With the premium editions for Arakawa Under the Bridge x Bridge having come out years ago through NIS America, the series is now getting a chance at some new eyeballs with Funimation streaming both the first and second seasons. The show is limited due to how NIS America licensed it so it’s only available to audiences in the US and Canada and it’s in its original Japanese language with English subtitles.
Check out our reviews of the first and second seasons.
Plot concept: Just when you thought things couldn’t get any weirder by the banks of the mighty Arakawa, they go ahead and get weirder by a whole lot. Rec, Nino, and the rest of the riverside residents return, and with the addition of another batch of nutty citizens the insanity gets turned up to eleven…thousand. Now Rec has to deal with a sci-fi loving comic nerd who’s convinced he’s a captain in the Earth Defense Force, and the less said about the Amazon woman living upstream with her demonic “female” Amazon followers, the better. On top of that, Rec struggles with the pressing issues of romantic expression, media obsession, weight loss, weight gain, beach parties, haunted houses, interplanetary travel, and the ever-present threat of global thermonuclear war!
