Otaku Links: Crowdfund All The Shows!

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  • Funimation is bringing everyone’s favorite ’90s shoujo mecha series, The Vision of Escaflowne, to Blu-Ray with a Kickstarter campaign. In just 3 days, it’s already funded! What do you think about established companies using Kickstarter to fund their projects?
  • P.S. Don’t forget about the Skip Beat campaign, which isn’t funded yet. For the uninitiated, you can check out Skip Beat on Crunchyroll and see if it’s your kind of thing first. Both of these campaigns are plus six figures, and before writing my Forbes article, I had no idea how pricey it was to dub an anime. “You have to add an extra zero,” Ann Yamamoto told me.
  • Have you ever seen an anime screenshot and wondered, “Which anime is that from?” It’s certainly happened to Soruly, so he built a search engine and Chrome extension specifically for that purpose. Input any screenshot and it will spit back where it came from. I tried a bunch and I can’t believe how accurate it is!

Photo by Donald Kasper