By David on November 12, 2008
The Mighty Hulu – which is pulling television into the 21st century – has partnered with Funimation to bring you more free streaming anime! I think the migration from broadcast television to streaming media is most definitely a good thing.
Hulu's Funimation Page
Now the company has announced that it has “officially launched” on Hulu, with the addition November 7 of episodes from the Shuffle!, Peach Girl, and Slayers anime series. These episodes join a considerable list of those that were already running on Hulu.com: Black Blood Brothers, Blue Gender, MoonPhase, Mushi-Shi, Shikebane Hime, Kiddy Grade, Mr. Stain on Junk Alley, and XXXHOLiC. The official launch of the FUNimation presence on the U.S.-accessible-only Hulu.com means that fans of anime distributed by the company have many avenues for discovering titles they haven’t seen before, or reacquainting themselves with previous favorites…Continue reading at FireFox.org
Perhaps it deserves a more in-depth article in the future. So are you a Hulu user? If so, how has your anime-watching experience changed?
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I love anime. Specifically, series involving any of the following things: weird fantasy elements, super-powers, robots, aliens, wicked humor, crazy villains, horror, ninjas and samurai. I guess that means I like a lot of anime. I am pretty particular about the quality of animation and voice acting. If the character designs and animation quality aren't of über-quality, I quickly loose interest.The first anime-related series I ever watched was Battle of the Planets - otherwise known as Gatachman. The first true theatrical anime feature film I saw was Akira. My first exposure to manga was later in life when I read Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy.There are so many incredible elements of Japanese culture. Some of the most exciting to me are the style of design and storytelling. I'm a web designer & illustrator, and I find myself looking to Japanese design for inspiration all the time.Anime blogging has taught me even more about Japanese culture and anime than I ever expected, and I continue to learn more every week. In fact, I'd love to travel to Japan. Rachel and I hope to visit sometime within the next few years.
I really dont like Hulu…for now…You see, Hulu is not open for everybody, only for U.S. residents. I dont live in the U.S. so basically many people including myself cant enjoy the goodness of Hulu. I hope they realize that We live under the same blue sky.
so basically, yeah, I dont like Hulu!…(for now)
Makes sense.
@Toonleap Yeah, well, what does Hulu or the anime companies get out of showing it to non-U.S. visitors? Nothing. Even companies like Revision3, they have to leave out a certain number from their audience when reporting numbers to clients for ad revenue. They don’t have to care about you.
This is like the whole discussion about region-locking of DVDs… The point is that they (the owners of the anime) want to license by region, I guess.
But for me, I don’t care. It’s all dubbed on Hulu, and thus useless for me. I’ll just continue to rent via Netflix so I can get subtitles and extras (if they have them).
I’ve heard they don’t have subs, only dubs? which I hate, so I’ll be joining the Netflix group and watching subs via DVD. Unless they fix that and then I will join Hulu.
wat are u people talkin about
We’re talking about watching anime (legally) at http://www.hulu.com!
hulu is a nice website but i think they should let the non americans watch it also…to me its just dumn that they wont. but otherwise hulu is a nice website and the person who made it probably had good intentions.
It would be great if viewers around the world could watch Hulu. Unfortunately, licensing is different all over so, which makes things very complicated.