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Crunchyroll Shares New Acquisitions for 2023

Titles coming to the streamer include ‘Horimiya: The Missing Pieces;’ ‘The Great Cleric;’ ‘Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 3;’ ‘Am I Actually the Strongest?;’ ‘I’m in Love with the Villainess;’ ‘I Shall Survive Using Potions!;’ and ‘MF GHOST.’

Crunchyroll has announced a slate of new acquisitions, all arriving in 2023!  The anime streamer made the announcement at the Crunchyroll Industry Panel at Anime Central 2023 on May 20.

Full list of new Acquisitions:

Horimiya: The Missing Pieces (CloverWorks)

  • When the popular Hori and the gloomy Miyamura meet, they each bring out a different side in the other. Could this be the start of something new?  
  • Arriving July 2023, Worldwide excluding Asia

The Great Cleric (Yokohama Animation Laboratory and Cloud Hearts)

  • A salaryman was shot to death just before earning a promotion, and a god decided to reincarnate him in another world as a fifteen-year-old healer named Luciel. However, the country he was born into seems to hate healers. Feeling that he's in danger, Luciel visits the adventurers' guild in hopes of keeping himself safe, but the training is much harder than he expected, and every day he's forced to drink a mysterious beverage called "Substance X."
  • Arriving 2023 Worldwide excluding Asia, with the exception of Pakistan, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, the Maldives, the Middle East, and North African territories.

Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 3 (TMS Entertainment)

  • Kinoshita Kazuya is a 20-year-old failure of a college student. He managed to kiss his girlfriend once, but was dumped after a month. Completely spiteful, Kazuya decides to rent a girlfriend. He goes to their meeting place and finds a beautiful girl named Mizuhara Chizuru. Something real is born after just a single rental!
  • Arriving July 2023 Worldwide excluding Asia

Am I Actually the Strongest? (Staple Entertainment)

  • After being a shut-in, Haruto is reincarnated as a newborn prince, and inadvertently given 1000 times the normal amount of magic by the goddess of reincarnation. However, he's abandoned in a forest.  What is to become of him?
  • Arriving July 2023 Worldwide excluding Asia, but including India

I’m in Love with the Villainess (Platinum Vision)

  • Based on the Light Novel of the same name, ordinary office worker Oohashi Rae wakes up in the body of the protagonist of her favorite otome game, Revolution. To her delight, the first person to greet her is also her favorite character, Claire Francois – the main antagonist of the story! Now, Rae is determined to romance Claire instead of the game’s male leads. But how will her villainous ladylove react to this courtship?
  • Arriving October 2023 Worldwide excluding Asia

I Shall Survive Using Potions! (Jumondo)

  • Nagase Kaoru, a 22-year-old office worker, suddenly finds herself reincarnated in another world. To help her survive, a god-like being gives Kaoru a younger body and the ability to make insanely powerful potions. The reincarnated Kaoru must use her knowledge and cunning to survive!
  • Arriving 2023 Worldwide excluding Asia

MF GHOST (Felix Film)

  • In a future Japan, self-driving cars are in widespread use and public roadways are used for auto racing. In this era, a race called MFG has become popular around the globe. Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini… Participants are invited to race with their fastest cars. One such participant, a British racing school graduate, Kanata Rivington, returns to Japan to achieve his goal.
  • Arriving 2023 Worldwide excluding Asia
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