An application just recently launched on Xbox Live which allows for the watching of anime in full length movies, clips, and episodes with no extra cost as long as you have an Xbox LIVE gold membership, which is a fantastic deal.
I am going to upon up this application and see if it is everything we expect for it to be, or if the fact its free on Xbox LIVE means it is lackluster. Read inside for details!
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| Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, one of the shows available on the App. Check out my review HERE. |
Opening up my disc tray I insert Soul Calibur V and figure that it is going to be another night of gaming. I was going to make a couple of costumes, maybe learn Mitsurugi a little better since I main Alpha Patroklos who happens to be the most complicated character in the game, and then I was going to snack and maybe finish my article on Soft Circle French-Bread’s new fighting game, “Under Night In-Birth” (Do not worry, it is coming soon)..but then I saw something.
There was a picture of the guy from the “Last Air Bender” movie with his eyes and the reverse arrow on his head glowing and the words “Manga Mania” at the bottom. Normally I would never even think to click on something from The Last Air Bender (Though, I have been hearing that the anime series “The Legend of Korra” that happens after “Avatar: The Last Air Bender” is pretty good though), but I do. It says “Get the new Manga App” and I am thinking “MANGA APP? WHAA?!”, I was thinking it was actually a Manga Reader but it was actually Manga Entertainment… score. After downloading a 70.36MB file, I am now shown the application.
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| Erika Tinen from “Virus Buster Serge”, another title available with the Manga Entertainment App. |
- Dead Leaves
- Ghost In The Shell 2.0
- M.D. Geist I
- M.D. Geist II
- Macross II: The Movie
- Macross Plus: Movie Edition
- Negadon: The Monster from Mars
- The Castle of Cagliostro
- Chrono Crusade
- Descendants of Darkness
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
- Naoki Urasawa’s Monster
- Noein: Season 01
- Now and Then, Here and There
- Requiem From The Darkness
- Robotech: The Macross Saga
- Robotech: The Masters
- Robotech: The new Generation
- Spartacus Motion Comic
- Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars
- Star Blazers: The Comet Empire
- Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar
- Tactics: Season 01
- Virus Buster Serge: Season 01
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A free anime viewer you say? I'll have to check this out, nice website by the by. I'll keep an eye on it.
it buffers way too much for me. I would love this app but while trying to watch gurren lagann it plays fine for like 3 minutes and then it has to buffer constantly for about every 5-10-15-20 seconds. Even if I pause to let it buffer ( I let it buffer for over 30 minutes before) it does not fix the problem (It ended up having to buffer again after 10 seconds). So idk if it's my connection or what but if they could fix the buffering or make it faster I would be happy.
I had no idea about the buffering problem. I guess I need to go in and give it another once over and update this article with my findings.
Are you sure it was not something to do with your PC rather than with the application? Or maybe it had a high number of people using it at that time?
Why does it play then stop
I'm really not sure what's going on with this app. It still won't and never has played any full length films for me only episodes. Whenever I attempt to watch a movie it will only show about 30mins of the movie then stop as if its at the end. Before the show starts at the beginning where you read the description and it shows the title I can see how many mins the films length has such as 100mins or 127mins but after the film starts if I turn the info on which shows the timeline at the top of the screen while its playing it will show the video only being like 27mins long. The time varies some will even say only like 5mins long even though at the title it says the film is supposed to be over 100mins long. Before anyone responds I'll just say I do know the difference between episodes and movies. This really sucks considering that there has been some good looking stuff that has shown up on here recently. I haven't been able to watch one full length movie yet. This last time I tried to watch Redline and the same thing happened. At the title screen it says its almost 130mins long but when the video starts it shows its only lie 27mins long.