OceanVeil is adding 19 anime from Media Blasters, with the first titles arriving on Monday. The streaming platform announced the partnership on Thursday, and a handful of the licenses include English dubs.
The rollout is spread across the next few weeks, and several titles still have no date attached.
The dated titles
- Magical Witch Punie-chan, October 19 (sub and dub)
- CODE-E, October 21 (sub)
- Eiken, October 27 (sub and dub)
- Rio – Rainbow Gate!, November 1 (sub)
- Gakuen Heaven, November 5 (sub)
- Girl’s High, November 9 (sub)
The rest of the list
Ai no Kusabi, Amazing Nurse Nanako – Intensive Care Edition, Osamu Tezuka’s Phoenix, Yosuga no Sora, Ladies versus Butlers!, World War Blue, Jungle de Ikou!, Very Private Lesson, Final Examination Kujira, HOLY KNIGHT, I Don’t Like You At All, Big Brother!!, Otoboku – Maidens Are Falling for Me! and Strawberry Panic! are all coming, with dubs confirmed for Ai no Kusabi, Nurse Nanako, Phoenix, Jungle de Ikou!, Very Private Lesson and HOLY KNIGHT.
What this catalogue actually is
These are 2000s licenses, and most of them were DVD-era releases that never made a clean jump to streaming. Magical Witch Punie-chan is a 2006 Studio Barcelona OVA with a deadpan streak that has aged better than the premise suggests. Eiken is a 2003 Genco and J.C. Staff title that has been hard to find legally for years. Gakuen Heaven is a boys’ love comedy, and Ai no Kusabi is one of the genre’s older properties.
Yosuga no Sora, Ladies versus Butlers! and Strawberry Panic! sit in a similar spot. All three had small but persistent followings, all three were easy to miss when they came out, and two of the three never had much of a life on streaming.
Osamu Tezuka’s Phoenix is the outlier in age and reputation. It draws on several arcs of the manga Tezuka worked on for most of his life, and it has been treated as an obscure corner of the Tezuka catalogue outside Japan.
Why an older catalogue matters for a newer platform
OceanVeil is young. WWWave Corporation launched it in March 2025, and it streams both mature and non-mature titles, which is a polite way of saying the library leans toward the kind of show that the bigger services avoid.
Catalogue deals like this are having a moment. MediaOCD struck a similar arrangement for select Aniplex of America titles on Blu-ray earlier this year, working from the same idea that old libraries still have buyers. That positioning only works if there is something to watch. Media Blasters has licensed this kind of material for years, and its library has been scattered across out-of-print DVDs and a few storefronts. Putting 19 titles on one service is the fastest way for a platform like this to go from a curiosity to a place with an actual backlog.
There is a less flattering read as well. None of these are marquee names, and several will appeal to a very specific audience. That is fine if OceanVeil is building for that audience rather than chasing subscribers who already have three other services. It is a smaller bet, and it is a clearer one.
Subs and dubs are both listed where they exist, which matters here. These are shows that were dubbed once, often with casts that have since become recognizable, and those tracks were frequently the only version anyone could find.
The first title, Magical Witch Punie-chan, goes up on October 19. Everything else follows through the first week of November, with the undated titles expected to land after that.
Source: OceanVeil and Media Blasters press release, via Anime News Network.
Featured image: OceanVeil x Media Blasters announcement visual, via Anime News Network.
