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Artists Respond to "Totoro" TV Broadcast

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Japanese TV broadcast's of Studio Ghibli movies tend to elicit huge responses on social media. There's the "balse" case where Castle in the Sky broke a Twitter record as a key example. Last week's the NTV Friday Roadshow broadcsst of Princess Mononoke sent plenty of artists to Twitter and Pixiv. This week, program aired My Neighbor Tototro, and as you might guess, their was the response really roared. Get a look after the jump.

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VIDEO: Yui Ogura's "Encouragement of Climb Second Season" Ending Music Video

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King Records has posted a short version of the music video for Yui Ogura's "Tinkling Smile," the song featured as the ending for Encouragement of Climb Second Season. Meanwhile, Ms. Ogura was joined by Yuka Iguchi in throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at game between the serie's pro-baseball hometown team, the Saitama Seibu Lions and the the Orix Buffaloes.

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Win A Free Round Trip Ticket To Japan At May'n's Concert In San Francisco!

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It's only a week before the concert by anisong singer May'n at Slim's in San Francisco as the grand finale for the celebration of JPOP culture and music at San Francisco's JPOP Summit Festival and now there is another reason fans won't want to miss it as JPOP Summit Festival has announced a raffle contest for a free ticket to Japan! Get the details after the jump!

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Crowdfunding Campaign Launched for "Daimidaler" Penguin Empire Cover

Posted by Scott Green 15 hours ago

Japan's character goods crowdfunding site Cross Crowdfunding has launched a campaign to support the creation of covers based on Daimidaler the Sound Robot's Penguin Empire. Actually, rather than hug pillows, these guys will be punching back covers. Get a look after the jump.

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14208 New Summer Titles: Bladedance of Elementalers, Invaders of the Rokujyoma, Nobunaga Concerto, Magimoji Rurumo

Posted by lugiamania 2 days ago

For our last announcement of the day, Magimoji Rurumo comes to Summer 2014! Details on weekly launch times will be announced later, but the first episode is already available as of TODAY, for users...

17641 New Simulcast Announcement: Tokyo ESP, Encouragement of Climb Season Two, Ai-Mai-Mi Season 2 and Strange+ Season 2, AND

Posted by tiffako 2 days ago

Tiffako here for the third day in a row to announce a few more shows that are airing on Crunchyroll this summer! ...

13532 New Summer Titles: Love Stage!! and FATE/KALEID LINER PRISMA ILLYA 2wei!

Posted by tiffako 4 days ago

Hey everyone! Tiffako here to announce the upcoming summer simulcasts!! I know a bunch of you guys have been waiting for the next two titles so here they are!!! Love Stage!! is set to...

24816 New Summer Titles!!! SUPER UPDATE!!

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Hey everyone! Tiffako here with a SUPER UPDATE on all of the new summer simulcasts!! Akame ga Kill! is set to broadcast every Sunday starting on July 6th, at 9:00am Pacific Time for its...

39609 UPDATED DAILY - Crunchyroll is Going to Anime Expo!

Posted by lugiamania 8 days ago

Happy Friday everyone, and I'm excited to FINALLY be able to let you all know just what we'll be up to at Anime Expo 2014! We're going to be back at our usual spot, booth 701, and it's...

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Summer 2014 Simulcasts

Sailor Moon Crystal

Saturdays 3:00am PDT

Sailor Moon... Episode 1
Sword Art Online II

Saturdays 9:30am PDT

Episode 1 Episode 2
Free! Eternal Summer

Wednesdays 8:30am PDT

Episode 1 Episode 2 Ep 3 in 2 days
Naruto Shippuden Season 12

Thursdays 4:00am PDT

Episode 367 Episode 368
One Piece

Saturdays 7:05pm PDT

Episode 652 Episode 653
ARGEVOLLEN

Thursdays 8:30am PDT

Episode 1 Episode 2 Ep 3 in 3 days
Locodol

Thursdays 12:00pm PDT

Episode 1 Episode 2 Ep 3 in 4 days
Akame ga Kill!

Sundays 9:00am PDT

Episode 1 Episode 2
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders

Fridays 9:30am PDT

Episode 14 Episode 15
Fairy Tail Series 2

Fridays 7:00pm PDT

Episode 14 Episode 15
Blue Spring Ride

Mondays 11:30am PDT

Episode 1 Episode 2 Ep 2 in 23 hrs
GLASSLIP

Thursdays 8:00am PDT

Episode 1 Episode 2 Ep 3 in 3 days
Haikyu!!

Sundays 2:00am PDT

Episode 14 Episode 15
Aldnoah Zero

Saturdays 10:00am PDT

Episode 1 Episode 2
Ace of the Diamond

Saturdays 5:30pm PDT

Episode 38 Episode 39
DRAMAtical Murder

Sundays 11:00am PDT

Episode 1 Episode 2
Hunter x Hunter

Tuesdays 12:00pm PDT

Episode 136 Episode 137 Ep 138 in 2 days
Sabagebu! - Survival Game Club! –

Sundays 8:00am PDT

Episode 1 Episode 2
Samurai Jam-Bakumatsu Rock

Wednesdays 9:00am PDT

Episode 1 Episode 2 Ep 3 in 2 days
Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun

Sundays 12:05pm PDT

Episode 1 Episode 2 Ep 2 in
Baby Steps

Sundays 3:00am PDT

Episode 14 Episode 15
Captain Earth

Saturdays 11:00am PDT

Episode 14 Episode 15
DRAGON COLLECTION

Mondays 3:30am PDT

Episode 13 Episode 14 Ep 15 in 15 hrs
Folktales from Japan

Saturdays 5:30pm PDT

Episode 117 Episode 118
Future Card Buddyfight

Fridays 4:30pm PDT

Episode 26 Episode 27
HaNaYaMaTa

Mondays 11:00am PDT

Episode 1 Episode 2 Ep 2 in 23 hrs
HEROBANK

Mondays 4:00am PDT

Episode 13 Episode 14 Ep 15 in 16 hrs
MAGICA WARS

Tuesdays 8:00am PDT

Episode 13 Episode 14 Ep 15 in 1 day
Majin Bone

Tuesdays 4:00am PDT

Episode 14 Episode 15 Ep 16 in 1 day
ORECA BATTLE

Mondays 3:30am PDT

Episode 13 Episode 14 Ep 15 in 15 hrs
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories 2

Sundays 11:30am PDT

Episode 1 Episode 2
The Irregular at Magic High School

Saturdays 11:00am PDT

Episode 14 Episode 15
The File of Young Kindaichi Returns

Saturdays 3:30am PDT

Episode 13 Episode 14
Rowdy Sumo Wrestler Matsutaro

Saturdays 3:30pm PDT

Episode 12 Episode 13
Re: Hamatora

Mondays 11:05am PDT

Episode 1 Episode 2 Ep 2 in 23 hrs
Rail Wars!

Saturdays 8:00pm PDT

Episode 1 Episode 2
Persona4 the Golden ANIMATION

Thursdays 12:15pm PDT

Episode 1
Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA ILLYA 2wei!

Wednesdays 11:15am PDT

Episode 1 Episode 2 Ep 2 in 2 days
Love Stage!!

Wednesdays 10:45am PDT

Episode 1
Momo Kyun Sword

Tuesdays 11:30am PDT

Episode 1 Episode 2 Ep 2 in 1 day

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Sailor Moon Crystal PRETTY GUARDIAN SAILORMOON Crystal TRAILER MOMOIRO CLOVER Z VER.

Sailor Moon Crystal Episode 1USAGI - SAILOR MOON -

Sword Art Online II Episode 1

Sword Art Online II Episode 2Ice Sniper

Free! Eternal Summer Episode 1

Free! Eternal Summer Episode 2

Free! Eternal Summer Episode 3

Naruto Shippuden Season 12 Episode 367Hashirama and Madara"Villages did not exist when Hashirama was a child. It was during this strife-filled time that he met Madara Uchiha."

Naruto Shippuden Season 12 Episode 368Era of Warring StatesMadara and Hashirama eventually become the leaders of their respective clans. As the fighting rages on between the Senju and Uchiha, Hashirama approaches Madara about an alliance.

One Piece Episode 652The Last - and Bloodiest - Block! Block D Battle Begins!

One Piece Episode 653A Decisive Battle! Giolla vs. the Straw Hats!

ARGEVOLLEN Episode 1Encounter

ARGEVOLLEN Episode 2Awakening

ARGEVOLLEN Episode 3

Locodol Episode 1We tried starting it

Locodol Episode 2We Tried to Go Play

Locodol Episode 3

Akame ga Kill! Episode 1Kill the Darkness

Akame ga Kill! Episode 2Kill the Authority

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders Episode 14Justice Part 1

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders Episode 15Justice Part 2

Fairy Tail Series 2 Episode 14GloriaThe Grand Magic Games are ending at last! But who will be the last wizard standing? And which guild will be crowned the strongest in Fiore?

Fairy Tail Series 2 Episode 15The One Who Closes the PortalLucy wasn't the only time traveler from the future. There's one more... and it's the person who possessed Rogue in his match with Gajeel. But is his motive the same as Lucy's or something more sinister?

Blue Spring Ride Episode 1Page. 1

Blue Spring Ride Episode 2

GLASSLIP Episode 1Fireworks

GLASSLIP Episode 2Bench

GLASSLIP Episode 3

Haikyu!! Episode 14Formidable OpponentsInterhigh is coming up next month. The Karasuno volleyball club is pensive, tension rises. They endeavor in training individually and with clearer vision as a team, as they get more inspired. In the meantime, pairings of the preliminaries get...

Haikyu!! Episode 15Revival

Aldnoah Zero Episode 1Princess of VERSPrincess Asseylum wants to see Earth for the first time and plans a goodwill visit. However, Count Cruhteo doesn't seem to be sharing the same feelings about Earth. Does this mean that there will not be peace between Earth and Mars?

Aldnoah Zero Episode 2Beyond the HorizonMartian forces have commenced their attack on the Earth. The Earth's forces stand united, ready to defend against the attack as cities quickly turn into war zones. Inaho and his classmates must struggle to survive as they find themselves being...

Ace of the Diamond Episode 38Roles

Ace of the Diamond Episode 39Expectations of an Ace

DRAMAtical Murder Episode 1Data_01_Login

DRAMAtical Murder Episode 2Crack

Hunter x Hunter Episode 136Homecoming x And x True Name

Hunter x Hunter Episode 137Debate x Among x Zodiacs

Hunter x Hunter Episode 138

Sabagebu! - Survival Game Club! – Episode 1

Sabagebu! - Survival Game Club! – Episode 2Twin Tail Trap

Samurai Jam-Bakumatsu Rock Episode 1

Samurai Jam-Bakumatsu Rock Episode 2

Samurai Jam-Bakumatsu Rock Episode 3

Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun Episode 1This Love... Is Being Turned Into a Shojo Manga.

Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun Episode 2Say Hello to the New Heroine

Baby Steps Episode 14Putting the Pieces Together

Baby Steps Episode 15Plan to Be Forceful

Captain Earth Episode 14A Maiden's Tear That Sparkled Through the Night

Captain Earth Episode 15

DRAGON COLLECTION Episode 13The Evil Bizarreda Triangle!Hiro and friends have set sail for Raniaza Island with Captain Schiff (and Yuna)! But the dreaded Bizarreda Triangle is on the way, and it won't be that easy to avoid...

DRAGON COLLECTION Episode 14Pirate King Doc Rowe!Hiro and friends board the ghost ship, only to find it crewed by pirate skeletons who continue to seek treasure even after death!

DRAGON COLLECTION Episode 15

Folktales from Japan Episode 117The Treasure Swamp / Tatsukohime / Kurohime and the DragonA rich man learns of a treasure in a swamp and forces his servants to drain it. Tatsuko goes to a shrine in the mountain every night seeking eternal beauty. The black dragon, who is the master of a huge swamp, wants to marry the beautiful Kurohime.

Folktales from Japan Episode 118The Carried Priest / The Man Who Knew Hell / The Ghost Ladle

Future Card Buddyfight Episode 26A Challenge From Legend World!In the quest to find Kiri, the heated showdown between Sengoku and Aibo continues. Genma squares off against a surprising foe who shares a secret with the Seifukai leader. A difference of opinion of what constitutes fair play has the Buddyfighters...

Future Card Buddyfight Episode 27

HaNaYaMaTa Episode 1Shall We Dance

HaNaYaMaTa Episode 2

HEROBANK Episode 13Flash Descent! Deborah Kizaki!!

HEROBANK Episode 14Trillion Swiftness! Enter the Speed!!

HEROBANK Episode 15

MAGICA WARS Episode 13

MAGICA WARS Episode 14

MAGICA WARS Episode 15

Majin Bone Episode 14Shark's Rampage

Majin Bone Episode 15Shaken Destiny

Majin Bone Episode 16

ORECA BATTLE Episode 13Scorching Purgatory! The Power of Demon King Mus!Fire suddenly finds himself facing the Demon King Mus! The battle begins as soon as they switch their location to the demon castle. Meanwhile, the Lamanders are attacking children in Fire’s home town! Both the human realm and the Oreca realm...

ORECA BATTLE Episode 14The Shocking Rebirth! The Scarlet Dragon!

ORECA BATTLE Episode 15

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories 2 Episode 1Taro-chanThis is the story of a particular rookie police officer who displayed his ventriloquism ability at a traffic safety meeting...

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories 2 Episode 2 KitchenThis is the story of a female college student who was invited to visit the home of her friend from high school...

The Irregular at Magic High School Episode 14Nine Schools Competition Part VIITatsuya meets Masaki Ichijo and Shinkuro Kichijoji. It takes them by surprise that Tatsuya already knows about their background. Another accident happens at the Nine Schools Competition. First High students think that it was another act of sabotage.

The Irregular at Magic High School Episode 15Nine Schools Competition Part VIIITatsuya is asked to compete in Monolith Code. He picks Leonhard and Mikihiko to be his team members. Kichijoji advises Ichijo to figure out a way to force Tatsuya into head-to-head combat to win Monolith Code. Will Tatsuya take the bait as expected?

The File of Young Kindaichi Returns Episode 13The Prison Prep School Murder Case, File 4Kindaichi discovers the secret that punctures everyone's supposedly airtight alibi! He assembles both groups, explains the reasoning behind the theme murders, and calls out the identity of Sparrow, the serial murderer of six students! Except as it...

The File of Young Kindaichi Returns Episode 14The Prison Prep School Murder Case, File 5Kindaichi reveals the identity of the second murdering Sparrow! But how did the Puppeteer from Hell convince two law-abiding people to commit serial murder? And what fate lies in store for all three criminals?

Rowdy Sumo Wrestler Matsutaro Episode 12The Cat-obsessed Wrestler

Rowdy Sumo Wrestler Matsutaro Episode 13

Re: Hamatora Episode 1Melancholy of Hero

Re: Hamatora Episode 2

Rail Wars! Episode 1Welcome to K4!Takayama Naoto is a high school second-year who dreams of being a train conductor. In hopes of getting a job with Japan National Railways, one of the most stable businesses in Japan due to government support, Naoto has applied to an on-the-job...

Rail Wars! Episode 2Let Me Stay Like This for Just a Little WhileHaving qualified for on-the-job training, Naoto is assigned to K4, the Tokyo Central Railway Security 4th Guard Team. Waiting for him there are his partners from JNR Central Academy: Aoi, Haruka, and Sho. They immediately set about their work at...

Persona4 the Golden ANIMATION Episode 1The Golden DaysA teenager named Yu Narukami transfers to Yasogami High School. He hears from his new friends about something called the "Midnight Channel." Will he attempt to watch a turned-off TV on a rainy night to find out what it is all about?