TOEI ANIMATION ANNOUNCES ONLINE STREAMING OF TORIKO

Watch it now on Hulu and FUNimation.com/video

Los Angeles, CA – April 13th, 2011 – Toei Animation Co., Ltd., Toei Animation Inc. and FUNimation Entertainment will stream the official English-subtitled episodes of “Toriko”, an action/adventure anime series for teen audiences. Starting Thursday, April 14th 6:00 p.m. PST, four days after the Japanese broadcast, each episode will be available on www.hulu.com as well as www.funimation.com/video . A new episode will be rolled out weekly as “Toriko” continues its Japanese television run.

“Toriko” is an anime series based on the popular manga written by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro and published in Weekly Shonen Jump. Toriko is a legendary gastronomic hero chasing rare ingredients across the world to realize his dream: completing the ultimate full-course menu.

In North America, the manga is published by VIZ Media, LLC. A digital preview of the first chapter is currently available at http://www.ShonenJump.com/. VIZ Media will release the next volume, Volume 5, on June 7th.

About Toei Animation Co., Ltd.

With headquarters in Tokyo and sales offices in Paris, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Shanghai, Toei Animation (Jasdaq: 4816) ranks amongst the world’s most prolific animation production studios. Toei Animation’s operations include animation development and production, and worldwide marketing and program licensing. Since its founding in 1956, Toei Animation has produced more than 10,000 episodes of TV series (more than 200 titles) and more than 200 long feature films as of January, 2010.


About Toei Animation Inc.

Toei Animation Inc. (TAI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Toei Animation Co., Ltd. established in Los Angeles in 2004, looks forward to spreading the world-renowned Japanese animation studio’s extensive library and pursuing co-production projects in North and Latin America and other English-speaking territories worldwide.  The main business operations of TAI include film licensing in all media and digital platforms, merchandise licensing and co-productions with local establishments.


About FUNimation Entertainment

FUNimation® Entertainment is the leading company for home video sales of Japanese animation in the United States.  FUNimation has a proven formula for launching and advancing brands, and manages a full spectrum of rights for most of its brands including broadcasting, licensing, production, internet, and home video sales and distribution. For more information about FUNimation Entertainment and its brands, visit www.funimation.com.


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  • 26
    Maiku on April 15th, 2011 at 10:47 am says:

    @Matt

    That’s…..not….my…issue(and the fact that you would even think so jokingly or not is somewhat offensive to say the least) My issue is the show is ulgy. At least to me. I don’t like the whole roided out muscle man look ala Fist of the North Star or similar stuff. For me that look is a wall that I will never get past. It’s just really ugly. Some don’t mind it some like it some even love it. I on the other hand hate it and find it very ugly.

    I normally don’t let the character designs stop me from watching a show but there are times that I just can’t get over how ugly a show is cause of the characters. Monster is a good example. So many people say it’s one of the best anime ever and I could not stand the show and one of the bigger reasons was the ugly character designs I got to about 25 before i dropped the series and I didn’t like the story at all so that coupled with the length and the ugly design made me drop it.

    I have no issue with stuff like Kenichi. That show doesn’t look all ugly and roided out. There are big strong men in it but not of the roided out level of something like Toriko or Fist of the North Star or it’s ilk.


  • 27
    Matt on April 15th, 2011 at 7:07 pm says:

    @Maiku

    Yeah er sorry about that, just my somewhat unique sense of humor at work there. Perfectly understand your point.


  • 28
    beautyfire on April 18th, 2011 at 5:56 pm says:

    Hello, this is WildFire i was thinking about….something you know anime cartoon from fullmetal alchemist brotherhood right?! i want Fullmetal Alchemist start some ripper hip hop muisc video on tv show…..so this is kind cool right? 8) 8) 8) 8)


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