Kabukibu!
The story of Anime Strike is a short and frustrating one. Started on New Year's Day of 2017, it was meant to be a way for Amazon to tap into the growing market for anime streaming. Within a short time, they managed to piss off anime fans by locking their shows behind a double paywall, using poor quality subtitles (when they remembered to subtitle their shows at all), frequent and inexplicable delays in their uploads, and little in the way of promotion for themselves and their shows. The service quietly shut down after a year, mourned by no one in particular and leaving little in the way of impact. Anime Strike was a bad idea for many reasons, but its greatest disservice was to the shows they licensed. While some shows such as Made In Abyss or Land of the Lustrous were able to rise above Anime Strike's limitations, the rest were largely ignored by the service and anime fans alike. It's only now that some of them are starting to be rediscovered as they ma...