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Ani-One Asia Puts RE-MAIN Anime's Stream on Hold Due to Music Licensing Issue

Hong Kong content distributor MediaLink Entertainment Limited's Ani-One YouTube channel announced on Saturday that its simulcast stream of MAPPA's original water polo television anime RE-MAIN will go on hold due to a "music rights issue on YouTube," and will remain on hold until the issue is cleared with the licensors.

YouTube's automated copyright detection algorithm often strikes channels and videos that show copyrighted material, even if the owner of the channel is the copyright owner or a licensee of the content.

Ani-One Asia's stream of the anime debuted on July 4.

The RE-MAIN anime's story centers on Minato, a boy who stopped playing water polo due to a certain incident in the winter of his third middle school year. He picks the sport back up again with a new team when he starts in high school, but the fledgling team runs into many problems.

Tiger & Bunny head writer Masafumi Nishida serving as co-creator, chief director, series script supervisor and scriptwriter for every episode, and is also credited as audio director. Kiyoshi Matsuda (Kuma Miko: Girl Meets Bear, Kakegurui season 2) is directing the anime at MAPPA under Nishida's supervision. Aori Fujika (Name romanization unconfirmed) is designing the original character concepts, and Shiho Tanaka (Banana Fish episode animation director, Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Clouds Gather animation director) is adapting those designs for animation. Kana Utatane (TaWaRa) is composing the music.

South Korean boy band group ENHYPEN perfoms the anime's opening theme song "Forget Me Not." Shugo Nakamura performs the ending theme song "Kowareta Sekai no Byōshin wa" (The Second Hand of a Broken World).

Source: Ani-One Asia's YouTube channel