{"id":15488,"date":"2009-04-22T14:21:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T18:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/22\/funimation-reveals-new-acquisition-possibilities\/"},"modified":"2009-04-22T14:29:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T18:29:32","slug":"funimation-reveals-new-acquisition-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/funimation-reveals-new-acquisition-possibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"FUNimation Reveals New Acquisition Possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Spotlight&#8221; on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funimation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FUNimation&#8217;s main page<\/a> now links to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoomerang.com\/Survey\/survey.zgi?p=WEB2293BWDAY4B\" target=\"_blank\">New Anime Survey<\/a> listing 13 of this spring&#8217;s 40 new Japanese anime television series, presumably all titles that FUNimation is considering as acquisition possibilities. (&#8220;Basara&#8221; is presumably Sengoku Basara and not the 1998 anime series titled, simply, &#8220;Basara.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><i>There are some intriguing mysteries within the selected titles. FUNimation has already announced distribution rights to current and future Gonzo productions, yet Shangri-La is listed while Arad Senki ~Slap Up Party~ isn&#8217;t. Furthermore, Bandai Entertainment has domestic distribution rights to the first Hayate the Combat Butler series while FUNimation is evidently interested in the second season.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Spotlight&#8221; on FUNimation&#8217;s main page now links to a New Anime Survey listing 13 of this spring&#8217;s 40 new Japanese anime television series, presumably all titles that FUNimation is considering as acquisition possibilities. (&#8220;Basara&#8221; is presumably Sengoku Basara and not the 1998 anime series titled, simply, &#8220;Basara.&#8221;) There are some intriguing mysteries within 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-15488","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\/15488","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=15488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15490,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15488\/revisions\/15490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}