New Streaming App Darkroom Showcases Hard To Find Anime Content
by Brendan M. Allen
In the myriad choices for streaming apps on the market, a new video streaming platform specializes in independent, foreign, arthouse, and cult classic genre benders. Darkroom invites fans to explore a roster of newly added anime titles for $2.99 per month.
Notable recent additions include the action film Crusher Joe and its sequels Crusher Joe: A Trap of the Frozen Jail and Crusher Joe: The Final Weapon ASH. Also available to stream are the surreal comedies Haré + Guu DELUXE and Haré + Guu FINAL and the sci-fi series Simoun. Additional anime content is added every Friday, and viewers are encouraged to check the platform for new titles set to debut over the summer and fall.
Crusher Joe
Amid a supposedly simple escort mission, Joe and crew wake up to find their passengers missing. The United Space Force accuses them of committing space piracy and Crusher HQ suspends their licenses for six months. To clear their names, they have to solve the crime and save the passengers.
Crusher Joe: A Trap of the Frozen Jail
Joe and crew are contracted to correct the orbit of a satellite about to crash into an ice planet with a prison population. They conceive a plan to correct the trajectory but are soon double-crossed. Joe and his team race against the clock to save everyone’s lives before the prison is destroyed.
Crusher Joe: The Final Weapon ASH
Crusher Joe and his team are hired to retrieve the ultimate weapon from when it risks falling into the wrong hands. Joe and his team must overcome out-of-control defense systems and corruption from within the military to save the day.
Haré + Guu DELUXE
Haré and Guu return to the jungle to find the familiar old gang, and a few new faces including a psychotic new schoolteacher and a couple of goth roaches. Marie dreams up new ways to entice Hare’s affections. Dama goes on a destructive rampage in her deadly quest for a new love. And the surprising announcement that Weda is expecting results in Haré getting a father he never expected.
Haré + Guu FINAL
Haré’s family receives a video letter from Weda’s home in the city. Witnessing how sad and lonely Weda’s mother and Bel are without her, Weda decides to take Haré and Guu back to the city for a while.
After Haré complains about being bored and lonely without his friends in the jungle (as part of his plot to persuade his mother to take him back), Weda decides to send him to a private school in the city, where he instantly falls in love with a pretty girl named Rita. But, of course, Guu wants part of the action too.
Simoun
On Planet Daikuuriku, everyone is born female. In this world, the peace flourishes and is guarded by magical flying machines called Simoun. When the industrialized nation of Argentum decides that it needs to invade Simulacrum to acquire the secret of the Simoun, war ensues.
Darkroom scours time and space for the best, most memorable content; a cross-section of stories that keeps audiences emotionally engaged, entertained, and intrigued. The platform offers cutting-edge anime, masterworks from bygone eras, cult classic genre benders including action, horror, and sci-fi, and festival pedigree films from around the world.
The platform is available as an app from all major platforms including Google and Apple stores and via the web.
