Anime on Demand was a German

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service that specialised in the streaming of

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within German-speaking markets. Before the service's closure on 8 December 2021, Anime on Demand was owned by the

Crunchyroll EMEA Crunchyroll EMEA, formerly known as Viz Media Europe, is a European anime distributor. Established as Viz Media Europe, it was Viz Media's European sister company until 2019. It holds partnerships with TV channels, DVD distributors, and manga pu ...

division of

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History

Anime on Demand was founded in 2007 by anime distributor AV Visionen as a subsidiary, and was the first legal anime streaming service in German-speaking countries. Following the acquisition of AV Visionen by

Viz Media Europe Crunchyroll EMEA, formerly known as Viz Media Europe, is a European anime distributor. Established as Viz Media Europe, it was Viz Media's European sister company until 2019. It holds partnerships with TV channels, DVD distributors, and manga pu ...

in 2009, Anime on Demand was merged into AV Visionen as a division, dissolving Anime on Demand GmbH. In April 2011, Viz Media Europe subsidiary

Kazé Kazé was a French publishing company that specializes in anime and manga. Its head office was in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Founded in 1994, the company debuted by publishing ''Record of Lodoss War'' on VHS. It was owned by Sony through t ...

launched the Anime on Demand in the United Kingdom and Ireland, in collaboration with British anime distributors

Manga Entertainment Manga Entertainment was a producer, licensee, and distributor of anime in the United States and the United Kingdom. Originally founded in the UK in 1991, the UK branch became Funimation UK and Ireland in 2021, also currently known as Crunchyr ...

, Beez Entertainment and

MVM Entertainment MVM Entertainment, also known as MVM and MVM Films, is a British licensor and distributor of Japanese animation. The company also sub-licenses anime titles from US anime companies such as Media Blasters, Geneon, Nozomi Entertainment, Urban Vis ...

. Initially hosted by

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, Version 1.0 of the site, hosted by Viz Media Europe, launched as an open beta in December 2011. In December 2013, Anime on Demand announced it was closing operations in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and was to be incorporated into

Animax , stylized as ANIMAX in all caps, is a Japanese animation satellite television network, dedicated to broadcasting anime programming. Launched on July 1, 1998, Animax is the first 24-hour network in the world dedicated to anime.The Anime Biz' - ...

UK. In September 2021, it was announced that Anime on Demand would be shutting down on 8 December 2021, with all content being merged into Crunchyroll.

Anime streamed in UK

* '' A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives'' * '' ' * '' Dantalian'' * ''

Deadman Wonderland is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Jinsei Kataoka and Kazuma Kondou. It was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's '' Monthly Shōnen Ace'' from April 2007 to July 2013, with its chapters collected in 13 volumes. Tokyopop acquir ...

'' * ''

Future Diary is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sakae Esuno. It was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's '' Shōnen Ace'' between January 2006 and December 2010, and has been collected into 12 ''tankōbon'' volumes. The plot depicts the ...

'' * '' Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne'' * ''

Maken-ki! is a Japanese manga series by Hiromitsu Takeda. It was published by Fujimi Shobo's magazine '' Dragon Age Pure'', and later '' Monthly Dragon Age'', after the former magazine ceased publishing. It has been adapted into an anime series by A ...

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Maoyu , also known as ''Maoyu'', or ''Archenemy and Hero'' in English, is a Japanese light novel series by Mamare Touno that was initially posted in a play format on the textboard 2channel in 2009. Enterbrain published five main novels in the s ...

'' * '' My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU'' * ''

Nichijou is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Keiichi Arawi. The manga began serialization in the December 2006 issue of Kadokawa Shoten's manga magazine '' Shōnen Ace'', and was also serialized in '' Comptiq'' between the March ...

'' * '' Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan'' * '' R-15'' * '' Persona 4: The Animation'' * ''

Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shungiku Nakamura. In 2011, the manga was adapted into an anime television series. Produced by Studio Deen under the direction of Chiaki Kon, the anime series began its broadcast ...

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Steins;Gate ''Steins;Gate'' is a 2009 science fiction visual novel game developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus. It is the second game in the ''Science Adventure'' series, following ''Chaos;Head''. The story follows a group of students as they discover and develop ...

'' * ''

Tiger & Bunny ''Tiger & Bunny'' (stylized in all caps) is a 2011 Japanese anime superhero television series produced by Sunrise and directed by Keiichi Sato. The screenplay was written by Masafumi Nishida with original character design by Masakazu ...

'' * '' Twin Angel: Twinkle Paradise'' * '' Un-Go'' * '' Usagi Drop''

References

External links

Official website
Anime and manga websites Companies based in Berlin Defunct video on demand services Former Sony subsidiaries Internet properties established in 2007 Internet properties disestablished in 2021 {{Germany-company-stub