Microsoft is celebrating the “Anime Month” with different promotional offerings. (Photo : YouTube/FUNimation)
Microsoft Corporation is promoting its anime offerings by giving free download this month for several titles, such as "Fairy Tail," "Black Butler" and more. Furthermore, the company is also offering discounts on other titles.
The company is celebrating the "Anime Month" with different promotional offerings, according to Microsoft. Besides "Fairy Tail," parts of anime series such as "The Devil is a Part-Timer!" and "Steins; Gate" are also available. On the other hand, there are generally priced discounts on other animes, although the free offerings have a whole suite of strings attached.
Microsoft will apparently offer English dubs of everything with regard to the free shows. That does not mean there are no decent or even great dubs, but consensus is in favor of the original Japanese voice cast with English subtitles. Conventionally, it is easier to have a bad dub as opposed to a good one.
Microsoft is as well offering fans access to the first three episodes of other series, including "Death Note," "Naruto Shippuden," and "Inuyasha." Also available are the first two episodes of "Naruto."
However, Microsoft is not the only company giving promotions for its anime library. Previously, Steam announced that it would bring anime like "Naruto" to its streaming service, according to Polygon. Microsoft has officially dubbed this month "Anime Month" as a way of promoting the service available through the site.
The promotion will run up to the end of the month, but March will see customers paying for episode and season downloads.
Apart from the question of quality, it is notable that there are only sections of everything as opposed to anything that looks like a full show. What is mostly regarded a season in North America - 12 episodes or so - in the promotions is essentially half the arc. Concerning "Fairy Tail," there are many episodes, but only the first 12 are available for the promotion.
Generally, it is great to see Microsoft getting behind some anime, even though there are caveats like the aforementioned. The system has never been more prevalent in the West, and franchises such as "Attack on Titan" remain popular.
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