Anime News, News - by Ian - February 26, 2011 - 11:45 Europe/London - Be first to Comment!
Manga Entertainment recently confirmed via their Twitter account that they have obtained the rights to release Dance in the Vampire Bund in the UK at some point this year.
At the present time no details are known regarding the release, in the UK. As soon as information comes to light, we will let you all know.
However, Funimation are the license holders in the USA and they’ve confirmed that Dance in the Vampire Bund will be available in both DVD and Blu-Ray and will be out in the Summer.
If we are truly to expect Vampire Bund this year, we may have a simultaneous release or one in late Autumn. As it’s a 12 episode series there is a decent possibility of seeing a Blu-Ray release.
Seeing as this is a short series and there’s a fair potential for good sales on the highstreet, a Blu-Ray is a fairly likely possibility in my opinion.
News - by Ian - November 4, 2008 - 09:18 Europe/London - 1 Comment
Funimation, the North American anime distributor, recently posted a dubbed “test episode” of Sgt. Frog on their YouTube channel. According to the notes Funimation have just started work on the video and want some input. What Funimation actually say is the following:
Sgt. Frog Needs You! We are beginning work on Sgt. Frog, and we need your input. Watch the test episode and add your comments. Let us know what you think!
Sgt Frog is a popular anime that’s been around for many years in Japan, it’s about frog-like aliens who come to invade the Earth, but end up stranded, befriending the locals and defending the Earth from other invasions.
As of publishing this news post, the video has 372 comments, and most seem to be indicating that rewriting the script of any show is a terrible idea.
It’s a very rare thing for a company to ask for such direct input from the fans, and this is one of the first time’s it’s happened in the West. Of course, this is unlikely to follow in the UK as it’s rare for a series to be re-dubbed with English voice actors.
Source: Funimation
News - by Ian - October 27, 2008 - 16:19 Europe/London - 1 Comment
The MCM London Expo is one of the biggest industry events in the world of anime and manga, and it concluded this weekend. There’s been a plethora of news that’s come from most of the major anime distributors this year as always, and the information is as follows:
Manga Entertainment
- All remaining Naruto episodes have now been licensed.
- Naruto – 15/12 for series 5
- Naruto Shippuden next Summer
- Blue Dragon – 2009
- Honey & Clover – 2009
- Ichigo 100% – 2009
- Ghost in the Shell: Innocence Blu Ray (Q1)
- Ghost in the Shell 2.0 with Blu Ray and theatricle release
- xxxHolic
- Claymore (in single discs)
- Darker than Black
- Afro Samurai
- Girl who leapt through time (8/12)
- Astro Boy
- Manga Store on iTunes
- Afro Samurai Resurection
MVM
- All 4 Slayers series will be released, starting in 2009. First three series’ will be across 4 discs
- The Cutey Honey live action film
- Blade of the Immortal
- Romeo X Juliet
- Desert Punk
- Solty Rei
- 1 box set every month
- Samurai Deeper Kyo
Beez
- Gurren Lagann EU exclusive, in smaller parts and EU extras
- Gundam 00
- Sword of the Stranger
- Progressive worldwide Blu-Ray releases
ADV
- Repacking prior series into box sets
- Getbackers Box sets on the way (two sets)
- Area 88 box in Jan
- Angelic Layer and DNAngel boxes in February
Along with this wave of releases, we’ve received confirmation that an “up-market” boxset of Gundam Wing is being planned from Beez, wit a new HD mastery straight from Japan along with a double volume release of Gurren Lagann.
Various anime will be appearing of XBL and iTunes shortly from Manga Entertainment. Whilst Claymore will begin to sell as single volumes, rather than a box set from January 09, and that currently Blood+ is too expensive for a UK release. Finally from Manga Entertainment, they’ve stated that the recent Funimation titles they’ve acquired are not part of an on-going agreement.
Revelation Films have also noted that they are going to finish all of their releases that they placed on hiatus with no warning earlier this year.
Unfortunately I was unable to attend this year, so if any of you have news that I’ve missed, please e-mail into webmaster(at)news-anime(dot)NOSPAMcom and I’ll add the news up as soon as possible.
Source: UKA, Eye on Anime
News - by Ian - October 23, 2008 - 12:12 Europe/London - 1 Comment
It was announced yesterday that Sojitz Corporation will be dissolving its ARM licensing subsidiary, Funimation have confirmed that this will not affect their titles in the USA, as their spokesperson, Jackie Smith stated:
“FUNimation no longer deals with ARM or Sojitz regarding the titles we acquired over the summer. Each title was transferred to us and we have been in direct contact with the licensers.”
In the summer ARM transferred many rights to Funimation USA, they were:
- 009-1
- Ah! My Goddess: Flights of Fancy
- Air Gear
- Air (movie)
- Air (TV)
- Blade of the Phantom Master
- Comic Party: Revolution
- Coyote Ragtime Show
- Devil May Cry
- Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor TV
- Jing, King of Bandits: Seventh Heaven
- Jinki:Extend
- Kanon
- Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora (Shattered Angels)
- Le Chevalier D’Eon
- Magikano
- Moeyo Ken TV
- Moonlight Mile
- Murder Princess
- Nerima Daikon Brothers
- Pani Poni Dash!
- Project Blue Earth SOS
- Pumpkin Scissors
- Red Garden
- Sgt. Frog 1st & 2nd
- Tokyo Majin
- UFO Princess Valkyrie
- Utawarerumono
- Venus Versus Virus
- The Wallflower
- Welcome to the NHK
- Xenosaga
Revelation Films deal with the majority of Funimation’s new licenses in the UK, and there has been no word on how this may affect the UK.
Source: Anime News Network
News - by Ian - October 21, 2008 - 07:41 Europe/London - 1 Comment
Funimation, the North American anime distributor have confirmed that Gainax and Shikabane Hime: Aka will be available online via streaming methods within the weeks of airing on Japanese TV. The first English subbed episode will be hosted for free on Joost, Hulu, Funimation’s own video service and YouTube from the 24th October.
Then after the first episode there will be a $1.99USD download per episode on only Funimation’s video service.
This is another streaming anime from Funimation and the US markets, we can only wait and see if the UK follows suit.
Source: Anime News Network
News - by Ian - October 17, 2008 - 10:06 Europe/London - Be first to Comment!
Funimation, the US anime and manga publisher has an official YouTube channel, and this channel is now listing the first episode of Shikabane Hime for next week’s schedule. This series only recently premièred in Japan, and although this series has been listed on YouTube, it doesn’t guarantee an impending license for the USA. In the past Funimation have worked on behalf of Gainax, the anime studio creating the series.
This is yet more digitial distribution news coming from the States, and the UK market seems to be slow to adopt. The saga continues…
Source: Anime News Network
News - by Ian - October 15, 2008 - 18:37 Europe/London - Be first to Comment!
It’s been announced today that Funimation in the USA are going to be offering Witchblade on i-Tunes. The first episode is going to be screening for free until the 26th October. This echos what they did a few months ago when the entire episode was available on the gaming website, IGN.
The next volume, volume 6 of Witchblade will be available to purchase in the UK as of the 1st December, 2008.
This move has not be echoed by any of the UK distributers as of yet, but with this becoming a more common way of anime’s being advertised, we may see it yet.
Source: Anime News Network
News - by Ian - October 14, 2008 - 07:16 Europe/London - Be first to Comment!
Yesterday it was announced that Manga Entertainment have teamed up in the United Kingdom, and Manga Entertainment will be able to market, sell and distribute various titles from Funimation’s library.
Just a few of the titles licensed to Manga Entertainment are “Claymore,” “Negima Season 2,” “Darker Than Black,” “Ghost Hunt”, “Jyu Oh Sei”, “Ouran High School Host Club,” “Sasami,” “My Santa,” “Save Me Lollipop,” Baldr Force EXE”, and “xxxHOLiC,” with the first releases set for later this month and November.
“Our sales and marketing expertise, coupled with Funimation’s strong lineup of titles, convinced both companies that these could be some of the best selling new franchises of 2009 in the UK,” said Colin Lomax, Managing Director, Anchor Bay Entertainment UK/Manga Entertainment, a Starz Media company.
This is great news for Manga, but it must be a disappointment for MVM.
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News - by Ian - October 11, 2008 - 13:32 Europe/London - Be first to Comment!
Ouran High School Host Club Members
The mammoth North American anime distributor, Funimation have began to stream the first two episodes of the incredibly popular Ouran High School Host Club, and the first four episodes of School Rumble: 2nd Semester as of yesterday.
Funimation have confirmed that they will continue to post two to four episodes of other titles every Friday. No full series will be available online, unlike Crunchyroll’s agreement.
Funimation, do not have an arm in the UK, but franchise out their titles to Revelation Films. Revelation Films have not confirmed if they will be following in Funimation’s footsteps.
Source: Anime News Network
Manga Entertainment recently confirmed via their Twitter account that they have obtained the rights to release Dance in the Vampire Bund in the UK at some point this year.
