Following their Otakon Vegas 2014 panel held this weekend, online anime streaming service CrunchyRoll have confirmed that they will be simulcasting Wake Up, Girls! from the 10th January 2014 at 10:30AM Pacific Time. As usual, they will be availing each episode a week after they originally air in Japan for free members. The feature film to go along with it, Wake Up, Girls! – Seven Idols will be streamed just beforehand at 9AM Pacific Time. This is the very first time that CrunchyRoll will be simulcasting a movie from Japan.
Premium Members from everywhere except Asia will be able to access both streams, while free members from the following regions will be able to access them: USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.
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Wake Up, Girls! takes place in the Sendai, Japan’s northeastern Tohoku region. A tiny production company, Green leaves Entertainment, which once managed the careers of talents such as magicians, models, and other entertainers is now on the verge of going out of business when their last talent quits. In an effort to save the company, the president decides to produce an idol group and sends manager Kouhei Matsuda out to scout raw talent, where he has a fateful encounter with a certain girl…
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