{"id":14643,"date":"2009-02-16T21:18:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T01:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=14643"},"modified":"2009-02-17T10:34:49","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T14:34:49","slug":"funimation-announces-new-acquisitions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/funimation-announces-new-acquisitions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FUNimation Announces New Acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bamboo_blade.jpg\" alt=\"Bamboo Blade\" title=\"Bamboo Blade\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bamboo_blade.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bamboo_blade-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During this past weekend&#8217;s Katsukon convention, FUNimation announced its acquisition of distribution rights for the Bamboo Blade, Tower of Druaga, Dragonaut ~ The Resonance, and Blassreiter anime television series.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nFUNimation has secured home entertainment and broadcast rights for Bamboo Blade. The 26 episode series will be released in two half-season DVD collections beginning this fall.<\/p>\n<p>FUNimation has secured home entertainment, broadcast, and limited digital rights to the 25 Tower of Druaga episodes. The &#8220;Aegis of Uruk&#8221; and &#8220;Sword of Uruk&#8221; television series will be released in separate complete season DVD sets later this year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/blassreiter_druaga.jpg\" alt=\"Blassreiter and Tower of Druaga\" title=\"Blassreiter and Tower of Druaga\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/blassreiter_druaga.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/blassreiter_druaga-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>FUNimation&#8217;s acquisition of Blassreiter includes home entertainment, internet, merchandising and mobile rights. The 24 episode series will be released in two half-season sets beginning late this year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dragonaut.jpg\" alt=\"Dragonaut ~ The Resonance\" title=\"Dragonaut ~ The Resonance\" width=\"450\" height=\"294\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dragonaut.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dragonaut-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>FUNimation has secured home entertainment, broadcast, digital, internet, merchandising and mobile rights to the 25 broadcast episodes of Dragonaut. The additional Japanese home video  episode is apparently not included in FUNimation&#8217;s initial acquisition. FUNimation Entertainment will release the series beginning in late 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2009-02-14\/funimation-acquires-bamboo-blade-druaga-dragonaut\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During this past weekend&#8217;s Katsukon convention, FUNimation announced its acquisition of distribution rights for the Bamboo Blade, Tower of Druaga, Dragonaut ~ The Resonance, and Blassreiter anime television series.<\/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-14643","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\/14643","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=14643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14652,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14643\/revisions\/14652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}