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Crunchyroll Set to Simulcast SERVANT x SERVICE This Season

Cutting a slice of life with some comedy, Servant X Service will ensure you stay laughing with us the entire summer season

San Francisco, Calif. (June 27, 2013)Crunchyroll, Inc., in partnership with Aniplex of America, is set to simulcast A-1 Picture's latest anime release: Servant X Service this summer starting on Thursday July 4 at 1 pm Pacific Time. More information can be found on www.crunchyroll.com/servant.

Karino Takatsu – the creator of Working!! (a.k.a. Wagnaria!!) – is set to release her second, soon-to-be-successful manga-to-anime adaptation with Servant X Service this season. This series will feature the voices talents from some of the best in the business with our three main protagonists being portrayed by Ai Kayano (Say, “I love you,” Guilty Crown, Chihayafuru), Mai Nakahara (Fairy Tail, AKB0048, Strawberry Panic!), and Tatsuhisa Suzuki (Uta no Prince Sama, Heaven's Lost Property, Free!).

“In a certain ward of a certain city in Hokkaido...

The ward office where Yamagami Lucy has been hired employs many unique characters on its staff. Yamagami and her colleagues are full of energy and secrets as they're hard at work (?!) in this workplace comedy!”

Servant X Service will be available to audiences in the following territories: US, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Central and South America.

Episodes can be accessed from Crunchyroll.com, the Free! iPhone and iPad application, the Android application, Windows Phone, PS3™, XBox Live®, Panasonic TVs with Viera Connect, Roku, Boxee, Google TV, Samsung TV, Vizio VIA, WD TV Live, additional set-top channels, and affiliate partners.

Crunchyroll premium members have access to a large selection of anime and drama, same-day access for simulcast titles, no advertisements and can stream in up to 1080p quality on select titles. More information about the Crunchyroll membership plan can be found at: http://www.crunchyroll.com/freetrial/

About Crunchyroll, Inc.
Crunchyroll is a leading global destination and platform for Japanese anime and Asian content. Through applications like Crunchyroll for iPhone, iPad, Android, PlayStation®3, XBox Live®, Internet-enabled TVs, set-top boxes, affiliate websites and its own streaming website, Crunchyroll delivers over 25,000 episodes and 15,000 hours of officially-licensed content from leading Asian media producers direct to viewers translated professionally in multiple languages within minutes of TV broadcast.


Crunchyroll has offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Tokyo, and is a member of the Association of Japanese Animations (AJA) and Licensing International Merchandisers' Association (LIMA). Officially launched in 2009, Crunchyroll is funded by leading venture capital firm, Venrock, Japanese entertainment giant TV TOKYO, digital publishing leader Bitway and a group of angel investors representing some of the brightest and most successful entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. More information can be found at http://www.crunchyroll.com.



About Aniplex of America Inc.

Aniplex of America Inc. (Santa Monica, California) is a subsidiary of Aniplex Inc. (headquartered in Tokyo, Japan), a group of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. and leading provider of anime content and music production and distribution in Japan. Aniplex of America has launched fan-favorite DVD and Blu-Ray releases such as Bakemonogatari, Durarara!!, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, The Garden of Sinners and Blue Exorcist. The company's ever-growing line-up of shows includes our most recent titles, Sword Art Online, Valvrave the Liberator, Magi, Oreimo 2, Oreshura and Vividred Operation.
www.AniplexUsa.com/servantservice
www.AniplexUSA.com
www.Youtube.com/AniplexUS



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