Animax UK website opens - offers free simulcasts

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Following a recent announcement that Animax would be expanding to the United Kingdom via an On Demand website, the service has now officially launched at www.animaxtv.co.uk, offering a mix of simulcasts and a catalogue of anime movies and TV series'. For now, simulcast titles are available for free whle other titles require a £6.99 monthly subscription free. The three titles currently being simulcast for free are:

- Beyond the Boundary
- Coppelion
- Magi: The Kingdom of Magic (Season 2)

If that doesn't satisfy you though, if you sign up for a subscription, you can gain access to the following:

- Bakuman (Season 1)
- Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I - The Egg of the King
- Berserk: The Golden Age Arc II - Battle For Doldrey
- Black Lagoon
- Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage
- Bleach (Seasons 1-3, Memories of Nobody, The Diamond Dust Rebellion and Fade To Black)
- Busou Shinki
- Code Geass (Season 1)
- Death Note
- Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb
- K
- Love, Chunibyo and Other Delusions
- Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic
- Maoyu
- Mardock Scramble: The First Compression
- Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion
- Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan (Season 1)
- Persona 4: The Animation
- Princess Jellyfish
- Problem Children Are Coming From Another Dimension
- Samurai Girls Season 1
- Sasami-san@Ganbaranai
- Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie
- Student Council's Discretion Lv. 2
- Tamako Market
- Tiger & Bunny
- UN-GO
- Vampire Knight

Uncoincidentally, due to an agreement with Viz Media Europe, a lot of the titles were previously simulcast by Anime On Demand and were released on home media by Kazé.

 

 
 
Ok- Glad we finally have this broadcasting in the UK- Just a bit cheesed they didn't include any of the InuYasha series, especially as its coming from an Agreement from Viz Media - but then again, its early days.
 
Uixka said:
Ok- Glad we finally have this broadcasting in the UK- Just a bit cheesed they didn't include any of the InuYasha series, especially as its coming from an Agreement from Viz Media - but then again, its early days.
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do Viz even own the inuyasha anime right's in the uk?

pretty sure Fabulous Films still own the rights even after their disasterous release of eps 1-24 and then taking their ball home.
 
That's probably the case, may they be conscripted to Davey Jones' locker forevermore for it.

This is a good start (probably given a boost via bascialy taking AoD and making something useful out of it) but we'll be in true business once we get it on streaming devices.

I mean the PS3/V is kinda the obvious one for starters.
 
I'm sure there is some where in the small print that states when a licensee goes belly up all rights revert back to the licensor to give a living company a crack at it.
 
Mohawk52 said:
I'm sure there is some where in the small print that states when a licensee goes belly up all rights revert back to the licensor to give a living company a crack at it.
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THe problem there is that Fabulous is still very much alive and as such taking back the rights will not happen.
 
Mohawk52 said:
I'm sure there is some where in the small print that states when a licensee goes belly up all rights revert back to the licensor to give a living company a crack at it.
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the same way it took us over 10 years to get Dragonball away from that god aweful dubbing company?
 
It was AB Groupe in France that had Dragonball.
Even after the rights reverted back to Toei it was a long time coming to the UK since, well, Toei.
 
I've just tried the simulcasts. Not interested in a subscription as I've seen or am not interested in most of the titles available there. I wonder if Bakuman has the same godawful subs as the DVD release? £5.99 a month also works out to £71.88/year, almost double the cost of a year long CR subscription (£39.99) so I don't think it's especially good value either. I realise obviously that the catalogue will expand in the future, but still.

First impression: Why aren't the episode numbers in the title of each video?! I had to go to Wiki to find out which episode of Magi was the first one. Then I discovered if you hover over a video it tells you, but that's not obvious.

Other than that, the video quality seems good, I'm torrenting stuff as I watch and it's not laggy or stopping all the time.
 
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