirei, with season 2 to follow later JPN + GER audio + subtitles

Some said the "new" Crunchyroll subtitling style was some kind of "industry standard" - but which? Even the vobsubs standard from ~1997, supported by companies like Sony, Disney, NBCUniversal was far more flexible than the current Crunchyroll style...

It gets even better! There are already TWO SEASONS of this, despite it being dated to just a week ago (9/27/2025), and the episode synopsis for all six episodes are literally just the full Lorem ipsum text. I'm almost crying from how utterly dumb & hilarious this is.

really is starting to seem like crunchyroll fired the people who made the company work, and now everything is breaking down

Well, at least some of us are still using Aegisub...

New article: animebythenumbers.substack.com/p/worse-crun...