CRUNCHYROLL BAKES A DREAM WITH YUMEIRO PATISSIERE

October 30, 2009 by J!-ENT · View Comments

Anime Adaptation of Shueisha Manga Coming to Simulcast on Crunchyroll the
Same Day as its Japan Network Broadcast Beginning November 8th

San Francisco, CA and Tokyo, Japan (October 30, 2009) — Crunchyroll
announces today the addition of YUMEIRO PATISSIERE to Crunchyroll’s Fall
2009 Simulcast Anime Lineup. Adapted from the hit manga published in Ribon
by Natsumi Matsumoto and animated by the legendary Studio Pierrot, YUMEIRO
PATISSIERE features voice actress Aoi Yuki in the lead role of Ichigo Amano.
More information can be found at http://www.crunchyroll.com/yumeiro.

“This will be the next big online girls hit,” states Vince Shortino,
President of Crunchyroll’s Japan office. “Crunchyroll has developed into a
place where girls can get the content they want in a safe environment, and
YUMEIRO PATISSIERE will continue that tradition.”

YUMEIRO PATISSIERE will be available in the United States, Canada, Sweden,
Denmark, Norway, Finland, and the United Arab Emirates in standard
definition free of charge to all visitors of Crunchyroll’s website and
across the Crunchyroll network one week after airing in Japan. Crunchyroll’s
Anime Members will receive early access to the program in high definition
720P within one hour after its Japanese airing, starting November 8th.

YUMEIRO PATISSIERE joins 20 other amazing titles to form Crunchyroll’s Fall
2009 Anime Lineup. Find out what other wonderful simulcast titles at
http://www.crunchyroll.com/lineup today.

All fans can enjoy all content on the site for free, but Crunchyroll Anime
Members benefits include higher quality streams of all shows (in some cases
at 720p High Definition Video) with no advertisement and early access to all
simulcast shows as early as one (1) hour after its Japan Broadcast.
Crunchyroll Anime Membership costs as little as $5 a month and goes directly
towards supporting Japan Animation companies. More information, including a
two week free trial membership can be found at

http://www.crunchyroll.com/freetrial.

Title Synopsis:

YUMEIRO PATISSIERE
According to Ichigo Amano, she doesn’t do anything better other than eating
cake. She can’t find anything she wants to do everyday other than attending
St. Mary Academy. However, when she meets Professor Henry, her fate
changes. She discovers that she wants to reproduce the flavors that her
grandma used to make! So begins the discovery of her dream!

In order to accomplish her dream, Ichigo moves into St. Mary and visits the
legendary spirit of Sweets! She is still just a beginner so there are a
series of failures but she puts all her passion into making sweets so she
can get better one step at a time.

Ichigo’s dream has just begun!!

Tags: crunchyroll.com, manga, Shueisha

Filed Under: Manga News and Reviews

Publisher Shueisha hit with tax evasion

August 21, 2009 by J!-ENT · View Comments

Daily Yomiuri reported:

Major publisher Shueisha Inc. was found to have evaded about 500 million yen in taxable income over five years until May 2008 by the Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

The amount of penalty taxes imposed was about 200 million yen, including heavy additional taxes and additional taxes due to underpayment. The Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo-based firm filed a revised income tax return, based on the bureau’s instructions, and has made the payment, sources said.

According to the enforcement ordinance of the Special Taxation Measures Law, expenses incurred by publishers when holding discussion meetings for editing purposes or data collection are classified as due expenses.

For publishing firms, food and beverage expenses incurred during meetings between authors or manga artists, and the publishing staff responsible for editing the publications are treated as “research expenses.”

However, according to a person familiar with the matter, tax investigations conducted by both the taxation bureau and internally by Shueisha revealed that among the company meetings, which included editors and were held in locations such as izakaya pubs, the expenditures were being categorized as research expenses, and included many occasions on which no authors were present.