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Peacock Adds Free RetroCrush Streaming Anime Channel

Digital Media Rights announced on Thursday that it has launched a free, 24-hour anime streaming channel for Peacock streaming service. Peacock will also add the following anime to its streaming service in the coming months:

• The Story of Saiunkoku (ColourCloud Palace)
• The Twelve Kingdoms
• Appleseed
• Arcadia of My Youth
• Black Jack: The Movie
• Hells
• Jin-Roh - The Wolf Brigade
• Robot Carnival
• Dear Brother
• Area 88
• Ceres, Celestial Legend
• Cromartie High School
• Fushigi Yugi
• Fushigi Yugi: OVA
• GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka
• New Getter Robo
• Flame of Recca
• Kobato.
• Arcadia of My Youth
• Endless Orbit SSX
• Gakuen Heaven
• Kaiba
• Library War
• Mazinger Edition Z
• Voltes V
• Earl and Fairy

RetroCrush is a free, ad-ed video-on-demand service available in the United States and Canada. The service has apps on iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV, launched through the STIRR streaming service in July 2020.

Digital Media Rights stated to ANN that its goal with the streaming service is to "serve as a community built for the consumption and discussion of the Golden Age of Japanese animation, (and some not so retro), from the perspectives of pop culture, fandom, art, internet memes & more."

The service plans to include a library of content that "hasn't had proper streaming releases outside of Japan."

RetroCrush's streaming partners include Happinet, among others.

added a RetroCrush programming block to its 'Anime All Day' channel on March 4. The channel has 8-hour RetroCrush blocks on Thursdays and Saturdays.

Source: Email correspondence