Back around the 10th of the month a new crowd-funding website popped up on the Internet, It's focused specifically on Japanese Animation/ Anime. Their very first project is called Serendipity.
Anicool seems to borrow quite a lot from the more well-known Kickstarter. The most obvious similarity is the various rewards offered to people that give a certain amount of money to the funding goal.
Anicool funds projects in Yen as opposed to USD. In order for Serendipity to be fully funded "they" need a total of 1,000,000.00 Yen. I ran this through Google and it converts to around 9,818.84 USD. Valid exchange rate at the time of this post.