FLOWER MOUND, July 03, 2008 — FUNimation Entertainment, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Navarre Corporation, and Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc., a leading producer of Japanese animation, announced today their partnership to distribute select DVD titles in North America.
Under the terms of the agreement, FUNimation Entertainment obtains the exclusive rights to the manufacturing, marketing, sales and distribution of established Geneon titles, including international successes “Ergo Proxy”, “Hellsing Ultimate” and “Black Lagoon”.
Among the first titles to be released includes the special edition of “Hellsing Ultimate”, directed by Tomokazu Tokoro and produced by Satelight (“Aquarion” and “Baldr Force EXE Resolution”).
Follow up releases include “Black Lagoon Second Barrage”, “Karin”, “Kyo Kara Maoh Season 2″, and “Lyrical Nanoha“.
“Geneon is a strong producer, known for excellent production and quality of its anime series,“ said Gen Fukunaga, president and CEO of FUNimation Entertainment. “We are pleased to partner with them and we are committed to the successful release of these series.”
“FUNimation’s momentum as the leading anime distributor continues to build,” said Yushin Soga, president and CEO of Geneon. “We are sure this partnership will only grow the prominence of our portfolio.”
Additional titles include: “Black Lagoon”, “Elemental Gelade”, “Fate Stay Night”, “Kamichu”, “Ninja Vixens”, “Paradise Kiss”, “Rozen Maiden”, “Rozen Maiden Traumend”, “Shana”, “Shonen Onmyouji”, “The Familiar of Zero”, “The Story of Saiunkoku”, “When They Cry”, and “The Law of Ueki”.
Source: ANN - Bolding mine.
Holy shit fuck YES!
Au moins ça compense un peu la nouvelle débacle ADV… Verra si on en sait plus demain là dessus.
-Gingkonut, toujours en vie, juste la flemme d’organiser son IoM qui n’est pas super passionant, sauf pour la possible licence des romans de Kara no Kyoukai par Del Ray, que Hidamari Sketch est marrant comme tout à lire, que je pense annuler mon Boxset de Victorian Romance Emma à cause du problème de son mono présent sur tous les épisodes sauf le premier, et qu’il faut que je pense à acheter Happy Dance Collection (tentative title) sur Wii version JP quand il sort. Avec une Wii JP s’il faut. Ca plus TOS 2 JP. NANA-CHAN!!
Et OMG! Vaclav Havel is a bad guy in the Trinity Blood novel! o_0 C’pas vraiment un spoiler, on le sent venir très vite. Et qui se souvient de lui d’ailleurs? Hmmm?
/done. See you soon! Quand ma commande CDJ sera là (fin de semaine ou début semaine prochaine). Elle devrait déjà être là, la faute à Nana-chan et ses clips >_> Oh, et mes Box (CDs et DVDs) sont repoussées d’un mois. Franchement, financièrement, ça m’arrange ^^;
Oh, et Hayate est pré-commandée : )