Eat-Man Is Getting a New Anime. Of 99 Series From 1997 and 1998, Two Have Anything Free Here

Anime Corner reports that Eat-Man is getting a new anime. The franchise last had an anime installment in 1998, so the gap is close to three decades. Nothing else about the new anime is established here: no studio, format, date or cast.

A return after that long raises a simple question. Of the television anime that first aired in 1997 and 1998, the two years in which the Eat-Man series first aired, what can a reader watch free on AnimeSphere right now? The answer is two series out of 99, and nearly all of their free episodes belong to one show.

Neither Eat-Man series is free here

Our index holds two Eat-Man entries. EAT-MAN is a television series first aired in 1997, and EAT-MAN '98 is a television series first aired in 1998. We record 12 episodes for each, credit both to Studio DEEN, and list Action, Adventure and Sci-Fi as the genres for both.

Neither offers a free episode here. The live pages, "Watch EAT-MAN Online" and "Watch EAT-MAN '98 Online", state no free episode count.

Two years, 99 series, two free counts

Our index records 99 television series first aired in 1997 or 1998, with both Eat-Man entries among them. Forty are from 1997 and 59 are from 1998. Exactly two of the 99 live pages state a free episode count, with 270 free episodes between them. The other 97 state none.

• From 1997, one of 40 series states a count: Pokémon, at 269 free episodes.
• From 1998, one of 59 series states a count: Trigun, at one free episode.

That puts 269 of the shelf's 270 free episodes in a single series.

Pokémon and Trigun

We record 276 episodes for the 1997 Pokémon series, with a 24-minute episode length. Its live page states 269 free episodes, so the free run stops short of the recorded total. It begins at the first episode. The 269 uploads are 269 distinct videos, matched to 269 distinct episode numbers in our index, all on the "Pokémon TV" channel, which carries a YouTube verified badge. Every one of their titles contains the words "FULL EPISODE", and the country list is unrestricted. Three uploads opened today run 1,343, 1,361 and 1,273 seconds. Each has an automatic English caption track, which means the audio is English, plus an authored English subtitle track. The uploads number themselves within each season, while our episode numbers run straight through.

We record 26 episodes for the 1998 Trigun series, also with a 24-minute episode length. Its live page states one free episode, and that episode is episode 1. The upload labels itself "Trigun Episode 1 English Dub" and sits on the "Crunchyroll" channel, which also carries a YouTube verified badge. It runs 1,490 seconds and its country list is unrestricted. It has an automatic English caption track, which means the audio is English, and an authored English subtitle track, so this is an English dub. The live episode page on animesphere.app plays exactly that upload.

For Eat-Man itself, the free shelf here is empty.