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HIDIVE and Anime-Planet Announce Collaboration
HOUSTON, TX – March 19, 2020 – Today, HIDIVE and Anime-Planet announced a partnership that enables Anime-Planet’s more than 5 million monthly users to stream a selection of HIDIVE’s anime catalog directly on Anime-Planet.com. Users can browse and view HIDIVE’s vast anime library using Anime-Planet’s interface, which is integrated with many other site features, such as personalized recommendations, anime and manga list tracking, reviews and other community features.
“We’re thrilled to partner with Anime-Planet to deliver HIDIVE’s exciting anime content to Anime-Planet’s passionate users,” said John Ledford, HIDIVE president and founder. “Anime-Planet.com is a fan-favorite destination for content discovery, crowd-sourced reviews, recommendations, streaming aggregated legal anime and all-things-fandom. We’re pleased to add more value to that experience through our HIDIVE player and other content geared toward Anime-Planet users.”
“We’re so excited to announce this partnership with HIDIVE,” said Kim Cameron, Anime-Planet founder. “HIDIVE offers many unique simulcasts and content from Japan that our community will love, and will give our community even more choices for supporting the legal anime industry. We’re thrilled to start surfacing HIDIVE’s anime offerings through our content database and recommendation engine.”
The new HIDIVE x Anime-Planet features are expected to launch March 19, 2020 and will be available to all Anime-Planet users depending on territory restrictions.
About Anime-Planet
Anime-Planet was created by fans, for fans. Reaching 5 million users a month, the site is the most popular destination for streaming legal anime from many industry partners. Anime-Planet offers the ability to track the anime you’ve seen, and the manga, webtoons, and OELs that you’ve read; has personalized anime and manga recommendations; and has a vast content database for anime and manga, tags, characters, and staff. Learn more at Anime-Planet.com.
About HIDIVE
HIDIVE, LLC operates the HIDIVE branded entertainment streaming service available via web browser, mobile devices and gaming platforms. HIDVE offers a vast array of Japanese pop-culture programming spanning six decades. From the latest anime simulcasts direct from Japan together with exclusive DUBCAST editions, to classic series and kaiju films of yesteryear, HIDIVE’s all-you-can-watch catalog offers something for everyone. HIDIVE’s parent, Sentai Holdings LLC, is a Cool Japan Fund portfolio company.