Culture news No need to pay to watch this anime: the rival of Crunchyroll and Netflix offers it for free on YouTube
More and more, platforms are going out of their way to get as far as possible in the field of Japanese animation. Recently, one of Netflix’s competitors, Crunchyroll and others, decided to publish no less than nine episodes of a new anime launched last January on its YouTube channel.
It doesn’t matter the platform: it’s a battle to get the best anime!
When it comes to Japanese animation, the battle is being fought on all fronts. Overall, films and animated series compete for popularity among themselves, a subject that was central during this weekend’s Crunchyroll Anime Awards ceremony as it rewarded a few, released in 2023. Among all the candidates, there is one who won everything during this eventand you could clearly expect to hear his name many times during these festivities. However, as we said, this is not the only front on which Japanese animation is fighting.
Where the battle rages is also on the side of streaming platforms which, increasingly, are trying to negotiate the broadcasting rights for the most popular anime and animated films of the moment. Between Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ and Crunchyroll, there is already an outpouring. Except that we sometimes forget that there are other competitors who have a fairly aggressive strategy to reveal the few gems in their catalog. Recently, the streaming platform ADN made a brand new anime available on YouTube, the nine episodes of which we can therefore devour for free!
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First nine episodes of this anime are available for free on YouTube
As we said, you don’t necessarily need to buy a Netflix and/or Crunchyroll subscription to legally watch certain new releases. As it happens, DNA YouTube channel (Animation Digital Network) currently makes the first nine episodes of the anime available Pon no Michi. However, you will need to be familiar with the language of Shakespeare since only the version with English subtitles is available. On the MyAnimeList site, the anime received a rating of 6.22 following reviews from 2,876 users.
Pon no Michi makes us follow the adventures of Nashiko Jippensha. With a strong character, the young girl is a bit too noisy, and her mother tolerates it less and less. Because of this, the high school student now has no place to spend time with her friends, except that her father may have an alternative to offer her: use his old mahjong parlor.. For the young girl and her friends, it’s a godsend! Especially since, on site and while cleaning the place, they will meet a talking bird – a mahjong spirit, in reality – who will introduce them to this board game which is played using tiles. .
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