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.
Synopsis
Historically 72% of all the deaths in London are related to dragons, fantastical beings invisible to the majority of the people. While unknown to most, some people have been standing up to these dragons. Only inhabitants of Reverse London who live in the hidden "reverse" side of London can see the dragons. The protagonists of the story are witch duo Noel Niihashi and Ninny Spangcole. They are protection agents for Wing Bind. Their mission is to protect and manage the dragons within London on behalf of the people.
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.
Synopsis
Iwanaga Kotoko became the god of wisdom to the supernatural beings and spends her days solving problems for them. However, the boy who she fell head over heels for, Sakuragawa Kuro, is someone that is feared by all supernatural creatures. The two of them face various mysterious incidents involving the supernatural in this love x romance x mystery series. Where will these fantastical incidents lead them and what will happen with Kotoko's crush?
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.
Synopsis
A boy fights... for "the right death."
Hardship, regret, shame: the negative feelings that humans feel become Curses that lurk in our everyday lives. The Curses run rampant throughout the world, capable of leading people to terrible misfortune and even death. What's more, the Curses can only be exorcised by another Curse.
Yuji Itadori is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a classmate who has been attacked by Curses, he eats the finger of the Double-Faced Specter, taking the Curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with the Double-Faced Specter. Guided by the most powerful of sorcerers, Satoru Gojo, Itadori is admitted to the Tokyo Jujutsu High School, an organization that fights the Curses... and thus begins the heroic tale of a boy who became a Curse to exorcise a Curse, a life from which he could never turn back.
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.
Synopsis
Jin Mori has proclaimed himself the strongest high schooler.
His life changes when he's invited to participate in "God of High School," a tournament to determine the strongest high schooler of all.
He's told that if he wins, any wish he makes will be granted...
All the participants are powerful contenders who fight their hardest for their own wishes.
What awaits them at the end of the tournament?
A chaotic battle between unbelievably strong high school students is about to begin!
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.
Synopsis:
Reach the top, and everything will be yours.
At the top of the tower exists everything in this world, and all of it can be yours.
You can become a god.
This is the story of the beginning and the end of Rachel, the girl who climbed the tower so she could see the stars, and Bam, the boy who needed nothing but her.
No further details were released regarding when these series would hit store shelves but stay tuned for updates as more information is released.
Source: Press Release
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