UK Legal Anime Streaming September 2017 Round-up

We are now approaching the Autumn 2017 season but there have been a couple changes throughout the past month, so here’s a quick round-up detailing the newest additions & expired titles!

So what is the purpose of this round-up you may ask? Simple, to let folks know what titles are now available to stream legally and what titles are no longer streaming. It’s important to help folks find the titles they want on the right services, especially given the UK had it rough for a long time until last year.

This list will be sorted by alphabetical order on the services.

Starting off the article is Amazon. While their respective pages have yet to appear, we should remind folks of the next two titles to take over the NoitaminA and Animeism programming blocks that are exclusive to the Prime service. MAPPA & Gantz creator’s Inuyashiki Last Hero will be the next title from the NoitaminA block (replacing DIVE!!) while the two parts of Yuki Yuna is a Hero Season 2 will be the next titles from the Animeism block (replacing Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul, while Altair: A Record of Battles will continue for its second cour).

New Additions (Autumn 2017 Simulcasts):

• Inuyashiki Last Hero
• Yuki Yuna Is a Hero: Washio Sumi Chapter (Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru: Washio Sumi no Shou) [Season 2 Part 1]
• Yuki Yuna Is a Hero: Hero Chapter (Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru: Yuusha no Shou) [Season 2 Part 2]

Crunchyroll has been continuing their catalogue expansion thanks to their partnership with Funimation, where all of Funimation’s titles go on the service in subbed form (while the dubs stay on Funimation Now). The UK continues to get a good share of titles, and along the way a couple simulcasts also join.

More titles from the Funimation deal join the service as well as the start of a couple titles from the upcoming Autumn 2017 season. Not every Autumn title has their respective pages aren’t up, but we will list them below. As for notable additions we also have the special Blade Runner Black Out 2022 short film which is available for both regular and premium viewers!

New Additions (Autumn 2017 Simulcasts):

• The Ancient Magus’ Bride
• Anime Gataris
• Black Clover
• Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond (Kekkai Sensen & Beyond)
• Code:Realize: Guardian of Rebirth (Code:Realize: Sousei no Himegimi)
• Dies Irae
• Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma: The Third Plate (Shokugeki no Souma: San no Sara)
• Gintama (Gintama: Shinsaku) [Season 4]
• The iDOLM@STER Side M
• Juni Taisen: Zodiac War
• Kino’s Journey: The Beautiful World (Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World)
• King’s Game the Animation (Ousama Game The Animation)
• Konohana Kitan
• Love is Like a Cocktail (Osake wa Fuufu ni Natte kara)
• Love Live! Sunshine!! [Season 2]
• Mr. Osomatsu (Osomatsu-san) [Season 2]
• MSonic!
• Recovery of an MMO Junkie (Net-juu no Susume)
• Sengoku Night Blood
• A Sister’s All You Need (Imouto sae Ireba Ii.)
• Urahara

New Additions (Catalogue):

• 91 Days [OVA]
• Blade Runner Black Out 2022
• Chaos;Child [OVA]
• D.Gray-man [Season 2]
• The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan (Nagato Yuki-chan no Shoushitsu)
• Gunslinger Girl [Season 1]
• Hero Tales (Jyuushin Enbu: Hero Tales)
• Kingdom [Season 2]
• Kurau Phantom Memory
• Master of Martial Hearts (Zettai Shougeki: Platonic Heart)
• Nanbaka [Special]
• Project Blue Earth SOS (Project BLUE Chikyuu SOS)
• Pumpkin Scissors
• Sands of Destruction (World Destruction: Sekai Bokumetsu no Rokunin)
• Shigurui: Death Frenzy
• Welcome to the N-H-K

Delisted:

• Magica Wars (Mahou Shoujo Taisen)
• Wanna be the Strongest in the World (Sekai de Ichiban Tsuyoku Naritai!)

No new titles once again, but another reminder that Daisuki will be discontinuing on 31st October 2017. All of the titles with the exception of Dragon Ball Super will be delisted from the service. In fact a fair few have delisted already during the past couple of weeks. A couple exclusives also going to be made unavailable for streaming for the UK region including One Punch Man.

Delisted:

• Bikini Warriors
• Dagashi Kashi
• ERASED (Boku dake ga Inai Machi)
• Gangsta.
• Haruchika: Haruta & Chika (Haruchika: Haruta to Chika wa Seishun Suru)
• Luck & Logic
• Owarimonogatari [Season 1]
• Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn (Koukaku no Pandora)
• Prince of Stride: Alternative
• Tsukimonogatari

Funimation’s streaming service has been pretty rough with its UK arrival last year but they still manage to offer a wide variety of titles especially with Crunchyroll offering their licensed titles onto the service in dubbed form.

Just like Crunchyroll, the list below are mostly part of the upcoming Autumn 2017 season. As such, not every Autumn title has their respective pages aren’t up, but we will list them below. Note that all of the titles listed are English audio only.

It’s worth noting that King’s Game and Love Live! Sunshine!! Season 2 were not listed for the UK’s simuldub section, so it’s suggested that the English dubs will not be made available for streaming on our end. However this can change later down the line.

New Additions (Autumn 2017 Simulcasts):

• The Ancient Magus’ Bride
• Animegataris
• Black Clover
• Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond (Kekkai Sensen & Beyond)
• Code:Realize: Guardian of Rebirth (Code:Realize: Sousei no Himegimi)
• Dies Irae
• Juni Taisen: Zodiac War
• Kino’s Journey: The Beautiful World (Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World)
• Konohana Kitan
• Recovery of an MMO Junkie (Net-juu no Susume)
• A Sister’s All You Need (Imouto sae Ireba Ii.)
• Urahara

New Additions (Catalogue):

• Space Patrol Luluco

The most surprising streaming service in recent years, HIDIVE has continued to impress the UK anime community with their new service, support and even offering PayPal support. Not only have they started providing English dubs to brand new Sentai released titles, but also continues to add catalogue titles for the region.

For this update they haven’t added any new titles until very recently, but Sentai Filmworks have announced a number of titles from the Autumn 2017 season for the HIDIVE service (most will be exclusive to Amazon Prime over in United States). Please note that so far only UQ Holder has been 100% confirmed for the UK under HIDIVE, but it’s assumed that all of them will be made available over here.

The titles listed below are Japanese audio with English subtitles unless specified.

New Additions (Autumn 2017 Simulcasts):

• ClassicaLoid [Season 2]
• Girl’s Last Tour (Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou)
• Himouto! Umaru-chan R
• Hozuki’s Coolheadedness (Hozuki no Reitetsu) [Season 2]
• Just Because!
• Land of the Lustrous (Houseki no Kuni)
• My Girlfriend Is ShoBitch (Boku no Kanojo ga Majimesugiru Sho-bitch na Ken)
• UQ Holder!: Mahou Sensei Negima! 2

New Additions (Catalogue):

• Bodacious Space Pirates: Abyss From Hyperspace [English dub available]
• Saiyuki [English dub available]
• Tonari no Seki-kun: The Master of Killing Time

Delisted:

• Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi

And last but not least we have the free streaming service still around. A majority of the titles are actually renewals for a number of titles that were delisted months prior.

New Additions (Catalogue):

• ERASED (Boku Dake ga Inai Machi)
• The Everyday Tales of a Cat God (Nekogami Yaoyorozu)
• Humanity Has Declined
• School Days
• We Without Wings (Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai)

That’s it for the month of September. A solid selection have been made available for the UK. Stay tuned for the next monthly update as we find out what else was made available for the UK via simulcasts.