HBO Max Strikes a New Deal for More Anime Films Days After Purging American Cartoons

HBO Max (yes, it's backmost to the archetypal name) seems to person recognized the increasing marketplace of anime, astatine slightest connected its ain “prestige” terms. The work has agelong been location to the Studio Ghibli movies and is present expanding its room done a caller woody with movie distributor GKIDS.

Starting September 1, HBO Max volition beryllium picking up 20 animated and live-action movies from well-known Japanese directors similar Hideaki Anno, Makoto Shinkai, and Satoshi Kon, immoderate of which are premiering connected streaming successful North America for the archetypal time. Here’s what you person to look guardant to:

HBO Max Picking Up 20 Animated and Live-Action Movies From GKIDS

Several movies are making their mode to the Warner Bros.-owned work successful conscionable respective weeks. On September 1, HBO Max is getting the following:

• Children Who Chase Lost Voices (dir. Makoto Shinkai)
• Fireworks (dir. Akiyuki Shinbo, Noboyuki Takeuchi)
• Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko (dir. Ayumu Watanabe) - North American Streaming Debut
• Ghost Cat Anzu (dir. Yôko Kuno, Nobuhiro Yamashita) - North American Streaming Debut
• Lonely Castle successful the Mirror (dir. Keiichi Hara) - North American Streaming Debut
• Love & Pop (dir. Hideaki Anno) - North American Streaming Debut
• The Place Promised successful Our Early Days (dir. Makoto Shinkai)
• Your Name. (dir. Makoto Shinkai) - 4K Streaming Debut

More movies volition marque their mode to the streamer successful 2026, with circumstantial merchandise dates to beryllium announced:

• Angel’s Egg (dir. Mamoru Oshii) - North American Streaming Debut, 4K Streaming Debut
• Liz and the Blue Bird (dir. Naoko Yamada)
• Lu Over the Wall (dir. Masaaki Yuasa)
• Millennium Actress (dir. Satoshi Kon)
• Mind Game (dir. Masaaki Yuasa)
• Perfect Blue (dir. Satoshi Kon) - 4K Streaming Debut
• Shin Godzilla (dir. Hideaki Anno, co-director Shinji Higuchi) - 4K Streaming Debut
• Summer Wars (dir. Mamoru Hosoda) - 4K Streaming Debut
• The Boy and the Beast (dir. Mamoru Hosoda) - 4K Streaming Debut
• The Colors Within (dir. Naoko Yamada) - North American Streaming Debut
• The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (dir. Mamoru Hosoda) - 4K Streaming Debut
• Wolf Children (dir. Mamoru Hosoda) - 4K Streaming Debut

The archetypal property merchandise from Warner Bros. notes which movies are making their North American premiere, arsenic good arsenic which movies volition watercourse successful 4K for the archetypal time. Keep successful caput that you’ll request a standalone HBO Max Premium relationship to enactment 4K streaming, which is successful information not included successful the different fantastic Disney+ and Hulu bundle.