{"id":20686,"date":"2010-03-23T13:01:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T17:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=20686"},"modified":"2010-03-23T13:01:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T17:01:38","slug":"4kids-announces-new-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/4kids-announces-new-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"4Kids Announces New Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/c0039455_4769b5de2c5a5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/c0039455_4769b5de2c5a5-450x337.jpg\" alt=\"Tai Chi Chasers\" title=\"Tai Chi Chasers\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/c0039455_4769b5de2c5a5-450x337.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/c0039455_4769b5de2c5a5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/c0039455_4769b5de2c5a5.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4Kids Entertainment has announced its acquisition of worldwide (excluding Asia) translation and distribution rights to the Korean\/Japanese animated series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1000jamun.com\/main\/main.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tai Chi Chasers<\/a> (Tai Chi Senjimon). The 39 episode series was co-produced by the the Korean Broadcasting System television network and Japan&#8217;s Toei Animation. It aired on Korean television in 2007. The card battle adventure series stars Rai, a young orphan descendant of the ancient &#8220;Tigeroid&#8221; race who must collect 500 lost tai chi symbol cards that grant ultimate power. He&#8217;s opposed in his quest by the Dragonoids who also seek the cards.<\/p>\n<p>4Kids expects to begin distribution of the series in late 2011.<\/p>\n<p><i>I wish 4Kids the best of luck with this acquisition, but it&#8217;s hard for me, personally, to get excited about a Korean card battle show.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awn.com\/news\/television\/4kids-debut-tai-chi-chasers-miptv-2010\" target=\"_blank\">Animation World Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4Kids Entertainment has announced its acquisition of worldwide (excluding Asia) translation and distribution rights to the Korean\/Japanese animated series Tai Chi Chasers (Tai Chi Senjimon). The 39 episode series was co-produced by the the Korean Broadcasting System television network and Japan&#8217;s Toei Animation. It aired on Korean television in 2007. The card battle adventure series [&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-20686","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\/20686","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=20686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20688,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20686\/revisions\/20688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}