In a blog post published today on its website, HIDIVE announced that Spy Classroom, Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible, and Giant Beasts of Ars will be leaving its streaming service on January 15, 2025. All three series premiered in 2023 and were all licensed for streaming at various points throughout the year.
Spy Classroom aired for two split-cour seasons in Japan, with the first 12-episode season airing from January 5, 2023 to March 30, 2023. The second 12-episode season aired from July 15, 2023 to September 28, 2023. Feel was the animation production company.
HIDIVE describes the series as:
Conflict-ravaged nations now deploy covert operatives instead of missiles. Lily is recruited into spy-training… but her practical skills are absolutely abysmal. Desperate to pass, she leaps at the chance to join the mysterious “Tomoshibi” team. Too bad the team is filled with even more hopeless spies. Together they must conquer the Impossible Mission and best their genius instructor, but the true purpose behind their classroom is more harrowing than they can imagine…
Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible broadcasted for 12 total episodes in Japan from January 10, 2023 to June 20, 2023. The series faced some production delays after its sixth episode, before airing its seventh episode on May 16, 2023. Pine Jam handled the animation production for the series.
HIDIVE describes the main synopsis of the anime as:
Junta Shiraishi has just one goal: to experience youth to the fullest! But this is easier said than done. Junta is so socially invisible that people at school would swear he skipped class even when he’s sitting right behind them. Everything changes when Junta meets Nagisa Kubo. She’s the only person who pays Junta any attention, and her constant teasing is sure to turn Junta’s quiet life upside down because Kubo won’t let him be invisible!
The original TV anime series Giant Beasts of Ars aired for 12 episodes in Japan from January 7, 2023 to March 25, 2023. Asahi Production was in charge of the animation production for the series.
HIDIVE describes the main premise of the series as:
The great beasts created the land, but humans stole it. Angered, the beasts began eating humans, who in turn called upon the gods to fight the beasts. In the age of the sword, heroes and mythology, giant beasts are hunted by humans for profit. Jiro, who makes his living hunting beasts, encounters Kuumi, who is being chased by someone, and in that moment decides to save her. As rumors spread regarding humanity and a mysterious experiment, together they seek to discover the world’s secrets.
Source: press release
