Netflix April Anime List] "Jigokuraku", a moving work from "JUMP+", "Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witches of Mercury Season 2" and other notable works are available! Also, "Senko no Hathaway" and other theater anime specials!

Netflix has announced its recommended anime lineup for April 2023.

Netflix will be distributing a number of spring 2023 anime that will start airing in April, including "Jigokuraku," "Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witches of Mercury Season 2," "Skip and Loafer," and more.
In addition, "Chibimaruko-chan the Movie: My Favorite Song", "City Hunter the Movie", and other recommended feature film anime will be delivered.

New Anime to be distributed in April

Jigokuraku
New episodes will be distributed every Saturday from April 1.

⇒MAPPA's anime adaptation of " Jump+"'s moving story! Spring Anime "Jigokuraku" New Characters, 4 Cast Members, and Movie with Voice Revealed!

The time is the end of the Edo period. Gabaimaru, the strongest Shinobi formerly in Ishikakure, who was taken prisoner as a fugitive Shinobi, is told that he will be exonerated if he brings back "the elixir of immortality" from an island rumored to be the Paradise of the Pure Land.
In order to be reunited with his beloved wife, Gabaimaru heads for the island where the elixir is said to be located, together with the beheading executioner, Sagiri Yamada Asaemon.
When they land on the island, they are confronted by a group of dead criminals who are also in search of the elixir. They are also confronted by unknown creatures lurking on the island, artificial and eerie stone statues, and the hermits who rule the island. ......

■Kizuna no Ariru
Latest episodes available every Tuesday starting April 4.

Kizuna Eye appeared like a comet in the virtual world and quickly became popular. After winning the "Virtual Grid Award" for five consecutive years, she disappeared without a trace.
Many years later, Miraku, a young girl who admires Kizuna Eye, enrolls in ADEN Academy, a school specializing in producing talents who will be active in the virtual world. On the morning of her first on-campus performance, Miraku nervously leaves her house and arrives at the school's greenhouse.
There, he finds a male student with a mysterious air about him.

Skip and Loafers
Latest episodes available every Tuesday from April 11.

Mitsumi Iwakura enters Tsubame Nishi High School, a high-stakes school in Tokyo, at the top of her class from a small junior high school in Ishikawa Prefecture. She has a clear plan for her future and is confident that she will not fail even once in her high school life.
However, Mitsumi, who has just moved to Tokyo from a depopulated town in Ishikawa, is a little out of touch with people and their senses, and she is also a natural ......!
Mitsumi softly stimulates her classmates, who are all different from one another!

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch of Mercury Season 2
Latest episodes every Thursday from April 13th!

⇒The mighty curse of the Gundam - The spring anime "Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch of Mercury" Season 2 preview PV and synopsis are now available! OP theme is by yama

A.S. (Ad Stella)122...... is an era in which numerous companies are expanding into space and building huge economic blocs. Sletta Mercury, a girl who has transferred to Astycasia High School from the remote planet Mercury, lives a school life filled with encounters and excitement as the bride of Miorine Rembrandt and as a member of Gundam Inc.
Two weeks after the incident at Plant Queta, a huge development facility of the Benelit Group. Sletta spends her days at the school looking forward to meeting Miorine again.
Miorine, on the other hand, is at the Benelit Group's headquarters, monitoring her father's condition. With their own feelings in their hearts, the girls confront the mighty curse brought about by the gundam. ......

■Why She Went to the Ducal Palace
Latest episodes available every Saturday from April 15.

Rinko dies suddenly and mysteriously and is reincarnated as Leliana McMillan, the daughter of a wealthy man in the novel. However, Leliana was a minor character, destined to lose her life in the near future. It is her fiancé, Brooks, who murders Leliana.
Leliana (Rinko) knows this from the novel's story and plans to break off her engagement to him. She approaches Noah Bolsteer Winnight, the duke who is the most powerful man in the kingdom and number one in the line of succession to the throne, and offers him a deal.
She asks him to pretend to be her fiancé for six months. ......?

Special Feature] Recommended Animated Feature Films

Chibimaruko-chan the Movie: My Favorite Song
Available from April 1

The second feature-length theatrical version, released in 1992.
Maruko learns a song called "Menkoi foal" at school, and decides to use it as the theme for her arts and crafts class, but she doesn't know how to draw it.
One day, near her grandmother's house in Shizuoka, she meets a portrait artist who tells her that "Menkoi foal" is actually a sad song about a horse and a boy who have to be separated due to war.
Maruko paints a picture of the boy with his feelings, "I'll always remember you." ......?

Galaxy Express 999
Now on sale

The first feature film version of the classic science fiction anime based on the comic of the same name by the late Leiji Matsumoto.
In the future, humans have gained eternal life by changing their bodies into machines. ...... Unable to afford an expensive machine body, Tetsuro Hoshino yearns for the "Galaxy Express 999," which takes him to a star that will give him a machine body for free.
When his mother is killed by Count Kikai, Tetsuro vows to take revenge on Count Kikai by obtaining eternal life. Tetsuro receives a pass for the 999 from Mater, a mysterious beautiful woman who resembles his mother, and leaves the earth with her. ......

Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's New Dinosaur
Now on sale

The 40th film in the "Doraemon the Movie" series (in theaters in 2020).
Nobita finds a fossil at a fossil excavation at the Dinosaur Expo, and when he returns the fossil to its original state with a "time furoshiki," a twin dinosaur is born. Moreover, they are a new species that has never been discovered!
Cue is a bit unreliable, just like Nobita, and Mew is a tomboy. Nobita, who was struggling with the differences in their personalities, raised them affectionately as if they were his parents. ......

City Hunter the Movie: Shinjuku Private Eyes
Now streaming!

The latest theatrical version to be released in 2019.
City Hunter Saeba Akari, the most skilled underworld criminal in Japan, has an office in Shinjuku, where he and his partner, Makimura Kaoru, take on a variety of commissions.
Then, a model, Ai Shindo, who was attacked by someone, comes to him asking for a bodyguard. He readily agrees to the beautiful woman's request, but he does everything he wants, including peeping into her changing room at the shooting studio and doing whatever he wants with his "mitts." ......
Meanwhile, Kaibo and Miki get word that mercenaries are gathering in Shinjuku. The mercenaries are after Ai for some reason!

Mobile Suit Gundam: Senko no Hathaway
Now on sale

Twelve years have passed since the Second Neo Zeon War (Char's Rebellion). The corruption of the Earth Federation government has accelerated the pollution of the Earth, and it has been carrying out an inhumane policy of "manhunt" to forcibly take civilians into space. The Mufti, an anti-Earth federal government movement, began resisting such a government by assassinating high-ranking federal government officials.
The leader of the group is named Mufti Nabiyu Erin. His true identity is "Hathaway," the son of Colonel Bright Noah, who fought in the One Year War.
Hathaway is a warrior who has the ideals, ideals, and will of Amuro Ray and Char Aznable, and he tries to carve out a path for himself. However, an encounter with Federation Forces Colonel Kenneth Slegg and a mysterious beautiful girl named Gigi Andalusia changes his destiny drastically.

TIGER & BUNNY the Movie: The Beginning
Now on sale

This is the first theatrical version based on the first and second episodes of the TV anime series.
Sternbild is a city where "heroes" exist to protect the peace of the city by making full use of their "NEXT" abilities. Veteran hero Wild Tiger (Kaburaki T. Toratoru) is ordered by his company to team up with rookie hero Barnaby Brooks Jr.
The pairing of the highly capable but cocky Barnaby and the stubborn Toratoru will be a challenge. .........?
TIGER & BUNNY the Movie: The Rising" is also available.

GINTAMA THE FINAL
Now on sale!

The third feature film (released in 2021) based on the last scene of the original comic.
As the countdown to the destruction of the earth closes in, Gintoki, Takasugi, and Katsura, former allies of Gintama, run with their own feelings in their hearts. But standing in front of them is a person with a bond that is too sad to be true: ...... Utsuro, a different personality from the master Yoshida Shoyo, who taught and guided Gintoki and his friends. ......
The last and greatest enemy of Gintoki and his friends, Emptiness, is about to take the entire earth with him in order to end his own life.
Gintama the Movie: The New Translation of Kouzou-hen" and "Gintama the Movie: The Complete Works of Gintama the Movie" are also available for download.

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