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Crunchyroll Adds Bokurano, We Without Wings, Venus Project Anime in India

Crunchyroll began streaming full seasons of the following anime titles in India on Wednesday:

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• Studio GONZO's anime adaptation of Mohiro Kitoh's Bokurano manga.
• The anime based on NAVEL's adult visual novel We Without Wings - Under the Innocent Sky with both Japanese audio and an English dub.
• The Venus Project: Climax anime series.

Hiroyuki Morita (The Cat Returns) directed the Bokurano anime, which premiered in 2007 and ran for 24 episodes.

Crunchyroll describes the story:

When a strange man in a grotto by the sea offers fifteen middle-school students the chance to test the game he's been developing, the kids find little reason not to accept. Who wouldn't want to pilot a giant robot and face down intruders bent on destroying Earth? Instead of a game, however, the youths discover that the metal giant is all too real--and so are the enemies! It only gets worse when they realize that the 'contract' they signed to play the game was no laughing matter. The robot feeds on the life force of its pilot. Even if they win, they die. But if they lose, the world will cease to exist!

Despair grips the children as they learn the rules of the contract and the nature of the game they signed up to play. And as they reveal the true nature of the enemy--an enemy that seems to be all too familiar--the stakes only get higher. Faced with an impossible situation, each pilot must find their own reasons to fight, a dim prospect when many of them have pasts as dark as the choice that lies before them. Do they fight to protect a world that has hurt them, when their only reward is to die? Fifteen pilots for fifteen enemies, with one mistake meaning the end of it all.

We Without Wings - Under the Innocent Sky is based on an adult visual novel by NAVEL, the original creators of Shuffle! and Soul Link. The television anime adaptation debuted in Japan in April 2011.

We, Without Wings follows three protagonists through different times of day. Timid Takashi, who dreams of escaping to an alternate world, part-timer Shuusuke who works at a local cafe, and handyman Hayato. All three are interlinked somehow but to what extent is only revealed over time.

Venus Project tells the story of idols living in Japan in the near future. In this world, data devices and video technology have been progressing to new heights, and people are abuzz about a new form of entertainment — Formula Venus. In Formula Venus or "F-V," the chosen top idols battle in live performances with their willpower, skills, and all their experience gained.

The anime's story is set in the same world as the Venus Project PS Vita game, but it features a new anime-original protagonist, "an aspiring idol aiming to be Venus."

The anime premiered in July 2015 and had six episodes.

Source: Crunchyroll