Crunchyroll Adds The Ancient Magus’ Bride & Hana Yori Dango To Their Roaster

Crunchyroll is known for adding dozens of new English dub versions of fan-favorite anime. Crunchyroll has also been heavily involved in the production of dubs for the past few years now with its partner studios like BangZoom, Studiopolis, Funimation, Ocean, and more.

International audiences have certainly enjoyed these efforts. It also offers a Premium service which allows its paid members to be able to watch the full foreign language dubs for free while free users are limited to the first dub episode of each series.

The Ancient Magus’ Bride dub has been added to Crunchyroll’s dubbed catalog on Thursday. Apart from dubs, Crunchyroll also added Hana Yori Dango (Boys Over Flowers) anime on Wednesday.

Hana Yori Dango
Launch Date: January 29
Territories: United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Central and South America, including the Caribbean.

The Ancient Magus’ Bride English Dub
Launch Time: January 30 at 3:00 pm PT
Territories: Worldwide, ex. Japan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao.

Hana Yori Dango is based on Yoko Kamio’s shōjo romantic comedy manga Boys Over Flowers. Crunchyroll streamed a Korean live-action adaptation of Hana Yori Dango in 2011. The anime roots back to 1996. Taiwan even made a live-action university drama out of this titled Meteor Garden. The TV series also won 47th Television Drama Academy Awards back in 2005, and its season 2 has just ended in December.

On the other hand, The Ancient Magus’ Bride dub is finally here after a long wait. Fans have been waiting since October 2018 for this. Funimation took the dubbed version off its platform last year, which left many fans hanging halfway in the story, so it’s pretty solid news to cheer about.

The official synopsis of the two series is as follows:

Hana Yori Dango

“Tsukushi Makino just wants to get through high school. That’s all. And that might even be easy, if she weren’t attending Eitoku High, a school that caters to the kids of the rich and the elite. Coming from a poor family, Tsukushi sticks out like a weed to the rest of the students at Eitoku, and it only gets worse when her friend Yuuki accidentally incurs the wrath of Tsukasa, the leader of the F4, the four most wealthy and handsome men at her school. Shielding Yuuki from Tsukasa only earns Tsukushi a red card, a signal to the rest of the student body that Tsukushi Is an open target for any and all kinds of bullying. However, Tsukushi isn’t about to give up on her goal of graduating, and her fierce determination to stand up for herself just might have unexpected consequences within the hearts of the F4!”

The Ancient Magus’ Bride

“Chise Hatori has lived a life full of neglect and abuse, devoid of anything resembling love. Far from the warmth of family, she has had her share of troubles and pitfalls. Just when all hope seems lost, a fateful encounter awaits her. When a man with the head of a beast, wielding strange powers, obtains her through a slave auction, Chise’s life will never be the same again.
The man is a “magus,” a sorcerer of great power, who decides to free Chise from the bonds of captivity. The magus then makes a bold statement: Chise will become his apprentice – and his bride!”

About The Ancient Magus’ Bride:

The Ancient Magus’ Bride is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kore Yamazaki. Hana Yori Dango is a 2005 Japanese television drama series starring Mao Inoue, Jun Matsumoto of Arashi, Shun Oguri, Shota Matsuda, and Tsuyoshi Abe. It is based on Japanese shōjo manga series, Boys Over Flowers, written by Yoko Kamio.

About Hana Yori Dango Shōjo

Orphaned high school girl Chise Hatori decided to sell herself at an auction after she gets excluded by her relatives at every step in life, in search of a new place she can call home. She gets sold for five million pounds to Elias Ainsworth, a seven-foot-tall humanoid with an animal skull for a head.