Crunchyroll Announces Premiere Lineup for Anime NYC 2023

Getting to see an anime episode before anyone else, is still one of the things I wish to do in my life-time.

Usually, these shows that get early premieres on events like this, are Crunchyroll co-productions.

That's what happened to In/Spectre S2, COTE S2, and Blue Lock, which all got early premieres on anime expo.

I assume Metalic Rouge is also a Cr co-pro, and we already know Shield Hero S3 is one.

As far as cultured, gotta give them props for co-producing the controversial age-gap romance "A Girl & Her Guard Dog" that got sjws on twitter mad.
A more recent ecchi anime they co-produced was TenPuru, but we can't forget about the Shield Hero and all the meltdown it caused...

@MadanielFL

well sure, credit where credit is due, but it'd still be far better if people just gave their money DIRECTLY to Japan instead of an all but unncessary middle man, cause then there'd be no worry of CR having any say in the way a show is made

And they sure aint raising the wages of mangaka/animators when they barely even take care of their own

Well of course they aren't, cause it isn't their jobs to be paying mangakas and animators.
If you have an issue with how they are being paid, then you gotta complain to the studios and publishers.

And be careful not to buy any TenPuru merch, cause otherwise your money would be going to the "unncessary middle man"
Yeah but they are, I suggest you research what the production committee method is.

Production committees work like a hierarchy, the more money you invest, the more you have control over the show.

So usually top producers like Kadokawa and Aniplex are the main investors behind a show, and they have the most control over it.

In the case of Tenpuru, Cr is third on the committee, which means that of all of the companies that invested money on it, they were the ones who invested the third most.

Usually they are second or third, very rarely they are the last producer.
Sometimes they are also the main producer, like on Shoot! Goal to the Future, Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth, or God of High School.

But that's simply how the production committee method work, the OP or ED credits usually lists the companies in the order of who invested the most.

We know this is accurate because every show that Aniplex is credited as top producer, ends up being a show that they themselves distribute overseas, while on shows which they aren't the top producer, ends up being distributed by someone else.



There are also cases which a whole anime project got started because of Cr.
Like is the case of Shield Hero, where a Cr employee suggested to Kadokawa to make an anime adaptation of the light novel

It's very simple, any official merch like: posters, mugs, blu-rays, figures, etc... can only be considered OFFICIAL if it's licensed by the production committee.

And since Cr is part of that committee, they will receive part of the profits that the show makes from TV revenue, merch, licensing, and etc...

Yes, this is exactly why, Shield Hero was already a popular web-novel overseas before it even became an anime.

The Cr employee who suggested to Kadokawa the idea, is the producer Sae Ho Song, and if you go to his facebook you can even see that he is a fan of other light novel series like Oreimo, Haganai, HakoMari...

@MadanielFL I don’t know who exactly came up with the idea, but once on Reddit the creators of the adaptation said that the anime was originally created with Western audiences in mind.

Yeah, the show is more popular overseas then it is in Japan.

That's why season 2 and 3 were announced on Crunchyroll expo 2019, and why Kevin Penkin does the music on it.
And that's probably also why season 2 even ends with a message written in English teasing the next season.

Shounen is generally popular both in Japan and in the west, while Shield Hero is way more popular in the west than it is in Japan...

I don't know why, some light novel just happen to get popular in the west (like the vending machine isekai) while they don't get as much success domestically.

I don't know why, some light novel just happen to get popular in the west (like the vending machine isekai) while they don't get as much success domestically.

If this results in “controversial” shows like Shield Hero, Harem in the Labyrinth, Tenpuru, A Girl and her Guard Dog, then I don’t see the problem…
On the contrary, the more they make, the better!

I never thought they were “necessary” but more like that they are helping make shows we like, so we should appreciate that.

They streamed the uncensored version of Shin IkkiTousen and Harem in the labyrinth tho…

Also I still don’t understand the whole “raise the wages of animators and mangakas” it’s not their job to do that.

That’s like asking NASA to cure world hunger.

Usually, these shows that get early premieres on events like this, are Crunchyroll co-productions.

That's what happened to In/Spectre S2, COTE S2, and Blue Lock, which all got early premieres on anime expo.

I assume Metalic Rouge is also a Cr co-pro, and we already know Shield Hero S3 is one.

As far as cultured, gotta give them props for co-producing the controversial age-gap romance "A Girl & Her Guard Dog" that got sjws on twitter mad.
A more recent ecchi anime they co-produced was TenPuru, but we can't forget about the Shield Hero and all the meltdown it caused...

If this results in “controversial” shows like Shield Hero, Harem in the Labyrinth, Tenpuru, A Girl and her Guard Dog, then I don’t see the problem…
On the contrary, the more they make, the better!