Episode #98

Legal anime sources and what you can find there.

Episode 98: (Right Click and “Save Target As” to Download)

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– Opening –

Opening Song:

“Maji Yaba” from the anime Mousou by the artist Love

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The A.A.A. Mailbag

Submitted by: Devil_Survivor

Question: 

3.Do know by chance which anime has sold the most copies(VHS,DVD,
Blu-Ray) since 1970? I been searching online for the answer and no
luck.

4.Do you think the endings of most anime series are bad or lacking in
some respect?

5.This is for Chiaki, what is your ideal man?

– Main Topic –
A note about how people always think it’s hard to find anime in America, but there are a ton of free, or cheap, LEGAL sources to get all kinds of anime

Points of Comparison: Dance in the Vampire Bund (new) boxed set sells for about 25.00$, Soul Eater (full series parts 1-4) sells for about 100$, FMA (slightly older anime) season 1 sells for about 40.00$

There are a lot of doubles on this list, but I added them intentionally so that if you choose to subscribe to one you know you have it there too.

Netflix: 1 month free, after that 7.99$/month 95.88$/year, CONSTANTLY adding NEW anime for a lot of content, can stream now, can plan on a number of devices, slight downside for some is only a few can you toggle between dubbed/subbed – most are dubbed.  One other note, they kind of confuse anime with other stuff like “Superman/Shazam!: The return of Black Adam” in their sections… just shake your head and laugh.  Not to mention you have access to all the other good non-anime movies.

Streaming: (unless otherwise noted, it’s the entire series)
Samurai Champloo
Tales from Earthsea
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood (Part 1 through 4)
Angel Beats
Fullmetal Alchemist
Death Note
Fruits Basket
Elfen Lied
Soul Eater
Ouran High Host Club
Chobits
FLCL
Clannad & Clannad After Story
Spice and Wolf (Season 1)
Gurren Lagann
Full Metal Panic! & Full Metal Panic! Fumoffu! & Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid!
Black Butler
Mushi-Shi
Eden of the East (Complete series and the first movie “King of Eden”)
RIN: Daughters of Mnemosyne
Princess Tutu
Ghost in the Shell
Baccano!
Blood+ (Parts 1 & 2)
Monster
Ponyo

Physical Rental: (sure you have to wait for mailing but it’s good!)
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood (Part 5)
Practically all the other Ghibli movies

Youtube: Well, there are the NON legal stuff on youtube but Funimation has a great channel where they put all the stuff they’re working on.  But did you know they ALSO have 142 shows?  Youtube search Funimation and their channel will come up.  They’ll have a lot of the newer stuff they’re working on or JUST finished up there, likely before netflix. The other perk is, since they’re a partner, the episodes are in one installment, no pt 1/2/3 you get with the illegal stuff and are in HQ.  Of course since it’s Funimation it’s ALL dubs.  (Some of these are repeats since this is free I’ll repeat them for people who don’t want to pay).  There are a lot of new anime not on this list that can help keep you up to date.  Funimation is pretty much the only ones who do this, aniplex just has snippets. Yay funi??

Funimation:
Bigwindup
Black Butlet
Baccano!
Blue Gender
Casshern Sins
Chobits
Disgiaia
Excel Saga
FLCL
Fractale
all Full Metal Panic!
Gunslinger Girl pt 1 and 2
Last Exile
Kurau phantom memory
La chevlier de eon
BECK
Mushi-Shi
Noir
Ouran High
Princess Jellyfish (Kuragehime)
Rainbow
Rideback
Samurai Champloo
Shin Chan
Soul Eater
Spice and Wolf (Seasons 1 and 2)
Gankutsuou
Trigun
C- Control (subbed, see they do have a few when they license things)
X

Crunchyroll:  This is a great resource for a lot of the new anime that come out, AND you can watch subbed.  Can make a free account, or have a 14 day free trial for their premium service that is then $6.95/month, 83.90$ year, you can watch 1 hour after airing in Japan, watch on mobile app over 3G (otherwise you need Wi-Fi), No Ads, and 720p HD video.  If you DONT do that though you get the videos from Japan like 1-3 days after it seems like, and have ads.  You can browse by season, genre, or popularity.  They also have Dramas and Music, a good deal for only 6.95.month

Hanasaku Iroha
Natsume Yujinchou
Nichijou
Stein’s gate
No. 6
Usagi Drop
Fairy Tale
Durarara
GoSick
The world God only Knows
Chi’s New Address DUH
Deadman Wonderland
Eureka 7
Code Geass
Slam Dunk
Mobile Suit Gundam & Wing (oooh yeeeeah, old school)
Haruhi Suzumiya
Occult Academy
Time of Eve (eve no jikan)
Hourou Musukou Wandering son
Black Jack (A little Tezuka anyone?)
Speed Racer (haha!)
La Mason En Petite Cubes

Hulu:  If you search for “anime” there are over 3,000 results.  Has dubbed and subbed, some newer stuff.  Sometimes on the free hulu they take off episodes but hulu plus leaves all of them up for subscribers.  Hulu Plus is 7.99$/month 95.88$/year.  Then you have access to all the movies and TV shows as well.

Aoi no Exorcist
Highschool of the Dead
Samurai Champloo
MD Geist (okay this one isn’t good, but if you want to see how BAD it is for yourself!)
Vampire Knight
Gurren Lagann
Honey and Clover
Magic Knight Rayearth
Romeo x Juliet
One Piece
Death Note
Gigantor (old school)
Seirei no Moribito
Initial D
Trigun

– News Break –

– Reviews –
Chiaki – A-Channel
Kimiko – Tokyo Godfathers
Mitsugi – Redline

– Closing –

Closing Song:

“Hirame” by the artist ki!! Peace