Winter 2023 Master Licensing list

HiDive

  • The Eminence in Shadow S1, Part 2
  • Spy Classroom
  • My Life as Inuki-san’s dog
  • Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeaon S4 , Part 2
  • Kubo Won’t Let Me be Invisible
  • Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte
  • Tsurune: The Linking Shot (S2)
  • Giant Beasts of Ars
  • Lupin Zero
  • Farming Life in Another World
  • Ippon! Again
  • Cardfight!! Vanguard will+Dress Season 2

Crunchyroll

  • Bungo Stray Dogs Season 4
  • Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro 2nd Attack
  • Kaina of the Great Snow Sea
  • Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire
  • The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World
  • The Tale of Outcasts
  • By the Grace of the Gods Season 2
  • The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World
  • Trigun Stampede
  • Bofuri S2
  • My Clueless First Friend
  • The Fire Hunter
  • Chillin’ in my 30’s After Getting Fired from the Demon King’s Army
  • Sorcerous Stabber Orphan S3
  • Birdie Wing - Golf Girls’ Story- Season 2
  • The Fruit of Evolution 2: Before I Knew It, My Life Had It Made Season 2
  • The Ice Guy and his Cool Female Colleague
  • Revenger
  • Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement
  • Sugar Apple Fairy Tale
  • Tomo-chan is a Girl
  • Vinland Saga Season 2
  • Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill (Jan 2023)
  • Handyman Saitou in Another World (Jan 2023)
  • The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - Northern War (Jan 2023)
  • Malevolent Spirits: Monogatari (Jan 2023)
  • Ayakashi Triange
  • Bluelock
  • Buddy Daddies
  • Don’t Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro 2nd Attack
  • In/Spectre Season 2
  • Lee’s Detective Agency (Arknights miniseries)
  • The Misfit of Demon King Academy II
  • My Hero Academia Season 6
    *NieR: Automata
  • Ningen Fushin: Adventurers Who Don’t Believe In Humanity Will Save the World
  • ONIMAI: I’m Now Your Sister!
  • The Vampire Dies in No Time Season 2
  • The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten
  • Cardfight!! Vanguard will+Dress Season 2
  • D4DJ All Mix
  • High Card
  • The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady
  • Nijiyon Animation
  • Oh, Suddenly Egyptian God Season 2
  • Technoroid OVERMIND
  • UniteUp!

Crunchyroll (continuing)

  • Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
  • Case Closed
  • Delicious Party Pretty Cure
  • Digimon Ghost Game
  • Idolish7 3rd Beat!
  • One Piece
  • Play it Cool, Guys
  • Shadowverse Flame
  • To Your Eternity Season 2
  • Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun Season 3
  • Yowamushi Pedal Limit Break

Aniplex USA

  • The Misfit of Demon King Academy II (January 2023)
  • NieR:Automata (January 2023)
  • Ayakashi Triangle (January 2023)
  • UniteUp! (January 2023)

Netflix

  • The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh, Part 1
  • Vinland Saga Season 2
  • Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King (March 2023)
  • The Way of the Househusband Season 2

Hulu

  • By the Grace of the Gods Season 2
  • Tokyo Revengers: Christmas Showdown
  • Trigun Stampede

Viz Media

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AniChart Winter 2023

LiveChart Winter 2023

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Crunchyroll

  • Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill (Jan 2023)
  • Handyman Saitou in Another World (Jan 2023)
  • The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - Northern War (Jan 2023)
  • Malevolent Spirits: Monogatari (Jan 2023)

Crunchyroll - future

  • The Legendary Hero is Dead! (April 2023)
  • Masamune-kun’s Revenge R (Spring 2023)
  • Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts (April 2023)

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Netflix

  • Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King (March 2023)
  • The Way of the Househusband Season 2

Crunchyroll

  • Ayakashi Triange
  • Bluelock
  • Buddy Daddies
  • Don’t Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro 2nd Attack
  • In/Spectre Season 2
  • Lee’s Detective Agency (Arknights miniseries)
  • The Misfit of Demon King Academy II
  • My Hero Academia Season 6
  • NieR: Automata
  • Ningen Fushin: Adventurers Who Don’t Believe In Humanity Will Save the World
  • ONIMAI: I’m Now Your Sister!
  • Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac Season 3
  • The Vampire Dies in No Time Season 2

Crunchyroll (continuing)

  • Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
  • Case Closed
  • Delicious Party Pretty Cure
  • Digimon Ghost Game
  • Idolish7 3rd Beat!
  • One Piece
  • Play it Cool, Guys
  • Shadowverse Flame
  • To Your Eternity Season 2
  • Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun Season 3
  • Yowamushi Pedal Limit Break

HIDIVE

  • Farming Life in Another World
  • Ippon! Again

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There are a great deal of series remaining unlicensed. I wonder if HIDIVE/Sentai will license any of them or if Sonyroll will scoop up all the remainders.

Crunchy’s list still has a lot of TBA boxes to fill.

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Does Sonyroll ever fill up all of the TBA boxes? They only want to make people think there’s much more coming.

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They’ll leave at most one or two not flipped over. In those cases, the shows tend to be ones that start really late in the season, sometimes late enough that they could have waited until the next season. Are there any shows starting in February or March?

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I cannot believe that The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten is still unlicensed. The studio, project No.9, has licensed series to both CR and HIDIVE, so there’s a chance we may still pick it up, since LiveChart lists it as unlicensed. The other one I’d like to see picked up is The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady.

Oh, and D4DJ All Mix!

HIDIVE

  • Cardfight!! Vanguard will+Dress Season 2

Hulu

  • By the Grace of the Gods Season 2
  • Tokyo Revengers: Christmas Showdown
  • Trigun Stampede
  • Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead (July 2023)

Crunchyroll

  • The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten
  • Cardfight!! Vanguard will+Dress Season 2
  • D4DJ All Mix
  • High Card
  • The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady
  • Nijiyon Animation
  • Oh, Suddenly Egyptian God Season 2
  • Technoroid OVERMIND
  • UniteUp!

Also note:
Crunchyroll removed Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac Season 3 from the lineup. Stay tuned for further details on the release.

Netflix

  • BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- Season 2 (2023)

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Sonyroll’s like a shopper at a bin store. They waited for the very last moment and probably snatched up those series for a song.

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This happens EVERY season that I have followed this type of stuff. Crunchy has always done this, even before we heard about Sony wanting to buy them

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Perhaps, but it seems to have gotten worse under Sony’s ownership.

It hasn’t gotten worse. Back when the number of shows they got in a season was small enough to post a news article for each show, or maybe a batch of show, I think I remember them posting the article that they got a show the next day after it aired. This may have happened before VRV was made.

What I think is happening is that the contracts for some of these shows are taking so long to be filled out that they have to wait until almost air time to announce it. Seeing as they can put TBA slots on the season posts now, I assume the contracts were basically a done deal, but they can’t say anything beyond that TBA until it’s officially done. They didn’t say final update for the current season though, so they might still be trying to get some more shows this season, but they’re not sure if they can actually get them.

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Thinking about it, I think the reason it seems like Sonyroll is grabbing so many shows is because they are grabbing two licensors’ worth of anime. The shows they get now used to be spread between CR and Funimation.

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Crunchyroll

  • Attack on Titan The Final Season Part 3 (March 2023)
  • Attack on Titan Final Season THE FINAL CHAPTERS Special 1 (March 2023)
  • RWBY Volume 9 (Early 2023)
  • Soaring Sky! Precure (Feb 2023)
  • Skip and Loafer (April 2023)

Disney+

  • Heavenly Delusion (April 2023)
  • Synduality (July 2023)

Netflix

  • Bakugan Legends (March 2023)
  • Pluto (TBA)
  • Ultraman: The Final Season (Spring 2023)

Amazon Prime

  • Gunma-chan (April 2023)

HIDIVE

  • Helck (Summer 2023)
  • The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior (July 2023)

Sentai

  • The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior (July 2023)
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Shows that are delayed:

  • Kubo won’t let me be Invisible (after Ep 6 returns April 2023)

  • Neir: Automata Ver. 1.1a (After Ep 3 ~Unknown~)(returned last week)

  • Ayakashi Triangle (After Ep. 4 ~Unkown~)

  • UniteUP! (Ep 4 is delayed for at least 2 weeks, expected to continue after that)

  • Bofuri is delayed for 2 weeks (makes sense as Silver Link is animating that and Misfit of Demon King Academy)

  • Misfit of Demon King Academy (return unknown)

Just a note that every title but Kubo is an Aniplex title

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Two of my top 3 shows of the season…

:sob::sob::sob:

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From this thread:

Crunchyroll

  • Revenger. (“in the future”)

Now January 2023

Crunchyroll

  • Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac Season 3
  • Sasaki and Miyano: Graduation (Feb 2023)
  • Sorcerous Stabber Orphen -Chaos in Urbanrama- (S3) - (Jan 2023)
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