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Crunchyroll Adds Fist of the Blue Sky Regenesis, Shōnen Ashibe Season 3

The media service Crunchyroll announced on Monday that it is streaming the Fist of the Blue Sky Regenesis and Shōnen Ashibe GO! GO! Goma-chan season 3 anime as they air in Japan.

The service also revealed the streaming dates and regions for its stream of The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These anime, and also added more catalog titles from Funimation. The stream for The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These will debut on April 3 at 9:00 a.m. EDT, and will be available for users in the United States, Canada, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Central and South America.

Crunchyroll added the following catalog titles for the following regions:

• Black Lagoon (United States, Canada)
• Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail (United States, Canada)
• Claymore (United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa)
• Snow White with the Red Hair (United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa)

Fist of the Blue Sky Regenesis debuted on Crunchyroll on Monday at 1:30 p.m. EDT. The stream is available for users in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Russia, Central America, and South America, including the Caribbean.

The first three episodes of the anime were previously screened in Japan at an event in Tokyo on February 25, and at an event in Osaka on March 18. Pony Canyon USA screened the first three episodes at the Sakura-Con event in Seattle last Saturday.

Fist of the Blue Sky Regenesis is the new television anime of Buronson, Nobuhiko Horie, and Tetsuo Hara's Souten no Ken (Fist of the Blue Sky) manga.

Yoshio Kazumi (Ajin episode director) is directing the anime at Polygon Pictures, and Satoshi Ozaki supervising and writing the series scripts. Kazuma Teshigahara (Street Fighter IV: The Ties That Bind) and Hiromi Satō are designing the characters. The artist AK-69 performs the anime's opening theme song "Sōten no Hate ni" (To the Ends of the Blue Sky), while Uesaka performs the ending theme song "Inori no Hoshizora" (Starry Night of Prayer).

Shōnen Ashibe GO! GO! Goma-chan season 3 debuts on Tuesday at 7:00 a.m. EDT. It will be available for users worldwide except in Asia.

The anime adapts Hiromi Morishita's original Shōnen Ashibe manga. The story follows the daily life of the baby spotted seal Goma-chan and its owner, schoolboy Ashibe Ashiya.

The first new anime season premiered in April 2016, and the second season premiered last April. Crunchyroll streamed both seasons as they aired in Japan. Morishita's manga previously inspired a 1991 television anime series and a second 1992-1993 television anime series.

Morishita serialized the original manga in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump magazine from 1988 to 1994. The manga spawned a sequel titled ComaGoma in Weekly Young Jump from 2000 to 2004. A new manga series by Morishita and artist Junko Ogino debuted in Monthly Action in April 2016, and switched to Monthly Manga Town last May. Crunchyroll is releasing the manga in English digitally.