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HBO Max to stream a selection of Crunchyroll Titles, 17 at launch
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- Title
- HBO Max will use anime from Crunchyroll to compete with Netflix's growing empire
- Authors
- Julia Alexander
- Published
- May 7 2020
- Word count
- 660 words
From Screenrant:
Titles Available on Day One, May 27th:
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood – Full Series (64 episodes) Disregard for alchemy’s laws ripped half of Edward Elric’s limbs from his body and left his brother Alphonse’s soul clinging to a suit of armor. To restore what was lost, the brothers seek the Philosopher’s Stone.
Re:ZERO - Starting Life in Another World- (Director’s Cut) – Season 1 (13 episodes and 1 OVA) Natsuki Subaru, an ordinary high school student, is transported to another world where the only person to reach out to him was a beautiful girl with silver hair. Determined to repay her, Subaru agrees to help the girl find something she's looking for.
In/Spectre – Season 1 (12 episodes) In this Crunchyroll Original, an enthralling, fantastical mystery mixes with the supernatural and romance, as a duo sets out to solve a series of dark incidents plaguing their world.
Keep Your Hands off Eizouken – Season 1 (12 episodes) Three high school students band together to create an animation club to realize the "ultimate world" that exists in their minds.
Rurouni Kenshin – Full Series (94 episodes) Former government assassin, Kenshin Himura works to keep the peace during the Meiji Era in Japan, a time of troubled renewal after a long and bloody civil war.
KONOSUBA - God's Blessing on this Wonderful World! – Seasons 1 and 2 (22 episodes) Kazuma Sato is transported to a fantasy world filled with adventure after a traffic accident. Now, along with the goddess Aqua, he is on a quest to solve many of this world's problems.
Bungo Stray Dogs – Seasons 1 – 3 (37 episodes) Kicked out of his orphanage and on the verge of starving to death, Atsushi Nakajima meets members of the "Armed Detective Agency" said to solve incidents that even the military and police won't touch.
Berserk – Seasons 1 and 2 (26 episodes) Spurred by the flame raging in his heart, the Black Swordsman Guts continues his seemingly endless quest for revenge.
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress – Season 1 (12 episodes) At a time when the industrial revolution was carrying the world into the modern age, a horde of undead monsters suddenly appeared. The people of Hinomoto have built fortresses to help them survive this threat.
Kill la Kill – Season 1 (24 episodes) Six years since their collaboration on the ground-breaking anime series, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Hiroyuki Imaishi and Kazuki Nakashima are back to shock the world! Ryuko Matoi is a vagrant schoolgirl who enters Honnouji Academy to search for clues to the truth behind her father's death.
Your Lie in April – Season 1 (22 episodes) Kousei Arima was a genius pianist until his mother's sudden death took away his ability to play. Then he meets a violinist named Kaori Miyazono who changes his life forever.
ERASED – Season 1 (12 episodes) A young manga artist struggles to make a name for himself while living with a strange condition that transports him back in time before something life-threatening occurs. How can he erase the threats to stop this from happening?
Kiznaiver – Season 1 (12 episodes) A secret high school group is formed with students from different cities who share one another's pain: a "Kiznaiver."
Schwarzes Marken – Season 1 (12 episodes) In 1983, the East German Army 666th TSF Squadron, “Schwarzes Marken,” is a special-response force tasked with assaulting BETA forces.
91 Days – Season 1 (13 episodes) During prohibition, the law held no power and the mafia ruled the town. This 91-day story follows men guided by revenge as they try to escape their tragic fates.
The Testament of Sister New Devil – Seasons 1 and 2 (22 episodes) Basara Toujo is a high school student whose father has suddenly just remarried. Hijinks ensue as his father then departs overseas leaving Basara with two new beautiful step-sisters.
Rokka -Braves of the Six Flowers – Season 1 (12 episodes) Legend says, when the evil god awakens from the deepest of darkness, the god of fate will summon six braves and grant them with the power to save the world. However, it turns out that there are seven braves who gathered at the promised land.
Titles Available After Initial Launch Window
Hunter x Hunter - Gon, a young boy who lives on Whale Island, dreams of becoming a Hunter like his father, who left when Gon was still young.
Death Note - Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god.
There's a pretty decent cross-section of shows here that plays to more of a general audience, and then there's Sister New Devil, which is an integral representation of the "Boy in High School creeps on their newly adopted younger sister" genre.
I'm most surprised by Eizoken, because as much as I enjoyed it, most of it came from being part of the deepest depth of anime nerds - the ones who care about the actual craft behind it. Did it really get that much attention by the mainstream?
Maybe someone is a fan up top, or the license was cheap?
I was kind of hoping you got the whole Crunchyroll catalog when you signed up with Max, but I guess not.
Yeah, that would have been great and potentially saved me some money... but alas. :(
Oh, I was really hoping this would replace Crunchyroll. VRV has become really disappointing since Funimation left, I’ve been subbed for three years and it’s really degraded in quality. If they don’t add a full Crunchyroll or let you link a Crunchyroll account I’m just gonna save $3 a month and switch to only Crunchyroll.
Edit: I’m not actually sure how long I’ve been subscribed to VRV, but I know I subscribed around the time the service became available/sponsored by YouTubers.
VRV is hot trash. I subbed to it for 6 months and during that entire time their Roku app was completely broken. It would crash the entire Roku forcing it to reboot when trying to pull up shows from most menus. The only way to reliably use it was to click on shows after searching for them in the search function, because all other menus had this bug.
Whenever I reached out to their support, they told me it was a known issue that they were working on. which I have a hard time believing was actually the case.
I’ve had an overall bad experience with Roku as I bought a TCL Series 4 4K Tv with Roku on it and the thing reboots itself every few minutes, can hardly play games on it let alone watch Netflix or VRV! Also yeah, the service has a lot of bugs and issues that aren’t being fixed. I wouldn’t be surprised if they do phase it into HBO Max like I was hoping one day.
I have had a mediocre experience with them as well. I like the remote, but they don't offer the best video playback experience, most "apps" are barebones, 1/3 of the homescreen is a giant ad, and the box itself is very chatty with known analytics/tracking domains.
I replaced the Roku in my living room with an Apple TV last year, and recently did the same in my basement. I haven't looked back since.
I don't see Crunchyroll going completely away, since it's still offered a bunch of places HBO and VRV are not, and judging by the fact that both of those seem to be sticking around, I think Warner just wants to take your money however you'll give it to them.