Crunchyroll Announces Premiere Lineup for Anime NYC 2023

by Vindstot
Oct 19, 2023 10:55 PM | 34 Comments

Crunchyroll will host the advance premiere of over ten anime titles at Anime NYC 2023, including the world premiere of the Otome Game no Hametsu Flag shika Nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei shiteshimatta... Movie (My Next Life As A Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Movie) and Metallic Rouge—an original anime commemorating animation studio Bones' 25th anniversary.

All early premieres will be held at the Crunchyroll Stage at the Javits Center River Pavilion. The company will also host behind-the-scenes panels for Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari Season 3 (The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 3) and Dr. Stone, featuring production staff from respective titles.

Premiere Schedule

Crunchyroll Industry Panel — November 17 | 2:30 p.m. EST
Sousei no Aquarion: Myth of Emotions (Aquarion: Myth of Emotions) — November 17 | 4:00 p.m. EST
Majo to Yajuu (The Witch and the Beast) — November 17 | 4:00 p.m. EST
Sengoku Youko — November 17 | 7:15 p.m. EST
Panelist: Director Masahiro Aizawa and Producer Ailian Cai
Bartender: Kami no Glass (Bartender: Glass of God) — November 17 | 8:45 p.m. EST
Loop 7-kaime no Akuyaku Reijou wa, Moto Tekikoku de Jiyuu Kimama na Hanayome Seikatsu wo Mankitsu suru (7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy!) — November 17 | 8:45 p.m. EST
Sasaki to Pii-chan (Sasaki and Peeps) — November 18 | 2:00 p.m. EST
Panelist: Kadokawa Producer Kousuke Arai
Studio Bones at 25 feat. Metallic Rouge World Premiere — November 18 | 3:15 p.m. EST
Panelist: Bones CEO Masahiko Minami, Producer Yutaka Izubuchi, and Music Composer Taisei Iwasaki
Momochi-san Chi no Ayakashi Ouji (The Demon Prince of Momochi House) — November 19 | 10:30 a.m. EST
Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e 3rd Season (Classroom of the Elite Season 3) — November 19 | 1:00 p.m. EST
Yubisaki to Renren (A Sign of Affection) — November 19 | 1:00 p.m. EST
Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha (The Unwanted Undead Adventurer) — November 19 | 1:00 p.m. EST
Otome Game no Hametsu Flag shika Nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei shiteshimatta... Movie (My Next Life As A Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Movie) — November 19 | 2:45 p.m. EST

Behind-the-Scenes Panel Schedule

Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari Season 3 (The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 3) Behind-the-Scenes Panel — November 18 | 10:30 a.m. EST
Panelist: Director Hitoshi Haga and Kadokawa Producer Kousuke Arai
Dr. Stone Behind-the-Scenes Panel — November 18 | 12:00 p.m. EST
Panelist: Director Shuuhei Matsushita, Producer Shuusuke Katagiri, Character Designer Yuuko Iwasa, Promotions Producer Hiroto Matsukuma, and Manga Editor Ryousuke Yoritomi

Prior to the three-day convention, Crunchyroll will host the "Cowboy Bebop 25th Anniversary Concert - The Music feat. The Sinfonietta" at the Town Hall in Midtown Manhattan on November 16. Tickets are currently on sale on the Town Hall's official website.

Source: Press Release

Anime NYC Screening

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Who have seen the bartender premiere????

Dec 11, 2023 12:56 AM by MackyandCheese

@MadanielFL Then you got stuff like The Idolmaster and Love Live! which are the most mainstream franchises in Japan but have a small base in North America. Even Chainsaw Man didn't catch on as big in the West as other shounen properties. Which is funny because it's the first big shounen series that I absolutely love.

Oct 21, 2023 7:03 PM by Yui_Suzumiya69

@MadanielFL TenPuru was one of my favorites of the Summer. I love the opening! Really enjoying A Girl and Her Guard Dog this season. Go check out Girlfriend, Girlfriend (dubbed) and The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You as well.

Oct 21, 2023 6:12 PM by Yui_Suzumiya69

This forum argument is exhausting.

Oct 21, 2023 7:18 AM by VivavideoUser2x

@MadanielFL

they shouldnt be airing the censored version OF ANYTHING unless its only airing that way in Japan at the moment

im pretty damn sure that was one of their big promises years ago... back when people were ragging on them for instead using it to "enhance" their building

Oct 20, 2023 4:44 PM by EcchiGodMamster

EcchiGodMamster said:
@MadanielFL

IF they endorsed ALL KINDS of anime as well as didn't air the censored versions of shows, i mean.. whotf is paying them money for that? as well as actually helped raise wages both mangaka and animators i might agree with you

but no, production committies are arguably the detriment of the anime industry, so having a western branch that doesnt even take care of its own employees doesn't help

They streamed the uncensored version of Shin IkkiTousen and Harem in the labyrinth tho…

Also I still don’t understand the whole “raise the wages of animators and mangakas” it’s not their job to do that.

That’s like asking NASA to cure world hunger.

Oct 20, 2023 4:36 PM by MadanielFL

@MadanielFL

IF they endorsed ALL KINDS of anime as well as didn't air the censored versions of shows, i mean.. whotf is paying them money for that? as well as actually helped raise wages both mangaka and animators i might agree with you

but no, production committies are arguably the detriment of the anime industry, so having a western branch that doesnt even take care of its own employees doesn't help

Oct 20, 2023 4:28 PM by EcchiGodMamster

EcchiGodMamster said:
@MadanielFL

anime was doing controversial shit long before the west had any hands in it

theres plenty of anime throughout history CR would never endorse and theres nothing particularly special about what any of the shows you named are doing/did, although i'll give Shield Hero some credit for s1

CR has never been and will never be "necessary" for shows like them to exist

so that doesn't really mean much unfortunately

I never thought they were “necessary” but more like that they are helping make shows we like, so we should appreciate that.

Oct 20, 2023 4:05 PM by MadanielFL

@MadanielFL

anime was doing controversial shit long before the west had any hands in it

theres plenty of anime throughout history CR would never endorse and theres nothing particularly special about what any of the shows you named are doing/did, although i'll give Shield Hero some credit for s1

CR has never been and will never be "necessary" for shows like them to exist

so that doesn't really mean much unfortunately

Oct 20, 2023 3:44 PM by EcchiGodMamster

EcchiGodMamster said:
@MadanielFL

This looking more into the western audience is exactly what scaring many if not most of us

If this results in “controversial” shows like Shield Hero, Harem in the Labyrinth, Tenpuru, A Girl and her Guard Dog, then I don’t see the problem…
On the contrary, the more they make, the better!

Oct 20, 2023 1:19 PM by MadanielFL

@MadanielFL

This looking more into the western audience is exactly what scaring many if not most of us

Oct 20, 2023 1:09 PM by EcchiGodMamster

@MadanielFL I have the impression that, due to cultural characteristics, the Japanese are more tolerant of "weird premise" shows than Western audiences. For example, JoJo seems to have a more serious fanbase there, rather than an army of memelords like we have.

Oct 20, 2023 10:47 AM by RobertBobert

RobertBobert said:
And why do you think?

I don't know why, some light novel just happen to get popular in the west (like the vending machine isekai) while they don't get as much success domestically.

Oct 20, 2023 10:44 AM by MadanielFL

@MadanielFL And why do you think?

Oct 20, 2023 10:25 AM by RobertBobert

hype for metallic rouge

Oct 20, 2023 10:23 AM by deg

RobertBobert said:
Well, I'm used to the fact that overhype works, especially shonens, at some point get a lot of appealing towards Western viewers. For example, English-language themes or official logos.

Shounen is generally popular both in Japan and in the west, while Shield Hero is way more popular in the west than it is in Japan...

Oct 20, 2023 10:19 AM by MadanielFL

@MadanielFL Well, I'm used to the fact that overhype works, especially shonens, at some point get a lot of appealing towards Western viewers. For example, English-language themes or official logos.

Oct 20, 2023 10:06 AM by RobertBobert

RobertBobert said:
I don’t know who exactly came up with the idea, but once on Reddit the creators of the adaptation said that the anime was originally created with Western audiences in mind.

Yeah, the show is more popular overseas then it is in Japan.

That's why season 2 and 3 were announced on Crunchyroll expo 2019, and why Kevin Penkin does the music on it.
And that's probably also why season 2 even ends with a message written in English teasing the next season.

Oct 20, 2023 9:51 AM by MadanielFL

@MadanielFL I don’t know who exactly came up with the idea, but once on Reddit the creators of the adaptation said that the anime was originally created with Western audiences in mind.

Oct 20, 2023 9:36 AM by RobertBobert

EcchiGodMamster said:
So if I am to buy my merch even from a Japanese direct site like goodsrepublic CR gets some of the money?

It's very simple, any official merch like: posters, mugs, blu-rays, figures, etc... can only be considered OFFICIAL if it's licensed by the production committee.

And since Cr is part of that committee, they will receive part of the profits that the show makes from TV revenue, merch, licensing, and etc...

RobertBobert said:
Are you saying that they were the ones who came up with the idea of adapting Shield Hero as a work with a lot of interest from Western audiences?

Yes, this is exactly why, Shield Hero was already a popular web-novel overseas before it even became an anime.

The Cr employee who suggested to Kadokawa the idea, is the producer Sae Ho Song, and if you go to his facebook you can even see that he is a fan of other light novel series like Oreimo, Haganai, HakoMari...

Oct 20, 2023 9:29 AM by MadanielFL

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