{"id":12922,"date":"2008-06-18T10:12:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T14:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=12922"},"modified":"2008-06-19T10:09:28","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T14:09:28","slug":"funimation-acquires-ookiku-furikabutte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/funimation-acquires-ookiku-furikabutte\/","title":{"rendered":"FUNimation Acquires Ookiku Furikabutte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/funimation-acquires-ookiku-furikabutte.jpg\" alt=\"FUNimation Acquires Ookiku Furikabutte\" title=\"FUNimation Acquires Ookiku Furikabutte\" width=\"450\" height=\"252\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/funimation-acquires-ookiku-furikabutte.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/funimation-acquires-ookiku-furikabutte-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>FUNimation has <a href=\"http:\/\/funimation.com\/bigwindup\/\" target=\"_blank\">formally revealed<\/a> its acquisition of North American distribution rights to the 2007 baseball anime television series Ookiku Furikabutte. The 26 episode series will be released in America under the title &#8220;Big Windup!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Quite an unexpected license since the show was very popular among Japanese female viewers but made very minimal inroads into the American fan community last year.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animeondvd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anime on DVD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FUNimation has formally revealed its acquisition of North American distribution rights to the 2007 baseball anime television series Ookiku Furikabutte. The 26 episode series will be released in America under the title &#8220;Big Windup!&#8221; Quite an unexpected license since the show was very popular among Japanese female viewers but made very minimal inroads into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}