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Crunchyroll, Funimation Stream Shinkai Works, Moeyo Ken (Updated)
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The Crunchyroll media-distribution website has announced that it will celebrate Global Shinkai Day on March 5 by streaming three works by auteur director Makoto Shinkai. For 48 hours starting at 5:00 p.m. PST on March 5, Crunchyroll will stream Shinkai's 5 Centimeters Per Second, Voices of a Distant Star, and The Place Promised in Our Early Days for free to all Crunchyroll members. Crunchyroll launched a similar event for the first celebration of Global Shinkai Day last year. The organizers of Global Shinkai Day are also holding contests in which the prizes are 5 Centimeters Per Second posters signed by Shinkai himself.
In a separate development, the official blog of the North American anime distributor Funimation noted on Tuesday that it posted more free episodes on its own website and on the YouTube and Hulu websites this past week. Some of these titles are also available on ANN. Among the titles are all 13 dubbed episodes of Moeyo Ken and all 13 subtitled episodes of Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid.
- One Piece JPN 438, 97-100 ENG & JPN
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood JPN 41
- One Piece JPN 437, ENG & JPN 92-96
- Air Gear ENG 5-25 + Special Trick OVA
- Casshern Sins JPN 19-20
- Guyver: The bioboosted Armor ENG 5-26
- Heat Guy J ENG 25-26
- Jinki: Extend ENG 3-13
- King of Bandit Jing in Seventh Heaven ENG 1-3 (OVA)
- Kurau: Phantom Memory ENG 23-24
- Le Chevalier D'Eon ENG 5-24
- Moeyo Ken ENG 1-13
- Shakugan no Shana ENG 20-22
- Shuffle! ENG 20-22
- Shin chan ENG 5-13
- Slayers ENG 11-13
- Tetsuwan Birdy: Decode JPN 5-6
- X JPN 11-12
- Casshern Sins JPN 17-18
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood JPN 40
- Heat Guy J ENG 23-24
- Kurau: Phantom Memory ENG 5-22
- Sekirei JPN 5-6
- Shakugan no Shana ENG 17-19
- Shuffle! ENG 17-19
- Slayers ENG 8-10
- Tetsuwan Birdy: Decode JPN 3-4
- Tokyo Majin ENG 5-26
- X JPN 9-10
- Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid JPN 1-13
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood JPN 41
- One Piece JPN 437, ENG & JPN 92-96
Image © Makoto Shinkai/CoMix Wave Films
Update: Crunchyroll's Shinkai streams will be available in "selected global territories." Thanks, zitch.
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