FUNi Reveals New Acquisitions
FUNimation has revealed a selection of its latest license acquisitions and license rescues.
FUNimation will provide streaming simulcast for this month’s new Kuroshitsuji II, Legend of the Legendary Heroes, Sekirei ~Pure Engagement~, Sengoku Basara 2, and Shiki anime television series along with the live-action Moyashimon TV drama.
New American premiere home video licenses include Black Lagoon: Roberta’s Blood Trail, Darker Than Black ~Ryusei no Gemini~, Hellsing OVAs 5-7, Shakugan no Shana II along with the Shana movie and OVA series, Toaru Kagaku no Railgun, Toaru Majutsu no Index, and the Trigun: Badlands Rumble motion picture.
License rescues from Geneon number: Ai Yori Aoshi, Armitage III, Haibane Renmei, Hellsing (the original TV series), Serial Experiments Lain, Tenchi Muyo TV series 1 & 2, the original OVAs, and the motion pictures, and Texhnolyze.
FUNimation has also stated that it presently does not have domestic distribution rights for the Evangelion: 2.0 You Can [Not] Advance motion picture.
Source: Anime News Network
July 4th, 2010 at 1:47 am
Ok…I take back what I said about FUNimation licensing crap all.
They get alot of respect from me for picking up all this stuff, great!.
July 4th, 2010 at 7:29 am
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July 4th, 2010 at 2:47 pm
Have to counterbalance the bad with the good (or at least, mediocre). Honestly though, if no one ever re-licensed ARMITAGE III: Poly Matrix/ Dual Matrix, few if any would shed a tear. TEXHNOLYZE was interesting… though it’s hard to figure out exactly what’s going on.
July 4th, 2010 at 11:10 pm
[...] release of the first in the ongoing series of feature film reworkings of the series – have just announced an extensive list of new acquisitions and in that list specifically mention that they do NOT currently hold the license for the second [...]
July 5th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Why do I have the feeling that a successful license of Eva 2.0 would outsell pretty much all of its rescues combined, with maybe some of its new stuff thrown in?
July 6th, 2010 at 2:56 pm
Doesn’t matter if it could out-sell all those other licenses if it costed so much that FUNi could only break even on it, at best.
October 15th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
Re: not-so-FUNimation
Following is a letter from my fellow cast member of the original Trigun series, Jeff Nimoy. It sucks that Funimation did this to both me (Meryl, original series) and Jeff. He posted it on animenewsnetwork… here ya go!
“Sorry to all the fans, I would have loved to play Wolfwood again and dub the Trigun movie, but Funimation dubbed it already without me. They called me and wanted me to fly myself out to Texas from Los Angeles and put myself up in a hotel while they paid me less than the original series paid. I would have lost money on the deal.? Then when I asked for more money, they went ahead and replaced me. Pretty cheap, huh? I guess they don’t care about the fans. Sorry, guys, I would have loved to play Wolfwood again, but remember, I’ll always be the original! -Jeff Nimoy”
Yup, in the midst of negotiating we suddenly got radio silence – and found out (from someone else!) that they went ahead and recorded it without us. I thought we were reaching a final compromise – apparently Funi did not. Anyway, sorry guys, I just had to spew! xoxo Dorothy Fahn (Melendrez)