Anime on Free Streaming Thread

[PicardMan]

This is the thread to talk about anime streaming on any of the free streaming sites (Tubi, Pluto, Plex, Roku Channel, Nozomi's Official Youtube Channel, etc.) including the various linear streaming on said services (Retrocrush, Pluto's Anime All Day, linear Crunchyroll, AnimeXHidive, etc).

I found out about Speed Racer's appearance on Tubi, which is special because it's not on Crunchyroll.

 

[Space Cadet]

Ever since they announced Sailor Moon coming to Toonami, I ended up finding out that PlutoTV has the Japanese version of the show, so I've been watching over there(Viz also uploaded the Japanese version on YouTube last year as well).

 

[Antiyonder]

Found it last year and while best viewed by this fan's playlist:



Beyblade Official has all three of the original Beyblade anime. Beyblade, Beyblade V-Force and Beyblade G-Revolution.

Not the most acclaimed anime, but easily one of my favorite guilty pleasure viewings with how much they make the sport serious business.

 

[SpecialColorfull]

I wonder why this thread has SO FEW POSTS...

 

[PicardMan]

I wonder why this thread has SO FEW POSTS...

Because Crunchyroll's near monopoly has caused there to be so few titles available for free streaming. Viz gives the subs, and only the subs, to streamers like Tubi and Pluto for their older titles like Sailor Moon, HunterXHunter, Death Note, etc. There's not much to excite fans and drum up discussion because most of what's on Pluto and Tubi is stuff almost every anime fan has already seen.

 

[E-Scope]

BBC iPlayer in the UK has the Pokémon series from Diamond and Pearl onwards (excluding the Netflix continuation). They also have some of the movies available.
A lot of Yu-Gi-Oh! are available on a lot of free streaming services such as Freevee and Tubi.
Nelvana has uploaded the entirety of Beyblade Metal Fusion on their Cartoon Power-Up YouTube channel and the series is also available on Tubi. This includes the BeyWarriors and BeyWheels spin-offs.
Every single episode of the original Bakugan series is available on assorted streaming services such as YouTube and Tubi, thanks to Nelvana distributing the series.

 

[Pooky]

BBC iPlayer in the UK has the Pokémon series from Diamond and Pearl onwards (excluding the Netflix continuation). They also have some of the movies available.

They also have Dragon Ball Super

Pokemon Horizons was advertised on buses when it was first airing/added to iPlayer; pretty sure that's the most high profile advertisement I've seen of an Anime here.

Debatable whether this really counts as "free" when you have to pay a UK TV Licence to access it though.

 

[LinusFan303]

Guess I could mention it here
Pluto TV has added new anime channels in the (Ani-May) this includes Pluto TV Anime Comedy which started with Ghost Stories, Anime X HiDive , and a 24 hours Inuyasha Channel , they also will be adding soon a Anime Movies Channel and Anime Kids channel. I also noticed the section just says anime and the gaming is gone.

They also have special programming this month. Pluto TV supercharges anime library with biggest content refresh ever

 

[PicardMan]

Pluto's Anime Comedy Channel seems to be just as much a wash as its Anime All Day channel, which is just be long running subbed Viz shonen like Naruto and HunterXHunter played ad nauseum. Subbed Ghost Stories? Really. I thought the English dub's "embellishments" made it a legendary comedy rather than a generic kids horror cartoon. It's at least cool I don't have to go to Plex anymore to find the linear Hidive stream. AnimeXHidive being on Pluto's been a long time coming.

 

[LinusFan303]

It does help boost the on-demand part of Pluto TV versus the channels directly being of anything but marathons. The anime all Day Channel is adding some interesting things for marathons this month too.

It is nice to have Hidive X Amime on there, I've been using on Sling Freestream for that since there I can record the shows or watch recent things on their on-demand.

 

[wonderfly]

From the front page of AnimeSuperhero.com:

"Pluto TV Gets Into The Ani-May Spirit, Adds 800 Hours Of Anime"​

"In recent years the concept of “Ani-May” has caught on among animation fans AND those who distribute examples of the medium — a month where special events, promotions and deals are offered to bring in new fans to anime, or just spoil the existing ones.

The free streaming platform Pluto TV is really getting into the season — they’re decking the anime halls and trimming the anime tree with a planned 800 hours of content set to be added to its library this month. Within the month of May, multiple 24-7 streaming channels devoted to anime are planned to launch or may have launched already, including Anime x HIDIVE, Pluto TV Anime Comedy, and a channel that shows nothing but episodes of Inuyasha.

Two more channels are planned to premiere later this month: Pluto TV Anime Movies which has Bleach, Hunter x Hunter and Naruto films in its opening lineup, and Kids Anime which will show toyetic 2000s-era toons like D-Gata Defenders, Bakugan, Beyblade and Slugterra. Existing channels like Anime All Day are getting eventful content like Hunter x Hunter and JoJo marathons, and a One Piece “Birthday Bash” on May 5."

Read the full article here.

 

[PicardMan]

The anime all Day Channel is adding some interesting things for marathons this month too.

That article you linked shows that most of the marathons are Viz stuff everyone's seen over and over. The same JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and HunterXHunter marathons they've shown for months on end. Devil Lady is something out of the ordinary, but it seems like most of those other trashy sex/violence filled shows that took up space on DVD shelves in early 2000s Blockbusters. Anime All Day still has next to no variety compared to Crunchyroll's linear stream, which is by far the most varied of these linear anime stream challenges.

 

[Zorak Masaki]

Pluto lost almost all of One Piece sadly, now they only have season 10.

 

[Tacomaster]

Anime All Day still has next to no variety compared to Crunchyroll's linear stream, which is by far the most varied of these linear anime stream challenges.

it helps to have a monopoly

also can you tell Pluto that di-gata and SlugTerra aren’t anime

 

[J'onn J'onzz]

That article you linked shows that most of the marathons are Viz stuff everyone's seen over and over. The same JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and HunterXHunter marathons they've shown for months on end. Devil Lady is something out of the ordinary, but it seems like most of those other trashy sex/violence filled shows that took up space on DVD shelves in early 2000s Blockbusters. Anime All Day still has next to no variety compared to Crunchyroll's linear stream, which is by far the most varied of these linear anime stream challenges.

If you think the Devil Lady anime is too Elden Lied tier edgy, don’t go near the Go Nagai manga. It makes the anime seem like a tasteful gothic horror. Who even has the rights to this anime anymore? Wasn’t it an ADV dub? I would have assumed it was in some licensing limbo. I don’t think Lady was ever on Netflix even when they were pushing Devilman hard with Crybaby and the Cyborg 009 crossover.

For this sort of marathon service. I’m not sure it even makes sense to license obscure old shows like Devil Lady, as few people have time to binge that many episodes of a show they haven’t seen in a row, especially if it is airing subbed and commands more attention than a dub. It’s probably safer to air popular shonens that people can put on in the background.

 

[PicardMan]

If you think the Devil Lady anime is too Elden Lied tier edgy, don’t go near the Go Nagai manga. It makes the anime seem like a tasteful gothic horror. Who even has the rights to this anime anymore? Wasn’t it an ADV dub? I would have assumed it was in some licensing limbo. I don’t think Lady was ever on Netflix even when they were pushing Devilman hard with Crybaby and the Cyborg 009 crossover.

For this sort of marathon service. I’m not sure it even makes sense to license obscure old shows like Devil Lady, as few people have time to binge that many episodes of a show they haven’t seen in a row, especially if it is airing subbed and commands more attention than a dub. It’s probably safer to air popular shonens that people can put on in the background.

It looks like Discotech has the rights to Devilman Lady. This week, it's a marathon of HunterXHunter. The Anime All Day channel is still 90% subs of long running Viz shonen titles and is pretty much Neon Alley without the paywall. Nothing worth watching for hardcore fans who already have HunterXHunter memorized, yet I'm not sure if casuals want to jump on episode 70 of HunterXHunter considering how serialized Shonen Jump anime are. Linear anime streams really work best for episodic stuff like slice of life anime.

 

[LinusFan303]

The next reported channel has launched for Pluto TV with the anime movies channel.

 

[PicardMan]

Okay, the Anime Movies channel looks to be old school stuff like Street Fighter II: The Movie, Project A-Ko, stuff that aired on the Sci-Fi Channel's Saturday Anime Festival back in the day. Most hardcore fans have probably already seen this stuff, but casuals and newbies might be more into this channel.

 

[LinusFan303]

They added the anime kids channel, it's in the kids section , not anime so they confused people. It's a like a return of the old "All Ages" channel they had. It airs Bakugan, Slugterra , stuff that was easy to get before on demand on Pluto and other free places.

 

[Pooky]

The fairly renowned Sherlock Hound series, directed by Miyazaki around the same time as Nausicaä, has been uploaded to YouTube by FilmRise.

Looking through their portfolio it seems they also have the rights (some rights?) to Detective Conan/Case Closed, it would be nice to see some of those uploaded too.