Media Blasters Announcements from Anime Expo

Media Blasters announced several new American licenses at Anime Expo.

Ys OAV series 1 & 2, based on the classic video game fantasy RPG series from Falcom

Level C, a yaoi OAV

Gokudo-kun Manyuki TV series, to be renamed “Gokudo: Swordman Extraordinaire”

Weiss Kreuz TV series, to be renamed “Night Hunters: Weiss Kreuz” and debut in October

Kurogani Communication sci-fi TV series from Anime Complex

Fortune Quest L TV series

Devasday, a recent 3 part hentai sci-fi OVA series from AIC

Mezzo Forte, the 2 episode Kite side-story from Yasuomi Umetsu will be released in November in edited and uncut format

The Mahou Tsuki Tai (Magic Users Club) TV series will begin in September as volume 4, which makes sense considering that the TV series continues the OAV story.

And one of the biggest announcements from Anime Expo, Only a few hours after Urban Vision had announced that they were still negotiating for Berserk, Media Blasters announced that they had in fact acquired Berserk over the course of the past week; contract signed. While Media Blasters has not publicized the amount that they paid for Berserk, they made it clear that it was a very sizeable sum. Speculation is that Media Blasters paid at least half a million dollars for the rights. With production and dubbing costs added to the licensing fee, Media Blasters will have to sell huge amounts of each volume, it seems that top ten sales would be required just to break even. DVD rights, which were apparently a stumbling block for Urban Vision, have been acquired along with the VHS rights.

When discussing Mezzo Forte, it was mentioned that a sequel to Kite may be in the works.

Media Blasters confirmed that they do own the US distribution rights to all of the Rurouni Kenshin TV specials, “Best Fight collections” and “Lost Episode.”

Source: Anime on DVD