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Anime Sols Streaming/Crowdfunding Service to Close on May 1

The video streaming and crowdfunding platform Anime Sols announced on Wednesday that it will close down on May 1. It is shipping the final support packages for its Black Jack 2, Creamy Mami 3, and Creamy Mami 4 DVD box sets, and its website will continue to stream its videos until the closing date.

Japan's Yomiuri Group joined forces with anime studios Pierrot, Tezuka Productions, and Tatsunoko Productions to launch Anime Sols in North America in November 2012. Its titles include such Osamu Tezuka anime as One-Million Year Trip: Bander Book, Black Jack and Aoi Blink, as well as Tatsunoko Productions anime series such as Yatterman (both the original 1977 series and its 2008 remake) and Tekkaman.

Anime Sols also launched successful crowdfunding campaigns to release the Black Jack, Dear Brother, and Magical Angel Creamy Mami TV anime series on DVD, and attempted similar campaigns for anime such as The File of Young Kindaichi Returns television anime series.

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