On Thursday it was declared by the Digital Media Rights that it has partnered with Tezuka Productions to set out the nine anime names beginning on June 5 on its service. On June 5 Black Jack and A Time Slip of 10000 Years: Prime Rose is going to commence and from June to August the remaining names are going to debut. For the United States and Canada the SVOD (subscription video on demand), TVOD (transactional VOD), AVOD (advertising-based VOD), and digital linear rights have been attained by RetroCrush of these animes.
The names that are going to include in the service are following:
- Astro Boy (1980, 52 episodes)
- Black Jack (1993 OVA, 12 episodes including Black Jack Final)
- Ambassador Magma (1993 OVA, 13 episodes)
- A Time Slip of 10000 Years: Prime Rose (1993 film)
- Undersea Super Train: Marine Express (1979 film)
- One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book (1978 film)
- Dear Brother (1991, 39 episodes)
- Jungle Emperor – The Brave Changes the Future (Jungle Emperor Leo, 2009 film)
- Moby Dick – Great Whale in Space (Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick, 1997, 26 episodes)
The RetroCrush is a free, ad-supported video-on-demand service. The application of the service is on iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Apple TV, and smart TVs, also it is accessible on browsers. In March the service was commenced with 12 names and in May it also added 18 more anime names.
Digital Media Rights expressed to ANN that its objective with the gushing assistance is to fill in as a network worked for the utilization and conversation of the Golden Age of Japanese movement, and some not all that retro, from the points of view of mainstream society, being a fan, craftsmanship, web images and more.
It has been planned by the service to form a library of the contents which didn’t had an appropriate telecast setout outside the Japan.
The telecast associates of the RetroCrush are Discotek Media, TMS, NHK, Studio Pierrot, AMG, and Happinet, among others.
