Crunchyroll will stream Noitamina new series, as well as Phi Brain 2

Crunchyroll has announced plans to stream this season’s Mysterious Girlfriend X (Nazo no Kanojo X), Kids on the Slope (Sakamichi no Apollon), Phi Brain second season, Kuroko’s Basketball (Kuroko no Basuke), and Tsuritama television series.

Nazo no Kanojo X will premiere on Japanese TV on April 7 and begin streaming on Crunchyroll the following day. Sakamichi no Apollon premiered on Japanese TV yesterday and will begin streaming on Crunchyroll on the 12th. Tsuritama will also premiere on Crunchyroll on the 12th. Crunchyroll will stream the complete first season of Phi-Brain along with this month’s second season, beginning on the 8th. Kuroko no Basuke will premiere on Crunchyroll tomorrow.

source: ANN

Fate/Zero 2nd season promo!

It will premiere on April 7, this trailer was also aired on Anime Contents Expo with new scenes! NicoNico and Crunchyroll will simulcast it.

The controversy on Crunchyroll and TV Tokyo suing youtube anime uploaders

Considering how Crunchyroll started O_O, this news was surprising and ironic to say the least:

Crunchyroll and TV Tokyo have issued a lawsuit against 13 YouTube uploaders for allegedly illegal distribution of anime episodes, according to a copyright infringement complaint filed on May 11 and served between July and September. Crunchyroll and TV Tokyo are seeking reparation for "great and irreparable injury that cannot fully be compensated or measured in money" because of the defendants' allegedly unauthorized copying, uploading, and distributing via YouTube of multiple Naruto, Naruto Shippūden, and Bleach episodes.

Based on their YouTube subscriber information, the defendants reside in the United States, Japan, Canada, Denmark, and Hungary. Crunchyroll maintains its main offices in California (as does YouTube), so the suit was filed as a U.S. copyright violation in the Northern District Court of California. For the purposes of the lawsuit, TV Tokyo is giving Crunchyroll legal permission to act on its behalf in order to "permanently remove the illegal uploads of infringing parties from file-sharing services and to obtain legal relief against infringers."

Crunchyroll also issued a statement in which they seem to back down, given that they don't support or endorse legal actions against anime fans and viewers. For them, "they have identified a few specific accounts on YouTube which were responsible for over 200 million unauthorized streams of our licensed content. These accounts were owned by repeat uploaders who continued to illegally distribute licensed shows despite receiving multiple DMCA takedown notices. In compliance with YouTube's TOS, filing a formal legal complaint was a necessary step in order to keep these illegal streams off of YouTube."

However, is Youtube the place to watch streamed anime episodes anymore?