For those who haven’t seen the Nana anime, you need to! Learn the manga, too.
AMC Community is now including Sentai Filmworks and Hidive to its steady. As Variety factors out, Sentai and its Hidive streaming service will be a part of AMC’s present lineup, alongside BBC America, IFC, SundanceTV, WE television, and IFC Movies. By 2025, AMC hopes to achieve as many as 25 million paid subscribers by means of all its streaming companies.
Apart from Hidive, Sentai’s properties additionally embrace Sentai Studios, Anime Community, and SentaiFilmworks.com. Sentai additionally has an enormous anime catalog that features Okay-On!, Clannad, Meals Wars!, Ladies and Panzer, and Excessive College of the Lifeless. Sentai can also be doing an HD remaster of Nana.
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“With robust business relationships and entry to key content material creators in Japan, Sentai distributes and curates one of many anime business’s most various libraries of prime trending and traditional titles, with its content material accessible on Crunchyroll, Hulu and Amazon Prime, amongst others,” mentioned AMC in an official assertion.
“We’re thrilled by AMC Networks’ acquisition and are excited to be part of their progress technique,” mentioned Sentai co-founder John Ledford. “This acquisition is not going to change Sentai’s mission to ship probably the most thrilling anime content material to audiences world wide—it can develop it tremendously and can give our content material companies extra distribution, extra partnerships, extra scale and extra attain. I couldn’t be extra happy.”
AMC is simply the most recent to make sizable strikes within the anime streaming and distribution area. Final August, Sony took full ownership of the favored anime streaming platform Crunchyroll, paying out over a billion {dollars}. This transfer introduced Crunchyroll and Funimation underneath the identical company umbrella.
Hidive all the time appeared to stream just a few exhibits every season, so hopefully AMC’s buy will change that and beef up the platform.
Suppose we’ll get a Strolling Lifeless anime out of this?
