Although they haven’t done it since February 2015, Hanabee Entertainment does occasionally like to add a large batch of new and older anime releases to their official and legal video-on-demand service. The Australian-based anime publisher are offering those looking forward to a peaceful weekend of anime watching with a new compilation of 36 episodes across three series.
The most notable of these three series is Brynhildr in the Darkness, an anime licensed in North America last year however was left looking for a rights-holder Down Under. All 13 episodes are currently being streamed via the official Hanabee website, alongside 11 episodes of Anohana: The Flower We Saw that Day and all 12 episodes of Kids on the Slope.
Care to know more about each series? Check out their official descriptions (Sourced from Hanabee website) below:
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
Streaming: Hanabee | Home Video Release: Out Now
The self-proclaimed Super Peace Busters, a group of six childhood friends, drift apart after the death of Meiko “Menma” Honma. Ten years later and everyone is still coping with their grief over the loss. Jinta Yadomi, the leader of the group, has now become a recluse, a shadow of his former energetic self. But one summer day the ghost of Menma returns, aware of her passing and needing Jinta’s aid in helping her fulfill her wish so she can cross over. In order to do that though the members of the Super Peace Busters need to reunite and confront the ghosts of their past if they wish to set Menma free.
Brynhildr in the Darkness
Streaming: Hanabee | Home Video Release: Coming Soon
Still haunted by the death of a childhood friend, Ryouta Murakami goes through life with the dream to fulfil their last wish – to prove the existence of aliens. Being his school’s first and only member for the astronomy club, Ryouta spends his evening looking to the stars in search for proof with little to no results. But when his school receives a new exchange student, who shares an eerily similar appearance and name to his childhood friend, hold the answers?
Kids on the Slope
Streaming: Hanabee | Home Video Release: Out Now
At the beginning of summer in 1966, Kaoru moves yet again, this time to a sunny part of Kyushu Japan. For him, it’s a never-ending cycle of trying to adjust. An A star student as well as a classically trained pianist, Kaoru would soon be left alone to play or to study. But local bad-boy Sentaro Kawabuchi has a taste for confrontation and feels no need to leave Kaoru alone. He demands Kaoru’s attention, and at first their friendship is precarious at best. But upon discovering Sentaro’s immense talent as a jazz drummer, neither of them can ignore each other, and through music a friendship beyond words emerges.
