Suikoden Anime Streams Free On YouTube With English Subtitles
A free, same-day-subtitled YouTube window for a Konami game adaptation tells you the studio is treating overseas streaming as a release channel rather than a licensing afterthought.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
The English YouTube channel for Suikoden: The Anime says the adaptation of Suikoden II will stream free with English subtitles starting October 6, with new episodes on Tuesdays. The stream covers North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Ireland, parts of Africa and the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand, and Ani-One Asia has also licensed the anime. It premiered October 3 on Tokyo MX.
The streaming window is a separate arrangement from the television rollout. The series debuted on Tokyo MX at 11:30 p.m. on October 3 and is set to debut on 31 other channels between October 6 and October 9, while the YouTube run starts the same week with episodes every Tuesday. The account posted the full region list in English rather than leaving it to the licensor. Yuzo Sato directs at KONAMI animation, the game studio's anime arm, with Ryō Hino as producer and production manager and Michihiro Tsuchiya overseeing scripts.
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