Anime Planet now with video!

BIG NEWS!

As some of you may know from recent news the Anime and Manga Database, Anime Planet, has just recently partnered with the legal anime streaming site Crunchyroll to bring users the experience of watching the anime they want right on the Anime Planet site. 

Below is the press release posted from Kit (Sothis) Cameron on the Crunchyroll partnership.

Anime-Planet, the world’s most reputable recommendation database for anime and manga that serves 500,000 users a month, now supports in-depth Crunchyroll video integration. 

The site has partnered with Crunchyroll, a leading provider of streaming anime, to allow users to watch Crunchyroll’s thousands of legal streaming videos directly from Anime-Planet. What’s more, members can opt-in to have their Anime-Planet watch lists automatically updated when viewing videos on the site. 

With this partnership, Anime-Planet becomes the first and oldest recommendation resource and social anime community to provide a feature of this type. 

Kim Cameron, CEO and founder of Anime-Planet, said the partnership came about because of a mutual interest with Crunchyroll to make legal streaming anime more available. 

"Anime-Planet's goal is to become a go-to place for industry-supported multimedia content, integrated into our powerful, reputable recommendation database. As Crunchyroll is an industry leader in bringing anime to the masses, and as Anime-Planet shares Crunchyroll’s desire to give fans an easy way to find new anime via the recommendation database, it was a perfect fit for partnership,” she said.

Now the world's most reputable recommendation database for anime and manga that serves 500,000 users a month, has made another announcement about a NEW partnership! Yes, AP has partnered with Hulu to offer over 15,000 new legal, streaming videos from providers like FUNimation, Viz and Sentai Filmworks! This is great news because this is helping to promote legal video streaming of anime which helps keep our anime up and going so everyone can enjoy.

Below is the press release posted from Kit (Sothis) Cameron on the Hulu partnership.

Community members can now watch Hulu's full suite of anime videos directly from Anime-Planet. In addition, those who create an anime list of what they've seen can opt-in to update their list automatically when watching videos from Hulu or other providers on the site.

This is the second major announcement in the past few weeks from Anime-Planet, the only recommendation resource that now aggregates and serves content from two of the largest industry leaders for legal, streaming anime: Hulu and Crunchyroll. 

Kim Cameron, CEO and founder of Anime-Planet, says this release is part of a wider plan to make the website a destination for watching the anime you love. 

"Anime-Planet has been an innovator in bringing anime fans features they love since 2001 – we built our reputation through providing the only recommendation engine for about 6 years, we created the 'life on anime' bar that's now a standard feature across anime sites, and now, we're a destination for watching legal, streaming anime online from your favorite providers. Hulu provides a wealth of content from top anime providers in the USA, so now, in addition to watching your favorite Crunchyroll content on the site, you can also view many classic and brand new titles from Funimation, Viz, and more. With these and more announcements coming soon, it's a great time to try out Anime-Planet."

Ms. Cameron also talks about future plans to refresh Anime-Planet's look and feel. 

"In addition to these exciting releases for video content, we're currently working steadily on a full visual redesign for the site, which will launch with a better user experience, simplified and attractive design, and new features – as well as better support for tablets and mobile devices. There's plenty more to come."

I don't know about the rest of you, but I know that I will be awaiting those other announcements in the future as well as the redesigned sight to see what this will bring to a new anime experience for many of the users of anime planet. Also, I will be following the future announcements from Anime Planet to keep all of you updated on whats happening, and you can visit www.anime-planet.com