NIS America Acquires Arakawa & Katanagatari
NIS America has announced its acquisition of domestic DVD rights to the Arakawa under the Bridge and Katanagatari anime television series. The complete Arakawa Under the Bridge first season and the first half of Katanagatari will be released in deluxe subtitled DVD with BD collections in July.
The 13 episode adaptation of Hikaru Nakamura’s bizarre gag comedy manga Arakawa under the Bridge aired in 2009 and was followed by a second series. A live action TV series and feature film have been announced. The series’ story revolves around a wealthy young man who takes up living underneath a bridge with the strange homeless girl who saved him from drowning.
The 12 episode Katanagatari television series, based on author NisiOisin’s twelve volume light novel series, is a satirical historical fiction adventure about a young government agent and a cloistered martial artist charged with locating and securing twelve scattered legendary swords. The series’ 50 minute long episodes were broadcast monthly on Japanese television.
Nice acquisitions, Katanagatari being the slightly better of the two, in my opinion.
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Katanagatari was excellent. Props to NIS for finally doing something with Blu-ray, too.
I like some eps in Katanagatari, it had its ups and downs, the biggest letdowns were eps 4, 7, 9 and 10, but still I’m waiting for it and for AUTB, but I hope someday NIS will make dubs.