FUNiOP
06-15-2010, 05:19 PM
From ANN:
Bitway, a Japanese distributor of electronic books and other online media content, has announced on Tuesday that it made a US$750,000 strategic investment in the American media-distribution website Crunchyroll (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=7606). According to Bitway's announcement, the company aims to work with Crunchyroll to build a comic-distribution platform overseas, with an emphasis on the United States and Canada. Bitway is a major distributor of electronic books, including manga, within Japan, and it intends to apply that "know-how" overseas. Japan's Toppan Printing launched Bitway in 1999, but Bitway was spun-off as a separate company in 2005. Established in San Francisco in 2006, Crunchyroll is best known for distributing anime and other Asian media content over the Internet to 6 million unique visitors every month.
Good to see another company invest the exact same amount of money in Crunchyroll as TV Tokyo did, especially since we should see the direct result of it with manga coming to Crunchyroll, hopefully simultaneously with its Japanese release, and hopefully starting soon. Sorry, OpenManga, but it looks like CR is going to be the CR of manga.
Bitway, a Japanese distributor of electronic books and other online media content, has announced on Tuesday that it made a US$750,000 strategic investment in the American media-distribution website Crunchyroll (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=7606). According to Bitway's announcement, the company aims to work with Crunchyroll to build a comic-distribution platform overseas, with an emphasis on the United States and Canada. Bitway is a major distributor of electronic books, including manga, within Japan, and it intends to apply that "know-how" overseas. Japan's Toppan Printing launched Bitway in 1999, but Bitway was spun-off as a separate company in 2005. Established in San Francisco in 2006, Crunchyroll is best known for distributing anime and other Asian media content over the Internet to 6 million unique visitors every month.
Good to see another company invest the exact same amount of money in Crunchyroll as TV Tokyo did, especially since we should see the direct result of it with manga coming to Crunchyroll, hopefully simultaneously with its Japanese release, and hopefully starting soon. Sorry, OpenManga, but it looks like CR is going to be the CR of manga.