Crunchyroll releases Witch On The Holy Night to theaters this January. Crunchyroll has announced they plan to release the new anime fantasy film Witch on The Holy Night to theaters in the US and Canada starting January 29, 2027. Co-distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment, it will be available in both Japanese with English subtitles as well as dubbed in English. If the name sounds familiar, that's because the tale has already been told in another form, and not the traditional one. Most anime movies are based on manga, but Witch On The Holy Night started as a visual novel, first released in 2012. The game was written by Kinoko Nasu and developed by TYPE-MOON (best known for the "Fate" series of games), who is also overseeing the movie. The game got an English translation and can currently be found on consoles and Steam. Both the game and the movie are about Aoko Aozaki, an ordinary high school girl...or is she? Aoko is in reality a powerful magician in training who chooses to live in the present day. Only her housemate, Alice Kuonji, knows the truth...but there could soon be one other person in on the secret, as Aoko has met someone she's starting to have feelings for. The movie should look pretty good; animation production was handled by ufotable, who's been responsible for making the Demon Slayer films look as amazing as they do. If you'd like to know, here is the full international rollout list for Witch On The Holy Night: * January 21 - Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates * January 26 - Austria, Germany, Switzerland (German-speaking) * January 27 - France, Belgium, Switzerland (French-speaking) * January 28 - Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Central America, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Italy, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland (Italian-speaking),, Australia, New Zealand. * January 29 - United States, Canada, United Kingdom & Ireland, Finland, Poland, Sweden, India * February 5 - Spain, Kazakhstan But chances are good you're a reader who lives on the North American continent and in that case, you'll get it January 29 in both sub and dub form. Join the club!

Crunchyroll Anime Nights reveals September 2026 showings. Watch episodes for Black Clover Season 2, The Vermilion Mask, and more in theaters. Published: September 6, 2026 Crunchyroll has revealed its September 2026 showings for its Anime Nights theater event. The event will give audience members the chance to watch certain anime in theaters ahead of its worldwide streaming/TV premiere. Showings, and tickets for said showings, are available to purchase throughout the United States and Canada. Black Clover Season 2, The Vermilion Mask, Overgeared, Firefly Wedding, and PSYREN will premiere in theaters in Japanese with English subtitles. These will be available to watch in theaters starting on September 21. The anime will premiere worldwide at a later date. Firefly Wedding in particular will air on October 9. A new trailer recently released, which highlighted the new cast members of Kent Itō as Kōtarō Ogawa and Kenjirō Tsuda as Mitsueda. Previously announced cast members include Satoko Kirigaya as Lynn and Kōki Uchiyama as Shinpei Gotō. It also previewed the ending theme song "Yumegokochi (Trance)" by TOOBOE. Takahiro Kamei is directing the anime at david production - the studio known for animating the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime series. Yukiko Aikei is the character designer. Yūko Kakihara oversees and writes the series scripts, and NOGRID composes the music. Oreko Tachibana launched the manga on Shogakukan's Manga ONE app in January 2023. The manga's 12th volume was published by Shogakukan this past September. VIZ Media publishes the manga in English. Lastly, here's a description of the manga's story, via VIZ Media: On the surface, Satoko has it all - she's beautiful, the daughter of a nobleman, and at a prime age for marriage. Unfortunately, she is also quite ill and only has a short time left to live. Before she can secure a marriage that will redeem her worth in her family's eyes, she finds herself the target of the mysterious assassin Shinpei, and her plans are put in jeopardy. In order to save herself, she makes a desperate proposal - of marriage! When it comes to love, however, Shinpei takes "until death do we part" seriously.

50,000 episodes in 90 days: inside Crunchyroll's global anime supply chain. Crunchyroll unified 50,000+ episodes and 400,000+ localisation components in 90 days. Here is the cloud workflow behind the migration. MediaLinkPro Editor September 3, 2026 · 0 Moving one series into a streaming platform is a delivery job. Moving an anime business built from two catalogues is closer to rebuilding a supply chain while it is still serving customers. Crunchyroll, working with TMT Insights and SDVI, reports that it reconciled and rationalised more than 50,000 episodes, migrated over 400,000 localisation components and completed the core transformation in 90 days. The same platform has since delivered more than 4.2 million assets. Those figures explain why this project is on the IBC 2026 Innovation Awards longlist - and why the real story is not simply "moving files to the cloud." The Crunchyroll, TMT Insights and SDVI media-supply-chain project is longlisted in the Content Distribution category of the IBC 2026 Innovation Awards. Image: TMT Insights. The project followed the unification of the Crunchyroll and Funimation libraries. That created an unusually difficult operations problem: episode masters, subtitles, dubs, artwork, technical metadata, rights information and destination requirements all had to become one dependable content foundation. This article looks at the architecture behind that consolidation, what a 90-day migration really implies, and why late-binding localisation matters far beyond anime. A library merger is a metadata problem wearing a storage problem's coat. At first glance, the headline number is 50,000 episodes. But an episode is not one object. A global streaming service may need a video master, multiple audio mixes, subtitle and caption files, artwork, text metadata, compliance versions and delivery packages for different territories or partners. The relationship among those elements is what makes an episode publishable. Minimum daily averages derived from TMT Insights' reported migration of 50,000+ episodes and 400,000+ localisation components over 90 days. Rounded to the nearest whole item. Join MediaLinkPro to access the full post, like articles, and connect with the global media community.