'AniCool' Website Launching Announcement
Stone Free, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan / Representing Director & CEO : Akira Ishiguro (19)), a venture that designs, develops and operates services to distribute original animation and manga (comics) contents worldwide, launches ‘AniCool’, a website completely dedicated to crowdfunding of animes with zero intermediate fees, on Thursday, July 10, 2014.
AniCool is a crowdfunding service to bridge fans' desire to see and animators' passion to create the coolest animes.
AniCool develops mechanisms to enable fans to provide funds to animators for creating animes they truly want to. In recognition of their support, fans can receive 'privileges' in proportion to support amounts such as goods only available at AniCool and a right to be a mob character voice actor in an anime. AniCool accepts only full-scale animation production proposals from production companies as potential projects for crowdfunding at its website.
AniCool is a unique crowdfunding website that charges no intermediate fee at all. AniCool intends to improve animators' production environment and working conditions, so AniCool delivers all the funds raised from fans to animators.*
AniCool's animes, once finished, are published on the Web for free, and everyone can watch them at on-line video distribution services and, of course, at the Anicool website. Moreover, such animes completed at AniCool will be available for uploading at other on-line video distribution services with non-commercial derivative works or captions, thus enabling distribution to anime fans worldwide for free.
”Deliver Cool Animes Globally”, even to people who could not see them to date, that's AniCool's mission.
AniCool provides various occasions to promote interaction between fans and animators, such as projects to produce animes with scenarios created by fans and selected through popularity polls and opportunities for fans to be voice actors as privileges in return for their support through crowdfunding.
*Only credit card companies' settlement fees will be deducted.
Crowdfunding Project at the Time of AniCool Launching
“Serendipity” directed by Takuto Nakano
Groundbreaking individual anime production with ingenious drawing techniques will make this piece a crowdfunded full-movie with the longest running time to date.
Preview:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y9rOj4Bt4E
Activities Going Forward
In the first year, through cooperation with anime production teams and companies, AniCool intends to launch one anime production project per month. While the AniCool website starts in Japanese and English, Chinese (both simplified and traditional) will be added soon to enable active pursuit of overseas anime fans.
About the Company
Name: Stone Free, Inc.
CEO: Akira Ishiguro, Representative Director
Address: 4-32-26 Daita, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Incorporated: April 3, 2014
Paid-In Capital: 1,000,000 Japanese Yen
Business: Design, development and operations of contents production support systems through crowdfunding
AniCool
