If you haven’t checked out video-on-demand website Hulu, you really owe it to yourself to do so – like right now. Well, not right right now. Finish reading this, then go check it out. And when you get there, dig it – they’ve got a new anime-specific channel serving up a number of great series. In addition to Speed Racer and Astro Boy (which have been there a while), Hulu now features some more recent fare like Death Note and Naruto. This is the kind of thing that gives me the warm fuzzies.

I dearly want Hulu to succeed in a big way. It’s a fairly brilliant enterprise, and yet it’s operating on the same business model that’s kept broadcast television going for years – paid advertising. And to their credit, the ads are fairly unobtrusive – most amount to 15-second spots every 20 minutes or so. A small price to pay for being able to watch a wide array of film and television at a moment’s notice.

Okay, you’re free to go.

UPDATE: Just came across this nice Wired piece on Jason Kilar, the ex-Amazon exec who helped Hulu get off the ground…and it turns out Speed Racer‘s existence on Hulu is not an accident…gotta love it.