AnimeNation Selling PPV Episodes of Girls’ High

AnimeNation is now selling the first four episodes of Girls’ High through streaming Windows Media for $1.99 a piece, which seems to be the company’s first foray into non-adult PPV content. I watched the first episode of Girls’ High on the preview DVD in the first issue of Otaku USA and thought it was okay. It was funny in parts but not enough for me to want to purchase the first volume. However, since I am curious about how new anime distribution systems function (see my previous posts about ADV Universe and iTunes), I decided to give it a shot.


I couldn’t use PayPal like I can with AnimeNation’s regular store so I had to use a credit card, which was fine since it was only 2 bucks.

Order confirmation.

Order contents that apparently tells me that my video expires a year from now.

Instructions page that tells me the video can be streamed for 48 hours once bought. So does that means I will still have a video that hasn’t “expired” a month from now but I can’t stream it then? I guess I’ll see in a week…

The acutal video looked pretty good in terms of quality (480×276, 406kbps) and the subtitles had a nice opacity level to allow me to see the whole picture. I was able to stop, rewind, and fast forward although I did have to launch the player using Internet Explorer. Regarding the episode itself, it was a little better than episode 1 but it was still so-so.

Here are all the pertinent statistics about the streaming file.

And why don’t I finish this out with a couple eyecatches?

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