In a press release sent out on March 30th, Crunchyroll and VIZ Media announced that they were teaming up once again to put out some of the most popular current titles on Crunchyroll on home video at an undisclosed later date. The five series in question are: BURN THE WITCH, In/Spectre, JUJUTSU KAISEN, The God of High School, and Tower of God. All the releases will include the series in both dub and sub formats and will be available to fans in the United States and Canada.
BURN THE WITCH
Created by the author of the shonen series Bleach, Tite Kubo, this series started as a 62 page one-shot in 2018. Later on, in 2020, it was revealed that the one-shot would be turned into a mini-series as a companion to the movie. The mini-series ran for 4 chapters in 2020, and a "second season" was announced after that. They showed the anime as a movie in Japan, but when it hit Crunchyroll in October 2020, it was broken up into three episodes.
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In/Spectre
This series is interesting in that it was originally a novel before it became a manga, which is what the anime is ultimately adapting. The anime was first announced in 2019 and features animation from Brain's Base and Keiji Gotoh as the director. They worked off scripts written by Noboru Takagi and character designs created by Takatoshi Honda. The anime aired between January and March 2020.
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JUJUTSU KAISEN
The series that ended up taking home the Anime of the Year award at the most recent Crunchyroll Awards is getting released to home video! Another one that was originally a manga, this series has been running in Japan since March 2018 and in just the last three years has become one of the best-selling manga of all time.
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The God of High School
Originally a Korean manhwa created by Yongje Park and first released as a webtoon back in April 2011, this series had a devoted enough following to receive an official English translation on webtoon after only three years. The television anime premiered in July 2020 and ran until September.
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Tower of God
The second series on this list to adapt a Korean manhwa, this is also another series that ran as a webtoon originally starting in June 2010 before receiving an official English translation in July 2014. The anime adaptation was produced by Telecom Animation Film and aired between April to June 2020.
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