{"id":19700,"date":"2010-01-11T15:48:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T19:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=19700"},"modified":"2010-01-11T15:49:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T19:49:03","slug":"funi-acquires-blacksmith-hetalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/funi-acquires-blacksmith-hetalia\/","title":{"rendered":"FUNi Acquires Blacksmith &#038; Hetalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sacredblacksmith_splash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sacredblacksmith_splash-450x313.jpg\" alt=\"sacredblacksmith_splash\" title=\"sacredblacksmith_splash\" width=\"450\" height=\"313\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sacredblacksmith_splash-450x313.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sacredblacksmith_splash-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sacredblacksmith_splash.jpg 1018w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FUNimation has announced its acquisition of distribution rights to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funimation.com\/hetalia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hetalia &#8211; Axis Powers<\/a> web anime series and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funimation.com\/sacredblacksmith\" target=\"_blank\">The Sacred Blacksmith<\/a> television series. FUNimation&#8217;s initial license for Hetalia appears to cover the ongoing series&#8217; first 52 episodes. The series of 5 minute episodes will be released domestically on two DVD collections beginning late this year. The 12-episode sword &#038; sorcery action series The Sacred Blacksmith will be released in a single DVD collection this fall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/hetalia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/hetalia-450x293.jpg\" alt=\"hetalia\" title=\"hetalia\" width=\"450\" height=\"293\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/hetalia-450x293.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/hetalia-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/hetalia.jpg 1099w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Am I really the only person who thinks that Hetalia is just not that funny? (No pun intended.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FUNimation has announced its acquisition of distribution rights to the Hetalia &#8211; Axis Powers web anime series and The Sacred Blacksmith television series. FUNimation&#8217;s initial license for Hetalia appears to cover the ongoing series&#8217; first 52 episodes. The series of 5 minute episodes will be released domestically on two DVD collections beginning late this year. [&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-19700","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\/19700","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=19700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19704,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19700\/revisions\/19704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}